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<a class="link link--external" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FVK4Y56xoz6F4oa7rSv9aCzvwvMU%3D%2F2200x0%2Ffilters%3Ano_upscale%28%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F4671891%2FScreen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.25.20_20PM.0.png&amp;hash=7ba4c263fd1c6763f54fd192e80462c1" href="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/VK4Y56xoz6F4oa7rSv9aCzvwvMU=/2200x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4671891/Screen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.25.20_20PM.0.png" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">The house at 238 West Street</a> had 18 rooms, including four bathrooms original to the house, and high ceilings. All the original woodwork had been preserved, with its original glowing finish and finely carved detailing. There was a <a class="link link--external" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FxCgZsRM-yBu4ohxKhYkTOns69DA%3D%2F2200x0%2Ffilters%3Ano_upscale%28%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F4671901%2FScreen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.25.35_20PM.0.png&amp;hash=827bca523204d2ade5450c0ca2815414" href="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/xCgZsRM-yBu4ohxKhYkTOns69DA=/2200x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4671901/Screen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.25.35_20PM.0.png" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">large entry hall</a> with a grand staircase to one side. The balusters were intricately shaped, and the newel posts were elaborately carved with inset panels and beadwork. It contained the original brass light fixtures with their round stained glass globes. The </span></span></span><a class="link link--external" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2Fz8NDrHHVXjbjYe5jgmEpkXtqVcE%3D%2F2200x0%2Ffilters%3Ano_upscale%28%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F4671955%2FScreen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.27.00_20PM.0.png&amp;hash=9e49af0f689008486b25decc4ebe2b05" href="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/z8NDrHHVXjbjYe5jgmEpkXtqVcE=/2200x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4671955/Screen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.27.00_20PM.0.png" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 18px">windows on the first landing</span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(191, 191, 191)"><span style="font-size: 18px"> of the staircase had a pair of floral stained glass windows framed in warm oak and, in its center was a tall mirror framed with aired columns set on posts that carried a lintel. The ceiling of the entry hall, parlor and dining room had wood beams containing the original light fixtures. The parlor and dining room fixtures used both electricity and gas illumination at one point in time, but had been upgraded during the renovation.<br/>
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Re-designed squared columns on posts framed the entrance to the front parlor, and he'd installed pocket doors at the entrance to the second parlor. <a class="link link--external" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2F7Mign2HkvnUu3JSWRMWx5v9Ue1k%3D%2F2200x0%2Ffilters%3Ano_upscale%28%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F4671923%2FScreen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.26.01_20PM.0.png&amp;hash=36500f04309b5e6c849e9910d3099455" href="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/7Mign2HkvnUu3JSWRMWx5v9Ue1k=/2200x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4671923/Screen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.26.01_20PM.0.png" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">The fireplace</a> in the second parlor was placed at an angle and had an ornate wood mantel with intricate carving, two tiers of columns and a wide mirror. Pictorial glazed tile framed the fireplace, and it was glossy brown-and-tan in color, with three classical female figures: one reclining at the top and two standing at the sides. </span></span></span><a class="link link--external" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FT1d73cp8dwnFaEIOu2ITcuy6pJA%3D%2F2200x0%2Ffilters%3Ano_upscale%28%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F4671933%2FScreen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.26.13_20PM.0.png&amp;hash=73aeaa15437f9ff96ed1be27fc1e5aa6" href="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/T1d73cp8dwnFaEIOu2ITcuy6pJA=/2200x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4671933/Screen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.26.13_20PM.0.png" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 18px">The dining room</span></span></a><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(191, 191, 191)"><span style="font-size: 18px"> where Rune stood drinking from his coffee mug, was extensively paneled in cream colored wainscoting. Floral stained glass windows were set above cabinets framing a built-in buffet. The downstairs walls were finished with sponge-textured paint in soft earth colors, which was a change from the dark and dreary looking wallpaper he'd hand-stripped from the walls.<br/>
