Wicked.

(just a little bit.)

that'll be me on halloween...
i can't believe its gotten here so quickly.

so, in honor of the holiday (and because i may not take the time before tuesday arrives), another ghostly tale.

when i was at university i lived for a couple of years in a rental property that was 'nearly walking distance' to campus...if you didn't mind the catcalls and watchful eyes of the dirty birds next door, which you had to pass to get the walking bridge to cross the 'creek' that separated our cul-de-sac from campus. this was not something i cared to endure, so i always drove. all of this is neither here nor there, i just felt like sharing.
anyway. this little house was owned by an elderly couple who had actually inherited it from the man's mother when she passed just a few years earlier. it was a neat little two bedroom house, complete with 'abandoned wardrobe' that belonged to the deceased mother, and was left in the house simply because the new owners had no use for it.
when i moved into the house i was sharing it with my good friend's boyfriend, Ken (no, he is not what you would imagine a 'Ken' to be and she was there most of the time also...of course). so, two bedrooms; one pink as in pepto bismal pink and one robin's egg blue...needless to say, there wasn't really any question who got which room.
the afore mentioned 'abandoned wardrobe' was in the blue room, so i never really had a first hand experience with it, but he said some very weird things happened surrounding that piece of furniture...the doors would seem to be locked when there was no lock, they would just open on their own when no one was near it. of course i never thought anything of it, it wasn't in my room.
anyway after just one semester things weren't working out and he moved in with his girlfriend and i got a new roomy, Tammie. she was 'different'...i'll tell you about her sometime.
my new roomy had bigger tales to tell of her experiences with the 'abandoned wardrobe'. she had the same experiences as Ken but also, she would swear that in the middle of the night she could see a light on inside the wardrobe...where there was no lighting fixture. OooooooOOoOoooo.
other things that happened in this house...the medicine cabinet door creaked, and sometimes in the evening we'd be sitting watching t.v. and we would hear it creak slowly open,
the lids of containers kept in our refrigerator would be removed and laid next to their appropriate bowl/bottle,
one evening we were discussing the curtains on the front door and whether the pattern of the fabric was supposed to be visible to those in the room or those on the porch/lawn. so we took them off of the rod and turned them around...a few days later, they were back to their original position...that, my friends, was the spookiest thing ever. not spooky-scary, but spooky-eerie, ya know?
anyway. i've kept you long enough.
~L