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DOUBT NOT OUR STORY Jennie Lind Brown 239 Hampton Ave. Salt Lake City, Utah FIRST PLACE ANECDOTE Leaving the farm, located out across the rock house, recently purchased by our parents, trees. My brother, Orien, going on thirteen, was especially thrilled since Mother had promised he could have the attic for a bed-room. Almost doubting her words, he immediately moved in, firmly believing he would never again have to share sleeping quarters Why then did he begin preparing for bed later each evening? Finally one morning he sheepishly declared he was moving downstairs. "Why?" questioned Mother, knowing how happy he had been. "Because the attic' s haunted and I can' t share it with a ghost. " Mother was skeptical, his older sisters giggled, and I, at seven, began to whimper. "If s only your imagination, " Mother soothed, trying to calm her only son. But Orion became angry. "It is not. It' s a real ghost. I' ve seen him. " Convinced he was truly upset, Mother quietly helped him move once again into a corner of one sister' s room. one night, Elna, a mature seventeen, was home alone practicing her piano lesson. Suddenly she became uneasy, feeling a ghostly presence was there listening to her music. Frightened she ran to Grandma Fjeldsted' s home, to confront her family. " Never again", she cried, ¦'will I stay in that house. It's haunted and I know it!" Perhaps Mother, too, had felt the presence 97 |
