Haunted bed, anyone?

[sholio]

http://ithaca.craigslist.org/zip/5566203299.html

Someone is giving away a free haunted bed on Craigslist. This is the best thing I've seen all day.

And I'm stashing it under my "ideas" tag because this has GOT to be useful in a story someday.

Comments

[recessional]

I admit my immediate thought is "why craigslist? there has GOT to be a museum somewhere nearby that would jump on that." >.>

[sholio]

Well, i'm guessing that the ACTUAL reason is because the bed is nowhere near 200 years old and "free haunted bed" is more likely to get takers than "free bed, kinda old". XD It's a nifty-looking bed, though!

[muccamukk]

I feel like this happens to Peggy and Daniel after they buy their first apartment together.

[sholio]

I have GOT to use this in a story. :D

[ratcreature]

As long as it's not haunted by bedbugs...

[sholio]

Maybe the ghosts will keep the bedbugs away.

[madripoor_rose]

Incubus or succubus maybe?

[sholio]

I guess that's better than some of the other alternatives!

[madripoor_rose]

Heh.

I'm surprised they never became a big thing in paranormal romance....at least not that I've run into.

[recessional]

Incubi/succubi tend to imply a lack of monogamy - they're all ABOUT sex, so clearly one person would be never enough - and paranormal romance still has a tendency towards the same "eventually everything will resolve to a monogamous couple projected to stay together for the foreseeable future." There's more room for sexual adventure BEFORE that, but that still tends to be the projected endgame. (Not universal, obvs! Just . . .tendency.)

I've seen them (in summaries) more as either villains/antagonists, or as love interests to be "cured" of their succubi/incubi nature for the HEA.

[arianna]

Whoa, if it's true, then it's very spooky. But odds are the ghosts, if that's what's happening, are in the room, not the bed, and will still be there after the bed is gone. I suspect they are pushing the bed around as they might have done when alive, to make space in the room for other activities. This guy is going to be really unhappy if the bed goes and the ghosts stay....

[sholio]

But hey, if that's the case, someone will have gotten a nice ghost-free bed out of the deal ...

[arianna]

Lol, true!

[darjeeling]

I'd sleep on it :P

[sholio]

Better you than me. XD

[darjeeling]

BRING IT ON!

[magistrate]

Ahahaa. I would not take that offer.

You may want to save the page as a PDF or some such; Craigslist pages tend to vanish, after a while.