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)
A photo show? What a great idea but I will need some more pics.
Never too late.
What will he pay you with; a ghost currency?
Or lost soul...
You are right,the breeze can bring in the Smoke from far away,but there is still something you have to help me with......the very old days special Perfume that my Mother used,it was so many times smelling strongly in the Bedroom?????
Yeh and the CO was standing the second time very close to the Door and the Roof is very high up as Antigua is a hot place......perhaps he has hearing problems,not able to recognize from what direction the sound came????
Rolf
The only one still missing the the Phantom. Once he makes his show we'll have the whole lot.
You make me feel like a failure.
This is my first assignment as a ghostbuster and I cannot solve it. Maybe I must call in the help of my more experienced colleagues.
pleace,do that
Maybe you must break a wall out inside the house or build a new one. It is said to confuse ghosts.
thats a good idea......or perhaps the best could be to break down hole the House???
There is a story in Finland about very smart guys,they build a House from timber,but forget the windows,first they try to bring in the light with bags,but it was not really working,then one little smarter of them made a hole in the wall and everybody was happy,but then an other figured out to make one hole more and of course more light and more happiness, so then they took out one whole wall,they cold not stop going on and soon they had the whole Roof down.....maximum lifght,maximum happiness
Rolf
Well, they say you cannot have your (cup)cake now and eat it later, or as we say in my mother's tongue, you cannot have your bread buttered on both sides.
I ain't going to pay for it! So you just need to send it anyway. You might as well..
Angel. Behave yourself, and just be your normal crazy self..
Perhaps you should come round to mine.. i'm sure you might find a logical explanation for all its weird going on's and why things might go bump in the night
and no its not me kicking me cat upstairs & down
as if i would do any such thing
Perhaps you will change your tune when you receive an ear. And next time I will send a more delicate part. I learned a few new tricks while watching Game Of Thrones.
It would seem that the people from the interior of our beloved country do not have a very high opinion of us at the coast.
I only woke up a short while ago and I must go out in a few minutes from now. I fear I won't be able to read it now but I certainly will do so when I return in a few hours.
My mother and her father were both were excellent story tellers and somehow I was born with the ability to describe a trip to the supermarket as a journey to a strange country.
What shall I say? Dream on. I swiped a few hundred boxes from one of Mimi's warehouses but she no longer exist here in the cyber world. I fear that until that you can serve me with the relevant documents to prove that you are her legal heir, I cannot be held liable for any payment regarding any missing cupcakes.
this is not the last we heard of this.