The legend of the Old Snickers Mansion, and its Ghost
This is my entry into the
Literotica 2021 Halloween Story Contest
. I hope you enjoy it!
It's not always easy to be the Old Mansion up on Ninth Street. For one thing, my memory is not as good as it used to be, probably because I have so much more to remember (or to forget!), but also, I have all the usual complaints of advancing age. Women (or is it men? -- I forget) are always complaining about their internal plumbing. I realize it's annoying for humans, but what about me? I've got plumbing complaints galore. First, there's the men who seem unable to judiciously aim their urine at my large toilet bowls. Some of them clearly need washers to control their streams.
Let's not forget all those constipated people (politicians are the worst) who are always clogging the toilets. At least after a good clog, they're no longer full of shit. No, you're right, they're still full of shit. Indiana has some mighty shitty politicians. Then there are the idiots who try to flush tampons down the toilets. I suspect they're the daughters of said politicians. And, of course, there's the drunken women who lose their earrings (and in one case even a wedding ring) down the sink drains, and for those events, a plumber needs to be called.
The structural woes are legendary. There's the old, decaying pipes, a mixture of copper, iron, and plastic pipes filling up my basement; the heating ducts covered in asbestos back when humans thought that was a smart thing to do; and please, please, please don't get me started on termites. I also detest field mice, cockroaches, and the arch enemy of any God-fearing old home, those damnable squirrels!
I'm giving the wrong impression. I'm not a grumpy old mansion filled with hate; rather I'm filled with love, lots of love over the years, much of it expressed physically and lovingly in any of several of my many bedrooms. There are also the people who just prefer dark corners of various rooms. Every time a couple gets it on in my mansion, I get a tingly feeling, and if the woman has a genuine climax, I feel it all the way to my cedar siding!
It's been a while. Old Man Snickers' daughter, Sondra, now Sondra Souleiado since she married, moved out of me, long ago. When she was in her twenties, however, every Halloween she'd throw a wild party, and all sorts of twenty-something people would show up, for the top shelf booze, and the delicious snacks, the great music on the sound system, and the rather spectacular decorations. Sondra went all out!
Sondra's party atmosphere, plus I guess the special nature of Halloween, led to quite a bit of sex. Men and women hooking up for the first, or the tenth, time in one of my many bedrooms, or cheating on their girlfriends or boyfriends, or just simply swapping partners, I tell you it was wild, and if they did it in a room with mirrors, I got to see (and of course hear) everything! It was quite thrilling for an old mansion like me.
Sondra herself, however, was not a happy person, and she moved out of the house in her early twenties, and she almost never returns. She's not close to her father, and everyone thinks she's nuts from the times she was constantly ranting and raving about ghosts. I could have told everyone what happened with Sondra, to cause her essentially to lose her mind, but nobody asked me. Anyway, she's married now, so I hope her sanity has returned, and that she is back to being the wonderful Sondra we all knew and loved before the ghosts intervened in her sweet mind and body. It was one ghost in particular, I believe.
Speaking of sexual escapades within my walls, one time a woman got it on with two men at once, but I blush even to think of it, and trust me, you do not want to see an old mansion blush. People tend to call the fire department when I blush. Not good. It is, however, fascinating (and super-hot!) to watch a woman in the middle of a spit roast, all the more so if the woman is Nancy Eber, let me tell you! More recently there's Michelle Deutsch, and she is just an angel on legs, in my humble opinion. The men she wraps her legs around agree enthusiastically, I'm sure!
Mostly, however, I'm just ignored, and taken for granted, except of course by my owner, Old Man Snickers, and his extended family, especially on special occasions. The highlight of the year, for me at least, is the annual Halloween party. Old Man Snickers' grandson Peter, now twenty years old, is planning to recreate the magic of Sondra's parties. He has one hell of a party planned for this year, and it will start tomorrow evening! I can't wait.
** THE NEXT DAY, OCTOBER 31 **
I'm excited. Peter's been decorating me for several days already, and I am truly spruced up! I have never looked so good before, nor so scary! The adorable little trick or treaters that stop by (they all seem to think I'm haunted, and you can see the fear on their faces when they come to the door; it's so cute!) are given a choice of premium candy, or of course a full-size Snickers candy bar, a long tradition started by Peter's grandfather.
The belief that I'm a haunted old mansion is of course bunk. Mostly. You see, John Jacob Snickers, my owner's great, great uncle, died tragically after his wife fell victim to an intruding rapist. The rapist had tied up his wife, spread eagle and naked on the bed, and then raped her repeatedly, while John Jacob was passed out on the floor, being completely drunk.
John Jacob's wife Annelies died of a brain aneurism either during or right after the rape, and John Jacob didn't even realize she was dead when he himself woke from his drunken stupor. Seeing her naked and tied up, with a thoroughly wet pussy, he immediately fucked her. She was wet down there, and rapidly losing body temperature, but she was still somewhat warm.
The loss of his dear and lovely wife, and the realization he had engaged in necrophilia, led to the loss of his already somewhat questionable sanity, and one day he went down to the basement and drowned himself in the sump pump.
It's not easy to drown yourself in a sump pump, but apparently John Jacob achieved that task with an enormous amount of help from his lifelong friend, Jack Daniels. Ever since, Tennessee mash whiskey has been banned from the Snickers Mansion.
Snickers men now drink Bourbon, and occasionally some Scotch whisky, but only if it's of legal age, which is widely considered to be eighteen years old, even if the age of consent in Indiana (and 33 other states) is sixteen.
The rumors are that John Jacob haunts the old mansion, always looking for some Jack Daniels whiskey, and never finding any. Or maybe, he's still looking for his beautiful, long-lost wife, Annelies van Dryden. Or, of course, it could be both. Or neither. Nobody really knows, of course, not even me, the old mansion who has seen everything, and then some.
The trick or treaters have all left now, and it's only a few hours to go before the adult guests arrive for the big, blowout party! Peter has tested the sound system already, and he's just now putting on the mood music to welcome the guests. I love it when Peter plays music; he has great taste as a DJ.
The tradition is that many of my bedrooms and dark corners are used during the Halloween Parties for some hanky-panky fun. I hope it's the case this year. Usually it's just kissing, necking, hands exploring, and some undressing. Many a woman is rendered topless at these parties. Some people, however, go father. I love watching lovers engaged in love-making.
It's true I'm a house, and therefore have no mouth and cannot speak. Everyone knows, however, that walls have ears, and mirrors can see, and so I can see and hear most everything. What I'll bet you don't know is that I can smell, too! I can smell quite well, in fact; better than most people, but not as well as some dogs. Sex, real actual sex, has a distinctive smell, and one which I, for one house, really love.
I communicate with Peter via texting (a big Thank You, Steve Jobs!). I'm not sure about the details of how I am able to text, but I think it involves some kind of a new Goddess named Siri? Or maybe Alexa? I don't understand it at all, I'm just an old house after all, and not a rocket scientist, but it's thrilling to be able to speak to Peter via texting. On his phone my name is OSM, for the Old Snickers Mansion.
Peter has asked me to help him to get laid this year, so I have my work cut out for me! The man is twenty years old and terrified of sex; he's still a virgin, can you believe it?