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We have spirits - ghosts - a poltergeist - whatever - in our house. S'true!

The ones in my last home enjoyed moving little things around a bit, which got confusing. Like putting a pair of shoes in an odd place, or taking my locket off my unbroken chain I was wearing. One appeared as a fairy-like being in the water droplets in the garden under moonlight. There was no predilection for anything in particular though. The one living here likes metal stuff in particular. And it's making life tricky!

Taps always leak, and screws come out of chairs at an alarming rate. Our contribution to the decrease in number of almost 60 year old 1950's lurid orange vinyl dining chairs is significant.

And cutlery - for a while it was bread n butter knives, then teaspoons, and now dessert spoons. Things of a metallic nature seem prone to disappearing too - scissors, safety pins and bobby pins.

No, we haven't a Borrower in the house, and some things I totally attribute to the infestation of kids - like stickytape and hairbrushes, pens and cups, my jewelery-making pliers and secateurs going missing! I guess I shouldn't really complain, it is a nuisance, but pretty harmless (except for the chairs - it's terribly uncomfortable sitting on a chair with no back!)

This house also has some kind of 'dog spirit' - my son first saw him within a few days of moving in. We've had a couple more encounters with him since. There was also a cat for a couple of nights, that licked his face and tugged on my sheets. We haven't been able to explain the night we had the electric brown out and heard odd things, this was like a multitude of different 'personalities' passing through, very weird.

It certainly can make life interesting when strange things happen, because they encourage you to think about HOW such things can BE... which opens up the concept of Spirit /God / a creative guiding principal or force. I think I'd be more tempted to attribute such things to the imagination, or even question my baseline sanity, if these experiences hadn't been shared with my son, or someone else. My daughter too has experienced some 'other worldly' things.

I know people I would consider extremely conservative (as in material, down to earth, sensible, scientific, eg) in their views of the world equally swear by the presence of ghosts, spirits, etc. Most people have had, I believe, at least one strange metaphysical experience in their lives they can recall. Yet there doesn't seem to be a lot 'out there' about this in a certain

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