Ghost Story

Today at the local grocery store the clerk asked me out of the blue, "do you like ghost stories?"

I said yes, I do. She then told me of her mother's recent visit to their old family home in California, the home this clerk lived in as a kid. She said her mom was outside the old house looking around when a neighbor came up and excitedly told her about the house having become a famous haunted house since the family had moved away.

The clerk told me the ghosts had something to do with stabbing, knives -- I forget exactly because at this point she mentioned "my sister was murdered twenty years ago -- stabbed to death. Now, I know the ghost isn't HER. I know my sister is all right. I KNOW this. I KNOW where my sister is, I've talked to her several times, but that's another story."

Indeed. She told me a theory that the murderer was the ghost. Or something.

I asked where this house was. She said "oh, in California." I asked where in California. She said "in Santa Rosa."

I told her I knew of Santa Rosa, home of Charles Schulz and Luther Burbank. She didn't really know what I was talking about, because she obviously hasn't read The Santa Rosa Connection.

Coincidentally, my pal from Who2, Adam Duvander is from... Santa Rosa, California.