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The floors were all burnished and shiny, made of wood that was easy to clean and take care of. <a class="link link--external" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FeL44AgdNt_06NX7W--h0CdewTLM%3D%2F2200x0%2Ffilters%3Ano_upscale%28%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F4671961%2FScreen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.27.09_20PM.0.png&amp;hash=ce64b62dfacd9333a03d765b72cd824c" href="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/eL44AgdNt_06NX7W--h0CdewTLM=/2200x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4671961/Screen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.27.09_20PM.0.png" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">The master bedroom</a> where Rune slept was located on the second floor in the corner tower. His bedroom had leaded glass transoms and an original gas-electric chandelier that he had converted to electricity only. The main theme that Rune went with for the redesign of the turn of the century Victorian was minimalism. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(191, 191, 191)">As an interior designer, it meant keeping all 18 rooms maintained with a bare minimum of furniture and details. The main element of his style was attention to shapes, colors and textures. His plans for renovating allowed furniture, cloth or glass partitions to play the role of separators, instead of walls. His furniture had streamlined shapes, upholstered with neutral colored fabrics and patterns.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(191, 191, 191)"><span style="font-size: 18px"><br/>
Shiny surfaces and straight lines looked amazing in the rooms, and the <a class="link link--external" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FPs0K611i2hOWLAxNKa_kiPlFN1o%3D%2F2200x0%2Ffilters%3Ano_upscale%28%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F4671927%2FScreen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.26.05_20PM.0.png&amp;hash=6b0a692624b3c626de5fccd3d2531b8e" href="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Ps0K611i2hOWLAxNKa_kiPlFN1o=/2200x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4671927/Screen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.26.05_20PM.0.png" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">grand piano and mirrored chest</a> between the living room and dining room accentuated the wide open concept. There was no clutter that typically was associated with owning a historic Victorian home, and Rune could really appreciate the spacious open concept. The location of the kitchen had been changed from the west side to the east side during the renovation.<br/>
<a class="link link--external" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FTRjE2xlrrFo0r2wAB5TmKLYkMNU%3D%2F2200x0%2Ffilters%3Ano_upscale%28%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F4671941%2FScreen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.26.23_20PM.0.png&amp;hash=c81b540cb1061e60d62dfcbf215d3c68" href="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/TRjE2xlrrFo0r2wAB5TmKLYkMNU=/2200x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4671941/Screen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.26.23_20PM.0.png" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">A new, smaller kitchen</a> was added at the rear, and an adjacent breakfast room with a bay window was created by enclosing a small portion of the wraparound porch toward the rear of the house. The original kitchen was converted to a sitting room. This alteration, plus the enclosure of the sunroom in the master bedroom, was going to become a part of his home's new history.<br/>
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Rune didn't actually think that his asking whatever or whoever he felt was watching him, would actually manifest itself. He was looking out the dining room window, still holding the steaming mug of coffee when a faint electrical buzzing sound began at <a class="link link--external" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2F-0FCXL6fVH6po51MRHpe04EKBiI%3D%2F2200x0%2Ffilters%3Ano_upscale%28%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F4671939%2FScreen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.26.20_20PM.0.png&amp;hash=641fe8206a275f0f9162632971961f31" href="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/-0FCXL6fVH6po51MRHpe04EKBiI=/2200x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4671939/Screen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.26.20_20PM.0.png" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">the door leading to the kitchen,</a> which was open to the dining room.  As the dining room had been installed with a light fixture that used a dimmer switch, Rune assumed the switch hadn’t been turned off all the way.  <br/>
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He walked past the dining room table to look up at the light. It was off. As he turned around to look at the door again, he heard the buzzing increase.  The staticky sound was getting louder and louder, and the air in the dining room was starting to feel more and more electrically charged as the sound increased. All the hairs on Rune's arms and the back of his neck stood up, as the energy began to move toward him. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(191, 191, 191)">He could sense it drawing closer to the dining room table, it was definitely travelling.  He literally froze, his eyes wide and his mouth agape. The energy seemed to be aware of his presence, with the crackle of energy louder and louder and more and more charged as it travelled slowly across the room and into the kitchen where the Bose turned on by itself. Whatever the invisible entity was it seemed to be in no hurry as it moved past him.</span></span></span><br/><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(191, 191, 191)"><span style="font-size: 18px"><br/>
