Odd Stuff

I like my house, but odd stuff does occasionally happen in it. I’ve seen lamps turn on and off by themselves. I’ve heard loud noises of various kinds, from  loud bangs to loud, metallic clattering that sounds like a cascade of pots and pans falling to the floor. Inanimate objects have teleported instantly from room to room. My friends tell me there are reasonable explanations for these things.

Yesterday, I picked up an empty cranberry juice bottle, and I picked up its cap, and I screwed the cap onto the bottle, and I put the bottle on the floor out of the way. I turned around, took two steps, and I heard a noise. I looked back at the bottle and saw that its cap was now lying on the floor beside the bottle.

Today, as I sat at my computer I heard a noise very close to me. I stood up, looked around, and quickly found the source of the noise: a flashlight that had been standing vertically on the fireplace mantle had fallen and landed in a wicker basket which I had placed at that spot an hour earlier. The flashlight had been on the mantle for days. There had been no vibrations from passing vehicles, no air currents – nothing, as far as I know, to disturb the flashlight.

It doesn’t bother me. But if there is a ghost in my house, I wish it would do something useful – like, teleport the dust bunnies under the bed into the backyard. But then, ghosts don’t work that way. I’ll have to clean up those dust bunnies myself. In fact, I’ll do that now, while I’m thinking of it.

Till next time.