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Episode #6 Push Jordan to Stay in the Haunted Hospital

Decisions, Opportunity or Fate

By Susan McGillPublished 3 years ago 4 min read
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Nervousness pecks at your stomach faster then Jordan’s! Hair on the back of your neck stands straight up as your right foot touches the first of thirteen solid cement stairs leading up to an eerie looking old hospital, meeting a set of two twelve-foot-high wooden hand carved oak doors, opening inward.

Jordan pushes effortlessly against these massive doors as though a Queen entering her own castle. Following close behind you enter a large foyer, with a dual winding staircase straight ahead, all hand carved Native symbols in Oak reside within it. Outright gorgeous! Other than a sign attached to set of old hospital doors stating, “DO NOT ENTER RESTRICTED AREA!” The closer you get the more eerie it feels! Goose bumps run rampant across your entire body!

Jordan pulls you to your left, into a large sitting room area with a long table covered with backpacks. Gathering your gifts, both of you start digging deep into your backpacks, finding a map, a flashlight, and a bottle of water.

“Jordan, look there is a map, lets check it out!” Jordan loves the idea, observing map, for entire grounds. You open grounds map, bubbling with excitement reading, “Golden Key section"

Golden Key can only be used once, and will evaporate if not used within two hours. It opens only one door on these grounds, a secret door. One that will take you to places never encountered before. If at anytime during your stay you find this key, I suggest you use it immediately.

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Hint: you must work with nature to find a Golden Key and there are only a few. Good luck. Don’t forget following clues on your journey, will help you along your way.”

Map also shows how to get around to all the different places, Village, recreational room, bonfire area, lodge, garden, graveyard, hospital, Doctor’s house and even shows all haunted areas marked with an X.

With further inspection you find taking the dual winding staircase would be the easiest way to your previously assigned room. Jordan agreed when checking a map. So, you both head up winding staircase, you take the right side while Jordan takes the left side aiming for third and top floor.

You arrive at the second floor only to find there is no further staircase to get up to the third floor, looking over you see Jordan waving without acknowledgment of your issue. You pull out your map and realize there is a x marking this very spot as haunted!

Yikes, down the stairs you barrel as fast as possible, making your way up the other flight of stairs joining Jordan on the third floor. Again, you check the map finding a symbol representing a single washroom with a notation next to it stating, “Haunted!

You need to pass by it to reach your room, searching your map again finding no other possible way around. Jordan doesn't seem to notice, as she runs down the hallway to your room!

With hands sweating, you hold tight to the map walking slowly past a single washroom, just waiting for something to jump out at you. Making it to your room safely, without incidence. Concluding your fears are getting the better of you.

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Your room has two beds, two dressers, covering the top half of the longest wall are many windows. Giving a beautiful view of the main grounds. You notice immediately a house sitting atop a hill with dead berry bushes engulfing it. Now unpacked, you pick the bed closest to the door, placing your Pj's and housecoat across the foot of the bed. A squeaking noise comes from down the hallway: reminding you of wheels on a go-cart needing to be oiled. “Did you hear that?” Jordan laughs, “It's probably someone's suitcase. Here I thought I was the scared one not you?” laughing again.

Curiosity forces you to check out those continuous noises. To your surprise you find an old man wearing reading glasses, dressed all in green clothes, pushing a trolley cart down the long hall stopping at each room, looking inside then continuing on. Convinced he must work here, you run up to him, “Excuse me Sir? Do you know which way is fastest to the mess hall?”

He doesn't respond with words, rather he only points to a staircase straight across from, your room! Running back to Jordan immediately explaining the great news. Knowing that would help avoid the haunted bathroom.

Jordan looking rather scared, “Are you sure that guy works here? I'd rather go back the way we came. I noticed the mess hall was located right behind that room we got our maps from.”

What to do? You know Jordan is scared, but do you explain to her about the haunted washroom and hope she takes the stairs? Do you follow Jordan's request taking the way you came in?

OMG, here we go again testing to see what kind of friend you might be, the type who doesn’t like to ruffle the feathers, so to say, or do you just push the limits?

IF YOU HAVE DECIDED TO TALK THINGS OVER WITH JORDAN AND TAKE THE STAIRS. MAKE YOUR WAY ON OVER TO EPISODE #8

IF YOU HAVE DECIDED TO NOT PUSH JORDAN LIMITS AND GO BACK THE WAY YOU CAME. PLEASE MAKE YOU WAY ON OVER TO EPISODE #16

Which ever choice you make I wish you All Good Luck! Enjoy and have fun too! Don't forget to hit the like button and share please! Thanks a bunch!!

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About the Creator

Susan McGill

I am a Seer, a Druid, a Teacher, a Healer, an Empath, and I am very Spiritual most of all I am One with the Universe.

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