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TrappedSoul’s
Shiloh Watts
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Jennifer and Hunter find the house of theirdreams, just in time for Jennifer to give birth totheir first child. Things start to take a wrong turnand they find themselves in the middle of theirown horror story.
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Chapter 1
The Big Move
Jennifer and Hunter were married two
years ago. In those two years they seemed to
have fallen more and more in love with each
other. Jennifer always looked good to Hunter
with her long dark hair and hazel eyes she
always kept him on his toes. He wasn’t bad
either he was almost every girls dream, a
muscular man with a good heart
They were still living in hunter’s one
bedroom apartment, or what he liked to call,
his bachelor pad. It was too small for the two of
them and now they were adding a new
member to their family they had to make a
move. Jennifer was relieved when Hunter
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decided that raising a child in his old bachelor
pad was not the best idea. Now they were
ready to make a change; it was time to say
farewell to the good old days and hello to their
new family life.
They were determined to find the right
house, and the real estate agent Jennifer found
seemed as committed if not more, to selling
them the right home. She would have them outtwo or three times a week looking, at four of
five houses at a time, but to Hunter who was
used to getting everything right then, she was
still slacking.
They were on the road looking at what
was to be the last home of the day. They had
already seen three different homes that day,
and they were beginning to get frustrated,
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none of the houses were what they were
looking for, and Hunter was sure they were
going to find a fault with this last one too.
“Hey you know, Jennifer maybe we
should get a new agent, we have been at this
for weeks now, she never seems to have the
time anyway.”
Jennifer was just as frustrated as Hunter
was, but she had a lot more faith, she knewthey would soon find a house that would fit
both of their expectations.
“I know just give her one more week and
if she can’t find any thing for us, will find
someone different”.
They both knew they were running out
of time. Jennifer only had three more months to
go, before the new edition to their family would
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arrive. She was beginning to look like a big red
tomato, in her favorite red maternity shirt, and
the bigger she got the harder it was to walk
around.
Never the less this was the last house of
the day and she had plans on going straight to
bed when she got home. Jennifer had no desire
to get out and look at it, but when they pulled
in to the driveway she was shocked“Out sides not bad, bet the inside is
trashed, I can just imagine what’s waiting for
us inside.” laughed Hunter.
As they walked up to the door to meet
the agent, they noticed an elderly couple living
across the street, unloading groceries from
their car. The couple stopped unloading the
car; they seemed to be more interested in
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what Jennifer and Hunter were up to. They
didn’t appear to be happy about the idea of a
young couple looking at the house it was
apparent by the disappointment in their faces.
“I bet their thinking there goes the
neighborhood” Hunter chuckled as he
commented on the old lady’s sour look. He
could see her mouth something to her
husband, he couldn’t make out what she wassaying but he knew it wasn’t anything good.
Then to add insult the two shook their heads in
disapproval while they continued to unload
their groceries form the car.
“Well at least we know the Neighbors
are friendly” replied Jenifer with her ever so
smooth sarcasm.
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The fun loving mood changed as they
walked through the front door. Hunter thinking
this was another disaster, walked in with his
head down. It wasn’t until after Jenifer and the
real estate agent gasped, did he raise his head.
They were both pleasantly surprised at
how big and roomy the home was. The first
room they walked into was the living room. A
large chandler was hanging from the ceiling;and the main attraction was a bay window with
a view of the flowers and trees outside. Across
from the living room was a dining room, and
then the kitchen the heart of any home and
this homes heart was huge. As they turned to
the left of the kitchen down a long hallway they
came across one of the bath rooms it was so
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elegant, just like one of those bath rooms in at
upscale hotel, even the bath tub had jets.
As the agent took them room by room
Jennifer and Hunter’s eyes sparkled with
delight. The real estate agent saw the look in
their eyes; it was a look she was very familiar
with. It was the same look that signed her pay
checks; she knew she had a sale.
She smiled and said, “I told you, I wouldfind the perfect place. So what do you think?”
They both looked at each other then
simultaneously shouted “yes it’s perfect, well
take it.”
“ Give me a couple of days to get the
paper work together, I will call you when its
ready, Oh, also you’ll both be happy to know
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this is immediate occupancy, so after we close
you can move right in.”
Although it felt more like weeks it really
only took a few days for them to get the call to
come in and finalize the paper work. When
they pulled up to the office it was like the
entire staff pulled out the red carpet. All the
agents were standing in the lobby welcoming
them as they walked through the door. Itmade them feel like they were the only clients
the agency had. Then at the end of the
hallway was Kathy their agent standing there
looking very excited as if this was her first
home sale. She guided them in to her big
office with a view of the school across the
street.
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“Would you like any coffee “asked
Kathy as she started to push paper work in
front of Hunter. “
“No, we just want to get this over with so
we can start moving.” Said Jennifer as she sat
down across the desk from Kathy, she turned
her head to see an older couple standing just
outside the office. The woman seemed to enjoy
talking with the staff. She seemed to have apleasant personality. Her husband on the other
hand was more reserved.
Kathy noticed Jennifer starring at the
couple “Yes they are the owners and you will
have a chance to speak with them after we are
finished here. They can tell you all about the
house,” Kathy’s confident smile turned to a
slight look of worry then she smiled real big.
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“You know, garbage day and so forth.
Just sign the bottom of the document and
make sure you date it, and then I will introduce
you to the Tailor’s.”
