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Mr Tuttle's efforts (SPOILERS)


At the very least, the people moving in must have appreciated the way all the leaves kept piling themselves. Yardwork all done without a living finger being moved. It's worth the haunting just for that.

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This thought never occurred to me, but it's brilliant!
Sure, your midnight piano-playing sessions being interrupted by self-opening doors clearly gets annoying, but the garden tending to itself is a perk.

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This could be a major selling feature for the house! Hopefully the real estate agent will include this when they are posting an ad in the paper!

(I'd totally be okay with the ghosts if it meant I never had to do any yard work!)

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I would love to live with housekeeping ghosts! As long as they didn't mess with my things, and just kept the place clean. That would be amazing. Imagine- a ghost keeping the litter box clean, scrubbing the shower, doing the dishes! I don't know how I could repay them though, aside from just letting them live with me.

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That's all they would want/need.

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My silly little suspension-of-belief explanation for how the ghosts can touch and move things is that they aren't actually touching and moving things. They see things differently once they're dead. It is only 'sometimes' as Mrs Mills explained, that the two become intertwined.

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Exactly. My assumption is that all the things the dead did were in their dimension and did not affect the living world, only unless a conduit is created such as with the old lady and the seance.

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Or Victor interacting with Ann and Nicholas and the opening and closing of the curtains in their mutual bedroom. I think it takes those moments when each is open to the idea of the other.

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