I may be scarce for a week.
One of my clients has a family emergency and needs me to watch their dogs. I’m not sure if I am going to stay there for a week, just stay during the day, or go back and forth.
They have a comfortable home and I am always welcome to move in while they are gone.
Of course it’s the house where I had the ghostly experience, but I’ve stayed there over night before. Twice I’ve gotten snowed in there and it was easier to stay than to shovel myself out. They have a long steep driveway. Lot of fun sliding backwards down that one in the snow. Thankfully my bumper caught the tree before I went sideways over the edge into the neighbors yard.
So my ghostly encounter there except I think I’ve posted it before.
One night I got to their house and the living room light was on. Usually they don’t leave a light on for me so I thought it was nice.
I went in and the living room is to the left and the dining room/kitchen is to the right down the hall. I went down the hall and hit the switch for the dining room light and it wouldn’t come on. I knew they had just put a new light/ceiling fan in so I knew the bulb hadn’t burned out. So I pulled the chains, flipped the switch and still no light.
So I went around the corner to the kitchen and it was pitch black. They have skylights so even at night there should be some light coming through. The only way I could see to get through the kitchen was that through the door I could see light in the living room.
It was the weirdest feeling walking through the kitchen, I should have been able to see something, even if it was just light reflecting off the chrome.
The closer I got to the light switch my hair started standing up in end and just before I touched the switch I thought if your hair is standing on end when you are reaching for something electrical you probably shouldn’t touch it.
But I did and the light wouldn’t come on.
So first I thought damn, the power is out because they lose power a lot in that area, but of course the living room light is on so they have power. Then I think a circuit flipped off or something.
I headed back towards the hallway to try the basement light, and to get the flashlight they leave at the top of the stairs and as I came around to the hall
I saw her
A woman, walking down the hall, blond hair and a red sweater, only at the same time I saw her I was looking through her at the schefflera in the living room. When she got to the end of the hall she vanished.
Very unnerving.
Then when I tried the dining room light it came on, as did the kitchen light.
I took care of the dogs and left, I didn’t hang around too long that night.
When I mentioned it to my client, because this is a client I feel comfortable telling, she said the woman fit the description of the woman they had bought the house from, who had recently died.
I never had the nerve to tell other clients about my encounters in their houses.
Who knew pet sitting could be such scary work what with sliding down icy driveways backwards and ghostly encounters.
Getting bitten and scratched (I’ve had my share of that) seems minor by comparison.
I’ve also got to meet with the kid I’m replacing as Dockside Monitor (that’s my official title 
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I foresee a day of cleaning and watching Gordie play “Stuffed Animal Orgy V”