Elanso

To: Ash
From: Crecente
Re: So Much Daylight Savings Time to Hate

Did you see the story today about the Ms. Pac Man cabinet someone was giving away because they said it was haunted? I tried tracking the guy down to talk to him, but he didn't respond to my emails. I've always been fascinated with ghost stories, even when I was a little kid.

I think it started when I lived in Thailand. There was a neighbor who died in the house next to us when I was six and everyone said his spirit haunted the place. At night, sometimes, the lights would flicker on and off... and we were told there was no power. One day a young friend of mine went into the house to explore, our babysitter, a Thai women, was beside herself with worry, telling him he would anger the spirits in the house. That night his father was killed in a car crash after veering off the road.

Ever since then I've taken to reading up on ghosts and the supernatural. In college I even visited a bunch of "haunted houses" in Maryland, I never saw a thing at any of them. In Texas I wrote up a feature for the Star-Telegram about local ghost stories and took a medium with me and the co-writer to the locations to commune with the spirits. She said she saw stuff, but I never did. Even though she told me that at one stop a ghost caressed my cheek.

My wife believes in ghosts, she even had a run-in with one as a child while living in Italy. They had a priest come out and bless the house, to try and put the ghost of the old woman to rest.

But me, I still don't believe.... unless it's really dark out, and I'm the only one awake at night, and I feel a chill or hear a noise and for a second I wonder. Shhhh, don't tell anyone.

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