Category: Ghosts
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Mystic Springs
Emeralda looked out through the bay window to the road outside. A rather well kept street on the whole, she thought, looking across the road to the houses opposite. Number one had the tree in the garden, and, on the branch that reached out across the road, she could see Tuppence, one of number three’s…
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Une Minute Ramble: Étienne et Étienne
Just a quick post, this one.Yesterday, I wrote about my name in French class at school being Étienne. I wrote this as I had discovered that Étienne de Flacourt, Governor of Madagascar from 1648, may have been the only western person to have witnessed the huge Elephant Bird. I wrote it due to the coincidental…
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What’s that knocking?
When night time comesAnd darkness fallsWith silence all aroundI settle downAnd try to sleepBut can’t due to a soundA gentle tappingNo – strong rapping!Is coming from my doorI’m wrong againIt’s beneath me nowA knocking from the floor The rooms belowAre all aloneFor I’m here by myselfAnd I’m not so sureThat was what I sawWhen the…
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The Ghost Train
With the flashing lights, loud music and sirens from the rest of the funfair all around me, I am now next in line to board the Ghost Train! I pay my entrance fee at the booth and step onto the metal platform, where the criss-cross design on it reflects all of the different colours from…
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On Christmas Day in the Morning – At Reg’s!
The sky was heavy. Even though the morning was particularly dark, Reg could see that the sky was full. Snowflakes the size of rose petals were falling gently, effortlessly and extremely heavily. They were settling on the ground, quite deep, quite crisp, and in some places quite even. Reg noticed a particularly odd mound at…