Mrs. Tailor was an older thin woman with
brown hair, and thick lips, she seemed shy and
quite, but Mr. Tailor was just the opposite he
was a large man with thick black hair and he
didn’t seem like the type to mix words if hehad something to say he would say it. As
Hunter walked out of Kathy’s office Mr. Tailor
met him by the door with the keys in his hand
he passed them off as the two shock hands,
then Mrs. Tailor headed over to Jennifer with a
smile on her face, Jennifer could tell what she
was going to ask. So Jennifer put on her big
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smile and greeted Mrs. Tailor and just like
Jennifer predicted Mrs. Tailor asked her.
“So when’s the due date?”
“I just have three more months left, and I
can’t wait.”
“Well I hope the two of you enjoy your
new home I almost hate to give it up but….”
Mr. Tailor interrupted “Ok we better hurry if we
want to get to air port on time, Hunter It wasnice to meet you.” Mr. And Mrs. Tailor headed
for the door the last thing Jennifer and Hunter
Heard was Mr. Tailor telling his wife to “hurry
up we can’t dwell on the past we have a new
life ahead of us. “
Kathy turned to Jennifer with her big
winning smile “they are leaving for Florida
today. He retired two months ago and they
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bought a small place by the water. Gee you
can’t tell he is in a hurry can you?, he didn’t
even give her any time to say good bye, oh
well Florida may just be what she needs to
bring her out of that shell,” then Kathy turned
to Hunter “ ok well you have the key and you
can start moving in any time now. “
Before getting in the car Hunter tossed
the Keys in the air a couple of times “let’s goround up some of the guys together and I
guess we better pick up some bribery beer “.
“Well I suppose I can wait till next week
to move in since you guys will need three or
four days to recover from the hangovers
“Jennifer laughed as she wedged herself in the
car.
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Hunter got in the car and tossed
Jennifer his cell phone. “I’ll drive and you make
the calls, the first call I want you to make is to
Mike he has the week off and he owes me a big
favor its time for me to cash in.”
So Jennifer made the calls, and of course
the promise of beer bought Hunter and Jennifer
a whole moving crew by the end of the car ride
home. It didn’t take long either, by the time Jennifer started packing up clothes in the bed
room Hunters friends were packing up the
living room and kitchen, it only took half the
day and they had the rest of the day to drink
and talk. Moving everything to the new house
would have to wait for the next day they were
in no shape to do it that night. By the end of
the night all the men were passed out on the
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floor, and Jennifer the only sober one of the
bunch had the task of helping Hunter to bed. I
should leave you on the floor. She thought as
she gave him a big push to the bed. He fell
with his upper half on the bed and his feet still
touching the ground. She bent down and
picked up his legs and tossed them on the bed
too. Before turning in herself she set the alarm
clock, and placed it by Hunter’s side of the bedso he would be sure to hear it.
Early the next morning the alarm went
off just as Jennifer had planned. “Shit”, Yelled
Hunter, as he swiped at the alarm clock,
knocking it to the floor. Jennifer already awake
and dressed came in with a big cheerful smile,
“good morning, rise and shine” she said as she
picked the clock up off the floor. “I made coffee
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and the guys are waiting for your lazy butt to
get ready, they already loaded up the moving
truck, I had to stop them from loading you up
with the bed. I don’t know how long I can hold
them off so you might want to get up before
they barge in and get you.” Hunter still barley
getting his act together, stumbled out of the
bed, and raced full force to the bathroom.
It was a rough morning for all of the guysbut not Jennifer, who had to be the one to
supply them with coffee and motivation. By the
afternoon everyone seemed to have it
together. They piled up in their trucks and cars
and followed Hunter and Jennifer to the new
home.
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While Hunter and his friends started to
unpack, Jennifer had the hard job of setting
back and watching them, for her it was hard
because she was so use to being in charge and
now all she could do is grit her teeth and watch
as the men plopped box after box on the floor
then instead of carefully putting dishes away in
cupboards they practically through them in.
Hunter Knew she was having issues with it, butafter the morning he had all he could do was
laugh at her.
“We just have to get a couple more things off
the truck then we are going back for the baby
furniture. Do you want to come with us?”
Jennifer stud up for a second to go with
them, but when she looked in to the kitchen
and saw the boxes of dishes setting on the
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counter she decided to stay and put them
away. As Hunter walked out he gave her a kiss
and told her to not over do things.
She opened up the kitchen window to let
some air in, then turned to the task at hand,
with a smile on her face she began to work on
getting the kitchen together. She turned on a
small radio that Hunter left on the counter and
started moving to the music she was reallygetting in to her work, when she heard what
sounded like a small child giggling, it sounded
like it was coming from the small bedroom. A
little shocked she walked slowly towed the
small bedrooms were she thought she heard
the noise, thinking maybe a child had snuck in,
she walked in to the room, but there was no
one there, for a second she began to let her
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imagination run away with her. Trying to
rationalize it she thought about the window in
the kitchen being open, and realized that the
people next-door had some toys maybe the
children were just outside. Laughing at her self
she thought, no way am I going to tell Hunter
about this I will never live it down. She started
back to the kitchen to finish her job when the
door bust open, Jennifer jumped as Hunter andhis friends walked in.
” What’s the matter “said Hunter.
Nothing you just surprised me that all.”
