t happened again! Two weeks had passed and it happened again. I will now describe how this occurred.

The year was 1983. Henry was a tall man at 6 feet 5 inches. He had short brown hair with a little gray, brown eyes and weighed 236 pounds. His wife Clair was much smaller than Henry. She was 5 feet 6 inches tall, with hazel eyes and long gray hair that hung past her shoulders. Henry and Clair had a daughter Jamie. Jamie was 14 years old with long blonde hair and green eyes.

Henry was driving to school to pick-up Jamie when he heard on the radio that he had won the lottery. As the winner of the lottery, he and his family won a luxury home in Lima Ohio. After he picked up Jamie, they called Clair and told her the good news. Henry told Clair to meet them at home right away. The ride home was full of screams of joy.

When Henry and Jamie arrived home, to their surprise Clair was already there and had most of their belongings packed. The movers arrived to help move the furniture. Jamie did not like the movers or their truck. The truck was junky with weird spray painted symbols on it. The movers wore all black and walked around never looking anyone in the eyes. They gave Jamie the creeps. Jamie went about packing and moving her things. They worked so hard and fast it was like a tornado went through the house.

Henry, Clair, Jamie and the movers arrived at the new house, they were very impressed. It was beautiful. The most beautiful house on the block. It was painted bright yellow with different color bricks to accent the home. The roof had orange tiles. Jamie was excited about the huge green lawn. She couldn稚 wait to invite her friends to come over and play outside with her. The front door was unusual. It was tall, painted forest green and trimmed in blue.

Henry parked the car; Jamie bolted out of the car like it was about to blow up! Henry and Clair approached the front door where Jamie was waiting. Henry looked at Clair and saw the mischief in her eyes. 徹h my gosh, I think I left the keys to our new house at our old house! Henry wailed.
Jamie痴 face instantly fell to sadness. 鏑et痴 just break in. It痴 our house. We can go back for the keys later after we unload everything, Jamie sounding sad.

Henry and Clair burst out laughing. 笛ust kidding, here they are Henry sounding sarcastically. Jamie turned all red.

典hat痴 not funny one bit! Jamie screamed in anger.

鏑et痴 just go in, Clair said. Henry slowly opened the front door and they all gasped. 展ow! They all said at the same time. Jamie was especially excited when she saw they had an upstairs.
She started jumping up and down and saying, 登h my, oh my, oh my, we have an upstairs. Jamie rushed up the stairs.
Within minutes she was yelling down 的 found my room, I found my room! Henry and Clair were stunned to see the house already had furniture. In fact, upon looking throughout the first floor of the house, they found the house had everything. They went into the living room to discuss what to do with all their furniture the movers had. The living room was very nice. It had royal blue wallpaper, a black leather couch with lovely pictures hanging above it. And best of all, it had a big screen television. After resting and talking, Henry and Clair decided to place their old furniture in their new garage until later. They decided it was time to go upstairs and look around.

They slowly walked up the stairs. Clair was a little spooked as each stair had a strange creak. Jamie was waiting for them at the top of the stairs. Jamie grabbed Henry and Clair壮 hands and pulled them into a bedroom. 典his is your room, said Jamie. It was a nice room of average size. It had a king size bed, dressers and a small television. Henry walked to the over sized closet and couldn稚 help noticing it was full of clothing. Strange he thought. Clair noticed a huge mirror that hung over the dresser. She walked closer to take a peek. She couldn稚 help feeling uneasy about the mirror. There was something not right about that mirror.

Jamie led them into her room to show them around. Jamie痴 room had pink wallpaper, a small bed in the corner and a small television.

When the movers were done unloading their furniture in the garage, everyone was tired. They decided it was time to go to bed. They would begin to unpack all their personal belongings in the morning.

During the night when everyone was sound asleep and the house was dead silent, Henry felt someone slap him on his face. He immediately sat up in bed wide awake. He felt a tingle of fear creeping up his spine and the hairs on the back of his neck stood up.

鼎lair, was that you Henry asked? Clair woke up slowly.

Again Henry asked, 鼎lair, was that you?

展as that me what Henry Clair asked?

展as that you that slapped me across the face Clair?

哲o she said slightly confused.

