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Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 22:01:38 -0500 (EST)
Sender: Erin Baker (ebaker@email.unc.edu)
To: Ghost Discussion (ghost-discuss@aurora.cdb.com)
Subject: Cookies in the oven!
Hi, all. I posted this story about two years ago to A.F.G.S., and I cannot find my original post. Still, I'll write as much as I remember because I found it rather humorous.
A group of my friends and I got together one night for a story-telling session. Any kind of story was permitted, but since one guy, Josh, freaked everyone out with his encounter with a Guardian Spirit in a state park, we all decided to make a ghosty kind of night. All of the stories got sorta scary, so one of my friends, a perpetual optimist, thought she'd lighten the mood. Here is, more or less, what Kitty told. ...
Kitty (for preservation of identity) had a friend who lived in a large, plantation-style Southern house. There was a cottage down the hill from the house that her parents used to rent out. Anyway, they first rented it to a family, a husband, wife, and small girl.
At this point, the view shifts to the wife of the new inhabitants. She and her husband and daughter used to leave on the weekends to go into town to do shopping and other errands. After they had lived in the cottage for a few weeks, they came home one Sunday and discovered that there were fresh-baked cookies in the oven. The wife thought: "Am I going crazy? Nobody got any ingredients out to make cookies. Did they?" So she asked her husban and the family up the hill, who both replied in the negative.
This kept occurring, and they had to assume that it was a ghost or some sort of spirit, since they could never find anyone in the act of playing a joke on them. No other manifestations were made apparent however, but they could count on fresh cookies whenever they went out for an afternoon! After a while, they decided to move because they were afraid of other manifestations occurring which would have the potential to scare their daughter. So they moved away, and two gentlemen rented the cottage.
At this point, we return the camera to focus on the parents of Kitty's friend, who had not told the gentlemen that there was a ghost in the cottage. They noticed that these men stayed on for about a year, and so they wondered in the ghost was showing itself. One day the mother who lived in the "big house" went down to ask how things were. When nothing was forthcoming, she asked, "You haven't, um, had any unusual experiences happen in the past year, have you?"
One of the men just looked at her and said, "Oh, you mean the ghost? Oh, we love him. He makes cookies for us at least once a week."
Happy haunting!
Ice Queen