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Write a ghost story where there’s more going on than it first appears.

Posted in Mystery on Jul 27, 2021

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Don't Ghost Your Friends

Submitted to Contest #64

I have always loved ghosts. Most people are afraid of them, worried that they’ll make things float or let out a big scream, or something--I don’t know. Maybe some people are just afraid that they’ll confirm that life is just a little different than they want to believe. Ghosts are glimpses into the past and show us stories we couldn’t know otherwise. Sure, there are some evil ones out there, but like the people they were before they became ghosts, they usually fall somewhere in the middle, between angelic and devilish. I’ve been able to...

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The Locked Door

Submitted to Contest #64

“Alright, that’s the tour of the house,” The lady with the glasses tells me. She says her name is Mrs. Ayla. “Is there anything else you want to know about the house?” She asks and I nod. “Can we go back to the library on the first floor, please?” I ask her. “Okay, sure!” She holds her clipboard in one hand and her pen in the other as she leads me to the library. The house is nearly 300 years old, but I think it will be perfect for my family. There are lots of floors and would be perfect for my kids to play hide and seek. Mrs. Ayla suddenly ...

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The more you look, the less you see

Submitted to Contest #64

Prologue He woke up to hear knocking on glass. At first, he thought it was the window until he heard it come from the mirror again... ~~~~~ "Calm down! It's not the end of the world. You'll just have to get used to this place. You can make new friends here, Liam." His mom snapped. Fourteen-year-old Liam looked around hating the fact that this place, Hemmingtown, was his new home. He sat back in his seat and crossed his arms. He missed his home back in Lowisworth, that's where all of his friends were. Two months ago his parents talked a...

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Mabel

Submitted to Contest #64

First days can be so unnerving, especially your first day at high school and your first day at boarding school.Lucy was very excited to be at such a prestigious school. She was looking forward to making new friends. This was a whole new chapter of her life unfolding.The assembly hall was a hive of chatter and laughter. Old students were reuniting with hugs after the holidays and new students were trying to fit in. The house mother, Mrs Murray, took to the stage and a silence ascended on the girls. The girls had the utmost respect for Mr...

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In the House

Submitted to Contest #64

‘It’s evil. I can feel it. Feel it in every stone - evil it is.’ ‘What rubbish. A house, or any other building, cannot be evil. Men who transgress the laws of our good Lord are evil. Whether any such men, or indeed women, have ever resided in this house we shall not know but if so their wickedness cannot seep into its structure. You are a foolish child to believe it could be so.’ Mother I turn away from my sullen daughter. Why she thinks such things I cannot imagine. She scowls at me. In a fit of temper she wrests the cap from her hea...

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The Ghost Who Couldn't Frighten People

Submitted to Contest #64

Jan sat on her bed snuggled up with her duvet wrapped around her and her book, Dracula, opened at Chapter 1. She began to shiver, even though she felt warm. She took her cup of hot chocolate from the bedside table and began to sip it as she read. She tried to convince herself that she wasn’t in the least bit afraid even though the hairs on her arms were standing on end and she hadn’t even got to the bottom of the first page! Before she could continue reading, she thought she heard a creaking noise coming from the corner of the bedroom. Don’t...

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Haunted With Love

Submitted to Contest #64

“Did you hear that?” Bella asked her best friend and cousin, Ethel. “What?” I didn’t hear anything. Ethel said, wiping the sleep out of her eyes. “You can’t tell me that you didn’t hear that loud noise. It sounded like a big bang. Like someone was banging on the door.”  “Bella, I honestly didn’t hear anything. I think that you are just creeped out because we are here.” Ethel responded The house on 1620 Josephina Avenue. Now sat empty with the exception of the girls being there now. It was once a home filled with love, laughter, ...

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Punxsutawney Ghost

Submitted to Contest #64

Punxsutawney Ghost                One October night when the clouds were laying on the town roads, everything silent, no noise to be heard. Not even a mouse, nothing but fog ran through the streets. When the sun goes down the shadows in the town, anything, and everything in the dark roams freely. No one is safe , and no one can see them…. Just beware not to look at the shadows they create.              &...

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Ghosts and Pigeons.

Submitted to Contest #64

The old rambler swerved from side to side, kicking up yellow dust and stones. Ray had the unnerving habit of looking at the passenger while driving. We have driven into more than one wheat field on our adventures on the wide open bald ass Alberta prairie. So far, he has always managed to get us back on the road without missing a sentence or flipping the vehicle. last winter while we froze our prairie oysters trying to hunt the elusive and cunning antelope, mostly, we were content to take a few fat partridge home; we discovered a farm house...

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Emily

Submitted to Contest #64

Everyone knew the Connors' house was haunted. It was common knowledge in the neighbourhood. When they moved in, it was a spectacle - finally fitting electric lights, painting the outside, fitting double-glazed glass, and installing a telephone wire. Most houses on their street didn't even have a wire yet, the Connors were almost modern. Frankly, it seemed unnatural to have a family in that old building; it had been empty for decades, a cornerstone of the neighbourhood.  There were only two in the family. A tight-knit pair, Emily was h...

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Haunter and Haunted

Submitted to Contest #64

My house is being haunted. I’ve lived here for as long as I can remember and it’s never happened before, but it started a few weeks ago- just little things, half-glimpsed figures in the hall who disappeared after a few minutes. I go downstairs now and they’re there again- more of them this time. The first time it was two, then just one, then the same one with others, many others, always different, always coming through my house and staring straight at me- They scare me. Worse than that, I can’t get away from them. The first few tim...

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No Room For Macabre

Submitted to Contest #64

I was sitting on the broken wooden chair. The room was dimly lit. Outside the sun has set and darkness was creeping in like the thick velvet curtains of theatres. I was used to it- the lack of light used to bother me too much, but now it’s just normal. It embraces me, just as how I am and that feeling is comforting. It has been around half an hour since mother left. She made me dress up in a new stiff and crisp black suit and went inside the kitchen. Mother likes to buy suits for me, and every time she buys a new suit she tells me to wear it...

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A Row House (Horror story of a haunted house)

Submitted to Contest #64

Srikumaran, a business man was on his way to the city of Ooty along with his family. He was glad & excited to re-locate to their new Row House, which he purchased some few years back under loan. After many years of tremendous pressure & hardwork he repaid all his loans & owned this row house, as desired by his wife Sumitra. Radhika, their only daughter, who got married last year to Sanjaya, an engineer, now settled at Sydney. She could not join them, due to Sanjaya’s busy work schedule. Even though they missed their daughter Radh...

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THE DEADLY REVENGE.

Submitted to Contest #64

It was an usual summer morning in the city of Mumbai. The whole team of special task force were surprisingly relaxing without a single case. Little did they know their Chief Krunal is going to roast them once more with a case. All the four except their Chief where chit chatting in the conference room.  Abhi(techno savvy) : In which direction did the sun rise today?  Karthik(commando): Abhi, ask this to your brother. By the way you talk as though krunal sir resigned  Abhi: today our helpline has taken some rest. We got no ...

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The ghost who wanted a home

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The Ghost Who wanted a home Nicole jalonen  in honour of black lives mattering A woman dressed in white with blonde hair ran down a dirt path carrying a crying infant girl in one hand and a lantern in the other. She was a African American women who had to obey a white family who were very wealthy. Not only did she race through the foggy stormy night with her crying infant but she carried with her scars from whips and a dark secret she knew she would be beaten for if her mistress caught her. She could hear her pursuers right beh...

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