Apparitions –

Malcolm Gifford Jr. was one of the ghosts in Grandma’s house. He would make his presence known every once in a while when the house was still and there were few people around. I’d catch a glimpse of him in his Brooks Brothers suit descending the spiral staircase, apparently on his way to a party – an apparition from a happier time somehow magically transmuted into the present. How does an attractive, well heeled young man become a ghost? What happened here in this house to imprison this boy in Grandma’s gilded cage like a trapped animal?