The Haunted Couch and the Lessons I Learned

Can a Couch be Haunted?

You may be asking yourself that very same question. However, after you read this blog, you may have an answer for yourself. I once had a sofa that I am almost one hundred percent sure was a pure amalgamation of upholstery, staples, wood, and evil... 

The First Incident

I was 20 years old and I had been on my own for a little more than a few months. I had found a small apartment that I rented with the help of a roommate. At the time, we had very little in the way of seating and we also had no way of toting anything too big that was put out by the curb. One day, our next door neighbor was moving and he told us that if we wanted, we could have his couch. He said he was just going to leave it inside and if we wanted it, we had to grab it before he left. Looking back, that should have been a sign. 

We picked up the couch initially with no incident and started moving it across to our apartment. In our excitement to have a place to sit other than a bean bag chair, we weren't paying too much attention. I lost my footing for a bit and stumbled enough for the weight of the couch to shift. I quickly repositioned my hand to keep from dropping the sofa and raked my palm across something. It was bleeding badly, but we couldn't set it down. Typical bachelors, we figured it would be easy to get a blood stain out of leather so we continued on. After we got it to our living room, and I got bandaged up, my roommate called me in to ask where I had put my hand. We never found the blood. it either soaked into the couch or disappeared. We figured the whole thing needed to be cleaned and so we about that task, improperly, I'm sure. 

The Second (reoccurring) Incident

 In typical bachelor fashion, the TV remote stayed on the couch and was always in-between a cushion or resting against the wall on the back of the sofa. What started to happen shortly after placing it against the wall is that it would slide away from the wall and allow the remote to fall behind it. The odd thing was that it was never more than four or five inches away from the wall. I blamed my roommate for weeks that he was moving the couch away from the wall. One time I had pushed it back before we left for work (we worked in the same restaurant) but, by the time we came home, It was back in place. Maybe it had some kind of sliders of which I was unaware, but I always wondered about it. I still wonder to this day, in all honesty. 

The Third Incident

By the end of owning this perplexing couch, both of us had cut ourselves several times from previously unseen staples and what not. We started joking that it was demanding tribute from us. However, we put it on the curb shortly after it started making this really strange groaning noise when we would sit down. It sounded beastly and it would happen in one pitch when you sat down and in a different one when you got up. I'm sure that it could be explained by saying the frame was making the noise or something similar. But, with its bloodlust and penchant for moving on its own, I was not ready to be having full blown conversations if it somehow became sentient. Looking back, I think we should have just burned it instead of letting some stranger take it home. 

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