I am going to tell you a story. A story of a house that I use to live in with my daughter, Heather. A house that gave off an odd aura, but seemed innocent. An old house that once held a family of five, with three kids and two parents. But the happy family of five that lived in that house in 1904 turned out to be a corrupted family of six. I used to live in this house, before things went wrong, and I had to leave for the sake of my daughter’s life. It was seven years ago when I first heard about the history of this house.
It was early one morning when I realized that Heather and I were out of milk and it was only our third day living in the house. Heather hated the house; she said it gave her weird dreams and she heard voices. I just thought it was her eight-year-old imagination. I got her up and told her that I was going to the corner store. She refused to stay in bed and insisted that she come with me. I got to the corner store, and that was when the secrets started to spill out. It was a damp morning and the car had not heated up yet. Heather was just being herself, quiet as usual, sitting in the back of the car and looking out the window. The corner store was open 24/7, because they had a few stations to get gas. I left Heather in the car, because I knew I was only going to be a minute.
“That’ll be one dollar please,” the store clerk said to me.
“Here you go, sir,” I answered, handing him the money.
“I have never seen you around here before,” he said while getting my change.
“That’s because I just moved into the old farmhouse on the hill with my daughter.”
He stopped what he was doing and looked up at me.
“You are living in the old house on the hill?” he asked in shock.
“Yes, is there a problem?” I answered, quite confused.
“Don’t you know what happened in that house?”
“No…I do not.” He continued to tell me about how in the 1800’s a family lived in there. Things ended up going horribly wrong, so the house was abandoned. But a family moved in about 30 years ago. The store clerk said three moved in and only one came out alive.
To be continued….
