Saturday, October 25, 2008

Say Cheese EVP



Here is a picture taken at my sister's house of the ghostly former owners, the Ziefels. They are the balls of sparkly light next to the yappy white dog. That's part of Jr in the corner.

Ghost House

I DWELL in a lonely house I know
That vanished many a summer ago,
And left no trace but the cellar walls,
And a cellar in which the daylight falls,
And the purple-stemmed wild raspberries grow.
O'er ruined fences the grape-vines shield
The woods come back to the mowing field;
The orchard tree has grown one copse
Of new wood and old where the woodpecker chops;
The footpath down to the well is healed.
I dwell with a strangely aching heart
In that vanished abode there far apart
On that disused and forgotten road
That has no dust-bath now for the toad.
Night comes; the black bats tumble and dart;
The whippoorwill is coming to shout
And hush and cluck and flutter about:
I hear him begin far enough away
Full many a time to say his say
Before he arrives to say it out.
It is under the small, dim, summer star.
I know not who these mute folk are
Who share the unlit place with me--
Those stones out under the low-limbed tree
Doubtless bear names that the mosses mar.
They are tireless folk, but slow and sad,
Though two, close-keeping, are lass and lad,--
With none among them that ever sings,
And yet, in view of how many things,
As sweet companions as might be had.

Robert Frost

7 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids ar supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone."
--shirley Jackson, the haunting of hill house.

12:15 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ohhh.... I do love my ramshackle old house. Thank you Sr. and Buddy for the poem and excerpt, I might grow old among the Zeifle orbs. Today I will attempt to winterize the melting extension at the back of the house. As for the YAPPY DOG, he is too precious for words and his mama loves him.

12:38 PM  
Blogger Bello (Buddy) Manjaro said...

MJ rocks! ;)

8:45 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

What a cute dog, Jr! How does he get along with LuLu? Are those REALLY ghosts to your right? Yikes!

Buddy, I loved that book. Sends shivers down my spine just thinking about it!

10:12 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi Linderloo, Billy and Lulu love each other, they play wrestle all day long. We got Billy to keep Lulu company when we go to work.
Yes, those are more than likely the Zeifles. After we got Billy, I went downstairs to get something and a box fell from a ledge. When I picked up the box I noticed it was dog clippers and there was a picture of a Westie, Billy's breed, on the box. I think the Zeifle orbs are fond of little Billy.

8:08 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

linder loo: i know, it's one of my fave, along with Streiber's the Hunger (the novel, not the movie or the alleged sequels to the novel, those pretty much suck majorly, but the original novel is brilliance on wheels)

Just dropping in to say good morning to everyone. I'd bring flowers if i had em.

9:40 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

good morning to you too Buddy, although I suspect it's a different day! Are you a great reader? I find reading a book much more satisfying that watching the movie, and, like you said, especially watchihng the sequel!

Jr, Billy doesn't seem to be scared of the Ziefles! Is LuLu? could you feel their presence next to you?

6:16 PM  

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