as kenny and i drove back from church the other night, we noticed the moon. it was just a sliver but it was RED. dark red. blood red. i thought that was the stuff of ozzy osbourne songs...but they're real! and a bit creepy, especially on a coolish autumn night.
for the past few weeks, i've received the following SPAM email from "GhostCentral" which i find quite funny. it reads:
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i wonder if anyone has fallen for it yet...clicking on the link provided only to find some scam or virus taking over their computer. what is funniest to me is the line: "our instruments show strange energy radiating directly from your home."
i've never blogged before about the haunted rumor about our house. probably because i don't quite believe in ghost hauntings, and we've not experienced anything "supernatural" in our home, and we don't really expect to. but the story behind our house haunting is rather sad:
the original owner/builder of our house had a wife named sadie (her last name is the same name of the street on which we live). rumor has it that she was locked in the attic by her husband for days on end because she was crazy. the previous owners of this house raised three boys (like us!) and the one son tells us that there was a strange occurance in the room that houses the door leading up to the attic when he and his brothers were sleeping one night: the attic door flew open rather loudly.
i don't believe that sadie is haunting our attic, but i do believe there could be some truth to the story of her being locked up there. there are a few pencil drawings on the walls going up to the attic that are intriguing. one is of a youngish girl in a turn-of-the-century dress with her name written next to it (fie first picture is who is believed to be sadie, the second is her feet).
on the other side of the staircase is a picture of a flapper-type woman with a name and date (1938?) written next to her.
the previous owner says they were there when they moved in back in the 60s. why wouldn't they have been drawn by sadie? the really odd thing about the first drawing is the area around her belly: it looks as though she was trying to demonstrate that she was pregnant. hopefully the baby was delivered and had a happy, healthy life...but one never knows when stories are only rumor.