[Swordmaker]

Swordmaker, very good story. Did you write it?

Yes... but the story is essentially the story that was told to me by Irene Boyd( neé Smith), my parents' first landlady. When she told us this story, Irene, a devout Catholic, took her Bible and swore on it that the story was true. I believed her.

My parents moved to Sacramento in 1938 when my dad got a job as an aircraft mechanic at McClellan Army Air Base. They did not have enough for a deposit on an apartment but Irene took pity on them (it was raining) and rented them a third floor flat on the corner of 22nd and I streets. Irene lived in the first floor apartment... which is where I heard the story when I was about 13 years old.

(By the way, my mother's 91st Birthday is Friday.)

[Mind-numbed Robot]

I believed it all until the part about the Mac getting a virus. :-)

[Archer24]

VERY well written. The neighborhood that I live in is an old rural one and I know of three ghosts here. Two of them well documented and the third not so but it is in our house which I built on a site where a house burned down in 1930. That one is mischievous. The one down the road didn't like this guys five daughters and continually harassed them. The one up the road (most documented) was a female and only appeared to children although she could be mischievous as well.

I've never seen one but I do believe in them and am curious about them.

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