Lia was a teenager who lived in an old mansion with her parents. The mansion was located just out of the city limits, at Alpine Street.

Her parents died in a car accident so she became all alone but continued to live in her house. After the death of her parents, she heard some strange noises in the house every night, calling out to her for help. Initially she was scared, but later on Lia got used to it and didn’t pay attention.

One dark night, Lia heard another strange noise saying, “I’ll kill you.”

The very next moment, Lia saw some sharp knives hovering over her, as if to attack. There was also a doll with tears of blood dripping from her eyes, standing next to her bed.

Lia acted fast and somehow managed to escape the mansion that night and called two ghost busters.

The ghost busters arrived the next morning and began searching for some evidence about last night’s incident. They found an old diary which gave them a clue about the presence of a ghost in the house. The diary belonged to the man who had built the mansion and who lived there until his death.

He had special attachment to his bedroom in the mansion.

When he died after a long illness, his spirit continued to live there. Apparently when Lia moved into it with her family, she customised the same room according to her taste and the ghost didn’t like it so he wanted Lia out of there.

Lia, now feeling sorry for the ghost instead of remaining fearful, decided to move into a small apartment in the city centre to be near her friends and she sealed the mansion to let the ghost live there peacefully forever.

Published in Dawn, Young World, July 21st, 2018