This House Is Haunted!
Last evening I paid a courtesy visit to the elderly couple who bought my house last year. I should have done it earlier but I have been so busy lately that I forgot to get around to it.
I was received rather stiffly but they invited me into the house. It was a queer feeling to be a guest in the house that was mine for so long. We made some small talk chatting about the weather and what not while the new lady of the house made coffee but the conversation just did not flow. The atmosphere was so thick, you could cut it with a knife! I decided to leave as soon as we had coffee.
When the hostess arrived back, she served the coffee and sat down. “Why didn’t you tell us the house is haunted?” she blurted it out. I was dumbstruck. I lived in the house for more than 30 years, 25 of them alone, and there never was a problem. I got visions my late grandfather patrolling the passage with his shotgun.
She went on to explain that her crockery starts rattling in the kitchen cupboards at random times, day or night and that it is driving them crazy. And just then, as if on cue, the crockery in the kitchen started rattling. They were petrified and I started laughing.
There is a well point in the garden with a raised reservoir. I rigged the ball valve of a toilet cistern to a micro switch to turn the pump on when the reservoir is not full. The pump is in a small locked enclosure on the back verandah next to the kitchen wall. Two mounting bolts are attached to the floor and two to the kitchen wall. Somehow, the vibration of the pump is transferred, along the otherwise solid wall, to the build-in kitchen cupboards. I had it all the time but I was so used to it that it did not bother me.
I took them outside to show them the ‘ghost’. When we went back into the house, my host produced a bottle of brandy and very soon we were laughing about the whole story. They thought I came to offer them half price they paid me, to buy my haunted house back.
You have a great day out there!
Comments (64)
Your story is too funny!!...I bet the new home owners are relieved now that they know the truth!!...
They are indeed very relieved. I cannot believe that people can be so superstitious.
A ghost buster you say. We'll have to wait until I see a real ghost. I can tell you that if a ghost comes to me through a wall as if there is no wall, I will go through the other wall as if there is no wall.
Well, well, well! Now look at who we have here.
According to Usha, I'm a duly qualified ghost buster now, so let me know if you have any ghosts (not from your past) around. I will gladly drive them off.
That's superb!!
I was under the impression that they don't recognize our national boundaries. Is a ghost not a ghost? Besides, I won't stick around long enough to establish his nationality. A loud 'BOO' means 'BOO' in any language.
Good grief! I must get my number unlisted before the people start phoning. Those guys look more like astronauts and I hear NASA has been losing a lot of test pilots lately. This could be catastrophic.
Strange how we get used to noises in and around our own house. A while ago my sister stayed over for a few nights and every so often she was in my bedroom asking 'did you hear that noise?', I had to explain a few times before she relaxed
They should've contacted you earlier, poor souls
Actually, I feel bad. I should have called on them earlier. I just don't understand why they never opened the little door to the pump. The had the key to it and it was clearly marked.
The part that amuses me most is that they really believed that I sold them a haunted house with the sole purpose of buying it back at a reduced price. That is why they never called me about it. Too funny!!
By The Way!
You look like the lead ghostbuster.
I'll haunt you for a long long time to come!
As the say, never give away what you may need later.
Ol' Jim is that Clark Gable look-alike who haunts the blogs at times. yep, you're in trouble. I saw her ghost sneaking around here like a wet dream looking for a place to happen.
Love Zmans pic!!!!
Mimi is after you Jim ........ Waiting with anticipation! ..........
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Don't eat that cupcake. You're sweet enough without it.
Or she may change the locks. I still have a duplicate.
You can run but you can't hide!!
You better surrender the key...NOW!
Or 'Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman With Her Key Stolen'
I think you should come to my House,because you looks to be an expert,perhaps my entrance Door has some pump somewhere also making so very clear knocking sound.
I had still my Company in Finland and the CO of that company visit in the Christmas my Home in Antigua and he and whole my Family was in the Kitchen just talking this and that,then everybody heard a clear and such a hard knocking on the entrance Door in the living room,so we all went to look who wanted to come in,but we everybody faced a surprise,there was nobody and it is easy to see,because there are windows on the both side of the Door. Okay,we family members was laughing and I said,oh it was my Mother again,but the CO did not take it as easy as we did,because he had never faced anything like that.
We family members went back to Kitchen continuing conversation,but the CO continued to stay in front of the Door,wondering how could that happen.
About 1-2 minutes later,there came a second as loud and clear knocking on the Door and we was quickly all back from the Kitchen,seeing the CO standing with wide open eyes looking at the Door and then he said,"but I was here all the time and I could see whole the front of the Door and there was nobody,but still somebody was knocking". All the Family was again laughing and I said to him,this is my Mother,she is showing up in different way all the time and very often in my bedroom....sometimes you can smell strong smoke from her smoking,sometimes the Perfume she was using and you know she is there.
The CO was clearly chocked and he was very quietly for the rest of the day.
Later when I went to Finland to select by the help of Astrology some new salesmen,and as I was talking with one that I had already accept,he ask me,why I use Astrology as a tool and as he was sceptic about it,I just decide to tell about the CO:s experience in my House and of course he had fun about it,so I told him to go and ask the CO about it.
Some days later I went back to that salesman and he act very uneasy. I ask him if he had talk with the CO about what I had told him and he answered,"Yes,and that the Co had answered,that he is not the one to lie and that there was for sure nobody in front of the Door,but still there was two times clear knocking.
Rolf
Zman probably used Photoshop to to that pic. I have three pics of me already done by CS members. One with dreadlocks, one as a train driver and now this one. I wonder what will be next.
Rolf
Here is your key.
Thanks Cat! We fooled her!
I did not say it was a rat, I just mentioned it as a possibility. and nonsmokers can smell the scent of smoke a very long way off on a light breeze. I don't know. I was not there so I can only suggest a few things.
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Just don't let her catch on that we still have a key.
Now that is something I have not eaten for years. We may just mention that the Afrikaans word for candy floss translates to "ghost's breath".
This is Mimi, we are talking about AND cup cakes...
As a qualified ghost buster, I get to do with a lot of skeletons. I will soon get a key from one of them.