haunted houses

[bentech]

im 8 years old
and my pop has taken on the job of helping some relatives out with things

they were trying to move out of an old place theyd lived in for generations
and it wasn't going well

the patraiarch of the family had them living in the attic

the lower floors and grounds had succumbed to decades of hording which might of made sense to a builder in decades past but by this time had turned into slavery

so while my pop tried to help them naviagate the deal of the day

me as a boy got the freedom to poke in and about the property

so

here is where I discovered a room in the attic that seemed to havnt been visited for quite some time

it window looked out over the san pedro harbor
being an attic room it was rather well furnished but
it was crowded because of the roofline

there was one easy chair facing the rooms window and the room was littered with newpapers

mostly unread, still with the rotten rubberbands theyd come in

someone had spent a few decades taking the news off where ever the paper boy had dropped the days copy

up there and hadn't bothered to even read it...

I can still smell the reek of that room

1976

[Dick Fein]

Haunted pool hall 1981.
I am playing snooker in Vancouver.
It is a very old establishment.
We have consumed a very small amount of mushrooms, just a gram maybe, delivered from the Queen Charlotte Islands.
I called a 3 ball combo in the corner and when I looked for acknowledgement I noticed my opponent had sprouted a number of new eyes.
I tried to act nonchalant, but my shot missed.
It was his turn and it seemed to take forever, I guess because he had never tried to play with that many eyes before.
While I was waiting for him to play I kept seeing a ghostly apparition. An angry man stalking out of the bathroom with violent intent and somehow I knew he met his death here.
Later I became quite depressed which was unusual for me on mushrooms.