MILO: We think our house is being haunted by an ineffective ghost.
BRUCE: Let me commune with the energies of the departed. Please lower the lights - Yes. Yes. I feel the presence of an energy from beyond this world!
SYLVIE: Please tell them that I used to live here, and my spirit has become attached to the memories of the office supplies I used to have...
BRUCE: She was a traveler. Taken in by a hog rancher back when this used to be farmland?
SYLVIE: What? No, I lived in the seventies - I had this great Bakelite phone -
BRUCE: She was an exiled princess on the run from the Belgian royal guard?she hid in the bar with the hogs and was killed by the captain, who had once loved her but was bound by his duty?
SYLVIE: I sold ballpoint pens door-to-door from my Nash Metropolitan
BRUCE: We will need to perform a complex and incredibly expensive musical exorcism. Luckily, I just happen to be in a band! We can probably squeeze you in between our incredibly important gigs in the courts of Popes worldwide
SYLVIE: I?
SYLVIE: I'm a princess?
[[header: sense the spirit of WONDERMARK.COM]]
[[alt-text: there is much that goes unremembered in these situations]]