Wow! Looks like your and your house have a very special relationship. I love that it seems to want to protect you.

My degree is in philosophy, and although it was only a small module, we did intro to metaphysics. It was 10 years ago now, but I remember just having my mind blown by all the different ways time could be structured.

Noooo, I don’t mindat all! I’ve done some slavic studies myself, so I’m not entirely unfamiliar.

“usually” 0_0

Theater ghosts are the kindest ghosts.

This happened to me working in an old theatre! I was racing around looking for an actor and, after getting to the top of a tiny flight of stairs that came up just off stage, I saw he wasn’t there, spun to head back down and lost my balance. I was about to take a super nasty fall backwards down the stairs but there was…

Check the attic!!

I feel the same way about houses - that after awhile, they gain a semblance of sentience. I introduced myself to our rental house when we first moved it, during my initial walk though. I was told all the keys would be in the kitchen drawer, but when I looked, all I could find was the house keys - the garage key was…

I told this one before, but I posted really late so I’ll try again this year.

Awe but I loved how you found your Grandfather’s name! That was very uh ... syncronistic, and happily spooky.

That! Except at times if no one has lived in them for a long, long time, they sometimes go to sleep and you’re not sure what you’re going to get if you wake them up.
This one was owned by a person who had absolutley no sense of how to handle an old house (also no skills as a craftsman, and with anything this old…

I love this story! Your house and your relationship with it is so cool. I 100% believe that old houses are semi-sentient and generally, the older the house, the more life can be found in it. Like a ´thickness´ of time and feeling, somehow. 

Ha! I should try that!

Maybe it wants Old Country food?

I love theater ghosts; they tend to be fun and helpful in the main.

Before they said he was friendly I actually asked if he was an evil ghost and they said no, apparently he just walks around and sometimes there’ll be lights switched off or on or things moved (usually tidied up!) when there’s nobody else around, LOL. 

Theater ghosts are awesome.

See, the thing is, they’re *supposed* to help around the house and stuff. It doesn’t. It takes what offered (milk & cookies, mostly), but other than that, it’s just there. Now if it was actually doing its job, THAT would be cool!

Your sulky, unhappy thing seems cool as hell. Like your own personal Eeyore who steals hazelnut syrup.

I’ve grown up with ghosts and spirits being real, and a good grounding in how to handle them, and I’m afraid there’s only two times I’ve really been scared in that context – one a very weird encounter with a partial thing when I was a kid that’s not lending itself to a telling, the other a location near my family’s…