Haunted by Dorah L. Williams

Author:Dorah L. Williams
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2012-08-16T16:00:00+00:00

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OUT OF CONTROL

I felt greatly relieved that I now had Rhonda, with whom to correspond, because she understood the situation we were facing in our house. I had found our contact therapeutic, yet the unusual activity had escalated and was now occurring on an almost daily basis. Items began to disappear, vanishing altogether or showing up again in such unlikely spots that we could not figure out how they could possibly have been placed there. No item of real monetary or sentimental value was ever lost, such as a wallet or jewelry, but cooking utensils, books, clothing, and especially the children’s toys would be there one minute and missing the next. They would remain lost for days or even weeks, only to show up on top of a high shelf in a closet or under the stairs in the basement.

As those articles went missing, however, the children began to find coins throughout the house in equally strange locations. That phenomenon, which had started on our first day in the house, had continued, although the coins had never appeared in that same large quantity. Ted and I had never given the matter a great deal of thought. Certainly people did drop coins now and again, so it was not unreasonable to assume the money had come from one of our own pockets. When added to all the other incidents, though, the frequency of the coins’ appearance and the locations in which they were found finally caught my attention.

We also experienced a problem with all the clocks in the house. No matter how often I would replace the batteries, it was impossible to keep them running consistently for any length of time. Even the few that were plugged into outlets would stop for long periods, for no apparent reason.

Watches were also affected. My gold wristwatch, which had been a gift from Ted the previous Christmas, quit working one afternoon at 2:30 p.m. Replacing the battery did not restore it to working order, so I put it in a desk drawer and later bought another cheaper watch. That one stopped working at 7:00 a.m., within a couple of days, even though the sales lady had installed a new battery when I had purchased it.

I planned to take both watches to a jeweler the next day to see if they could be fixed. When I opened the desk drawer to retrieve the gold one, I found it was now not only working properly but was somehow even set to the correct time. Puzzled by this, but relieved to have it working again, I put the recently purchased but seemingly broken one into the desk drawer. A few days later, I opened the drawer and saw that it too was not only working again but was set to the correct time.

Our nights were fraught with an increasing number of disturbances. After we were in bed, we could often hear loud knocks the house. It was difficult, though, to determine from where the noise was originating.

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