She continued working in the kitchen, as
Hunter instructed the guys to take the crib and
the rest of the baby furniture to the small
bedroom. Jennifer let out a small gasp even
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though she knew there was nothing to worry
about.
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Chapter 2
In The Night
It took two days before everything was
moved in and set up, with everyone coming
and going Jenifer and Hunter didn’t get much
sleep at all. By the third night they were both
drained the furniture was still scattered and
not organized the way Jennifer would have
liked it. She was taking her time after all she
was feeling more like a two ton elephant
bogged down by chains, then an effervescent
pregnant woman.
Jennifer turned off the hall light before
she went to bed. The light bulb flickered before
blowing out. She glanced down the hall as it
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was happening and caught the image of a
shadow out of the corner of her eye, it was
small and dark but she was delirious and
exhausted, obviously her eyes were playing
tricks on her. She didn’t dare wake Hunter
with her talk of seeing shadows or images and
how crazy she would sound if she approached
him with the idea. As tired as she was she was
even questioning her own sanity, at themoment.
Well so much for a good night’s sleep.
She slipped in to the bedroom, were Hunter
was sleeping like a baby. Instead of falling
right to sleep she laid in bed listing to the
sounds of the new house, the sounds of the
refrigerator running In the kitchen, and the air
conditioner nonstop, there were a couple of
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creeks and thumps , sounds she just had to get
used to. Jennifer closed her eyes and laid there
listing until she finely fell asleep.
She found herself shopping at a large
department store, looking down at her cart she
noticed her baby sitting in the seat, she was
overwhelmed with joy. happily went down
each isle picking out diapers and formula
people would stare at her and her child, at firstthey would smile at her with a friendly hello
and then their faces seamed changed from
friendly to a look of horror , they would run
passed her . Curious as to what people were
looking at she forced herself to look down.
Jennifer‘s heart stopped she was struggling for
breath, the baby in her cart was life less and
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limp, and the people surrounding her were no
help.
“Help, my baby I think she’s dead, please
help me.”
She could barely get the words out. The lights
in the store began to dime then flicker she
looked down again instead of seeing her
lifeless baby, she was starring at what looked
like a zombie, its eyes black and hollow, itsface was pale, the skin was taught and
leathery except for a few small patches were
the skin was missing. The child reached out to
her, she stepped back and before she could let
out one last scream she woke up safe in her
bed with Hunter looking over at her.
“What is going on are you ok, I could
hear you whimpering in your sleep.”
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“No I have just had a tuff night; I guess I
just need to get use to the new surroundings.
Oh by the way the light in the hall needs to be
replaced, it burned out last night, and then
somehow made its way in to my nightmare.”
Jennifer took a sigh of relief and placed her
hand on her big stomach. She thought to
herself Thank god, it was just a horrible dream
but it felt so real.
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Chapter 3
The Big Trip
The following morning Jennifer started
down the stairs to the kitchen to make
breakfast; Hunter followed a short time later
after getting ready to go to work. Hunter
didn’t mind his job he was a web designer, and
most of the time he worked on his own at
home. The only time he had to show up to work
was to explain or teach someone how to use
the web site he designed for them. Hunter’s
job provided for the two of them so Jennifer
had the extravagance of staying home.
However this was the day he had to show a
construction company how to use their new
web site so Hunter was dressed to impress.
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By the time he reached the kitchen table
Jennifer had his breakfast waiting for him. He
knew she was something, the day he set eyes
on her. She was always making a big fuss over
him. It always made him smile and his eyes
sparkle to know she would be right by his side.
“Are you ok? If you’re not feeling good I
can cancel and stay home today.”
“No, it was just a bad dream, I feel fine,you can’t stay home every time I have a scary
dream you wouldn’t have any clients. She
refilled his empty mug with fresh coffee.
“Besides Sandy is coming over today to
help me arrange the rest of the house, and we
don’t need you trying to supervise.”
“Oh don’t worry I have no intentions on
supervising, especially since she likes to give
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her two cents weather you ask for it or not.
Just call me when she leaves, and good luck.”
Hunter grabbed his cell phone and keys and
tried to get out the door before Sandy arrived,
but, only to meet Sandy at the door as he was
leaving.
Sandy was just about to knock on the
door but stopped just before she hit Hunter in
the face as he was coming out. “Heyhandsome, don’t leave on my account.” Hunter
just looked back at Jennifer and smiled
sarcastically “have fun girls try not to get in to
trouble while I am gone.” Sandy looked him up
and down as he ran to the car then she
shouted out to him “oh don’t worry if we do,
you will be the first we call for bail money. “
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Sandy threw her purse and keys on the
counter and leaned over the breakfast bare she
watched as Jennifer packed the dishwasher full
of dirty dishes. Board, Sandy then stood up and
started walking around the kitchen and dining
room her eyes big and blonde ponytail
bouncing side to side.
“Wow, this is some place, so how do you
think you’re going to like family life?” Jennifer turned the dishwasher on she
really didn’t want to answer her because she
knew where the conversation was going. “Well
I know you’re not the type to have children in
your life…” Sandy interrupted “no I just don’t
want my own children, and I didn’t really
imagine that you and Hunter wanted to spoil a
good thing by having children right now
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either.” In a last ditch effort to change the
topic Jennifer handed Sandy the window
cleaner, along with a roll of paper towels. “You
can do the windows, and I will dust. Let me
show you to your work station. ““Ok I can take
a hint lead on.” Sandy tossed the towels in the
air a couple of times and followed her upstairs
to the balcony.
