Wasn't Halloween over a week ago? Or is this house the victim of carry-over?
The past few days, the internet and telephone have been acting eerie. The phone will ring by itself, with no one on the other end. My custom then is to hit *69 (in lieu of not having caller ID) to see who hung up on me, but then there's no dial tone. The phone stays off the hook for about five minutes, then comes back on.
At the exact moment it comes on, the internet goes off, and we have to reset the modem. Then the internet will come back on, but the phone will go off again. And the process repeats itself a few times... and it normally happens between the hours of 8 and 10 PM.
I'm surrounded by people who believe in ghosts; Steve and Jenni in particular. Steve can visualize occurrences in advance; Jenni also can to a greater degree. I myself can see spirits drifting in and out. While theirs are shapeless, mine have form and definition.
There's still talk, even years later, about ghosts haunting this house. Steve and I conducted a mini-seance two weeks ago. Our attention keeps getting drawn to the vestibule closet, whose walls are made from the same type of wood as you would find on pallets.
Unless the closet was a later addition, there is a peculiarity here. The two houses to the east of me have the exact same room design, have the vestibule closet in the same place, and have either plaster or drywall inside them. Why pallet wood in ours?
Anyway, Steve and I got a far-out sense during the mini-seance, that this house is actually not the original house. Steve commented there may have been a gruesome fire here in the 1950s, with deaths of two children. I do sense some youthful angst around the house, though I'm still not sure if that's the exact story. Plus, Diane and Dawn have never mentioned anything about an incident; Diane has lived here since before this house was built.
Wow, did I get off track! Mind you, there won't be any second burning of the house. Items don't mysteriously get picked up and moved. We've had rodents under the back deck over the years as well; a ground mole twice chewed up our water meter cable. The other cables, save for the electric, hang by a thread near the foundation of the house. Perhaps wind is overtaking the ones that service our phone & internet.
But this year's been a very windy year. So why has it taken up to now for these things to become haunted? After Halloween, mind you?
