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RE: STACH Short Story Contest #19: 199 words, 5 winners, 15SBD prize pool!

in #writing7 years ago

Whatever haunts the Solent Inn at Gruzz made such a racket one night that landlord Chris dialed 911 and called in the police!

"It was as if someone was throwing furniture about in the lounge bar beneath our bedroom" The noise went on for at least ten minutes but by the time the police arrived it had stopped. We really believed we had burglars, or someone downstairs bent on wrecking the place, and I was not about to confront them," Chris said.

However when the officers arrived to arrest the culprits, they found the bar was completely empty and not a stick of furniture was out of place.

It happened subsequently but this time Chris and wife went to inspect it themselves, yet nothing was out of place.

Impatient spirits unwilling to wait for opening time have been heard banging a glass on the bar three times to attract the barmaid's attention.

Phantom footsteps move along an upstairs corridor at night and something pushes open the bedroom door. A local psychic recently told Chris and his wife that there was a very active presence in the old pub, but assured them it was not harmful. These events continued...