While Sandy was cleaning the window,the face of a small girl appeared to her in the
glass. She suddenly stopped wiping the window
and took a good look in disbelieve. What the
hell, no way. Before she could yell for Jennifer,
the child reached out for Sandy and pulled her
in to the glass head first.
Jennifer heard the crash from the kitchen
and rushed upstairs to find Sandy lying half
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way between the deck outside and the hallway.
She was covered in blood and glass was
sticking out all over her. Jennifer grabbed the
phone off of the table while looking for
something to stop the bleeding but there was
so much blood she had no idea where to start
her cloths socked up some of it.
“Hold on Sandy help is almost here. Just
hold on.” What was really just a matter of minutes seemed like hours to her before
Jennifer heard the approaching sirens. She
yelled to them as they reached the door “were
up here please hurry, she’s dying.”
The men pushed Jennifer out of the way
as they began working on Sandy. Then another
man walked over to Jennifer to get information,
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while the other two loaded Sandy on to the
stretcher.
“Do you know how this happened?”
“No I was down stairs dusting when I
heard the glass break. Is she still alive is she
going to be ok?”
“It doesn’t look good, but we will know
more once we get her to the hospital.”
“Can I go with her?”“Yes, but you need to ride in the front, so
they can work on her.”
The driver tried his best to comfort
Jennifer. As they reached the hospital doors
the staff took over and lead Sandy away while
another staff member took care of Jennifer, She
took her to a privet room where she could get
cleaned up and offered her a phone to Call
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Hunter. Jennifer could hardly dial the number,
she was shaking up so badly, but it was such a
comfort to hear his voice on the other line. He
had a consoling influence on her no matter
what the situation was, and as always he came
running when she called. It took him about ten
minutes but he was there to comfort Jenifer.
“How is she?” asked Hunter as he
reached out to hold Jennifer.“I don’t know, no one has come out yet,
and the lady at the desk told me I had to wait
for the doctor.”
“How did it happen?”
“I don’t know one minute I was dusting
off the entertainment center and the next I am
running up stairs to the sound of a loud crash,
she somehow went through the big window.”
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“Hey Jenny look at me, I know if anyone
can pull through something like this it’s Sandy,
She is strong.”
“I don’t know, you didn’t see her, She
was covered in blood and she looked so bad.”
“No way is she going to let me have any
peace. She has planes on out living me, just to
make me miserable before I die. Sandy isn’t
going anywhere. “Hunter tried to lighten themood with his attempt at a joke he pulled
Jennifer closer to him.
One of the Staff members came out to
talk to them. “Hi you’re waiting for Sandy,
Swaffer?”
Jennifer tore out of Hunters arms, “yes, is
she ok, is she alive?”
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“Well I am not going to lie, she is stable
and the next two days are going to be critical.
The best thing the two of you can do is go
home let her rest.”
“I don’t want to go home; I want to be
here for Sandy when she wakes up.”
“I am sorry but it’s not going to do you
any good to stay here, I will call you if there is
any change in her condition. Let her resttonight.”
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Chapter 4
Ghost stories
The next couple of weeks Jenifer
practically lived at the hospital only leaving at
night when visiting hours were over. She was
the first one Sandy saw when she awoke, “oh I
am so happy your alive, I thought I lost you.”
She was interrupted by nurses and doctors
running in, they kind of shoved her aside but
she didn’t care she was just glad to have her
best friend back.
Sandy knew what had happened from
the moment she woke up. She knew what she
saw, but she didn’t want to sound nuts and she
didn’t want to frighten Jennifer out of her new
house. Although Sandy didn’t think Jennifer
should chain herself down with a child she
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didn’t want to put stress on her. So when
Jennifer asked her about the accident, Sandy
told her she tripped and hit the glass hard.
After all who would believe some demonic child
pulled her through the glass; she couldn’t even
believe it herself.
While Jennifer was busy at the hospital
with Sandy, Hunter was cleaning the balcony
and fixing the window. His first step was to getthe supplies. So he ran down to the hardware
store to get some paint for the balcony, while
looking over all the choices he ran in to one of
his new neighbors’, Greg. Greg was much older
than Hunter and he has been living in the
subdivision his entire life. Greg finished paying
for his supplies and waited by his car for
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Hunter to come out. He stopped Hunter before
he was able to reach his truck.
“Hey how are you?” He walked over to
shake Hunters hand. I m Greg I live three
houses down from you. “
“Oh hi I’m Hunter; it’s nice to meet you.”
“How is your wife? I saw the ambulance
at your house; I just assumed she had the
baby.”“No, Jennifer’s fine, unfortunately a friend
of ours had an accident on the balcony;
apparently she tripped and fell through the
window.”
Greg didn’t act surprised by the news,
“someone should just board that balcony up, if
you ask me, this isn’t the first time something
like this has happened in that house.”
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Hunter stood stun for a second, “What do
you mean?”
“Well I don’t know if you are superstitious
or believe in curses but I didn’t until I laid eyes
on that house. I have lived in the subdivision
for a long time, I remember when my best
friend Jimmy Stevens disappeared no one could
find him, one day while I was playing ball with
my sister on the street I happened to look overat the pond, and I saw something I will never
forget, It was a boot sticking out of the weeds, I
knew who’s boot it was, so I ran over to check
it out. Attached to the boot was my friend
jimmy’s leg leading to the other end of his
body face down in the pound.”
