TIFU by not telling my husband the piano we got is haunted even though I have.
We bought a old piano 6 months ago, husband loves to play. It was used off Facebook marketplace a woman was selling it as part of her mothers estate said it had been in the family for years. But none of them play and she doesn't have room for it. For $400 its a deal and makes my husband happy. I have no idea about pianos but he does, its nice and looks gorgeous in our house.
My husband is a deep sleeper, I'm a lot more jumpy and sleep really light. About 3 days after we bought it as you guessed by the title I heard playing around 11pm. To be honest I shrugged it off, maybe a cat walking on the keys since I didn't recognize a tune and just went to sleep. Maybe 2 nights later I woke to music this time. Looked over husband is asleep, awesome...started to drift back off when !!husband is asleep!!. This wasn't random keys, it was fudging Marry Has A Little Lamb!!!
Now I'm kind of freaked out. I woke my husband but as soon as I get him out of his glorious snore filled slumber the music stopped. To which I am given the "you were just dreaming or something go back to sleep". So FINE alright back to sleep i go, I was not getting up alone to go investigate that trash.
Then the next night, 1am rolls around and sure enough im awoken again to Marry Has a Little Lamb. Again I try to bring my loving spouse out of his deep wonderful dream sleep only to get to the moment he wakes up and the music stops. This time I beg him to go at least investigate, and he finds.... nothing. This goes on for the next 2 weeks its never the entire song just enough for me to know what it is. I try to get to my phone in time to record and show him but groggy tired me just isnt getting it. By the end of the 2nd week I am investigating this nerve wracking piano, begging to maybe be a mechanical thing. Like the cool trick pianos that play by themselves. Well I cant find a thing, so I ask my husband and he is exasperated but assures me it is not a "solo playing" piano and im probably just dreaming it.
And so this stupid journey with this piano continues. By the end of week 3 I am exhausted, being woken up almost every night for now weeks is starting to less scare me and more frustrate and even enrage me. I work 11hr days 5 days a week I need sleep, my alarm goes off at 4:30am I have neither the time nor the energy for this bull. So on week 4 at 2am of all times I wake hear the music walk my behind into the living room tired but snippy and ask the ghost, demon whatever it is to at the least be considerate and only play during the F(bomb) day.
Whatever this spooky was must have some manners because it did. It stopped, at least at night. I still had the odd and thankfully less occurring tune during the day and as the months have gone on it is much less frequent. Or we are just not home for it?
That brings us to this past Monday. Me and my husband, the love of my life has the RARE same Monday off!! I am sleeping in its around 10am because im an adult and we get to do that. When what do I hear, YUP you guessed it!! "Mary Has A Little Lamb".... im use to it at this point like whatever. Except this time my husband comes running into the bedroom, i peek my head up from my cove of comforters to see his eyes wide and face white.
"You're in here?" He whispers
"Well yeh where else would i be?" I grouch.
"Who is playing the piano"? He whispers
"Hell if I know whatever it is has been doing that since we got it"!
We just star at each other; all this to conclude. I apparently never said i thought the piano was haunted, why didnt i tell him the piano is haunted. But I did, why would I be asking about it playing by itself? We have been home before TOGETHER and it's happen... oh you thought it was me? Well no it wasn't.
Apparently everytime it has played he has been in another room and always thought it was just me messing around. Apparently that tune is easy to play? Except today, he knew i was sleeping in. So when he heard the piano start he peeked in to see me playing and ask why I was up except no one was there. And the last note was still playing, ringing(?). We might be getting rid of the piano.
TLDR We bought a haunted piano my husband didnt know it was haunted and is kind of upset I didnt insist to him that the piano is haunted. Even though I did tell him, THE PIANO IS HAUNTED!