The Secret of the Abandoned House
I had just shifted to an unknown place. It was an enormous bungalow, and, in the neighbourhood, there was an abandoned house that gave me a creepy feeling.
One night I was sleeping in my bed and heard some noise from the outside. I was startled and got up from the bed and looked out of the window and I saw a teenager at my doorstep badly hurt.
I quickly ran to the main door and opened it. She was crying. I asked the reason for her crying, she said that that day she was coming from the market and slipped, she was hurt and when she asked for shelter, everybody refused her by saying that they had no space for anyone one so she left and came to my house hoping for shelter from me.
I said that she could stay there. She was very happy. When I said that I had a condition and if she wanted to stay there, she had to follow it. As soon as I said that, her face turned to sadness and said that it was my house and I could do anything I would like to. I said that she would have to be my friend to stay here, and as soon as I said that her face brightened like a star and she agreed, she started living with me. She also told that her name was Ally.
We were happy together, but one night I decided to ask her about the abandoned house. When the next day I did so she turned pale and said that it was haunted.
At first, I was serious and the other minute I started to laugh and said that she was being too childish. She said that it was true. Then I said that I did not believe in things that I did not see with my own eyes. Looking at my face she asked if I was thinking of going inside the house, hearing that I quickly answered her question saying that she was partially right and then she asked one last question of the day, what did I mean? I quickly said that I was thinking of going inside the house but not alone. We were going there for two days.
We were ready to go. Here’s the list of things we took with us-
4 torches
8 water bottles
6 burgers
5 packets of chips
8 bars of chocolates
3 sandwiches
Our phones
Power bank (fully charged)
Video camera
3 matchboxes
7 twigs
(I knew it was a large list for just two days, but we could not take any risk)
Once we reached there, we first started our camera and recorded everything we saw. Everything was going fine until we heard a low groan. We got scared. We were staring at each other in hope that the other would say that she had done it. But no one responded.
So, we asked if someone was in the house. We heard lots of noises, but no one showed up. While this was happening one day passed at night, we had our dinner there and slept in a room where we found a clean mattress worth to sleep on.
The next day while exploring and recording we saw something like a white cloth coming towards us, we switched our camera position towards it.
In terror, we started running but I tripped over a rope and fell. I asked Ally to keep running until she was out of the house she agreed and ran outside the house, then when the ghost ran from beside me, I noticed something.
I also escaped from there. Once I was out of there, I said to Ally that when I tripped, I saw that the ghost thing was running with shoes, instead of floating. We didn’t sleep that night and our curiosity arose more and the other day we went there again.
When the ghost thing was coming near to us, I went near it and pulled its cloth and what a pleasant surprise it was a wanted thief trying to steal through haunting.
Now we had revealed his secret, so, we called the police and when it came, the policemen arrested the thief immediately. We were happy to help the police. He was a dangerous criminal.
The news which came the other day was that
THE SECRET OF THE ABANDONED HOUSE WAS REVEALED
- Filzaa Danish Khan
