Unknown Ghosts 

Once in Germany, many people believed that the haunted house in their town was real. But the rest of the people thought it was only a joke just to scare them. In fact, it was known that once anyone entered that house they would vanish away in the rooms of the house like the dust.

The real story starts from here. The dead who had left to take their revenge on those people who had committed the heinous crimes to the city dwellers and even their own loved ones entered the haunted house and started to smash the intruders into ashes and dust.

After many years of being vacant and uninhabited, the haunted house eventually got an opportunity to be sold to a wealthy family of  Berlin and live the rest of their lives peacefully there as it was located in a serene setting of the beautiful valley.

It was not that they were not warned of the invisible ghost and the haunted nature, yet the rich family insisted on buying it and settle there. The Old man in the family rather retorted, "Don't be silly and superstitious. It's only a joke. Ghost don't exist at all."

The day arrived when the family arrived at the house with all their living materials like furniture, kitchen appliances, electronics and gadgets, automobiles, guns, playthings, and all that is required in post-modern days.

They started living in that haunted house unheeding the warnings of the locals. They were very excited and overjoyed to live in a new house in a serene location even in the maddening city of Germany. They also threw a grand party on the house warming day. But their joy and excitement could not last long.

Three days after the house warming ceremony, the most loving and youngest member of the Grahams family went missing. That forced the whole family to recollect the bone-chilling remarks made by the locals only some days ago. They looked for the child, Gerard every nook and corner of the house, and the whole campus of 5 acres of the bushy land belonging to the house and the Grahams family, but all in vain.

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The next day they reported the incident to the police. The sheriff assured them, "Don't worry Mrs. Grahams, please don't cry. We will put an all-out effort to find the child very soon." But his words wouldn't console her nor the others in the family except Mr. Grahams who still thought the child must be at some neighbor's house.

The Grahams family was provided with 24/7 police security and there was no clue of any extra-terrestrial for the whole week. Soon the police withdrew their security on the weekend. The child was yet to be discovered. 

On that very night when the clock struck the midnight bell, the power went, the wind started blowing very hard. One of the windows on the attic was by mistake open. Mr. Grahams woke up to find out where the gust of wind was blowing in and went to shut it to the attic. The rest of the family members: Mrs. Grahams, Polly, Brian, and the little sister Lizzy were waiting for the father to climb down and assure them that all was fine.

To everyone's dismay, Mr. Grahams didn't show any sign of coming down even after forty minutes. Mrs. Grahams quietened the kids and went up to find out what had gone wrong with her husband. As soon as she stepped on the threshold of the attic, she screamed out of her guts to see a pool of blood there. She looked for her husband but he was not in any direction. She was at a loss and couldn't decide what she should do next.

In the meanwhile, a loud cry of a young child deafened the serenity of the campus. People of the whole town gathered and the sheriff arrived with his team to investigate the situation. The people in the neighborhood started recalling how they had warned earlier, and now there was nothing more than expressing their regrets that the Grahams didn't listen to their request of not buying the house and putting their lives at risk.

The sheriff also expressed his deep shock and felt sorry for all this as if he had waited for one more day before waiving the security, the Grahams family would not have disappeared so mysteriously and painfully.

Thirty years later a new business family from Hamlin is planning to buy the house but they don't want them to buy this house as it had taught them a great lesson when Mr. Grahams had made a joke out of the locals' request putting his kids' and his wife's life at fatal risk. They can now only wait and watch the others come and face the deadly consequence, but remain helpless as nobody can either see or hear them warn the innocent.

by Riva Bhusal, Butwal

The End

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