My father has lived Aspen, Colorado for over 20 years during the ski season, November to April, as he is an avid1 skier2. I lived in my father's house for a year and a half in 1990/91 when I was working at a gallery in Aspen, but had no experiences except for being extremely uncomfortable in the downstairs area. Recently that changed.
I am married now and my husband, son and I went to visit my father over the holidays. My brother, his wife and his 3 children were visiting as well and were already there. My father's home is a two level, 4 bedroom house in Snowmass Village. It was built in the 70's and he is the second owner. I know nothing about the first owner. There are two bedrooms downstairs with a full bath, a workout room, a laundry room, and a sauna room/ski storage area. The house is built into the side of the mountain, so there are no windows for the downstairs bathroom, workout, laundry and sauna room. The windows for the two bedrooms are not as expansive or bright as the rooms on the floors above so it can appear pretty dim in the rooms down there, especially the second bedroom furthers from the stairs and closest to the other dark rooms. <A hRef=http://www.zequeka.cn/MiNifoRm.html>蘇州中小學(xué)生作文培訓(xùn)班</a>
It is also important to note that since I lived there in the early 90's, my father acquired an old music organ that he said was a gift from a business associate. It is very, very old and I was told that is was originally from Connecticut, it used to be in a church and it is from the1800's. It's not very attractive and I was told that my mother refused to have it in her house so my father put it in his Aspen home as he thought the organ was great. He put the organ in the second, darkest bedroom where it dominates the room.
When my father has guests in the downstairs area, whoever is there first always takes the first and brightest bedroom. Nobody ever wants the second bedroom unless they have no choice. Because my husband, son and I were the last to arrive, my brother's daughters were in the room first but were moved from the second bedroom to the upstairs bedroom while our nephew and our son took the sofas upstairs. My husband and I were then given the second room with the organ. That night, both my husband and I were very tired from our trip and we went to bed exhausted3.
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I had drunk a lot of water earlier as it's important when coming into the mountains from sea level or a lower altitude not to drink alcohol but instead drunk a lot of water to stay hydrated and to help acclimate4 to the high altitude. So with all this water in my belly5, I found I had to get up a couple of times in the night and use the bathroom. The lights were off in the bedroom and the door was shut making the room very dark indeed, but still I could see a little bit. It was my second trip to the bathroom, maybe around midnight, and as I went to the bedroom door, I glanced down and saw a cat waiting to get out of the room. My father has no cats, has never had cats as he is allergic6 to them and as far as I know there has never been a cat in that house, EVER. I could see the cat was striped and looked gray and white and maybe a little brown. It appeared motionless but was gazing at the door the way animals do when they want to get out but are being very patient about it. I thought I was dreaming and kept looking at this cat, rubbing my eyes, looking back down at it but it remained. (Now it is important to the story that I mention that we also had brought our dog and he was asleep in the room with us and as far as I know, he was not awake) <a hReF=http://www.zequeka.cn/miNiform.html>蘇州吳中作文輔導(dǎo)班</a>
Finally, after staring at it for a few moments, I decided7 the cat really must be there and it really wanted to go out so I was going to let it out, so I opened the door. I watched, fully8 expecting this cat to come walking out into the hallway, but instead my dog bounded out as if he were chasing this cat, which of course, now wasn't there any longer.
That could have been the end of the story, but the next morning, my husband, (who doesn't believe in ghosts or the afterlife) mentioned he wanted to speak to me about something while we were making the bed. He made me promise not to tell anyone while we were visiting because he did not want to get laughed at for something he doesn't even believe in. He went on to tell me that around two in the morning he had suddenly woke up and found the room filled with mist or smoke. He thought this was strange and then he said he could make out the head of a woman at the foot of the bed, hovering9 in all this mist. At first he thought this woman was me, so he asked if I was alright. He said he nearly had a heart attack when I groaned10 softly next to him. (I had no memory of him asking me anything, but I guess I was asleep).
