The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for February 04, 2024

If he mostly naps could be the ghost of a cat.

That, or maybe his furnace is on its last legs.

He naps, you nap….it’s a sleepy kind of house, isn’t it, Uncle Ted?

The poltergeezer is so old he calls Uncle Ted a young whippersnapper. I can hear him now…, “Now listen here you young… you whipperz…ZZZ.”

We all will be called that one day soon

O….Kay , Uncle Ted

I don’t buy the idea that there’s an actual ghost in the attic.

Better a poltergeist than any of the large number of very expensive failures that strange noises in a house could presage.

I heard of a place that had a poltergeist with asthma. It was a polterweezer.

I wonder what he calls you.

A different take on being “ghosted?”

I hope Brutus doesn’t have a bad dream tonight. Boo. Fright night. Ghost exist only in the imagination of the weak. And movies.

didn’t know ghosts could get old… unless he was old to begin with. no need for the ghost busters for this one though. :J

I had an experience with a ghost in my old house. Bumps, dragging noises and my friend even heard them…went in attic and nothing…Spooky.

ghosts? spirits? the night my mother-in-law died she appeared to me beside my bed and told me Jesus let her stop by to say goodbye, and other things, and appeared to grow younger as she spoke with me…

I have a couple of spirits too. They’re no bother. I sometimes smell they smoking. Sometimes they’ll turn the TV back on a few minutes after I’ve turned it off.

Firstly, I do not believe in ghosts. Buuut, I had a friend who told me his family house had a ghost that they believed was his father. He said sometimes they would hear things like walking or piano music playing, even though they no longer had a piano in the house (his father loved playing the piano). I even sat in on a Seance in that house and I did see an odd occurrence. At one point the Chandelier moved to about a 45 degree angle, stayed there a minute, then moved slowly back to normal. One other incident there was one evening, we were out in the yard playing badminton, when his dog began a furious barking jag from inside the house. We ran up to the front door, which was unlocked, to find it locked. He went around back to find that door locked as well. A few minutes later, the dog stopped and we were able to go back in through the now unlocked door!

Instead of pulling people into their realm through the TV, he uses an old vacuum tube radio.

Nothing fazes Uncle Ted. Anyway, he knows an elderly poltergeist only gets up to go to the bathroom at night.

I believe in ghosts.

When I was a very young boy my family lived in the oldest house in our town (It was the first home to have electricity in our town). We had a stairway from the bottow floor sewing room to an attic/room used by my oldest brother to study. We too heard noises up there on a regular basis. It never scarred me at the time. One particlar event occurred when I was there with two of my much older siblings. It wasn’t just noises, we heard foot steps and they started walking down the stairway and they stopped at the door to the attic. My older siblings were frozen in a panic. We then heard the footsteps walk back up the stairs. My Dad got home shortly thereafter and went upstairs and no one was there. My Mother, went to the local Parish Priest and had a blessing (exorcism possibly?) on the house. We never heard the noises again. I was sort of sad that it went away. Ours might have been related to Uncle Ted’s. Who knows……

Leave it to Uncle Ted .

They say the house I live in is haunted. But I’ve lived her over 400 years and haven’t seen anything.

Haunt… nap… haunt… nap…haunt… nap…haunt… nap…haunt… nap…haunt… nap…haunt… nap…

Bats in the Belfry? Probably Mother Gargles pets.

So I guess you can take it with you, at least your old age problems.

I do believe in spooks, I do believe in spooks- The Cowardly Lion

Uncle Ted has a Roommate!

Brilliant Chip, a fantastic frame to frame build-up to a really clever and funny last panel kicker. We who speak to the dead applaud thee…

Uncle Ted has secrets. Hopefully we won’t see them re-enacted in ‘True Crime’ shows.

I’ll bet Uncle Ned has been pulling stuff like that on Brutus since Brutus was knee high to a grasshopper.

Uncle Ted never feels lonely.

Things that go THUMP! in the night.

my big problem with ghosts is that they don’t believe in me…

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You’re so lucky, Uncle Ted! My poltergeist is silent, but hides things all the time. At least that’s what I tell myself.