We believe that our first house was haunted.
Not in the drag you down the stairs terror like the Paranormal Activity movies that terrify me, but more like a Casper the friendly ghost version. Thankfully, because that's all I could ever handle. I might like to write and read about paranormal and the supernatural but I'm a big wimp when it comes to facing it in real life.
We tell stories.
Of how the stove burners would turn on themselves and the television channel would change and other things that maybe, just maybe, had a logical explanation. Although the number of times these unusual things happened made it difficult to always rationalize. We thought it might've been the previous owner showing her displeasure that we couldn't maintain her once beautiful flower gardens since they'd been long overgrown by the time we arrived, and I have what I call a black thumb. Which basically means that I unintentionally kill any plant that I try to nurture.
Eventually the occurrences stopped.
I assume that she felt she'd made her point, or realized it was fruitless to try to convince me to revive her gardens. I couldn't do that any more effectively than I could revive her.
Now my story, Evil Speaks Softly,
is about some not-so-friendly ghosts who want more than a gardener. Since this is the perfect time of month for ghost stories, it's on sale for a very limited time for $0.99. Grab your copy if you—like me—prefer your ghosts to remain between the pages of a story.
Do You Tell Ghost Stories?
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3 comments:
Wow. Glad I didn't live in your 1st house. Of all the things you mentioned turning on stove burners would've frightened me the most. Scary. I'm such a wimp, I can't even read scary stories, let alone write them. Your book sounds perfect for an October spooky read.
Thanks Diane!
Ooh, spooky!
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