The Governor of Virginia, Timothy M. Kaine, has admitted in a radio interview that he has witnessed paranormal activity in the governor's mansion (cue creepy Theremin music).
Asked on his monthly radio show on the Virginia News Network whether he has had paranormal experiences like previous Executive Mansion occupants, Kaine flatly answered: "Yes."
Kaine said Thursday that at the same "inconvenient time" every week, the telephone rings in his family's private quarters — and when he picks up the phone, nobody's there. He said he's researching whether "something odd happened" on the same day and hour sometime in the mansion's history.
Unlike some previous residents and staff, Kaine said his family has not seen the friendly ghost of a young woman who is said to haunt the mansion.
However, he said first lady Anne Holton witnessed other strange occurrences in the mansion as the daughter of Gov. Linwood Holton in the early 1970s — a portrait mysteriously taken from the wall and deposited in another room, for example.
Well, of course the place is haunted. Long time readers know that we here at Blue Crab Boulevard have more than our share of paranormality (which some people continue to mispronounce. There is no "ab" sound in that word). In fact, we're the proud proprietors of that fountain of paranormality, Professor Gaius' Paranormality Research Academy and Coffee Shop. We applied our very special para-scientific (Reuters Grade™) methods to a recent picture of the governor taken at the mansion and were able to find hard evidence of the hauntings! You can thank us later.
On a related note, we probably should stop calling the governor every week. That joke is getting kind of stale; he never laughs.