Following it into the kitchen, the temperature had been almost pleasant when he came downstairs to prepare the coffee, but now it felt like it dropped at least twenty degrees. There was a charge in the air as he watched the channels changing far too rapidly, even for a full-bodied human pressing the buttons on the remote. Stopping as suddenly as it began, it reached a channel Rune never preset on the device, or ever streamed from his Spotify before. It was someone playing the piano, and not in the traditional sense. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(191, 191, 191)">The harmonics seemed more quirky, mercurial, intricate, abrupt, impulsive. Rune read the song and station information as it appeared on the large visual display. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 15px"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">The channel read:</span></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(153, 204, 255)"></span><br/><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(153, 204, 255)"><span style="font-size: 26px">WCRB Boston- Artist: Elliot Carter - Piano Sonata.</span></span><br/><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(191, 191, 191)"><span style="font-size: 18px"><br/>
The host of the show was Chris Voss, and as the music faded he described Piano Concerto, calling it <i>"a piano piece of continually changing moods, suggesting the fleeting thoughts and feelings that pass through the mind during a period of wakefulness at night. A nocturnal evocation, that was suddenly broken by a flighty series of short phrases. In short, there is always in Elliot Carter's music a feeling of improvisation, with erratic flourishes, yet paradoxically also a sense of supreme control and total organization. It is challenging, often spikily modernistic, yet dazzling and inexhaustible."</i><br/>
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Rune repeated the name aloud. <br/>
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<b>"Elliot Carter?"</b> Rune whispered, brow furrowing.<br/>
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Then the Bose turned off by itself.<br/>
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<b><span style="font-size: 18px"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#bfbfbf">"There has to be some kind of explanation for this."</span></span></b></span><br/><br/><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 18px">Setting the coffee mug down on the counter, Rune immediately checked the remote control and the plug in the electrical socket on the backsplash that connected to the $600 Bose system on the counter. He knew without a doubt that it was turned completely off when he was in the kitchen pouring his coffee. The only way it could have turned on by itself was by manually pressing the power switch on the remote, or by controlling it through the app on his cell phone. Its minimalist design had no buttons or dials to turn, and couldn't have possibly been due to any electrical current passing through the switch to cause some weird energetic anomaly.</span><br/>
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<b>"Okay I think I must be losing my mind." </b>he muttered, staring at the open space in the kitchen with a nervous swipe of his hand over his gooseflesh covered forearm.<br/>
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Without another word, Rune darted out of the kitchen and ran upstairs, ascending two treads at a time. He needed a <a class="link link--external" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2F0wvIBnOvUjMEvUOW3upt5-_9A74%3D%2F2200x0%2Ffilters%3Ano_upscale%28%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F4671967%2FScreen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.27.19_20PM.0.png&amp;hash=ec2bb8a93829fe7d5150f916ea4f0695" href="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/0wvIBnOvUjMEvUOW3upt5-_9A74=/2200x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4671967/Screen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.27.19_20PM.0.png" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">shower</a> first, which might give him some extra time to allow his mind to process what just occurred downstairs in the kitchen. He also made a mental note to himself to do a Google Search for an Elliot Carter later that day on his computer. As he stripped out of his clothes in the <a class="link link--external" data-proxy-href="/proxy.php?link=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fthumbor%2FAaNmmb2Ey5SQ2F61Wcn1yAZCItE%3D%2F2200x0%2Ffilters%3Ano_upscale%28%29%2Fcdn.vox-cdn.com%2Fuploads%2Fchorus_asset%2Ffile%2F4671969%2FScreen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.27.22_20PM.0.png&amp;hash=d610b7daf94f2804189d15cf044910d8" href="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/AaNmmb2Ey5SQ2F61Wcn1yAZCItE=/2200x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/4671969/Screen_20Shot_202015-01-23_20at_201.27.22_20PM.0.png" rel="nofollow ugc noopener" target="_blank">Master suite bathroom</a> and stepped into the shower, he thought maybe he'd do a little research on the history of the house to get to the bottom of the paranormal events going on in his new home.</span></span></span>