August 27, 2011
No Good Even as a Guard Dog

Hello,

The poltergeist locked me out of the house again Thursday, or so I thought. I was trying to get in, and I was talking to it like it could hear me and would actually listen. When I started pounding on the door I could hear something. I stopped abruptly and the knocking continued, but muffled, like it was at the back door. I had just started around the side of the house when I heard the crash of breaking glass. I came around the corner and saw one of the kitchen chairs lying broken next to the fence. A man in black with a black ski mask over his face came out of the window. I shouted and he dropped down to the ground and took off toward the back yard. I stared in disbelief for a moment and then made to go after him.

I tripped over my own feet, though I have my suspicion that I had some ghostly help. I let whomever it was go. I called 911 on my cell and when I reported a robbery and gave the address the operator thanked me, and said that police where on their way already because I wasn't the first to call them about it. Then the operator hung up on me. I looked around. It didn't look like any of the neighbours were around. I waited for the police. When they came I had to unlock the door to let them in the front.

It took a while for the police and the forensics people to do their work. They weren't sure how the burglar got in. It seemed to me though that something had kept him from just escaping out the back door. I certainly didn't let on what I was thinking, and I told them I heard the burglar when I was trying to open the cranky front door that gives me trouble all of the time. They tried the lock with my key and they did have trouble getting it open. The house looked like the burglar had been searching for something and didn't find it. I guess I interrupted him. He did make off with my good watch, though. It was my grandfather's. The police don't hold out much luck that I'll get it back. Stupid ghost should have stopped him better.

Tags: crime, family, ghosts, heirloom, interruption, locks, police, protection, thieves.