The Invisible Hand
Ghost Story
I grew up in a small town in a house at the end of a street. The house was a normal house except for the fact that it was haunted. I remember that the other homes on the street also experienced weird occurrences. A girl who resided a few houses away from me started having terrible headaches when she went to bed one night. She was gone the following day, having died of an aneurysm.
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The father instructed my mom’s brother — to check on their dogs after her funeral as the family left to distract themselves from the tragedy. He invited my mother and father, who were at the time dating since she wanted to play the grand piano there. Dad was training to become a veterinarian.
My mother went to the piano on the ground level as soon as we entered the house, while my uncle and father proceeded to the basement to examine the animals. When she felt something brush her ankles as she was playing the piano. She reasoned that a cat must have emerged from the cellar and moved past her. She continued to play the piano but felt the sensation of something brushing up against her ankles once again.
She searched underneath the piano but found nothing. She felt hands tightly grab her legs as she restarted. My father and uncle were waiting for her as she hurried to the basement entrance. My mom was visibly shaken when my uncle returned outside and enquired as to what was happening.
He turned white when she explained what had occurred. He revealed to her that the deceased daughter and her deceased father used to play a game. She would scurry underneath him as he played the piano, grip his ankles, and move his feet up and down the pedals.
The next thing I remember about that day was getting rid of the piano. My mom did not want to experience what she felt again and after the piano was gone, no more occurrences happened like that again.
