Post 87: Ghosts, Pranksters or Chance?

I think my house might be haunted. I don't really believe in ghosts. And even if I did it isn't like anything really happened here that would inspire a ghost (so far as I know). But, I still think the house might be haunted. Too many weird, little things have happened for me not to suspect something is up.

For example, my computer was unplugged the other day. Now, I don't have a lap top. I have a desktop. A big, hunk of plastic and electricity securely located under my desk. In order to unplug it someone (or something) would have had to crawl under my desk and unplugged it. And it wasn't even unplugged from the wall, that would have made more sense because then I could have just kicked it. But it wasn't. The cord had been unplugged from the back of my computer.

And my tiny TV had been unplugged a few weeks before that.

Also, things disappear in my room a lot. Even when it is clean and organized things seem to just disappear. Then, magically reappear. I lost a pair of headphones and spent WEEKS looking for them. Then one day I come into my room, open my desk drawer and there they are. I looked there before, but suddenly they've once again appeared.

Which is spooky. And I can be a klutz. And a spazz. And a dork. But, I know that I looked there MULTIPLE times and they weren't there.

But, being practical for a moment I realize I should look at other possibilities besides ghosts.

A) Pranksters. But who would they be?

While some of my friends CAN get into my house they don't when I'm not here. So, that rules them out.

My mom wouldn't have done it. Or rather, couldn't have because my room was in a complete state of disarray after days of tearing my room apart looking for my headphones and there was no way she would have let that go.

My step-dad wouldn't have done. Or rather, I see no reason that he would have. It would be kind of silly and pointless. Also, my guess is he would have reported the state of my room to my mom, so we go back to the previous point.

I don't know why my step-siblings would do it either. (And one isn't currently living here, which makes it even harder to believe it would be them.)

There is also a cleaning lady who comes to the house once every other week. But she doesn't go in my room. I am a control freak about my room. And she only vaccuums anyway and most of the time I don't want to bother prepping it when I can just clean it myself. And she rearranged my furniture once, so I'm not entirely sure how much I trust her in that respect. But none of the things that happened, happened on a Monday (the day she comes by), so it couldn't be her.

And those are the only people who have access to the house. So far as I know. Maybe this is like an episode of CSI where there was a guy living in the attic. And he needed to borrow headphones.

B) Chance

It is not entirely out of the realm of possibility that they were in my drawer the whole time. I would like to think that they were, but maybe they weren't. Also, while the cord coming out of the back of my computer seems ridiculous, maybe I did happen to knock it just the right way. Maybe it was our cleaning lady that unplugged my TV. It isn't like I use it often, so maybe it just took me awhile to notice.

Maybe a lot of things happened.

Or maybe it is ghosts. Or a ghost.

I don't know. But I do know that if I get mysteriously "pushed" down a flight of stairs, start hearing voices, or any of the more frightening and violent aspects of a haunting, I'm not going to do what those idiots in horror movies do - I am just going to move.