The Switcher

This is actually a pretty positive story. It's about the 'entity' (or whatever it may be) that has been in our house for quite a while now. It seems to prefer me to my mum and dad, as mum never notices anything of him, and dad only once in a while. I, however, have an accident about every week.

I'm not completely sure when he made his first entrance. He started off secretly and it all became more and more frequent over the years, I guess. It started with small sounds or flickering lights, ending in moving objects and having a lights-on-lights-off-game for way too long.

Recently I accidentally dropped a plant in our living room. The pot didn't break, so I put the plant back on the table and went to get the vacuum cleaner, since there was a little earth on the floor. This was cleaned in a few seconds and again I exited the room to bring away the vacuum cleaner. When I came back, however, there was, again, a little pile of earth on the floor. 'Must have overlooked that,' I thought by myself and for the second time I got my vacuum cleaner, cleaned it and brought the thing back again. As you probably can guess already, when I came back, there was a pile of earth on the same spot on the floor-again!

"You have got to be kidding me!" Talking in the air has almost gotten a habit the past few weeks. "One more time and I'll... I don't know but I will be angry, monsieur!"

Luckily for me the earth dropping stopped, but when I went to bed and entered the living room in the morning, the dirt was there again. I told mum and dad about it, but they said they didn't do it.

Also, he likes lights, apparently. Usually I'm the last one to go to bed, so I turn off the lights and make my way to the bedroom when suddenly... Click, the lights are on again. Annoyed I turn the lights off, turn around to walk away and click, on again. This can go on until I say he should really cut the crap, since I'm tired.

The third thing he does a lot is moving things around. That's the reason why I called him 'Switcher'. You can leave your pen in the living room, go upstairs and find it on the floor. You can ignore it and find it again in the bathroom when you're showering. Objects seem to walk all around the place when the Switcher is in one of his fun moods.

I hope you enjoy my stories about him. I'm not sure if this is a ghost or something else, and if it is a ghost, if it is a child or a grown-up. I always get the feeling it's male, though.

Well, thanks for reading.