From: Haunter@castles.com (Haunter)
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Subject: Off Topic / A new Haunter Tale
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 19:52:39 GMT
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My Friends:
All of my investigations into the Paranormal can be seen at:
http://www.geocities.com/soho/gallery/3549/stories.htm

First, my apologies to the group for disappearing for so long.
Circumstances demand my attention elsewhere and I've not had a chance
to even read any of the posts for the last 5 days or so..nor will I
have that chance after posting this. However, something just happened
a couple of days ago that I think you'll agree needs
documenting...then I'll disappear for awhile yet.
As most of you know, I've recently been forced, through circumstance,
to move back into my parent's home for awhile. It's a typical "bedroom
community" suburb home, 3 bedrooms, on a busy corner. Coincidentally,
I helped hang the sheetrock in this entire "division" of homes nearly
30 years! ago and our home was the very first to be built in this
subdivision...my folks being the only owners of this house. When I
moved back a month ago, one of my chores was doing the mowing and
general yard work in partial payment for my moving back in with them.
In doing so, I met the latest (3rd) husband of a long-time neighbor,
across the busy street from us on the "long" side of the house.
Because of the traffic and the orientation of the front doors, we
rarely see eachother, but the first week back, I saw "Tom" doing
yardwork across the street and I took a few minutes to introduce
myself. He was retired Air Force, as so many in this neighborhood and
mentioned he was in "Communications" while in the Service. I joked
about this with him, as any of you Vets out there know, the
Crypto-dudes have a reputation for being a little "out there' and I
told him I could sympathize, giving him a brief rundown about my own
activities involving the Paranormal and we laughed about the
similarities in attitude people have regarding our two particular
interests and talents. 
Fast forward two weeks. Tom drops dead on the local golfcourse.
Fast forward to last week.
I'm mowing the yard on the "long side" and as I'm turning the corner,
I look up and see Tom trimming his hedges. Being the "friendly
neighbor" type, I yell out, "Hiya Tom" and wave. He looks up and waves
back and we both go about our tasks. A half-second later, I realize
what just happened and with a big grin, I slowly look back over my
left shoulder and, of course, he's not there. Well, I can tell you!,
goosebumps powered the rest of my lawnmowing duties for the next 15
minutes!! heheeh   After I put the mower away, I grabbed the
power-hedge trimmer, went over and asked the lady of the house if she
thought her hedges could use a trim, now that Tom was no longer around
and she agreed, with a big thank you thrown in. I went ahead and did
so, knowing I probably made both of them happy doing so. 
I figure now that next time I see Tom, he'll have taken the hint and
will probably be painting the front of the house, knowing that I'll
soon show up with my own paint brush, shortly thereafter ! :-)
Just had to let ya know about our new neighborhood ghost, Tom...may he
rest in peace.
Haunter