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(Originally posted by Fort Photo)

It being Halloween, I thought I’d share another ghost story…

It was a beautiful night in late August.  I was standing in the upstairs bar of M’Coul’s talking to one of my dearest customers, Scotte.  The inside was pretty empty but for Scotte and me, and a bartender running around.  Everyone else was on the packed deck enjoying themselves.   Scotte was talking when I felt someone walk up, pinch my ear hard, and brush by me towards the door to the outside deck.  That’s exactly what it felt like, but I could see no one approach the door.

Now might be the time to interject that up until that point I had never been visited by our friends from the other side unless I was pregnant.  I’m not sure why that was the case, and since then I have had a few un-pregnant encounters.  BUT at that time, my husband and I were trying to have another baby and we were still in the early stages of trying, so to speak.

So, I asked Scotte, “Who just pinched me?”

Scotte looked baffled, “What?”

“Somebody just pinched my ear.”  I could still feel the pinch on my earlobe.

Scotte was now looking worried for me, “Simonne, we’re the only two people in here.  Nobody pinched you.”
Then it struck me:  I was pregnant!

“Oh, my God, Scotte!  I’m pregnant!”

“Ok, now you’re really freaking me out.”

I left a dumbfounded Scotte and ran downstairs to our beloved former bar manager Adam, and told him what happened.  I was almost too excited to speak.

I said, “I think I’m pregnant.”

“O-kay…”

“The ghost just pinched my ear!”  I could still feel the pinch in my earlobe.  “They don’t visit me unless I’m pregnant.”

I left and, one the way home, picked up a pregnancy test.  Sure enough, it was positive.