Sitting in my recliner I was contemplating whether to start a personal project of making a makeshift gym in the basement or flip through some channels on my Roku. This is because it was and hour and half before I would have to leave and get to the weekend gig on time.

Well, I hate to start something and have to leave it the moment I start, so starting putting together the make shift gym will have to wait until tomorrow. Turned on the TV but the remote was acting up, so flipping through the channels was ruled out also.  

I thought why not do some relaxation exercise, I have not done any in a while. I went back to the basics and did a 50 second count down, while taking deep breaths.

Even though I was counting down from 50, I don’t remember reaching to number 1, so I don’t know how long it was before I started to hear footsteps like there were somebody upstairs, hiding in the attic to come out after I leave the house.

I stayed quiet so that whoever was up there in the attic would come out of hiding. Which exactly happened. But I was surprised that whoever was up there were two young children. They came out of the attic and down the stairs playing with each other.

While they were running to the living room, the thoughts that ran through my head was that I should use sage smudge sticks to get rid of any wandering or wayward spirits that is lurking in the house.

Then the children ran past the recliner, and they were going to run the other way, when I stuck out my hand and stopped one of them.

When I stopped one of the children they tried to get away from me, but I held onto him. I wanted to ask them if they were the only ones there.

Well, the children really didn’t speak, but I got my answer indirectly. I let the child who I was holding up go because I saw that there was a man to my left.

I don’t remember him telling me his name, if he did, I don’t remember. But what I do remember was him saying that he owned the house in 1958. He had something that he wanted to give me so I held out my hand.

When my hand was held out, the man put something that looked like keys in my hand. The dilemma that the object fell through my hand onto the floor. He tried putting the object in my hand again, but the results were the same.

He said that he wanted to show me something and told me to follow him. I started to stand up but I only stood up half way before falling backwards sitting back down. Then I felt someone tap me on my back at the base of my neck. I was surprised and I quickly turned around to see who tapped me; but turning my head took me out of the trance state…

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