HAUNTED BED OKAY - BUT STILL ODD OCCURRENCES

Since bringing home the death bed.....an early piece of Canadiana, that was used for funerary purposes by a former Toronto minister, (purchased from an estate) we have most certainly had an interesting sequence of household disruptions and my wife and I seldom get past 3:30 a.m., without suddenly raising in bed wondering why one woke the other up. We still get radiators starting without being set by thermostat, and leaks of water here and there, strange bumps in the night.....we credit these intrusions to our numerous cats. There really hasn’t been anything paranormal to the bedstead that we can attribute, and our lives here at Birch Hollow are pretty much the same as before. With all the old stuff we have in our house, there’s just as much likelihood a paranormal quality or quantity has hitched a ride with a book, a dresser, a child’s toy, doll or old trunk. We’ve probably got all kinds of interesting spirit-kind here sharing the lives of two musicians, a teacher and a writer. Nothing scary but then we’ve always felt this way about our contact with the alleged other side.

In the coming weeks I will have some Tom Thomson material to share, with regards to a new book just released on the artist’s mysterious death, while traversing Algonquin’s Canoe Lake, in July 1917. Stay tuned. It’s pretty neat stuff.