Society & Culture

Have you ever seen a ghost or encountered anything spooky?

Society & Culture

Posted by: Rainbow

15th Aug 2011 10:44am

Perhaps you have a room in your house that never quite feels right. Do you hear bumps in the night or see shadows out of the corner of your eye? Are you a medium or clairvoyant who can communicate with the ‘other side’?

Wyrd
  • 23rd Sep 2011 10:12am

Have encountered a few ghosts over the years - the first was when I was living in shared accommodation. Long weekend and my house mates had left for the beach and after coming home after a long day at work I was peeved to find out that they had not done the house work as promised. Needless to say I said a few things out loud. Fast forward to the next day - due to headache and a glass of wine and just the general need for sleep I woke quite late the next day. On walking into the kitchen the place was spotless with only a couple of dishes left out on the bench. There was a smell of lemon and lavender and wax in the house - not the usual smell after we had cleaned and polished furniture but quite nice.

I made tea and went out to the lounge room intending to call on of the housemate's Mums to see if they had come in to do some of the cleaning to which I received a reply that she was away. I then called our other regular cleaner only to be told that she was ill and had not been up to coming over.

Well what to do so I went and inspected the rest of the house - dining room clean and table polished, kitchen clean as was the lounge room, hmmm boys rooms all done and polished, beds made and clean clothes folded up on the end of the bed (washing was still in the baskets when I got home) and the bath was clean as well. Downstairs there was sheets on the line and my clothes were on the line under the house (my washing usually lived in a basket just inside my room).

The lady next door invited me over for morning tea and I asked if anything unusual had ever happened since she and her family had moved into their house. She replied that a couple of times when kids were sick and husband was really busy with work and she was dead tired that housework had been done. Next move speaking to another neighbour who was the local historian - the two houses were built on the site of one larger one which had been burned down during the fifties. A doctor had built the house and had a small practice there as well and employed a housekeeper who had died in the fire. Spooky but nice - housemates on return thanked me profusely for doing all the housework over the long weekend. I just smiled ...


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