Henry decided to check on Jamie. Was it possible that it could have been Jamie that slapped him? When Henry stepped into Jamie痴 room, he could see her outline snuggled in bed. She was sound asleep. Henry decided maybe his mind was playing tricks on him. He went back to bed.

For the next two weeks all went as normal. They unpacked their personal belongings, moved furniture around, went to work and school and were very happy adjusting to their new home. On January 30, 1983 everything changed. It began as every other evening. But it would not end like that.......

Clair and Jamie decided to hit the hay early after a long and tiring day. Henry wasn稚 tired. He sat down to read his fishing magazine for a while. Henry began to think he heard whispering. He got up and looked around. Not finding anything, he decided he must have imagined it. Once again he sat down and began to read. This time what he heard was not a whisper. It was a voice. A much louder voice. Henry got up and began to look around again. As he walked from room to room, he couldn稚 help but feel as though someone was watching him. When Henry walked into the kitchen he heard the voice again. It was so loud Henry gasped in fear. As he spun around he saw a large lump raising up beneath the kitchen rug. He grabbed a kitchen chair and smashed it down on the lump in the rug. The rug collapsed. He poked at the rug and found nothing underneath but floor. Once again Henry thought maybe his mind was playing tricks on him. He was very tired and went to bed. The next day when Jamie arrived home from school she found that neither Henry nor Clair was home. Jamie grabbed a quick snack and settled on the couch to do her homework and watch television.

Jamie was in the middle of doing her math homework when a loud shriek came from upstairs. She jumped off the couch and ran upstairs as fast as her legs would carry her. She ran into her bedroom and found nothing. She then ran into her parents room and found nothing in their either. She turned around to leave and thought she was something out of the corner of her eye. As she turned to get a better look, a picture flew off the wall and hit her in the side of the head. That was the last thing Jamie remembered.

Jamie opened her eyes slowly. Her head hurt badly. She looked around and didn稚 recognize where she was. She was in a bed in a small white walled room with a television. Beside her bed was a tall machine that made beeping noises.

Jamie felt something heavy on her legs. She looked down and saw her mother leaning over resting her head on Jamie痴 knees.

溺om? Jamie sounding confused.

溺om? She repeated.

Clair woke and looked at Jamie, 滴ey, everything is going to be okay honey.

展hat happened mom? Jamie asked.

鉄omething hit you on the head and you blacked out Jamie Clair whispered.

Jamie痴 eyes widened and she said firmly, 溺om, there is a ghost in our house.

泥on稚 be silly honey Clair sounding a little scared.

溺om, I saw him. There is a ghost man in our house, I saw him! Jamie yelled. 徹kay, okay dear, whatever you say said Clair.

The next few days Clair stayed with Jamie at the hospital. Henry came to visit during the day, but went home in the evenings.

As each day passed, Henry became more and more withdrawn. The voices in the house grew louder. Henry was hearing them all the time now. But the voices were only the beginning. Now Henry was seeing furniture move, bright balls of light dancing around the house and shadows of a man walking around the house. He was totally freaking out. Most evenings he would sit in a corner with his eyes closed tight rocking back and forth.

Jamie was released from the hospital early one morning. Clair and Jamie arrived home to find Henry sitting in a corner rocking back and forth. He looked awful. He had not shaved, changed clothes, or eaten in a couple days.

When they moved closer, they saw his eyes were blood shot red and he was whispering over and over again 堵et out. Clair and Jamie were scared. Clair rushed to the telephone and called the police.

When the police arrived it didn稚 take them long to realize Henry needed help. They helped him into their police car and rushed him to the hospital emergency room. Clair and Jamie followed close behind.

After a long wait, the doctor came out to talk with Clair and Jamie. They could not believe what they were hearing. The doctor said Henry had suffered a nervous breakdown and would need to be place in an insane asylum right away. He did not know what caused the breakdown and said Henry was in a very bad condition. Henry was taken away.

Clair and Jamie were in shock and scared of what was happening to their family. Without a word spoken between them, they left the hospital and never went back to the house.

Henry never recovered. Clair and Jamie never returned to the house. They couldn稚 help but feel that the house was the blame for Henry痴 condition. With a silent promise between them, they never returned nor ever set eyes on the house again.