Halloween Column Weekend Continues: Do Ghosts Fart?
To celebrate Halloween, I’m dropping multiple columns for your laughs and enjoyment. Hope you all have a happy and safe holiday!
Do ghosts fart?
Ever walk into your house after you’ve been away, or walk into a room and notice a strange smell?
Of course, once you do, you have to try to find it, to try to get rid of it, because who wants a strange smell in their house?
I’ll usually look for some dropped food or something behind or under furniture, and sometimes that’s the case. Some bit of stray potable that tried to escape and sadly discovered its motion was limited to whatever got it there in the first place, and then was left, saddened, and chastened, to rot in bitterness and disappointment. It’s like the Brando of pizza toppings. Poor green pepper. You coulda been a contender.
But what if it’s not a rogue vegetable?
My next guess is that it’s a croaked mouse. They’ll get into the house from time to time, especially in the winter, and will end up kickin’ it, and not in the sense that they put on Hammer pants and break dance. And once they get to a certain ripeness, they’ll emit a foul stench.
But what if it’s not a mouse?
Something else? Something in the vent? Something downstairs coming up through the vent?
Nope, nope and nope.
Whiff your underarms.
Not you.
Not me.
Did you fart?
No.
You sure about that?
Then what is it?
Maybe it’s a ghost?
He who smelt it dealt it, Casper.
Do ghosts fart?
I’ve often wondered about this, since ghosts seem to engage in some banal and goofy activity. People will talk about ghosts leaving cabinets open or opening kitchen drawers or moving little items around.
Because of course that’s not the people in the house, who have just forgotten they left a kitchen cabinet open.
It’s ghosts, dammit!
So, if ghosts love spending their time doing goofy, little stuff like that, playing practical jokes and such, why wouldn’t they step into a room and pop one?
Why not get someone to blame the other person in the room for their farts? Or get them to think there’s something else going on, and then ghost giggling as they look around and under the furniture?
So, my vote is that yes, yes, ghosts probably do fart.
And aren’t you glad that incredibly important question has been answered?
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