i don’t believe in ghosts, but i love hearing ghost stories. usually, after hearing a great ghost story, i say, “i believe that YOU believe that story, but it’s not true.” however, my bedroom might be haunted.
for about three months before moving in, while i was renting somewhere else, i spent about 6 hours a day, about 5 days a week, painting four bedrooms, a sitting room, an office, living room, kitchen, 2.5 bathrooms, and – instead of a dining room – a room with a pool table.
when i was painting, i left a lamp on the floor and would use it to help me find drip marks and make sure i sanded well before painting the next coat. when the lamp was in my bedroom – no other room – i would often find it turned on when i would arrive the next day. of course i would shut it off when i’d leave, but it would usually be on when i returned. it wasn’t a regular lamp with a knob to turn. it was a “touch” lamp, and you’d just tap the metal base to turn it either on or off. it was interesting.
in the picture above, there’s a light on the ceiling fan. in the six years that i’ve lived here, i’d guess that about three times a month i’ll come home and find that light on. it’s rather interesting that two different lights are being turned on…somehow.
but i don’t believe in ghosts. right. no way.
I don’t believe in ghosts, either. That’s the official line. However, when I was eight, my father’s table saw turned on all by itself while a neighborhood friend and I were playing in the cool cellar.
I got a very big beating for playing with Dad’s dangerous tools, and my mother never ever believed that my friend and I were on the far side of the cellar when the saw turned on.
Ghosts? Hell, no, there are no such things. But I pity the man who bought and now lives in my mother’s house.
Well, hmmmm….I believe you believe that they believe. Wait…I mean to say…*grin* Okay, I have had more than my share of weird things happen but I never want to name what it was/is/could be for the simple fact that I don’t know. There’s more that walks the earth than I shall ever know. And things that go bump in the night make for great tales.
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