So… I think Dave and I might FINALLY have picked up a haunted thrift item. Sadly, it is not Carl, my awesome garden weeny deity.

It’s BLEEDIN’ RUDOLPH!!!

We picked up this awesome 50th anniversary Ruldolph stuffie at Goodwill way back in the summer. It plays the song when you squeeze his antler (and his nose flashes). Dave put it in the crawl space with the rest of the Christmas decorations. It stayed there until the start of December, when I pulled it out and set it in Grandma Cosman’s rocking chair.

It’s been there for over two weeks. Doing nothing. Tonight, just after dinner, I’m sitting watching TV. Dave is in his studio (adjacent to the TV room but behind a closed door) getting ready to teach. Most of the cats are upstairs. Lemmy is in my lap

All of a sudden, I faintly here children singing “Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer”. For a second, I thought it must be Dave, prepping a Youtube video for his first lesson.

But…. then I realized… it’s not muffled enough for that. And Lemmy is on high alert with that “WTF” look on his face. (Though to be fair, he does that a lot).

We get up, and as soon as I hit the dining room. I realize it’s Rudolph. I thought for a minute, maybe a cat knocked the rocking chair and that tripped it. But as I said – the rest of the cats were upstairs. AND you have to SQUEEZE the antler on his head to get it to go. I tried bopping the chair several times. Nothing happened.

So BEHOLD… our HAUNTED RUDOLPH!!!!