Skeptical Hunter asked “why did it take
so long to find Jimmy?”
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“Well the house was abandoned for
awhile no one knew why Jimmy was there, but
people like to talk so you will probably hear
many stories surrounding his death it’s a
shame. The bank sent someone to fill in the
pond, they didn’t want another liability on their
hands and they couldn’t get rid of a house with
a history to it. Then after Jimmy’s so called
accident, a family moved in and had the brightidea to have a balcony built on the second
floor, let me tell you, I think your friend lucked
out. “
“You mean there were more accidents
like Sandy’s?”
“If you want to call them accidents, one
of the builders fell off the ladder as he was
building the deck. The strange thing is the
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builders on the other side of him heard him say
no before he fell, and some say it looked like
someone was forcing him off the ladder, but
they ruled it an accident.”
“You said there were a couple of
incidents, what else happened?”
“I have to get back soon but I will tell you
about the four year old, because, if you’re
going to have any children in that house, youwatch them carefully. The older couple who
had the house before you stayed there for
awhile, without incident, no accidents no
deaths it seemed the curse was lifted, that is
until they invited their daughter and grandchild
to stay with them over the summer. One
morning the child woke up before everyone
else in the house, according to her mother she
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heard the child talking and screaming at
someone that’s when she woke up to see her
little girl running full force in to the window and
off the balcony. I tell you I never believed in
curses but that house is the exception, Hunter
just let me give you some friendly advice, take
your family and move that’s the best thing you
could do for them.”
“ well thanks for the advise I try not tofall victim to curses and so called poltergeist,
or ghost’s , but you are right about that
balcony it is dangerous , do me a favor don’t
say anything to my wife about this , she is
superstitious and she would be paranoid she
would never step foot in the house again. “
Hunter waved his hand again and drove off.
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Hunter arrived home with two cans of
paint in his truck he got out and went around
to the other side to get them out. As he opened
the door he heard a voice, it sounded like a
little girl calling for her mother. He shut the
passenger side door and placed the two gallons
of paint on the ground, looking around before
getting the nerve to walk around the property,
and thinking this is crazy since when did I start to believe in ghost stories, perhaps it’s just a
cat or something, this is nuts. Hunter turned
back around to where the paint was he picked
up the paint and made his way towed the door,
giving one last look at the property, before
going in shaking his head and laughing to
himself.
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Chapter 5
The new addition
Jenifer offered her guest room to Sandy
while she was recovering, but Sandy gracefully
declined her offer. Instead she made a counter
offer for Jennifer to stay at her place, but
Jennifer was getting closer to her due date, so
she decided to drop by on Sandy daily, instead
of staying with her.
It seemed like everything was back to
normal. Except Jennifer was so tired after
,trying to take care of Sandy, and getting ready
for the baby by night time she found herself
turning in before Hunter. So just like any other
night Jennifer went to bed early, leaving Hunter
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in the living room watching some cheesy
movie. As she walked up the stairs she noticed
a change in the tempter she was cold and
could see her breath in front of her, and then
having an uneasy feeling of someone was
behind her following her, but when she turned
around there was no one there.
She took a deep breath before opening
the bedroom door. She shut the door quicklybehind her and got in to bed, finally she drifted
off to sleep when she heard a voice calling to
her “ mom, mom,” it said in a high pitch voice,
slightly opening her eye’s she saw a small girl,
standing beside her bed pulling at her blanket,
“mom, mom.”
The little girl got closer to her face,” I
want you to stay with me, don’t leave me.”
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Then the little voice got stronger.” Mom did
you hear me; “the little girl was nose to nose
with Jennifer.
Jennifer opened her eyes to see a small
child starring at her; the child’s eyes were
black and empty. Jennifer screamed, and then
her water broke. Hunter was in the living room
down stairs when he heard the screams, he
leaped up from the chair he was sitting in, andsprinted up to the bedroom, where he found
Jennifer, screaming he had no clue what she
was screaming about but he heard her say
something about her water braking and
assumed that was the problem. Hunter dashed
to the closet to get her overnight bag and then
practically carried her to the car.
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Hunter kept calm on the drive to the
hospital, but once he got her checked in and
the hospital staff took over, his mind started to
race. This is it I am going to be a father, will we
be able to do it…. His thoughts were
interrupted by a nurse.
“Are you ok sir? If you’re ready I will take
you to her room.”
“Yes I think I can make it, unless youthink I should stay out here until she has the
baby, I mean when she gets mad I try to stay
clear. I can just imagine what she is going to do
to me now.”
Laughing, the nurse assured him he was
going to be ok and showed him to Jennifer’s
room. He slowly walked in hesitating a little.
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He walked closer to her. “What can I do?
Do you need anything?” Just as she was about
to answer him a contraction started , she
grabbed his hand squeezing it hard , the nurse
in the room monerting the machines ran
outside to get the doctors, who came charging
in like they were running to a fire. One doctor
was suggested they perform a c section right
away. Hunters mouth dropped “why what’sgoing on.” The doctor in charge pulled Hunter
aside. “We need to do a cession, the cord is
wrapped around the baby’s neck and if we
don’t do it right away the baby will die. So one
of the nurses will get you ready if you want to
go with her, but we need to go now.” One of
the nurses led Hunter out of the room, while
the staff whisked Jennifer off to surgery.
