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October 18, 2005
i see dead people - installment 4
The summer before Bunny and I moved to Seattle she was living in this little old house in Kalamazoo. I was living in Bland Rapids with my parents and most weekends I would head down to K-zoo to see my friends and plan our move. For some reason the house reminded me of Hansel and Gretel. If I remember correctly it had that gingerbread house trim. It seemed smaller than it should have been, bordering on doll house proportions. It was set back behind another house, so I think originally it had been some kind of servant’s quarters or something.
Some strange things happened over time and we ended up playing Ouija a lot that summer with some bizarre results. But the incident that really sticks out in my mind is the night we were hanging out chatting, trying to stay cool in the humid Michigan summer.
We heard a loud clattering sound which made us jump.
In the bathroom we discovered that all of the shampoo, conditioner and soap bottles that had been sitting on the edge had been knocked into the tub. No big deal, we assumed that Glacier (the dog - American Eskimo) wagged his big, fat tail and knocked everything over, or the cats were screwing around in the bathroom and tumbled the items. I was fine with either of those explanations.
What I can't explain is why when we bent over the tub to pick everything up, the shower turned on, full blast on our heads. The shower had three handles, one for hot on the left, one for cold on the right, and one for the shower in the middle.
For the shower to come on you had to clockwise turn at least one of the knobs (hot or cold) to start the water and then turn the middle knob for the shower. Each required at least a couple of turns to get the water started and then to have it filter through the shower head instead of the bottom tap. The water came on full blast without transitioning from bottom tap to shower head. Neither of us touched the knobs in any way either. But we both got soaked.
Posted by bugg at October 18, 2005 03:36 PM
Comments
You two, in the bathtub playing with each other's knobs, I'm a little turned on...
Posted by: Dave at October 18, 2005 04:36 PM
That's sort of creepy. Um, I'm sure there must be a, uh, logical explanation . . . ?
Posted by: Armaedes at October 19, 2005 06:50 AM
Dave, Oh please! You lived with us long enough for those fantasies to die, right? :)
Arm - You tell me!
Posted by: bugg at October 19, 2005 07:47 AM
HO-LY-SHIT! That was frigging scary!!! Clearly paranormal if you as me. Yeek!
Posted by: ms bees knees at October 19, 2005 05:02 PM
Okay, for the record, I'm sorry you are sick, however I must say I want to kill you because there are more people in our admin area "working" than there ever are on a normal day and they talk too much and they are bugging me.
Posted by: melanie at October 20, 2005 01:15 PM
Oh my god, girl. You are the freakiest thing on freaky planet on freaky day! Remind me to channel your ectoplasmic forces of supernatural creepyness the next time I'm using my glow-in-the-dark Ouija!
Posted by: newplanet at October 24, 2005 04:52 AM
Do do do dooooo! I would have run outta there screaming.
Posted by: epicurist at October 24, 2005 08:07 AM
newplanet - i will totally take that as a compliment. use me as you will!
epi - if i had been alone i would have bolted in a heartbeat, thank god bunny was there.
Posted by: bugg at October 24, 2005 12:34 PM