Ghosts in the Attic - Catch Up.

After writing about our ghosts initially (see previous post), we had peace and quiet for about three weeks.

While reading my book one evening, the banging started again and I just couldn’t believe it. What was going on? Again, Denis and I toured the house and could find nothing that could be the cause of this problem.

After two or three days of this intrusion into our daily lives, we decided that something had to be done, but what? Since we could not identify the noise, it was difficult to know the qualified person needed to fix the problem. Our best bet so far was someone in construction because we were now convinced that something was going on in the basic roof construction and if it wasn’t fixed we had visions of part of the roof collapsing.

The following evening, Denis walked into the lounge with a smug grin on his face and announced that he had found ‘the ghost’.

“What!”

“You’ll never guess. They are the speakers belonging to my computer.”

“But that’s in your office, not the attic,” I reminded him.

“Come and see”, said Denis as he started to walk back to the office.

He twiddled the knob on the speaker as he increased the volume, and sure enough there came the hollow, rather loud static bang that sounds exactly like someone banging on the wall.

Since Denis’s office was at the end of the house, I could see how the sound could reverberate and appear to be coming from other places.

“We can easily put this to the test,” said Denis, “by turning off the speakers and then putting them on again.” Sure enough, it was the speakers, and when they were off we never heard another sound. $155 later our problem was solved.

So much for our ‘ghosts’! The moral of this story is – if you think you have ghosts in the attic, check the speakers attached to the computer first.

I was telling this story to someone yesterday, and she asked me if I seriously believed in ghosts?

Do you?