I'm a Believer

Jenni was right, the house is totally haunted! Last night I tried to open the door to upstairs creepy closet #2 and somehow the door was mysteriously locked. There is no way to lock the door without a key, yet we don't have a key and the landloards don't have a key either. The landloards' son eventually had to come over and slam his hulking teenage body against the door until he shattered the glass window and broke the lock. Problem solved, at least temporarily. I did not ask him if he knew anything about a ghost.

One of the first nights that Jenni slept in the house she swears that she saw a ghost hovering above her bed, staring her down. That same week she held a séance and even made her own ouija board and chocolate chunk cookies for the occassion. I respectfully did not attend the séance, but from what i can gather, it seems not to have had the desired effect. Since then Jenni has had a black paper raven hanging in the hall outside her bedroom... I don't really know what that's about.

Here is the pro-ghost evidence so far:
1. An actual ghost sighting
2. Persistent flooding
3. Demonic refrigerator tried to set itself on fire
4. General nightmares about the house
5. Old lady neighbor yells like a witch
6. An excess of secret closets/rooms
7. Mix-matched faux wood paneling
8. Frankenstein-like vibrating chair in the living room
9. Rickety basement stairs (like in a horror movie)
10. Light switches are not in the same rooms as their corresponding fixtures

My friend Rachel is moving to New York from Louisiana next week. Apparently her family's house used to have its own ghost until her father had it professionally exorcized. She says that there are lots of ghosts in the south, so maybe she can help us out with this one.

Details of séance II forthcoming.