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Chapter 6
It’s complicated
By the time Hunter was finished getting
ready to go in to the room, the doctors had
already prepped Jennifer for the surgery and
started cutting in to her. Hunter walked pass
the doctors trying not to look at the blood, but
he couldn’t help himself his eyes wandered
that way, and although he wasn’t the type to
get queasy at the sight of blood it seemed that
it got the best of him this time. He hurried over
to Jennifer who was groggy but awake, as he
was trying to comfort her, he glanced over to
see one of the nurses grab the baby from the
doctor, another doctor rushed over to the
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nurse, and they both looked concern as they
laid the baby on a small steal table. They
started performing what looked like C.P.R.
Hunter stood by in shock afraid to ask what
was going on, and then he got up the courage
to say it. “Is the baby ok? Is the baby alive?”
Jennifer was trying to see what was going on,
but when she looked over she was stunned to
see the same small girl she saw in herbedroom now standing by the table with her
hand over the baby’s chest, then the child
looked over at Jennifer “it’s ok mommy, there
is room in this body for both of us.” The girl
disappeared
Hunter held Jennifer’s hand he looked at
her with sorrow in his eyes. One of the nurses
started yelling we have a heart beat; the
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concern on her face was wiped clear with a
smile. “It’s a girl, and I think she is going to be
ok.” The room changed, the dark cloud was
gone, and it was filled with wiped tears and
excitement. “It’s a girl she is going to be fine,
except the fact that she really likes to make an
entrance, she is definitely going to be a star.”
Jennifer lifted her head, “are you sure? I don’t
think that’s my child; there was a girl in hereand….” With that last sentence Jennifer passed
out. The doctor, who had just finished stitching
her up, took off his gloves and pulled Hunter
aside again.
“Jennifer is going to be ok she just needs
some rest, and she may not remember some
things because of the Anastasia. Give us an
hour to run tests on the baby, and then you
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can come back to the nursery to see her. By
the way what is her name? “
“Tory, Tory Marie west. “ Hunter replied
sharply his eyes sparkling and his smile bigger
than it had ever been.
“Tory, what a beautiful name. We should
be finished with her shortly.”
“Is she going to be ok now, should I be
worried? ““She looks good we just need to run a
few more tests, but I don’t see any reason to
worry. The doctor walked Hunter out to the
hall and pointed him in the direction of the
waiting room.
It took a whole hour Hunter was going
crazy, every time he would hear the sound of
shoes hitting the floor, or a door open he would
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look to see if it was his baby. Down the
hallway he could see a nurse bending over a
small cart, he heard her laughing and giggling,
then she started down the hallway with the
cart as she got closer to Hunter she smiled and
said “ it’s time to see your daddy.” Hunter
stood up from his chair and nervously looked
Tory over “Is it ok to hold her now.”
“Of course this little girl is just fine; shepassed all of the tests. Let’s go in to the
nursery you can rock her and feed her in
there.”
Hunter sat down with Tory in his arms
and started rocking, he looked in to Tory’s
innocent face, This is what makes life worth
living I never thought having a baby would be
such a life change for me. He sat with Tory for
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hours just watching her sleep, and the nurses
would check in on them periodically and give
him updates on Jennifer. They were all so
helpful, the last update was the Jennifer was
awake and if he wanted to take the baby in to
see her he could.
“This way Mr. West, I have set up a bed
for you to sleep in so you can stay with them, if
you want to. ““Thank you, yes I plan on staying. How
long do they have to stay?”
“I m not sure, but if everything is going
ok they are usually released within two days,
well this is it she may still be a little groggy
from the drugs.”
“Thank you again for your help.”
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Jennifer was trying her best to stay
awake so she could see her baby. Her eyes felt
heavy the more she would try to keep them
open the harder it was, but when Hunter
walked in to the room with their baby in his
arms, she managed to find a way. It was a
moment that neither one would forget,
everything felt right.
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Chapter 7
Coming Home
It was a long two days in the hospital,
she was almost glad to be going home. The
only problem with home was the crazy
nightmares, and the strange accident her
friend had. Every time she would talk to sandy
the conversations were always cut short by
Sandy. She was always too busy to talk on the
phone and when they talked face to face it
always left Jennifer feeling uneasy. Never the
less Jennifer was going to go home and start
fresh, she was sure all of the bad dreams were
going to go away, there was no sense in telling
Hunter how she felt. After all she just knew
everything was going to be ok.
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For the next couple of week both Jennifer
and Hunter took turns getting up with Tory,
She really wasn’t much work she slept through
the night and basically all she would do is eat
and sleep. Jennifer was healing well and Hunter
suggested she get away for awhile, maybe go
out with Sandy, for a girl’s day out. Jennifer
took him up on that offer; she called Sandy and
talked her in to going out for the day. They decided to have lunch at Jennifer’s
favorite Mexican restaurant; it was well known
for its food. Not only did they serve food in the
dining room but they had a bar with a live band
in the back. Jennifer and Sandy sat in the
dining room, away from the noise in the bar, so
they could catch up.
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“Sandy are you made at me or
something? I get the feeling you have been
trying to avoid me. I know you had a long
recovery, and I tried to do all that I could to
help. I am really sorry it happened.”
