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STUDENT ANTHOLOGIES EXCERPTS

Tiffiny Wiggins “The Ghost in the House”

in Haunting Tales: Ghost Stories and other Unusual Encounters by San Francisco Youth

The house we are living in now seems to be haunted. We live above a church. It was once a wash house, and then a pool hall. Now it’s an apartment.

Sometimes, when no one is there we hear sounds. But what really scares us the most is when we feel a cold breeze and see a shadow-looking thing walking in the hall.

We believe we are being visited by a spirit. It doesn’t seem to be harmful. When my sister, Tekhesha, is sleeping she laughs and points as if she is talking to someone.

Tekhesha and I were watching TV, and a lady dressed in white walked by the doorway. I thought it was my big brother, but it was a ghost. My mother came back to the house from the store. We put the food away. She said somebody must have died in our house.

The ghost comes back to haunt us. On dark, dark, dark nights, she comes on Mondays and Fridays.

One time, she went to my mother’s room and closed the door and talked to my mother. While my mother was sleeping in her bed, the ghost said to me, “I want to be loved by my mother because I never had a role model in the house. My dad was always drinking on the street. Can you be my friend?”

I said, “Yes, I can be your best friend.”

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