The Sunday Spook

There was a hotel off the beaten path that travelers often found to crash at after a long day of driving. The hotel was always booked full but for one room. That room was actually booked several times per night. How can that be? Well, no body ever managed to stay a full night in the room. The story goes that this one room was haunted by the ghost of a traveler who'd died in an old closet of some sort right next to this room.

One night in late October, the room was booked in its normal fashion. A traveler booked the room for a good night's sleep. As he was drifting off, he heard a voice: "It's a coming, It's a coming, It's a coming". He got up and searched the room: The bathroom, the little closet. That's all there was to the room, but nothing was found. So the man went back to bed.

"It's a coming, It's a coming, It's a coming." The man got scared and bolted out the door, demanding a refund of his money.

The room was booked again a short time later. The woman laid down to sleep when she heard a voice. "It's a coming, It's a coming, It's a coming." The woman searched the room over and returned to bed.

"It's a coming, It's a coming, It's a coming." She left as quickly as she had come.

The night clerk was very used this behavior, so was shocked when the third renter this night did not come in demanding a refund. That person, upon hearing the voice "It's a coming, It's a coming, It's a coming.", searched the room, and finding nothing, returned to bed.

"It's a coming, It's a coming, It's a coming." She searched again and returned to bed.

"It's a coming, It's a coming, It's a coming."

"That's it" she said. She got up and went into the hallway. She forced the night clerk to come over and inspect the hall with her. She could see a very faint light in the little closet next door, so she stormed over there and threw open the door.

What she found had the night had the night clerk in stitches for hours: There in the "closet" -- which turned out to be a small bathroom -- was an old man sitting on the toilet with a strained look on his face: "It's a coming. It's a coming. Dangit It's a COMING!".