“ No I am not mad but , I have been
trying not to tell you something, but I would
rather tell you what happened that day, then
have you thinking I am trying to avoid you. “ Jennifer was caught off guard by her
response. “What do you mean what happened
that day? You said you tripped. What
happened?”
Sandy leaned in closer hopping no one
sitting around them could hear her.” ok, I will
tell you but you have to promise not to have
me shipped off the nearest mental ward.”
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“I promise, now tell me what is going on
with you!”
“Ok, while I was cleaning the window, I
stepped back for a second to look it over, I
mean my work and, I can’t believe I am telling
you this. There was a child in the glass; she
reached out for me and the next thing I knew I
was laying in the hospital. “
“What”“I knew it; you think I should be carted
off.”
“No, No I don’t, in fact I have had some
strange things happen to me. I have also seen
a little girl, a lot of times she will show up in my
dreams, or so I thought. Now I guess
everything that I saw was real. You want to
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know the real scary thing; I thought I saw her
at the hospital too.”
“You mean she followed you there?”
“No worse, she was in the room when
Tory was born, I saw her standing by the table
while the doctors were performing C.P.R. on
her, almost as if she was trying to, finish her
off.”
“I think your family is in some serioustrouble. I have a friend who might be able to
help. I am going to call her and see if she can
meet with us today.”
Jennifer agreed to her Plan. While Sandy
made the call Jennifer ate the last bit of salad
she had left on her plate. Sandy turned back
around to face Jennifer; she said good bye to
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Chapter 8
The Medium
They finished the rest of their food and
left. When they pulled up to the house it
wasn’t what Jennifer expected. The yard was
well maintained, it was the opposite of what is
portrayed in the movies. She expected the
yard to be overgrown with weeds, and maybe a
couple of shrunken heads setting on the porch,
but the yard looked like it was done by a
professional. The porch even had a welcome
mat. Jennifer let Sandy in front of her as the
two walked closer to the door, after a few
seconds of standing around not knowing who
was going to answer the door; it opened to
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reveal a tall skinny young lady with long red
hair.
Sandy stood in the middle of the two, as
she introduced them to each other, again
Jennifer was surprised the she didn’t have a
name like moon or dream dancer, no she had a
somewhat normal name as well, and it was
Linda. Linda invited them in and led them to
the kitchen table. Once more Jennifer wastaken in by the house; although small it was
nice and well kept.
Sandy began to tell Linda about what
was going on, Linda turned to Jennifer and her
friendly smile turned to a serious look of
concern.
“The house it’s self has a history, filled
with turmoil, many people have lost their lives
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in the house, a couple of spirits have remained
behind. They believe they were robbed of time
and one especially wants a second chance, a
young girl named Shania. She has tried a
couple of times to come back in to a body,
each time she has failed. She was able to gain
straight with each person she killed trying to
get in to their body. “
She stopped for a moment to take a sipof her tea, and then she took a deep breath, “
Sandy your accident as you may know was not
just a little girl trying to scare you, she felt you
were a threat to her and she decided she
needed to get rid of you she wanted you dead.
I understand you had reservations about
Jennifer and Hunter’s baby.” Sandy looking
shocked nodded her head in agreement. Well
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Shania heard everything you said, and because
she needed the baby’s new body and soul she
didn’t want you to talk Jennifer out of having
the baby, even if that was impossible she
didn’t want to take the chance. “Linda then
turned her attention to Jenifer. “I am sorry I
wish I could tell you something positive, but I
can’t. At the hospital you thought you were
having hallucinations, but in fact it was noillusion, Shania followed you and she was the
one who stopped the baby from breathing in an
attempt to take her soul. “
Jennifer could feel the tears rolling down
her face, it was too emotional and she could no
longer hold her emotions in. “So are you telling
me my baby is dead?” “No Shania was only
able to take part of her soul; your Tory is still
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there. Shania could not take the whole soul
Tory was too strong. They are now in a
constant struggle.”
“What should I do?”
“I can call another friend of mine who deals
possessions, we will hold the ceremony at your
home, but your next move before we hold the
ceremony is to get everything out of the house,
and move. Once the ceremony is preformed weneed to leave right away so Shania will stay
trapped in the house, and not your daughter.”
With Linda’s words of wisdom and Sandy
looking at her in agreement, Jennifer shook her
head with approval. “Yes call your friend, I will
look for an apartment tomorrow and I will
somehow talk Hunter in to believing me. “
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Linda walked the two out; as she opened
the door for them to leave and warned them
not to wait. “This is something that needs to be
done in the next week, or things are going to
start happening again.
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when I heard a man singing in Tory’s room. I
ran up to her room and I saw a figure of a man
standing at her crib; he or it turned to look at
me then disappeared. I don’t care if you
believe me or not, we can’t stay here tonight
and I will send someone to come get our stuff
in a couple of days.”
Jenifer just stood looking at him with her
mouth wide open. She was able to get herbreath to tell him she did believe him and she
thought his decision to leave was a good one.
“There’s more, you need to know. I will tell
you once we get to a hotel room. I’ll grab Tory
and her bag if you take the suit cases. Come
on lets go.”
Hunter wanted to know what was going
on right then but he didn’t want to stay a
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minute longer, so with a quick grab at the tree
suit cases he followed Jennifer and Tory out the
door leaving behind all of their possessions and
also the phantasms who resided in what use to
be their home.
