From: iggy@atlantis.uucp (Shawn Peacock)
Subject: Supernatural scare
Organization: Atlantis Communications, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:07:07 GMT

	I had an interesting night a few years ago thanks to three of my 
friends.  I was alone at home as the rest of my family was out of town for a
few days.  It was good friday.  One of my friends had been laying some ground-
work earlier in the day by explaining that there was an increase of super-
natural activity around good friday.  This was just in casual conversation
and not overdone so as to possibly make me suspicios.  That night after I had
gone to bed and just fallen asleep, I was woken by a loud thump coming from
downstairs.  I was sure right away that this noise wasn't just the house 
creaking or something of that nature.  I was starting to worry so I got up to 
investigate but not before grabbing this tent spike that I had in my room.
The spike is steel, 30cm long and sharp.  Thus I wander downstairs otherwise
armed only with my underwear.  I begin prowling around the main floor, turning
lights on and being nervous.  The family dog lazily raises his head as I pass,
giving me a 'what're you doing up' look and goes back to sleep.  Some watchdog.
By now I have most of the lights on the main floor on.  Trying to be level-
headed, I determine that it must be a power failure when they all go out.  But
looking out the window, I see that my house is the only one lacking power.
Now I'm beginning to wonder, but I don't know what to think.  Then the phone
rings.  Static and strange noises spew out of it when I pick it up.  A few 
seconds after I hang it up, it rings again.  Same static and noise.  Then the
lights come back on.  And go off.  The phone rings some more.  The dog sleeps.
I freak.  Upstairs I go to throw some cloths on and then I'm in the car and 
outta there.  I go over to my friends place and he's not there.  Then I begin
to figure things out.  Wasn't that my other friend's car I saw parked on a 
street nearby earlier that night?  So I squeel the car back to my place and 
there is one of my friends wandering around outside.  The were wondering where
I was.  They were a bit dissapointed that I missed the grand finaley where they
came stomping up the basement stairs thumping the walls and playing spooky
music on a tape machine.
	They had planned it out quite well.  Earlier that day while visiting
me, one conspiritor managed to get an opportunity to sneak downstairs and see
to it that a basement window was unlocked.  The thump I heard was one of them
falling as they snuck in the window.  Of course the main power panel and phone
connections are in the basement for them to do their trickery.  I was somewhat
angry but at the same time I had to give them credit for pulling a good one 
on me.  Things could have turned out worse if the hadn't stayed in the basement
while I was still there.  I was really freaked out, and if I had come around
a corner and met someone, or had them jump out at me, I would surley have 
stuck them with the tent peg.  But all in all, I think it was a rather good
shenanigan and we still laugh about it sometimes when we get together.

-- 
Shawn Peacock
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