(Via Facebook) As in, the family in question really is trying to hire a nanny who can get her head around the fact that the house is reputedly haunted. They’re offering live-in boarding, fifty thousand pounds a year, and four weeks paid vacation. They’ve gone through something like five nannies in the last year. This apparently isn’t a joke, or anything.
Personally, I’d tell someone to take the job whether they believed in ghosts or not (I am rather skeptical about the existence of ghosts). If they don’t believe in ghosts, then there’s no problem at all. If they do believe in ghosts, well: the family is still living in that place and nothing’s happened to them. Perhaps there’s some trick to getting along with the ghosts, even if it’s something as simple (and hopefully, reflexive) like common politeness. The literature is full of anecdotes of people who happily live in allegedly haunted houses.
Besides, there’s that four weeks paid vacation. That’s quite a lot, really.
My defense for ghosts (Reality) works pretty good. Works for vampires and zombies too.
I grew up in a house in Indiana that was built during the Civil War. An old house. It was haunted. We called the ghost Thump. One could hear him walking down the back stairs. I was hiding out reading on my parents bed one day in high school and the attic “door” in the ceiling moved sideways. I never went in there again without blocking the door open.
On a visit home to Indiana I took my husband by to see the old home place. It was in sad disarray and the current owners had built a newer house beside it with plans to tear down the old place. The woman owner walked us through it and explained to my husband that there was just too much noise to sleep because the ghost was always walking down the stairs.
Yes. I do realize this seems odd.