My father has lived Aspen, Colorado for over 20 years during the ski season, November to April, as he is an avid skier. I lived in my father’s house for a year and a half in 1990/91 when I was working at a gallery in Aspen, but had no experiences except for being extremely uncomfortable in the downstairs area. Recently that changed.
作為一名滑雪愛好者，我父親每年都會在滑雪季節(每年的11月到來年的四月)搬到科羅拉多州的阿斯彭(譯者注：科羅拉多中西部的一座城市，為一流行的滑雪圣地)居住，如今在這里已經居住了20多年。他的這座房子，我只是在1990年到1991年間住了一年半，其時我正在阿斯彭的一家展覽館工作，在此期間除了對這座房子的樓下部分感到極其不舒服外，也沒有什么特別的感受。不過，最近這種感覺可不同了。

I am married now and my husband, son and I went to visit my father over the holidays. My brother, his wife and his 3 children were visiting as well and were already there. My father’s home is a two level, 4 bedroom house in Snowmass Village. It was built in the 70’s and he is the second owner. I know nothing about the first owner. There are two bedrooms downstairs with a full bath, a workout room, a laundry room, and a sauna room/ski storage area. The house is built into the side of the mountain, so there are no windows for the downstairs bathroom, workout, laundry and sauna room. The windows for the two bedrooms are not as expansive or bright as the rooms on the floors above so it can appear pretty dim in the rooms down there, especially the second bedroom furthers from the stairs and closest to the other dark rooms.
如今，我已結婚生子，那是在一個假日，丈夫、兒子還有我來到這里看望父親。而我弟弟當時跟他妻子和他的三個孩子也正好來看父親。這座房子地處聚雪山莊(Snowmass Village)，建于上個世紀70年代，共有兩層，四間臥室，我父親是這座房子的第二任房主，而對于第一任房主我一無所知。樓下有兩間臥室，一個廁所，一間健身房，一間洗衣房，此外還有一個桑拿間和雪橇放置區。這座房子在建造時是傍山而建，所以底層的廁所、健身房、洗衣房及桑拿間都沒有窗戶，漆黑一片;而兩間臥室的窗戶跟樓上的比起來也是又小又暗，所以下到這里就會覺得昏暗迷蒙，暗淡無光。

It is also important to note that since I lived there in the early 90’s, my father acquired an old music organ that he said was a gift from a business associate. It is very, very old and I was told that is was originally from Connecticut, it used to be in a church and it is from the1800’s. It’s not very attractive and I was told that my mother refused to have it in her house so my father put it in his Aspen home as he thought the organ was great. He put the organ in the second, darkest bedroom where it dominates the room.
此外關于這房子，還有重要的一條需要說明，自從90年代我在這兒走后，父親就弄到了一把風琴，據他自己說是由一個生意伙伴送的，這架風琴已經是非常非常舊了，據我所知它最初是來自康涅狄格州，可追溯到19世紀，并且還在教堂使用過。這把風琴看上去并不是很惹人喜愛，據我了解母親就拒絕把它放到自己的房間，因此父親只好把它帶到了位于阿斯彭的房子，因為在他眼里這把風琴可是價值不菲。父親把它安頓在第二間，也就是最黑最暗的那間臥室，在這里，它默默地統治著這間房子。

When my father has guests in the downstairs area, whoever is there first always takes the first and brightest bedroom. Nobody ever wants the second bedroom unless they have no choice. Because my husband, son and I were the last to arrive, my brother’s daughters were in the room first but were moved from the second bedroom to the upstairs bedroom while our nephew and our son took the sofas upstairs. My husband and I were then given the second room with the organ. That night, both my husband and I were very tired from our trip and we went to bed exhausted.
如果我父親有客人來訪需要住在樓下時，不管是誰只要是先到者，總會選第一間明亮的臥室，沒有人希望住到第二間，除非他別無選擇而于我們一家就來的比較晚，我弟弟的女兒從樓下第一間臥室搬到了樓上的臥室，我兒子和外甥睡在樓上的沙發上， 而我們兩口得到的便是那間由風琴守候的第二間臥室。那天晚上，丈夫和我由于長途勞頓，上床時都已經是精疲力竭了。