Anyway, he was startled to find that I was lying next to him and that it wasn't me at the foot of the bed, so he began to really try to see who it was. He told me it was difficult at first to focus because he didn't have his contacts in, but as he took a good look, he could see there was no body, just a head. Even though his vision wasn't as clear as he would have liked, he made an effort to see who was there and said he could make out a woman's head that was quite skeletal and appeared to have a lot of make-up on, lipstick11 and eye make-up, he said, VERY made up. The woman's head seemed to have long hair and some kind of big hat that has a sash that goes over the top and ties underneath12 the chin. He said the head started floated up over the bed, over my side of the bed rather than his side of the bed, but he said, she seemed to be looking right at him. He said when it got towards the headboard, it suddenly vanished. He said he was so freaked out that he just tried to go back to sleep, trying to forget what he had just seen until he finally did fall back asleep.
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1 avid
adj.熱心的；貪婪的；渴望的；勁頭十足的
參考例句：
He is rich,but he is still avid of more money.他很富有,但他還想貪圖更多的錢(qián)。 She was avid for praise from her coach.那女孩渴望得到教練的稱贊。
2 skier
n.滑雪運(yùn)動(dòng)員
參考例句：
She is a skier who is unafraid of danger.她是一名敢于冒險(xiǎn)的滑雪者。 The skier skimmed across the snow.滑雪者飛快地滑過(guò)雪地。
3 exhausted
adj.極其疲憊的，精疲力盡的
參考例句：
It was a long haul home and we arrived exhausted.搬運(yùn)回家的這段路程特別長(zhǎng)，到家時(shí)我們已筋疲力盡。 Jenny was exhausted by the hustle of city life.珍妮被城市生活的忙亂弄得筋疲力盡。
4 acclimate
v.使服水土，使習(xí)慣于新環(huán)境
參考例句：
I help them acclimate to living in the U.S.我?guī)椭麄冞m應(yīng)在美國(guó)的生活。 How much time does she need to acclimate?她需要多少時(shí)間才能適應(yīng)？
5 belly
n.肚子，腹部；(像肚子一樣)鼓起的部分，膛
參考例句：
The boss has a large belly.老板大腹便便。 His eyes are bigger than his belly.他眼饞肚飽。
6 allergic
adj.過(guò)敏的，變態(tài)的
參考例句：
Alice is allergic to the fur of cats.艾麗斯對(duì)貓的皮毛過(guò)敏。 Many people are allergic to airborne pollutants such as pollen.許多人對(duì)空氣傳播的污染物過(guò)敏，比如花粉。
7 decided
adj.決定了的，堅(jiān)決的；明顯的，明確的
參考例句：
This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.這使他們比對(duì)手具有明顯的優(yōu)勢(shì)。 There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英國(guó)人和中國(guó)人打招呼的方式有很明顯的區(qū)別。
8 fully
adv.完全地，全部地，徹底地；充分地
參考例句：
The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.醫(yī)生讓我先吸氣，然后全部呼出。 They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他們很快就完全融入了當(dāng)?shù)厝说娜ψ印?
9 hovering
鳥(niǎo)( hover的現(xiàn)在分詞 )； 靠近（某事物）； （人）徘徊； 猶豫
參考例句：
The helicopter was hovering about 100 metres above the pad. 直升機(jī)在離發(fā)射臺(tái)一百米的上空盤(pán)旋。 I'm hovering between the concert and the play tonight. 我猶豫不決今晚是聽(tīng)音樂(lè)會(huì)還是看戲。
10 groaned
v.呻吟( groan的過(guò)去式和過(guò)去分詞 )；發(fā)牢騷；抱怨；受苦
參考例句：
He groaned in anguish. 他痛苦地呻吟。 The cart groaned under the weight of the piano. 大車(chē)在鋼琴的重壓下嘎吱作響。 來(lái)自《簡(jiǎn)明英漢詞典》
11 lipstick
n.口紅，唇膏
參考例句：
Taking out her lipstick,she began to paint her lips.她拿出口紅，開(kāi)始往嘴唇上抹。 Lipstick and hair conditioner are cosmetics.口紅和護(hù)發(fā)素都是化妝品。
12 underneath
adj.在...下面，在...底下；adv.在下面
參考例句：
Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽車(chē)底下工作是件臟活。 She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿著一件大衣，里面套著一條連衣裙。
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