The Seventh Month - witching hour

Discussion on spooky things during the seventh month* is not recommended for the faint-hearted.

As soon as your fearless reporter completed the entry on strange occurrences, another extraordinary incident took place. This time in the laundry room, during the witching hour of graduate school (Friday 10pm), when all students with a life take to the bars. Rather than settle in for a night of cooking shows on PBS, I decided to make myself useful and do the laundry instead. The laundry room was deserted and I was able to secure two large front loading washers. The clothes were then dumped into the dryer. I returned an hour later and to my horror discovered two pairs of boxers that didn’t belong to me tumbling along side my clean bed sheets and pillowcases!**

This traumatic incidence must be the work of some sick diabolical mind or perhaps the again the work of supernatural forces lurking in the building.

* In the Chinese calendar, seventh month occurs around August. It is like a month long Halloween, when it is believed that the gates of hell are open allowing the hungry ghosts to roam and look for unsuspecting victims.

** Just in case you were wondering, I soaked the bed sheets in boiling water before laundering and using them again. I also burnt three holes in the boxers with my cigarette (in place of incense) to ward off any malicious spirits before putting them into the unclaimed laundry box.