I had drunk a lot of water earlier as it’s important when coming into the mountains from sea level or a lower altitude not to drink alcohol but instead drunk a lot of water to stay hydrated and to help acclimate to the high altitude. So with all this water in my belly, I found I had to get up a couple of times in the night and use the bathroom. The lights were off in the bedroom and the door was shut making the room very dark indeed, but still I could see a little bit. It was my second trip to the bathroom, maybe around midnight, and as I went to the bedroom door, I glanced down and saw a cat waiting to get out of the room. My father has no cats, has never had cats as he is allergic to them and as far as I know there has never been a cat in that house, EVER. I could see the cat was striped and looked gray and white and maybe a little brown. It appeared motionless but was gazing at the door the way animals do when they want to get out but are being very patient about it. I thought I was dreaming and kept looking at this cat, rubbing my eyes, looking back down at it but it remained. (Now it is important to the story that I mention that we also had brought our dog and he was asleep in the room with us and as far as I know, he was not awake)
在這之前，我喝了不少水，因為這樣就能夠在進入高海拔山區不至于脫水，同時還能有助于更快的適應高原反應，但喝酒是不行的。所以，我肚子里全是水，在夜里我不得不頻頻起床上廁所。臥室里的燈是關著的，緊閉的房門使整個房間更是漆黑一片，不過，我多少還是能夠看到點。大約在半夜，那是我第二次起床去上廁所，當我向房門走去的時候，向腳下瞥了一眼，突然看到一只貓伏在那里，它正等著出去。但是我父親沒養貓啊，由于對貓過敏，父親是從來不養貓的。而且據我所知，在這所房子里也沒養任何貓，從來就沒有過。但是，我確實看到一只貓，全身布滿斑紋，看上去是灰白色，似乎還有點褐色。它在那里一動不動，只是目不轉睛地注視著房門，它的姿勢就是動物們在想出門時所擺出的那種姿勢，不過，這只貓顯得非常得耐心。我以為自己是在做夢，注視著這只貓，我揉了揉眼睛，再看了一下，它還在那里。(現在我需要提一點，這對整個故事很重要，我們過來時把我家的那條狗也給帶來了，它就跟我們睡在同一房間，不過據我所知，這只狗一直酣睡在那里)

Finally, after staring at it for a few moments, I decided the cat really must be there and it really wanted to go out so I was going to let it out, so I opened the door. I watched, fully expecting this cat to come walking out into the hallway, but instead my dog bounded out as if he were chasing this cat, which of course, now wasn’t there any longer.
我又注視著它端詳了片刻，最終確定那里就是有一只貓，而且它確實就是想出去，于是，我便打算將它放出去，打開了房門，我看著它，滿以為這只貓會走到走廊里去，但它還在那里，倒是我的那只狗在我開門時躍了起來，好像是要去抓這只貓，這時貓一溜煙的跑了。

That could have been the end of the story, but the next morning, my husband, (who doesn’t believe in ghosts or the afterlife) mentioned he wanted to speak to me about something while we were making the bed. He made me promise not to tell anyone while we were visiting because he did not want to get laughed at for something he doesn’t even believe in. He went on to tell me that around two in the morning he had suddenly woke up and found the room filled with mist or smoke. He thought this was strange and then he said he could make out the head of a woman at the foot of the bed, hovering in all this mist. At first he thought this woman was me, so he asked if I was alright. He said he nearly had a heart attack when I groaned softly next to him. (I had no memory of him asking me anything, but I guess I was asleep).
故事到此也許應該就結束了，但是在第二天早晨收拾床時，我丈夫， 一個從來不信鬼神、不信陰府來世的人，說他想告訴我點事。他還讓我發誓在逗留的這段時間內不要告訴任何人，因為他不想被別人因為自己從來不相信的東西而取笑自己。接著他告訴我，大約在凌晨兩點左右，他突然驚醒，發現房間里煙霧彌漫，覺得很奇怪，然后他接著講，在床尾處他竟發現有一個女人頭飄在煙霧中盤旋。起初，他以為那個女人是我，于是他就問了一句：“你沒事吧?”，也就在這時，他說自己差點就心臟病發作，因為他聽到我就在他身邊，輕輕地朝他哼了兩聲(不過我倒沒記著他問我什么事，我想我那時睡著了)。

