The Cabin Hauntings by Dean Mason

Author:Dean, Mason
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-04-24T16:00:00+00:00

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After retrieving reliable flashlights from the kitchen and steadying their resolve, Ken and Sally descended into the cellar again. Like before, a thorough scan of the old, musty enclosure was empty of any other people—real or spiritual. However, as Ken moved back toward the far wall on the right, where the broken-down and out-of-tune old piano had once been just empty space. The stained and mildewed drop cloth that had been covering it was lying on the floor in a heap, but the piano was nowhere to be seen. Ken lifted one edge of the cloth just out of curiosity, but all that was underneath it was the rough cement flooring. It was like the piano had never been there at all.

He looked back at Sally and saw her eyes were wide with incredulity and maybe even a bit of fear. He dropped the cloth and stood up from his squatting position to make sure Molly was no longer present. The glow from her presence seemed as if it would be impossible to miss in the dark, but all of this ghost stuff was new to him, and he looked all the same. But as he and Sally came together again and used both beams to illuminate the entire expanse, all they saw were old boxes and crates as well as some discarded damaged furniture and the old cabinet that Ken had gotten the lantern from earlier. Everything was coated in a healthy dose of dust and grime and had seemingly not been disturbed for a long, long time.

“Back upstairs to regroup?” Sally asked quietly as she sighed in disappointment.

“I guess so. What the hell is going on here, Sally?”

“Beats me. Let’s go. There’s no one here anymore.”

But as they turned to walk back to the stairs, Ken’s beam caught about half of an old cardboard box sticking out at an angle from the old cabinet that had held the lantern. There was nothing special or even remarkable about the box itself, but Ken went over to reseat it as it looked as if it would fall to the floor the way it was clinging to the shelf. The top flaps were worn away, either just from age or maybe some industrious rats that made it their home, and Ken peered inside it as he grasped the edges to push it flat on the shelf. He stopped and aimed his light inside to reveal that it had been filled nearly to the brim with stacks and stacks of papers and file folders.

He pulled out the box and set it on the cellar floor as he squatted down and began to rifle through a few of the loose papers using his flashlight to read what was there. As far as he could tell, it was just some collection of old documents and other records that Harold and Janet Williams had stashed away. They did not initially grab his interest until he dug down a few inches and saw that he had

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