Adjusting a haunted house
An inventory specialist with an adjusting firm was assigned to investigate a claim at a supposedly haunted house.
The specialist was skeptical at first – that is, until he noticed that the second time he walked past a particular room, the chair in the room was in a different position.
As he walked by the room a third and fourth time, the chair was in a position each time.
When the specialist came home that evening to look at pictures of the house, a white shadow with an almost human form could be seen in one of them. A ghost perhaps?
We’ll never know, because the photo ultimately disappeared.
The experience spooked one member of the adjusters’ team so badly that the specialist quit the very next day
The elephant in the living room
A high-end insurance company insured a real estate developer from the city who built a compound outside the city. He built the compound with a thatched roof, which the insurance company would not insure because it was a fire hazard.
Lo and behold, the client’s compound did have a fire. Because the client had an insured property in the city, some coverages extended, so the agents went to check it out.
They found life-sized taxidermed African animals worthy of the American Museum of Natural History in the middle of his living room, including a full-bodied giraffe and an African elephant.
The homeowner, as it turns out, was a big-game hunter.
Money in the “bank”
An insurance agent dropped in on a client who had filed a claim for $700 in cash that had been stolen from her “bank.”
The client “failed to tell me that her ‘bank’ was the library in her house,” the agent said. “She had stuffed money in the pages of her books in her library, and somebody opened a book one day and found money, and they kept finding more money, so they took it.”
Elvis has left the building
A woman in a wealthy family is forced to abandon her Malibu mansion immediately as a wildfire approaches.
You only have two hands. What do you grab as you leave the door?
Well , your Persian cats, of course – and Elvis’s army fatigues, which you purchased a an auction.
