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kept hearing creaky noises. He felt as though he were being watched. When he stubbed his toe he thought someone had his foot. He couldn’t find his bedroom because it was a big house. So he had to sleep in a chair.

He had his hand scraped by a nail and he thought someone with a hook hand was trying to stab him. All he could think of was being picked up in the morning by his friends. He couldn't sleep at all. He heard a noise from the downstairs and thought someone was down there. So he took a knife and went down. He got his knife stuck between the door and the wall and he thought someone was trying to take it. He then bumped into something and it made a loud crash. He almost hit the ceiling. On his way upstairs his shirt got stuck on the stairway rod. Thinking someone had him, he had a heart attack. When his friends came the next morning, they found him dead on the stairway.

The headline on the paper read, “MAN KILLED BY GHOST*.

About ten to fifteen years later a bunch of kids were daring each other to go in the house and go upstairs, since they all knew the man died on the stairs. Jake, one of the boys who wanted to show off, said he would go in the house. But the truth was Jake was scared at the sight of the house. One of his friends who

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