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To: CurlyBill
The previous owners of my house were a couple with three daughters. Tragically, the father, Frank, was working in the attic one day, had a heart attack and died up there. His wife found him and EMS got him down through a trap door in the ceiling of the laundry room, the only way in or out.

When I bought the house, I installed a set of drop down attic stairs to make it easier to use the attic for storage. I was up there working the day before Christmas, and pried up a floorboard. It snapped in half, created a puff of dust and a small piece of paper flew up from beneath the floorboard and stuck to my shirt. This is what it read:

"Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Frank Bartkovich"

I went right downstairs, I did.

36 posted on 10/26/2006 7:23:59 AM PDT by Ol' Sox
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To: Ol' Sox
"Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Frank Bartkovich"

Freaky!

42 posted on 10/26/2006 7:38:42 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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To: Ol' Sox

>a small piece of paper flew up from beneath the floorboard and stuck to my shirt. This is what it read:

"Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Frank Bartkovich"<

Whoa, that sounds like something that happened in my grandparents' home. Thirty years after it was sold out of the family, my cousin bought it back. During renovations, they found, in one of the fireplaces, one of my grandfather's cards. He had died in 1954, of a heart attack.

The family has looked at this occurance as my grandfather's approval of getting the home back, and it's renovation into a real showplace.


43 posted on 10/26/2006 7:38:57 AM PDT by Darnright (http://media.putfile.com/Webb-on-Allen)
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To: Ol' Sox

Really good story.


99 posted on 10/26/2006 3:19:29 PM PDT by TASMANIANRED (The Internet is the samizdat of liberty..)
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To: Ol' Sox

Oh, that's a goooodd one!


148 posted on 10/29/2006 9:30:03 PM PST by Rte66
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To: Ol' Sox

That's neat. Really.


164 posted on 10/30/2006 4:18:57 PM PST by phoenix0468 (http://www.mylocalforum.com -- Go Speak Your Mind.)
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