‘The Old Ghost Town’
By
SHELLY THOMPSON,
aged 13, of Sheffield My family and I were new to the ghost town they called “Harari.” It was haunted. Every night the windows rattled. If you woke up you could see them open and shut, blown by the wind. One day I went out for a walk. It was windy and I had to go and get some wood. The wood was kept in a forest which belonged to us. No-one liked going to the forest because that was where the ghosts lived. I wanted my friend to come but she was away on holiday so my sister, Loren, had to come. We walked quietly to the forest, shivering nonstop. We heard loud noises. Loren said, “Could it be the ghosts?" “I don’t think so,” I replied. We went further into the forest, deeper and deeper, until finally we
got to the wood. Then all of a sudden there was a noise beMnd us. We turned around slowly. There was nothing behind us, so we gathered up a month’s supply of wood and ran, because we knew it was a ghost.
We told everyone about the story and they believed it, but the ghosts stayed around the town.
If you wake up in the night you can see things moving that shouldn’t So we Mde under our blankets.
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