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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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