After driving around unsuccessfully
looking for a nice hotel to stay at, the two
decided on a rundown motel room at the edge
of town. It wasn’t much but it was a bed forthe night. While Jennifer opened the door
Hunter was not far behind her looking like a
pack mule with Tory in one hand and suitcases
in the other. Hunter dropped the suit cases
and took Tory out of her car seat, trying hard
not to disturb her sleep as he placed her
carefully on the bed. Jennifer turned on the TV
and surprisingly all the cable channels worked.
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“Not bad for a low grade motel room.”
She turned to Hunter, who was setting on the
bed watching Tory sleep. She then sat on the
other side of the bed. “Hunter I have to tell you
what happened today, Sandy and I went to see
a friend of hers. Sandy’s friend also happens to
be a psychic. She knows what is going on in
the house and she said that Tory is in danger.”
“Tory is fine now. I will call up somemovers and have them move our stuff so we
don’t need to step foot in that house again.”
“Unfortunately we do need to go back; I
am going to go back with Sandy and her
friend.”
Hunter looking at her like she was crazy
finely responded “why would you do something
like that. Didn’t you hear me tell you I just saw
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Chapter 10
Cleaning house
Jennifer and Hunter pulled up to the
house just as the movers were leaving. Sandy
pulled up behind them with Linda and her
friend Leo in the car. As they all piled out of the
car Jennifer noticed Leo holding a large bag. To
Jennifer Leo looked like a long brown haired
wild child of the sixties. She wondered what
she was thinking leaving her family in the
hands of such a man. All of her fears were put
to rest the minute he opened his mouth.
“ Hi Jennifer I know you have some
reservations, but I assure you I will not let
anything happen to you or your family, As soon
as I provoke Shania out of Tory I want you to
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grab Tory and run out of the house don’t look
back , just get in to the car and go. “
“Do you really think it will work?”
“ Yes I have done this more times than I can
count normally I don’t have much trouble
removing an unwanted soul , however I must
tell you Shania is strong, but it’s nothing that I
can’t handle. Just let me get set up in the
house before the two of you come in with Tory.“
Leo placed his hand on her shoulder “it’s
going to be ok.” He said as he tried to
reassure her, he seemed to know what he was
doing, and Linda and sandy also seemed to
have faith in Leo. Jennifer got back in the car
with Hunter, who had just finished talking to
Linda.
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“I still can’t believe I am doing this, I
guess its true parents will do anything for their
children even face an angry ghost.” Hunter
said as he brushed the hair out of Tory’s eyes.
Jennifer gently caressed his cheek with
her hand “I know I don’t want to do this either
but I don’t want to wake up one day and find
out I have lost my little girl.”
Just as Jennifer leaned in to kiss HunterShe was pulled away by a sandy knocking on
her window. “ Their all set in side, Leo said to
just bring Tory in with the car seat don’t even
bother taking her out, you won’t be hear long,
it will all be over soon. “ Sandy opened the
door for Jennifer as Hunter grabbed Tory out of
the back seat of the car. Leo greeted them at
the door with what looked like an in sense
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burner on a string, he surrounded them in
smoke and spoke something as if he was
casting a spell. Jennifer could only make out a
couple of words, protect and family. Leo led
them to a painted circle on the floor he took
Tory and placed her in the middle of it, and
then he told everyone to light a candle and
stand around Tory outside the Circle. He
chanted as he lit each candle with his own.Leo walked inside the circle with Tory as he did
the windows of the house started to rattle,
Jennifer could see faces looking in.
Leo Then held up his candle and shouted
at them “Shania is trying to steal this babies
body just as she has tried to steal your bodies;
she has tried to steal yours and you lost your
lives because of her don’t let her take this child
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too.” The faces were now taking human form
and emerging from the windows in to the
house. Leo then focused his attention on Tory,
“By all that is with God I command you to come
out and face those you have killed. A little girl
appeared by Jennifer
“I just want a second chance don’t I
deserve it.”
The dark forms started to get closer to thegroup.
“No shouted Shania, Stay away.”
The shadows formed a ring around Shania she
struggled. Leo yelled to Jennifer and Hunter to
go. Hunter running for the door dodged in for
Tory, Jennifer was right behind him, but before
they could get to the door it locked. “You’re not
going; I am not letting her go” Yelled Shania.
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She struggled with the dark shadowy forms.
Linda yelled to Jennifer
“Unlock it she can’t keep struggling with
you and the lost souls.”
Jennifer was able to open the door after
fighting with it. Jenifer and Hunter ran out
tossed Tory in the car and took off, never
looking back. In their minds it was over they
would never come back.Inside the house Linda closed and locked
the door behind them making sure nothing
could get out. She rejoined Leo and Sandy in
the circle. Shania was still struggling with the
shadows, but she looked like she was on the
losing end. The room was filled with dark
shadows swirling around, and the screams
were getting louder.
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Just when it looked like Shania was done
she reached out one last time and grabbed
Leo, he fought to stay out of the way of the lost
souls and Shania, but he didn’t have the
straight and Shania took him with her. Leaving
Leo’s lifeless body behind, She had managed
to steal one last soul on her way out.
But it was over Leo did it. As far as Linda
and Sandy knew Shania was gone,Hunter and Jenifer would never have to
worry about Shania again.
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