Mabel Episode 5, Fairy Hill, in which reached Mabel Martin. I'm not here to take your call right now, so please leave a message after the beep and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Thanks. This house is the singing.

It happens every so often.

You'll be doing something around the house, washing dishes, or folding laundry.

And suddenly you'll hear singing from a different room.

The first few times I heard it,

I thought it was just Sally playing her radio especially loud,

but it has a different quality to the radio. It's...

I don't know music really.

I don't know the right terms to say what I mean, but...

It sounds more... more silver, less warm. A radio sounds like music set against the background of a bonfire

this sounds like someone singing inside a cave or inside a big metal pipe.

The whole first week I was here, I tried to find where the singing was coming from.

I followed it from room to room, but when you're upstairs, it sounds like it's downstairs. When you go down again, it sounds like it's above you.

If you're in the library, you think it's in the kitchen, but when you get to the kitchen, you think it might be back in the green parlor.

You could spend hours tracing it through the nervous system of the house if you had the time

and if it ever lasted longer than a minute or so.

I asked Sally about it back when I first moved in.

God, that strange, shapeless length of days.

She said,

Oh, you know how sounds get stuck in the walls of old houses.

Don't you think it's pretty?

It's been happening since I was a girl.

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