Chapter 80: The Haunted House
There are many ghost stories in the village, and one of the scariest ones is the one about a haunted house. In the west end of the village, there is an old house with blue-gray bricks and mottled outer walls. This old house is very old, and even
The oldest man in the village didn’t know when it was built or who built it. He just knew that the original owner of the old house was an old widow. After the old widow died, because she had no relatives or friends, the old house was gone.
But after the old widow died, the place started to be haunted. Whenever you approach it after the sun sets, you will hear a very miserable cry, lingering in your ears, and sometimes you can see it.
When you see many will-o'-the-wisps running around a broken house, you will be so frightened that you can't run away. An old sheepherder in the village once saw a black smoke coming out of the roof of the old house for no apparent reason.
I thought it was strange, so I asked a goddess to take a look. After looking at it, the goddess said that it was the ghosts in the old house who were cooking, which was why the ghost smoke came out. So all the villagers were scared and did not dare to approach it anymore.
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One spring night one year, a child in the village played hide-and-seek with his friends. When it was his turn to catch someone, he accidentally came near the haunted house. The moon had already risen, and the white moonlight cast shadows on the trees.
It was thrown on the ground, and it was mottled. The black ones were the shadows of the trees and the white ones were the moonlight, which made people feel quite frightened. He thought that the villagers said that this place was haunted, so he felt scared and wanted to leave. At this time, he suddenly saw
When he saw someone walking around in the haunted house, he thought excitedly: A friend must be hiding there, and he had to be caught this time. Thinking of this, he no longer felt scared, and walked towards the haunted house under the moonlight.
When he arrived at the haunted house, he heard that it was very lively, with people chatting and joking, people moving things, fighting, and scolding children, but no one could be seen. Only then did he know that he had encountered a ghost.
He just wanted to run outside, but what was weird was that the more he wanted to run, the more he felt like someone was holding his clothes behind him, and he couldn't run at all. Now he was dumbfounded and said in his heart: "It's over.
This time I was caught by a ghost." Just when he was desperate, the voices of his friends calling his name suddenly came from outside the haunted house. The sounds in the house suddenly stopped, and no one grabbed his clothes, so he hurriedly ran out.
Haunted house, come to your friends.
Chapter completed!