Fallen Angels and a Phantom Fire

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As I moved a chair, I saw something dark on the floor behind it. It was my precious painting of three angels by neighbor Shawn! Every once in a while there are unexplained noises in the house, and this was probably one of them. I have no idea when or why it fell off the wall. Thank goodness the painting and the glass looked fine! There was a small chunk of the frame beside it, which I should be able to glue in place. I carefully hung it back on the wall, hoping it won’t fly off again.

A little while later I settled into a chair opposite the angels and opened the iPad on my lap. When something moved above it, my eyes flew to the fireplace. It looked like the fire was burning. In fact, there was a real fire there! What??? I didn’t turn it on. No one else had been in the house for days. As I got up to turn it off, I realized I must have hit the large white switch below the angels. Being careful not to knock off an angel on the mantel, I must have touched it with my shoulder. At least, that was explainable!

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Published by Anne Mehrling

I'm a retiree who loves to write about life in the mountains of North Carolina.

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  3. Beautiful painting! Last month I was cleaning a room in which there was a record player/tape player/radio/CD-player all-in-one machine. It was across the room from me and had last been set on a tape player setting. It suddenly started playing the radio without anyone going near it. That same day my kids’ stove downstairs had a burner go on that did not match the icon on the handles. Never happened before or since that day. Funny little hauntings 😀 Always keeps things interesting. I’m glad that painting wasn’t damaged.

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  6. The painting is interesting. Very pretty. All houses have weird things going on. I blame the cats. You could blame Kacey although that picture would be a high reach.

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    1. There is one other painting that fell off the wall in this house — the one of elk in the mountains painted by Shawn’s daughter. David was in the room when thunder rattled it off the wall. That was really dramatic.

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  9. Hmm – things that go bump in the night as that expression goes. I never like when I hear a strange noise and can’t pinpoint where it came from. Remember the cable broke on the garage door and shot up to the ceiling and back to hit the inside of the door. The handyman was due to come to clean the gutters so I worried because a dove was bathing in the gutters when I returned from walking. We had had incessant rain and he had not come to clean out the maple seeds and Winter debris yet. The gutters were not down so I didn’t find out until I went out the next morning and couldn’t open the garage door (I have no small door access to get in).

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