Notebook of Ghosts

I love haunted objects, especially mundane objects. I have read about haunted chairs, paintings, bookshelves, beds, quilts, and now…bunk beds!

This tale from Wisconsin definitely caught my attention when I was browsing the newspaper archives. Bunk beds were such an important piece of my childhood (I always had the bottom bunk). My sister and I shared bunk beds in my childhood bedroom. I used them during soccer camp. I even slept in them all four years of undergrad, from dorm room to sorority “cold air.” I have lots of great memories, but none of them involve ghosts.

“‘Haunted’ bunk beds landfilled”

Deborah and Allen Tallman paid $100 for a second-hand set of bunk beds for their daughters, aged 1 1/2 and 2 1/12. After placing the beds in their home, dreadful things began to happen.

• A foggy apparition appeared to Allen in his daughters’ room and threatened him, saying “You’re dead.”
• The ghost of an elderly lady appeared to their son.
• A clock radio kept changing stations on its own.
• A chair and suitcase moved on its own.

Things came to a head around Christmas when Allen challenged the being to leave his family alone, instead focusing its rage on him. Allen then saw flames coming from his garage’s overheard door.

The family eventually buried the set of bunk beds in the landfill and put the house up for sale.

Source: Chippewa Herald-Telegram, Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, February 20, 1988.