My wife's store

My wife talked me into watching her store again today while she went into Columbus for new merchandise. I arrived at the store at approximately 10:30am. The stores does not officially open until 11, but I wanted everything in place. I had walked to the front of the store to turn on an "open" sign and had turned to return to the checkout area which is midway and near the main entrance. I looked up and saw a young boy, about 15 or 16 years old stasnding at a table my wife had arranged merchandise on. He was a bit scruffy looking with uncombed brown curly hair. He appeared to be bucktoothed and was wearing a lightblue shirt with dark blue stripes running both horizontally and verticall on it. His shirttail was out in back and he was wearing jeans. Just as I started to ask him if I could help him find anything he just faded away. That perplexed me about right. Phantom dogs I have definitely seen on several occassions but people are rare. To have seen him long enough to take in that much detail is a first for me. I have had glimpses of people before; but no mistake on this one, he looked real enough until he faded out. Then I had two other bits of strange; at around 11 oclock, a bit after, I distinctly heard footsteps going back through the rear salesroom. No mistaking that, the floors are barewood and sound out very nicely. Thinking someone had gotten in and I missed them, I hurried to the rear salesroom and there was noone there. There is no place to hide and the rear salesroom deadends in a bathroom. No one there either. Then around noon, with no customers in or around the store (I had had several but they had made their purchases and left) leaving the store empty except for me; I heard several hard, sharp, raps like someone really striking a wooden door quire hard. Both doors leading into the store are wood but with large glass windows. There was no sign of anyone anywhere. The rest of the day was uneventful. My wife says she experiences the weird there frequently and so she was nor surprised. I was putting out Halloween merchandise today and I thought how appropriate.