Ghost Stories by Carolyn Keene & Frank Sofo

Author:Carolyn Keene & Frank Sofo
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 1983-07-22T16:00:00+00:00

The Ghost Jogger

One evening, Nancy and her close friends, Bess and George, joined the young people of River Heights who gathered in the park to jog. The three girls became separated, however.

Nancy found herself running beside a figure wearing a long white cape, with a hood that completely covered his face.

Weird jogging outfit, she thought.

A moment later, the figure stuck his hand out, holding in it a folded note. The young detective quickly grabbed it, and unfolded it as she ran. The ink was mysteriously faded. But after staring at it closely she read:

NANCY, FIND THEM IN THE EMPTY BARN WITH THE FLAMING HORSE ON IT.

—THE FAMILY GHOST

“Who are you?” she asked, turning abruptly.

The ghostly being had disappeared!

Nancy’s pulse skipped a beat. What was this strange vision?

Nancy tried to find the hooded ghost, but he had vanished in the evening dusk. She ran up to passing joggers and asked if they had seen him. Most of them said no, but two pointed off among some trees.

Nancy ran to the wooded area, but failed to locate the mysterious figure. As she started back, her pulse skipped another beat. For a moment, she thought she saw a flash of white in between the trees, but when she arrived at the spot there was nothing there.

Anxiously, the girl detective hurried back to the joggers, joined them to the park entrance, then dashed outside. Minutes later she reached home and burst into the living room.

Hannah Gruen, the motherly housekeeper for Nancy and her father, was in the den watching a newscast on TV. She looked up quickly and gasped.

“Nancy, you’re as white as a sheet. This jogging is too much for you. You’d better ease up a bit.”

“Oh, Hannah, dear, I’m all right. I just had a little scare, that’s all.”

“A mugger?” Mrs. Gruen asked nervously.

“No. A ghost.” Nancy told Mrs. Gruen about the incident.

“I wonder …” the housekeeper said, but did not go on.

“You wonder what?” Nancy prodded her.

“If a story on the news could tie in with your adventure.”

“What was the newscast about?” Nancy asked.

“That two children, a brother and sister, aged eight and ten, are missing. It’s not known if they ran away deliberately, wandered off and are lost, or were kidnapped. The police have no clues.”

“How dreadful!” Nancy replied, then perked up. “And you think, Hannah, that the ghost jogger may know something about it?”

Mrs. Gruen smiled. “I’ll go a step further. I think he wants you to solve the mystery!”

“Why, Hannah, you’re becoming a regular armchair investigator,” Nancy commented with a grin. “I wonder if you could possibly be right,” she added, turning her attention to the newscast and hoping the segment about the children would be repeated. It was not. She turned the dial on the set to several other channels but learned nothing more about the case.

Nancy turned off the television and sat lost in thought. What should she do? Work on the clue the ghost had given her, or wait until she saw him again? A few minutes later, Nancy picked up the phone and called George.

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