DEATH BED ACTIVITY MUTED, WE THINK
In the past several weeks, it’s quite true that we have had many, many misadventures around Birch Hollow, although we can’t attach any direct responsibility to the death bed, we acquired this spring from the family of a former Toronto Minister. You can read more about this by scanning back through the last few entries to this site. My wife Suzanne was not impressed with the purchase but so far her initial fear and trembling, haven’t had much foundation in corresponding events.
We have had strange occurrences, such as a pin prick hole in an upper side connecting pipe, to a hot water heater that very nearly flooded our entire basement. Suzanne asked me bluntly if it was the fact we have the death bed in our house now that may have contributed to the watery event. Of course she was kidding. The bed, we must explain, wasn’t an actual death bed, as such but rather a viewing stage for the newly deceased, at family receptions in honor of their lives.....presumably at the minister’s home. It doesn’t make much difference to Suzanne, who has seen her share of ghosts in the houses in which we have dwelled. It is however, a small, beautiful spindle bed, from the shop of a pioneer craftsman, and too much of a cultural gem to cast out because of its macabre provenance.
In this house it’s not uncommon to have falling over books, slipping-over piles of paper, and askew picture frames hung on the wall. We have a number of cats that look after these misdeeds, most of the time. So we can’t really say, that unless a spirit attached with the bed decided to play a prank with the water tank, the bed has changed much at all around here.....except the interior decor. But we’ll keep you posted.
As a side bar, we have a small but significant collection of art work from a recently deceased artist, and where we have it all stored-away for safe keeping, does suffer quite a bit more activity in the falling-over-books category. Possibly there’s a little paranormal energy manifesting within the trunks, in that part of the room. We’ll add this to the list of updates we need to provide for this blog site.