Ooooookay. Things around the Turner household turned a bit for the weird this month when a ghost apparently took up residence in our attic. I never expected that to happen in a house less than five years old, but it apparently did.
On the afternoon of Saturday, January 9th, the kids and I were out shooting baskets in our driveway. It was clear and sunny at the time. As I was about to shoot another basket I caught a whiff of a familiar smell: gasoline!
I stopped and immediately asked the kids if they smelled anything. “Yeah, gasoline!” they responded.
I looked all around for potential sources of the smell. There were no cars passing by (we live on a dead-end street), no neighbors were mowing or trimming their lawns, no planes were flying over, and no gasoline was stored in our open garage. That got me wondering if the smell might not have been a physical one. I was reminded of the phantom gasoline smell we had in our home on March 3rd, 2009. Was our ghost back?
The smell quickly dissipated and we continued playing. Everything seemed normal. That is, until that Monday morning, January 11th!
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