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The Night the Light Wouldn't Turn Off

A garage light that came on every night, and the ghost that turned out to have whiskers.

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Read aloud by The lantern firefly.

Oh! Hi. This one is a little odd. I live near a garage where the light came on by itself every night at the same time. The family thought a ghost was doing it. "It's the garage ghost," said the little girl. I flew in to look, very quietly.

On the wall there was a small panel with a glowing button, and a cat was sleeping on the shelf right beside it. Every night, the cat stretched out and bumped the button with her tail. Click. The light came on. The cat was the ghost. Everyone laughed, even the cat, a little.

Told by The lantern firefly

The Fix

They moved the cat's bed to a different shelf.

The Moral

Some of the oddest jobs turn out to have the simplest answers, and the best techs ask what happened right before the odd thing started.

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