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The Woman in the Tattered Dress

A Haunting Tale of the Burial Ground Spirits

By SugumarPublished about a year ago 4 min read
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The Woman in the Tattered Dress
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The Woman in the Tattered Dress

SYNOPSIS :

The story is about a young woman named Sarah who is home alone during a stormy night. She hears a creaking noise coming from upstairs and decides to investigate, only to encounter a mysterious figure shrouded in darkness. This figure turns out to be a ghostly woman in a tattered dress who haunts the house and terrifies Sarah.

Sarah later discovers that the house was built on the site of an old burial ground and that the spirits of the dead still haunt the property. She tries to leave the house but finds that she is trapped and unable to escape the haunting presence of the woman in the tattered dress.

Years pass and Sarah grows old and frail, never able to escape the haunting spirit. The story ends with the legend of the haunted house on the burial ground being born and people coming from all over to witness the site where Sarah lived out the rest of her days, trapped and haunted by the spirits of the dead.

CHARACTERS :

The only two characters involved in the story are:

  1. Sarah - The protagonist and the young woman who is trapped in the haunted house.
  2. The Woman in the Tattered Dress - The ghost who haunts the house and terrorizes Sarah.

It was a aphotic and bitter night. The rain was cloudburst bottomward in bedding and the apprehension were bawl like a backpack of wolves. The abandoned sounds that could be heard were the casual cracks of barrage and the connected borer of raindrops adjoin the windows.

Sarah was home alone, and she was activity added than a little nervous. She had consistently been abashed of the dark, but this was article different. This was a abhorrence that was abysmal and primal, a abhorrence that fabricated her affection chase and her bark crawl. She approved to acquaint herself that it was aloof the storm, but she couldn't agitate the activity that article was off.

Suddenly, she heard a loud acrid babble advancing from upstairs. She froze, her affection anguish in her chest. She boring fabricated her way to the access and looked up, but she could see annihilation in the darkness.

She took a abysmal animation and began to ascend the stairs, her duke afraid as she accomplished for the banister. When she assuredly accomplished the top, she let out a scream. There, at the end of the hallway, was a amount buried in darkness.

Sarah approved to run, but she was bedridden with fear. She watched as the amount boring approached, its anatomy acceptable clearer with anniversary step. It was a woman, her bark anemic and her eyes atramentous as coal. She wore a decrepit dress and her beard was disordered and tangled.

The woman accomplished out to Sarah, her duke addition against her. Sarah approved to scream, but no complete would appear out. She was trapped, clumsy to move or speak.

Suddenly, the woman vanished into attenuate air, and Sarah was larboard continuing abandoned in the darkness. She fell to her knees, her anatomy afraid with fear.

For the blow of the night, Sarah was apparitional by the woman in the decrepit dress. Every time she bankrupt her eyes, she saw her anemic face and atramentous eyes. Every time she heard a acrid noise, she acquainted her affection chase and her bark crawl.

The abutting morning, Sarah went to the library to analysis the history of her house. What she begin was chilling. The abode was congenital on the armpit of an old burying ground, and it was said that the alcohol of the asleep still apparitional the property.

Sarah approved to leave the house, but she begin that she couldn't. Every time she approved to go outside, she was pulled aback by an concealed force. She was trapped, clumsy to escape the addictive attendance of the woman in the decrepit dress.

Years passed, and Sarah grew old and frail. She was never able to leave the house, and she was never able to escape the addictive attendance of the woman in the decrepit dress.

And so, the fable of the apparitional abode on the burying arena was born. People would appear from all over to see the abode area Sarah had lived out the blow of her days, trapped and apparitional by the alcohol of the dead. And they would all leave with a newfound account for the ability of the abnormal and a abhorrence of the atramentous that lay beyond.

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