The Secret of the Blue House

written by Ethan Papetti

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Once upon a time there lived a boy named Joshy. Now Joshy lives in Green county, West Virginia. He lived near an abandoned blue house. Everyone told Joshy not to go near that blue house because it was haunted. Joshy wasn’t afraid of ghosts and decided to ignore the storys and go explore the blue house. As he entered the blue house an eerie feeling possessed him. As he walked further into the blue house the more creeped out he got. When he was walking through the house he didn’t think it was scary one bit. After he got done exploring the abandoned house he went home to do a little research on the blue house. Turns out that two different families died in that house. After Joshy found this out he was even more creeped out.

When he did the research he found out that the mother of the first family was really mean and didn’t like for the lights to be on and often she would go through the house breaking the light bulbs so that they didn’t get turned back on. The research also said that there was a small closet upstairs that the mother would make the kids sit in if they were caught with the lights on. The next day Joshy decided to go back to the blue house and go into the closet to sit in there and see what would happen. Joshy sat in that closet for an hour and a half and nothing happened. He decided to sit in the closet for another thirty minutes and then leave to go get some lunch. After lunch he went back to the abandoned house to explore the upstairs some more. As he was exploring he found a name written in blood and was extremely creeped out. The name he found written in blood was a female named Sara. He also found a boy's name written in blood. The boy's name was Hayden.

He had almost explored the entire house except for two upstairs bedrooms. As he headed towards the last two upstairs bedrooms he caught a glimpse of something. It looked like a little girl walking through one of the bedrooms. Joshy didn’t think anything about it and kept exploring the blue house. Then he saw it again but this time he knew he saw something so he went to see what it was. When he got over to where he saw it and there was nothing there. He thought he saw it again, that gave him an idea. His idea was to set up motion detectors and night vision cameras in the house. He would come back every other day and check them. If he got something on camera then he knew that there was something in that house. He waited two days after he set them up to check them and when he checked the first one he didn’t see anything so he continued to check the rest of his cameras. He didn’t have anything this time so he decided to wait three days the next time and then check them. When he checked them the second time he had something that scared him to death. After he saw what he saw on the camera he knew he wasn’t just imagining things.

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Ethan is a student at Cherokee High.