Curse of the Black Spot

Riddle me this:

You clear up after a Hallowen Party* and wash the floor tiles that were messy after some enthusiastic dooking for apples.

The following weekend you invite a friend over for dinner, sit at a table on said tiles and the floor is still clean.

You don't use that side of the table again for a couple of weeks.

Then you sit down at the table to do some craft worky things and spy a mark on the floor.

A black mark. A perfectly circular black mark. A sooty perfectly circular black mark.

It's directly under the table, so can't be from anything falling from directly above, as the table hasn't been moved for weeks. There have been no candles (or anything else for that matter) burned in the room. No poles with soot in them have been knocked on to the tiles. Nothing with a round base or footprint has been put on the floor.

And yet...



I'm pretty sure this is conclusive proof that the new house is in fact haunted.

Other evidence includes (ooh, I feel a list coming on...)
Inexplicable noises downstairs at night
My mobile phone turning up in the house when I had it at work in the morning
The house being cold, particularly at night
Not being able to find things
Having an irresistible urge to eat lots of treat sized snacks

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*more of the party later, perhaps


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Number of car park enquiries so far today: none

But although the car park is now CLOSED, would-be holiday makers STILL come thinking that they've booked in and give us attitude about being unable to park. Pffft!