Amy and Matt are getting married in just a few weeks at Red Rocks, so we spent a recent afternoon traipsing around Buttonrock Reservoir outside of Lyons. Somehow during our engagement session we got onto the topic of ghosts — I think there’s a ghost in my house — and Amy listened intently. Turns out she’s got some family members who have experience in dealing with spirits. I’m definitely going to be all ears when we meet at the wedding!

The long and the short of my ghost story is that Jerry’s Wife (the ghost who came with the house) seems to like to flood things. When I moved in, despite having what I thought was a thorough home inspection, the roof leaked and every window leaked. Then the water heater blew up and flooded the basement, which lead to a 2 year remodel. Just a few months after it was finished, the dishwasher blew up and flooded the whole house, so I had to remodel the basement again, as well as the main floor. Then, while we were in Scandinavia last winter, Jerry’s Wife came along and flooded our bathroom in Norway as well as the livingroom of the unit downstairs. Damn!!

Turns out that my wife’s brother’s fiance, Maja, met Jerry’s Wife once while meditating here. Maja and Jerry’s wife communicated, and Maja learned that the ghost died in the upstairs bathroom, was kind of depressed, and the bathroom was painted red. When Maja told me this, I kind of shrugged it off, since, at the time, I didn’t believe in spirits and ghosts. Fast forward a year to the time I met a neighbor who told me that Jerry’s wife died in the upstairs bathroom. WEIRD. Fast forward another year to when I remodeled the upstairs bathroom: when I took the light switch cover plate off, the paint underneath it was red.

WEIRD, WERID, WEIRD.

Nothing’s flooded in about six months. Maybe I’ve got something coming, since the flood schedule is about one per year. Or maybe the ghost has finally found peace. Or maybe she’s just stuck in Norway!

Anyway, sorry for getting distraction. Back to our regular programming…

Amy, Matt — See you soon!! Stoked to shoot your celebration 🙂