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The only pictures that didn’t feature the old lady were of Erin and her husband or other fairl with teased bangs and laser lights shooting behind her, had to be hergirl with cat’s-eye glasses and a bouffant, could have been her grandreat-aunt But for thein what I would consider a house of horror Every picture was disturbing on new and escalating levels

Then I realized they ht not all be of baby Hannah Some of the haunting Erin? Was a ghost targeting her children for sohost have to gain by killing children?

I wish this seeing dead people had corao to the library and look up Fifty Reasons Ghosts Kill Or How to Tell if You Have a Poltergeist in Ten Sieist Could that be it? Weren’t they different froular dead people? I wracked oodness poltergeists? They were angry I knew that They often attached themselves to a place, an object, or a person They lived, in athe crap out of people

But if that was the case, Headless Henry fit the definition as well

Wait, no he didn’t He wasn’t angry He wasn’t using his power for evil He had an evil sense of huuy This wo Erin and her fa the least bit honest, I would have adhost could actually kill It sees But it was the only explanation Other than the obvious one that any normal person would adhere to: Erin’s children died of SIDS Plain and siic of all losses Pretty much any bad event that happened to a childfrom kids with cancer to the ones who’d been abused or abandoned Theanother child squeezed it like a vise

Why? Did the child really have to pay for the sins of the father? And if so, what the bloody fuck? Why shouldchildren They’d be doomed

A male voice sounded from behind me, and the adrenaline that duh I al

"Hey!" he yelled "What are you doing?"

Reflexively, I picked up the poker fro it like a sword "Stay back! Ionly a towel and holding a… frying pan Really? An entire kitchen at his disposal and he chooses a frying pan? Admittedly, it was cast iron It’d kill if wielded properly, but I didn’t think this guy was a killer

"You’re inthe skillet with both hands in the exactthe poker I honestly didn’t knoas ood point I was the trespasser, he the trespassee

"Who are you?" he asked as he took a wary step back He looked to the side and spotted so bars and crappy food vanished when I realized he was going for his phone

"Wait!" I yelled before he picked it up "I think your house is haunted!"

He picked up the phone anyway but didn’t do anything with it Not yet

There was still hope I took one hand off the poker and raised it in surrender "I kno this is going to sound, but I think your baby’s in danger"

"That’s whatDo you know her?"

"She told me your first two children passed before they were a year old"

He lowered the pan "Yeah, but they weren’t mine She and her ex divorced after their second child died"

Thata child

"And now she keeps going on and on about this bitch at work and how she now believes Hannah will die, too, no matter how safe we are"