(I) Invisible

Ghostly happenings happen round me...
I've got many stories, but this was the most recent:

I was in the kitchen, clearing the dishwasher, and getting ready to wash the pots etc, when I looked up and saw two mugs, on cup hooks, side - by - side, rocking back and forth. I'd stood watching them for a several long moments, before I realised I hadn't actually done anything to make them move. Calling my eldest daughter for back-up (well, you know, the ghost might be like a poltergeist and be attracted to a teenager - this would, of course, give me time to escape, should the entity decide to move something bigger...like 'me'!). Anyway, she oh-so-slowly put down her book, and sauntered into the kitchen (as teenagers do). Then we stood side by side in silent contemplation. Watching this phenomena. Fascinated. Waiting for it to come to a halt, but it didn't.

So then, in unison, we tried to reproduce the effect on some nearby mugs, setting them rocking... As would be expected, they followed all the normal rules of physics and their arching slowly diminished, and stopped, before our two rocking mugs...

Finally, there was just one rocking mug... which kept going, and going and going. We were joking about a ghost showing itself, and making something else in the room move (but nothing did), until finally, after about 5 minutes, it came to a quiet stop.

For the next half hour we tried experimenting, to see what could have caused the misbehaving cups. We slammed cupboard doors, blew really, really hard (which imitated the movement a bit, but since I was the only one in the room, and certainly hadn't blown, we had to rule that out). We tried nudging it (which of course made the mug move, but it kept clashing against the other mug, no matter how hard we tried to push them simultaneously, or seperately). In fact, we couldn't reproduce the phenomena, and have to come to the conclusion there was 'something strange... going on... who're y'gonna call....?"

Surprisingly, all the kids went to sleep easily that night, but I was up half the night, wondering... :D

[Poem Invisible removed for publishing Aug 2017
other rhymes from this collection now on Amazon A-Z Monsters (not) For Bed]