One summer afternoon two neighbor kids and I were in the basement playing with toys, being noisy and rough-housing. In the middle of our chaos we all froze and stared wide-eyed at each other. From the lower root cellar, we heard golf balls bouncing off the floor as if being dropped one by one, and then the 'ding, ding, ding' of metal pinballs falling through the pinball machine. We dropped everything and made a mad dash upstairs.