The Clutter Poltergeist
The Haunted Move-Out
He woke up inside a moving truck and never fully left.
Chapter Four: The Haunted Move-Out
The story
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Panel 1
Picture:The Clutter Poltergeist, a blue ghost of boxes and cables, swirls through a room of tumbling cartons, controllers and stray shoes.
Caption:Boxes nobody packed. Cables nobody bought. Scuffs nobody remembers making.
Sound effect:THUD!
Panel 2
Picture:The poltergeist drifts out of apartment 302 at dusk past a parked moving truck, trailing a lamp and a laundry basket.
Caption:He drifts from address to address, one forgotten closet at a time.
Panel 3
Picture:A furious landlord holds up a deposit deduction checklist while the poltergeist hovers behind him, protesting.
Caption:Landlords call it a deposit dispute. We know exactly who is responsible.
Panel 4
Picture:Tesa wipes scuff marks off the bare wall of an empty room while the poltergeist swirls past her with a picture frame.
Caption:Empty rooms are his favourite haunt — every mark shows on a bare wall.
Sound effect:SWOOSH
Panel 5
Picture:Tesa wipes out an empty kitchen cabinet, the shelves gleaming, as the poltergeist's clutter is pushed out of frame.
Caption:Inside cabinets, appliances, baseboards and blinds: cleaned, checked, handed over.
Sound effect:SPOTLESS!
Panel 6
Picture:The poltergeist glares out from inside the back of a loaded moving truck.
Caption:He woke up inside a moving truck and never fully left.
Panel 7
Picture:A gloved hand passes a set of keys on a Classy Clean tag into an open palm, the Jacksonville skyline at sunset behind them.
How it ends:A move-in / move-out clean sends him drifting off and the keys change hands spotless.
The Clutter Poltergeist
- Alias
- The Clutter Poltergeist
- Origin
- One forgotten closet at a time.
- Signature line
- Boxes nobody packed. Scuffs nobody remembers.
- Territory
- Move-outs, empty closets, the back of every drawer
- M.O.
- Fills empty rooms with boxes nobody packed and scuffs nobody remembers, then drifts to the next address on a deposit dispute.
- Known weakness
- Move-In / Move-Out Cleaning
- First appearance
- Issue No. 01, Jacksonville's Cleaning Hero
- Status
- Drifting. Haunting a storage unit until the next move-out.
Move-In / Move-Out Cleaning
Tesa. Owner. Operator. Grime's worst nightmare. Every issue ends with an instant estimate, a confirmed plan and cleaning day. Yours can too.
The Clutter Poltergeist — Character Reference Sheet
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