Speaker 1: Ghost Stories of the Rocky Mountains written by Barbara Smith,
published by Lone Pine Publishing. Accommodation to let Furnished and
Haunted in the Rocky Mountains of southeastern British Columbia. There's
a ghost and residence at a house near our school
and an isolated common unity. Because of its proximity to
the school, it has often severed as a teacherge for
those educators willing to share their accommodations with ghosts. No
one might ever have heard of this particular haunted house
had it not, during the summer of nineteen fifty seven,
been occupied by a world renowned artist. The man who
has asked for amenity put up with all the ghostly
activity in the tiny place because its beautiful mountain surroundings
meant that he had more subjects than he could possibly paint,
and because the lakes nearby were well stocked with the
fish that he loved to catch. The artist and his wife, Lisa,
house furnished. All they had to do was move in.
Even at first they found one piece of furniture a
bit unorthodox, the exterior show of a grandfather clock without
the clock mechanism, despite there being no workings inside this clock,
it would chime every evening at a particular time. Just
when the couple became used to this impossibility, the sounds
began to be accompanied by doors throughout the house slaming closed.
But there were never any drafts or people about to
cause such a thing. Although all of this unexplained activity
in one little house must have had an unassettling effect
on the artists and his wife, they stayed on until September,
when their tenure was up and two teachers were scheduled
to move in. The new tenants decided to re arrange
the furniture in the little place. Their decorating ideas must
have struck a responsive chord with the residential spirit, for
he had begun to play the piano in the middle
of the night. That was enough for the teachers. They
fled the haunted little house and refused to ever return.
Old timers in the nearby town suspected that the restless
spirit was that of a former resident who died in
the house some years back. Teachers venturing out in the
Mountain area schools might be well to check into the house,
they offered. If they find the frame of a grandfather
clock and the place they might do better to search
for accommodation further afield