Anyway, he was startled to find that I was lying next to him and that it wasn't me at the foot of the bed, so he began to really try to see who it was. He told me it was difficult at first to focus because he didn’t have his contacts in, but as he took a good look, he could see there was no body, just a head. Even though his vision wasn’t as clear as he would have liked, he made an effort to see who was there and said he could make out a woman’s head that was quite skeletal and appeared to have a lot of make-up on, lipstick and eye make-up, he said, VERY made up. The woman’s head seemed to have long hair and some kind of big hat that has a sash that goes over the top and ties underneath the chin. He said the head started floated up over the bed, over my side of the bed rather than his side of the bed, but he said, she seemed to be looking right at him. He said when it got towards the headboard, it suddenly vanished. He said he was so freaked out that he just tried to go back to sleep, trying to forget what he had just seen until he finally did fall back asleep.
不管怎么說,當他發現我躺在他身邊，而在床尾的那個不是我時，著實被震驚了，于是他開始仔細端詳起這個人到底是誰。開始時由于他沒有戴隱形眼鏡，很難看清，但是當他看清時，發現是一個人頭在那里，沒有身體，僅僅一個懸浮的頭在那里。盡管此時這位“無神論者”看的沒有平常那樣清楚，但當他努力看時，還是能夠識別出那就是一個女人的頭，瘦削的臉龐，看上去似乎還化著厚厚的濃裝，擦著口紅，打著眼影。“妝化的非常濃”，他說。這顆女頭好像還留著長發，帶著一頂大帽子，帽子上帶著系帶，就系在女頭的下頜處。這顆頭開始在床的上空飄浮起來，而且還是偏在我這邊，開始向床頭慢慢的漂移過來，但眼睛卻直勾勾地盯著他，突然，就在這時，頭不見了。這時的這位無神論者，據他自己說，是驚恐不安，只想能夠快點入睡，努力忘掉剛才看到的那一幕，這種驚悚余悸一直持續到他再次入睡。

The next day, I kept my promise to him about telling the others about the head, but I mentioned seeing the cat to my sister in law and my nieces as a cat isn’t as scary as a floating head. My nieces then confessed that while in that room, they always felt as if they were being watched and our son, who was later in that room after my brother and his family left and before we told him about the head, said he felt as if he was being watched as well.
第二天，我遵守我的諾言沒有向任何人提起這顆頭的事，不過我還是將我夜半遇貓的經歷告訴了弟妹和外甥女，畢竟這沒有那顆飄浮的人頭那么恐怖。而外甥女此時無忌地說當她們在自己那間屋子里時，老感覺是有什么在一直盯著自己，在我弟弟全家走了以后，我兒子就搬到了她們房間，他也說好像是感覺到老有什么在一直看著自己，而這時我和丈夫都沒有告訴他關于那顆頭的故事。

For the rest of the visit, nothing else happened. After our visit, my sister in law and I had a talk and tried to figure out where these ghosts were coming from and we guessed that maybe they were attached to this old organ. My father doesn’t have much history on it except for what I mentioned earlier in the story. My theory is his business partner gave it to him because it creeped him out and he wanted to get rid of it. My father said it is a very valuable antique and now wants to leave it to me some day since I was asking questions about it. (I didn’t tell my dad about what I had seen, as he does not believe in ghosts and I didn't want to freak him out) I told him thanks but I really couldn’t accept it and I told him he should donate it to a church or something. I don’t want to hurt his feelings, but I don’t want it!!
不過在接下來的這段時間里，倒是什么也沒發生。在看望結束后，弟妹和我又談論起這件事，努力想找出這鬼到底是從何而來，據我們猜測，鬼也許就附在那把老古董的風琴上。其實我父親對這把風琴的歷史沒有多少了解，他所知道的就是我在故事開頭所提到的那幾點。據我猜測，這位生意伙伴之所以將這把風琴送給我父親，那是因為這把風琴也曾經讓他驚悚過，因此他想擺脫掉這把風琴，于是就送給了我父親。而我父親還把這風琴說成是價值不菲的古董，說是將來哪一天還要留給我，因為他發現我對它一直是非常好奇，老是問這問那(我并沒有告訴父親我所看到一切，因為他也不信鬼神，而且我也不想讓他擔驚受怕)。我向他表達了我的謝意，但是我著實無法接受這份禮物，我勸他可以將風琴捐給教堂之類的組織。我不想傷害他的感情，但同樣，我也不想得到這把風琴!!

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