[HPFGU-OTChatter] Ever So Evil household objects

[Amanda Geist]

> My Ever So Evil household object was parents' collection of National
> Geographics. I was convinced that the spirits of the assorted mummies
> and skeletons pictured within possessed the National Geographics.
> They were on a shelf near the stairs out of the basement, and during
> the day I didn't bother about them.
>
> But at night... At night, I tiptoed by so that they couldn't hear me.
> And I kept my eye on them so that they wouldn't follow me.
>
> To this day, the yellow cover of a National Geographic brings back
> feelings of terrified horror.

My object of fear-in-the-house was a bit creepier. My next-oldest brother
was diagnosed with leukemia when he was 5 (I was 2). He died two years
later. My father was a sculptor, and had plans to make a bust of my brother
to cast, life-size. It never did get finished, but the clay model lived in
my parents' bedroom (where my dad had a worktable) for years and years and
years.

I loved Kelley and knew he wouldn't hurt me, but that gray head was always
just a little hard to walk past (the other bathroom was through their room).
I wouldn't go in there if nobody else was in the house.

~Amandageist