The Cellar - View Single Post

Lamplighter · 10-22-2010, 09:22 AM

Over the past 35 years we have lived in this house we have had 5 Lab Retrievers.
The house is old but solid and does not creak or have other noises.
But each of those Labs have been absolutely certain there is an "invisible man" in the house or walking around outside.

My wife and I know we are not prone to heart attacks because we have so far survived the random,
out-of-the-blue, loud, vicious, back-hair bristling, barking-and-growling attack modes
of each of these normally friendly dogs.

I have previously written about the "spot of cold" that exists in our downstairs bedroom/office that comes and goes after sunset.
When it happens and one of the dogs is in the room, it will slink away and then sometimes charge back to the doorway again in attack mode.
Any train of thought in progress while working is long gone.

The previous owner was a widow who lived here for 30 years after her husband passed.
She had closed down the upstairs rooms and used that room as her bedroom.
She had a reputation in the neighborhood of being very nice and friendly.
So we have named our night-visitor "Mrs Knox" and try to be accepting everything comes with living an 100-year old house.

10-22-2010, 09:22 AM	#32
Lamplighter Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods Posts: 6,402	Over the past 35 years we have lived in this house we have had 5 Lab Retrievers. The house is old but solid and does not creak or have other noises. But each of those Labs have been absolutely certain there is an "invisible man" in the house or walking around outside. My wife and I know we are not prone to heart attacks because we have so far survived the random, out-of-the-blue, loud, vicious, back-hair bristling, barking-and-growling attack modes of each of these normally friendly dogs. I have previously written about the "spot of cold" that exists in our downstairs bedroom/office that comes and goes after sunset. When it happens and one of the dogs is in the room, it will slink away and then sometimes charge back to the doorway again in attack mode. Any train of thought in progress while working is long gone. The previous owner was a widow who lived here for 30 years after her husband passed. She had closed down the upstairs rooms and used that room as her bedroom. She had a reputation in the neighborhood of being very nice and friendly. So we have named our night-visitor "Mrs Knox" and try to be accepting everything comes with living an 100-year old house.