Haunted Places, Haunted Spaces

Haunted motel:

• Sobbing phantom woman in the hallway
• One of the toilets keeps filling with blood
• A man keeps looking in the windows no matter what floor

Haunted church:

• Crying from the baptismal font
• One more altar boy than there should be
• Bell tower rings twice every night at 2:24 am

Haunted diner:

• Booth no one sits at, not anymore
• Fresh eggs go rotten and explode
• Waitress who took your order had the wrong uniform

Haunted circus:

• The tight rope is always swaying
• The animals won’t go near one corner of the tent
• Not all the clowns who went in come back out of the little car

Haunted new house:

• Violent pounding in the basement
• Workman’s shoes walk up and down the hall
• Pipes in the yard bursting

Haunted school:

• Desks rearrange each night in one class
• Voices in empty locker room
• We just don’t use, touch, or acknowledge the break room coffeemaker

Haunted university:

• Woman at the end of long hallway that flickers under the poor lighting
• Every first term exams the same student falls from the fourth floor
• Someone with you in the lab

Haunted brothel:

• Cold hands down clients backs
• Not always the right face in the mirror
• Tugged hair and whispers to warn

Haunted backlot:

• Always damp, rain or shine
• The garbage sacks move
• No kid will play there but can’t explain why

Haunted old house:

• Painted over door that isn’t mentioned by the realtor
• Man stands over bed while you sleep
• Someone walks in and out of room without opening the door

Haunted desk:

• The drawer jams like something is pulling it back
• Can’t keep pens in it, ink instantly dries up
• Feel like someone else is sitting at it when you try to use it

Haunted row house:

• A little boy made of light runs up the stairs and disappears around the corner
• Living children find themselves pushed down the stairs
• Little boy of light follows you to your new house

Haunted tv:

• Same episode that one show every time you catch it but no one else has ever seen that one
• Everything’s gone digital but that old tv still picks everything up fine
• No betamax, vcr, or dvd player has escaped unscathed

Haunted campground:

• Children stand around your tent at night
• Paths change
• By the old school where the children play on the hill

Haunted library:

• Books rearrange to spell ‘HELP’
• You’re not supposed to take out that book
• Constant scratching from under the bookcase that goes down to the floor