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7. This Week's Stories and Requests for Help We try to post stories and
comments from our readers each week. Send your story to newsletter@tias.com.

Can anyone help identify this tool? One of our readers sent this in for
assistance.  It's approximately 14 inches long, ratchets closed and has a
release pressure point.  The dial handle spins to different size shapes. 
There are no markings, numbers or words, but it look like it may have had a
nameplate at one point, having a rectangular shaped empty spot on the side. 
Any ideas?  Here's a link to the picture: http://bit.ly/2ciZ4ob


We posted this story in the last newsletter. Anyone care to share a personal
story about a haunted item?

"With Halloween only a few months away, I have an idea for the round robin
story telling in the newsletter.  My entire house is full of collectibles and
antiques.  It's an eclectic mix that brings me comfort, but apparently it's
not for everyone.  I've had people ask me if I don't feel uncomfortable
bringing dead people's stuff into my home.  I have yet to see the spirit of
someone upset that I own their old dresser or mixing bowls or what have you. 
However, I have heard enough stories over the years to know that some
inanimate objects do have a life of their own sometimes.  So in the spirit of
Halloween, maybe the next round of story sharing would have to do with
'haunted' items.  I have an awesome account about a friend of mine written out
below, and it is a true story!

My friend (we'll call her Mary) had a sister (we'll call her Sue) with whom
she was very close.  Sue passed away unexpectedly in her 40s, leaving Mary
devastated.  After the services, Mary's brother in law told her to feel free
to go through her sister's belongings and take what she wanted.  Sue had
collected music boxes, and she was particularly proud of the star of her
collection, an early 1900s German inlaid wood box.  Mary knew it was her
sister's favorite--she'd been with her when she purchased it a dozen years
earlier--and so she decided that would be the one momento she'd keep.  She
took it home, cleaned it up and put it up on a shelf above her bed.  Before
putting it up, she listened to the disc inside, letting it wind down into
silence.  One year to the day of Sue's death, Mary was in terrible shape,
missing her sister.  Sitting at the kitchen table, she had a photo album out
and was looking at old pictures of happier times.  Then she heard a sound
coming from somewhere in the house.  Thinking she might have left the TV on,
she went to the family room.  The TV was off.  Perhaps hubby had left on the
bathroom radio.  It, too, was off, but when she stepped into the hall, she
realized the sound was coming from her bedroom. It wasn't until she pushed the
door open that she realized what the sound was.  .  .Sue's music box was
playing its tune.  No one had moved the music box since Mary had tucked it
onto the shelf a year earlier.  The moment she touched it, the music stopped,
and it hasn't played by itself since.  We like to think it was Sue stopping by
just to say "I miss you, too."

Ali K, Mesa AZ"

If you have a "haunted" collection, drop us a note at newsletter@tias.com.
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