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Noise From The Dark Inside That House

Horrible Movement

By Angel SriPublished about a month ago 3 min read
Haunted House

The wind howled through the ancient trees, their gnarled branches reaching out like skeletal fingers in the moonlit night. Deep in the woods, I stumbled upon an abandoned home. The air was dense with an eerie cold. The creaky gate protested my incursion, but I pushed it open nevertheless, intrigued and driven by a sense of unsettling curiosity.

The mansion loomed before me like a phantom from a lost nightmare as I entered the overgrown courtyard. The once-grand edifice was now in a condition of ruin, its windows broken, a quiet testament to the passing of time. The moon shined through the roof's cracks, giving the dust-filled air a dreamlike sheen. The property was abandoned by the living, but the spirits that haunted it claimed it.

Ignoring the sounding voice that pushed me to run away, I made my way into the mansion, leaving my footsteps resonating through the empty hallways. I felt a sensation of dread settle in my chest as the peculiar energy in the room weighted heavily. I had a persistent sense that someone was observing everything I did.

I was looking about the run-down rooms when I heard a lovely, melancholy tune drift in on the breeze. I felt as though it was calling me closer into the mansion's interior. I followed the eerie melody to a magnificent ballroom where the once-opulent chandeliers hung perilously from the ceiling.

I saw her there, in the middle of the room—a spectral figure in a frayed ballgown, beautifully swaying to the eerie music. I felt a chill go down my spine as her sad, empty eyes met mine. She was a ghost caught up in an endless dance, a lost moment in an era long since past.

Her melancholy was heavy on me; there was a tangible sorrow in the air. The eerie waltz went on, and I came to understand that this house was the setting for a terrible love story that ended in pain and treachery, leaving the lovers' supernatural beings isolated to this dilapidated refuge.

I moved closer to the ghostly dancer, unable to withstand the allure of the paranormal. The temperature decreased with every step, and I felt a shiver. The ghost stopped dancing and peered into my soul with her empty eyes. Her cold touch sent a shockwave through my veins as she extended her arm towards me.

At that same moment, I was sucked into the terrible story of love and betrayal and attended the ghostly dance. The sombre tune reverberated through the halls, and the spectral duo spun about me, their phantom shapes throwing shadows on the deteriorating walls.

The phantom waltz ended as the first light of early morning came, and the mansion descended into another horrible peace. With the footsteps of the ghostly dance still resonating in the air, I discovered myself standing by myself in the dilapidated ballroom. The deserted mansion went back to sleep, leaving me with a spooky recollection and a terrifying warning that certain stories in the paranormal are better left undisturbed.

That night's events irreversibly changed Hollow Manor. The Holloway family went through ruin when Victor Holloway's wealth vanished. The once-domestic estate was reduced to a crumbling ruin that served as a sobering reminder of the cost of evildoing and avarice. Because they thought the house was cursed, the town's residents avoided it, and supernatural tales about the haunting ball persisted for years.

The negative effects of that spectral encounter are being felt today. Of particular importance around witching hour, the inhabitants of Hollow Manor claim to have noticed spooky footsteps and faint whispering. Some even claim to have seen the spectral figure at the top of the stairway, clad in shabby clothes and hiding behind a hideous mask. The story of Hollow Manor's haunting is meant to be a warning, a reminder that the effects of one's deeds can extend beyond the grave and leave a permanent impression on the fabric of the supernatural phenomena.

This is a true ghost story from today's world, where people have been moving along with reporting hearing footsteps and whispers, along with other unexplained events, led them to believe in the ghost.

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  • Mark Grahamabout a month ago

    Quite the story. Will there be more to the story?

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