100 Ghost Stories Counting Down To Halloween 2020 #20

 INSIDE THE KORMERY HOUSE

The quiet doesn't help when you're already afraid because it moves around and through the dead of night. Your footfall is the only thing you hear along with the material of your clothing, rubbing together as you walk.

The dark doesn't help because some of it is a bit more pitched than the liter dark from the ambient glow outside. It moves ever so slightly and catches your attention when you see it from your peripheral. I freeze and shine my high beam flashlight in that direction. I notice it as it gingerly steps into another dark spot in the corner of the large living room, and I hear it trying to formulate words. "It..it..it.."

I shine my light in that spot, and it's gone, but I can still hear the disembodied voice, "It...it...it.."

Three creaks across the wooden floor capture my attention, there it goes, edging down the hallway toward the main living room, it's confusing. It wants to take a left turn but changes its mind and goes right; this time, I capture its face in the beam; it's as afraid as I am. A young man, all of twenty with his hair matted on his forehead from sweat. His is a silent wide-opened mouth scream in slow motion; his stumbling run toward the front door is the same as if he were underwater. I run to the kitchen and begin salting all of the windows and the doors. That way, his spirit cannot enter through our portals and trouble my sleep again.

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OUTSIDE

" It's Kendrick; it's 2:10 on Wednesday morning. I just came from the Kormery house, and holy fuck, I am now for sure certain that there's an angel, or fucking, some portal to another world in that house! I kept seeing a bright, white light shining at me! It followed me from the anti-room and down the hallway to the large living room! I am now confirming that the Kormery house isn't just haunted; it's a fucking dimensional door to the other side! I didn't see the infamous ghost of Kahanu Kormery who died of mysterious circumstances in his house, I didn't see that, but maybe it's because that white light took him, or he went through it? Shit! Perhaps Kahanu is still alive but on the other side of the light! Shit! Shit! That's it, that's it! I think I've solved the mystery! Oh my god, I see him! I see the ghost of Kahanu Kormery waving at me from the living window again and again!"

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INSIDE

I see the troublesome ghost outside while I salt the window panes here in the living room; I ignore it; I cannot be swayed by it lest it tries to possess me in some unholy manner. I shine my light in its direction in hopes that the beam will dissolve its unearthly spiritual form. It jumps up and down frantically, screaming into some rectangular box in its hand.

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OUTSIDE

"I saw it again! I saw the light! It took Kahanu Kormery right in front of me! I saw it! This is Kendrick signing off; I have to get home and upload this footage to my laptop!"

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INSIDE

It's gone, the wretched ghost is gone, never to trouble my home again, ever. What peaceful nights will return, what unbothered sleep will be mine once more, how the full moon will shine on my property where I will take longs walks along the acreage, unmolested by the dark entity who for so long haunted my estate, and my peace of mind.