Leaping Coffin Boxes

[mbarrick]

So Elaine's coffin box that she made decided to leap from its hanging place over the den door again. It's done this multiple times now. Nothing else has every fallen off these sills, and the coffin box is especially firmly affixed. Last time she repaired it I practically hung from it to make sure was well seated on the nail that holds it in place. We've joked about some "previous occupant" disliking the coffin and I'm running out of reasonable explainations for why this item — and nothing else — should keep falling down.

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Just maybe...

[valerian.livejournal.com]

That's what I figured it was, vibrations from passing buses and trucks on the street 'shaking' it off the wall. Or tenants/workmen upstairs stomping around like elephants rattling it loose. If this is the case, why then has it not fallen off before? It's only been about a month since it first fell, if that. And in that time countless people have walked the floor above us. The night it fell while we were home there was no one moving around upstairs, nor any heavy traffic going by.

It can't be air currents from the ceiling fan - we have greeting cards propped up on that shelf and they have never fallen off. The shelf is about 4" wide and a good 7' off the floor - no cat can get up there (and if one did, all the other crap on it would get knocked down first).

It's just.... plain.... weird....

Re: Just maybe...

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

yep i agree...and it sounds like michael is slowly running out of reasonable explanations...it's a pretty old building in a pretty old part of town...i agree anything that would knock that down would also at least move the items around it...especially buses, trucks, or air currents...

Re: Just maybe...

[kitsune-13.livejournal.com]

I say Ghosties...when we lived on the 4th floor, weird shit (aka Ron & Janet's house ghost) happened with the first couple o days we lived there. Our house ghosts (there's two) moved in with us.
Thankfully.
Our house ghosts knocked out the previous occupant. Maybe he/she/it went downstairs to live with you.
It's not benevolent tho...so keep your wits about you.

Try putting a bowl of water out (like on an altar), and salting the corners of the rooms. That helps to get rid of any of the pesky spooks that aren't helping your best interests.

There's a few peeps who got really freaked and wouldn't come into our place for the first couple of days we lived on the 4th floor.
As soon as the bowl of water went up, our " personal houseghosts" cleared out the nasty one that was there from before, it was fine. People remarked that the rooms felt so much better - what did we do cause they didn't get that nasty feeling of malice like before.

Tangetally

[mbarrick.livejournal.com]

Remember how the elevator would frequently press "4" when another button was pressed? Since then the elevator machine room and the elevator itself has been rewired. It didn't do that the entire time the fourth floor was unoccupied. Now that there are people on the fourth floor, the "4" button has gone back to pressing itself.

Did I tell you about Margaret's storage room door rattling?

Re: Tangetally

[kitsune-13.livejournal.com]

no, I haven't heard about these events. I do remember the haunted elevator's antics. Did you know that the old elevator shaft (right next to the current one) was actually our front closet?
They boarded up the shaft and made it into our hall closet. That's why we had to huck our clothes...a secondary air shaft + smoke/asbestos..well, you get the picture.

Tell me about the rattling storage room door.