Raccoon #2

Hi boys and girls! 

Here is another of Grandma's bedtime stories. 

  Once upon a time there was a spooky noise in the ceiling of   the upstairs office. It could be heard in the daytime, or nighttime, and it was a great mystery to all who heard it.  It sounded a lot like people up there moving heavy trunks around, or shifting furniture. NO ONE LIVED UP THERE!! Who was living in the dark attic, making spooky noises? 

 Grandma Colleen would sometimes shout " who is up there? but no one answered. Sometimes she would take a broom and knock on the ceiling with the wooden handle-- and then it would stop. It was so scary!!

 It was about at this same time that Grandma noticed that the TV was not working right. " Hmm"-- she said. 

 Grandpa said “maybe Raccoons are up there. I read where they liked to chew on things!" Wow-- could that be it? What would they chew on? “Maybe the TV cable", said wise Grandpa Owen. 

 So, with that possibility in mind, Grandpa got a trap cage from the City and put it on the roof one Saturday evening. 

 Sunday morning, Grandma hurried out to see if indeed there was a trapped Raccoon on the roof. She looked and looked, but not only was there no animal, there was no cage!! She walked around the house, looking at all places on the roof- but no cage! What had happened? She called to Grandpa to come and see!! 

 It was then that Grandma saw something buried in the bushes. It was the CAGE! Looking out of it were two black eyes, from a live Raccoon so large that it barely fit in the wire cage! 

 Grandpa came and took it away, as it snarled at him in a most menacing way!! 

 What happened to it?  Someone said it drowned, but I don't see how. Maybe it ran away. Maybe there is another one in the ceiling!!

 Someday the old house will be torn down, and maybe then we will know. 

 The End of the Raccoon

PS… that was Raccoon the second. Stay tuned for the other story about Raccoon #1. More spooky!!!