Ghoul in the hallway

Our house is getting old, but it’s not one of those ‘creepy’ old houses. I’ve never heard strange noises or seen scary apparitions. Until the other night. There are only two of us living here and while I don’t always keep up with Nick’s whereabout during the day, I know where he is at night. He’s usually in bed by nine (since he goes to work at 2:00 am.) I’m usually in bed by midnight. 

We were still sleeping in the guest room the other night, waiting for the new bathroom to be finished, when I started getting ready for bed. Nick had been asleep for hours. I came out of the bathroom and happened to glance down the hall – and there was a ‘being’ there in the deep shadows. It was perfectly still and wasn’t making a sound. The quick glimpse I got was of something tall, silent, bald, nude, skeletally thin, totally gray in color from head to foot, and ominous. 

Nick is the only other person in the house, of course, but he is not tall, he usually sleeps in a T-shirt and briefs, he’s thin and mostly bald but not at all ominous. Catching sight of this ‘thing’ caused me to really appreciate the fact that I’d just gone to the bathroom. I sprinted to the living room as if being chased by a monster, which I thought I was. Coming into the lighted room, I bravely took another quick look, only to see Nick calmly going into the bathroom.

Not wanting to get him all woken up at that time of night I waited until the morning to confront him. 

“And just why were you looming in the hallway trying to scare me to death last night?”

To which he answered, “Huh?”

It seems my sweet hubby just woke up and needed to go to the bathroom. He was wearing his gray T-shirt and gray briefs. As he came to the door of the bedroom, he saw me going into the bathroom and simply leaned back in the corner of the dark hallway to wait. I suppose it was my fear that caused him to grow a foot in the dark. Nick doesn’t hear well without his hearing aids, so we don’t talk much after they come out at night. That’s why he had said nothing to me.

As Cassie once said, ‘I won’t need a stress test from the doctor, if I survived that, my heart is good to go.’

Thankfully we are back to two bathrooms now! And hopefully no more scary visions in the night.