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- Author: Claudia Gray
- Language: English
- Genre: Teen & Young Adult Ghost Stories
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New Orleans is said to be the most haunted city in the United States. If
you wander through the French Quarter, you might even see signs
advertising houses for sale that specify “haunted” or “not haunted.” The
wise would do well to limit their options to those not haunted.
But not everyone wishes to be wise.
(It’s safer, but it’s not quite as interesting, is it?)
The truth is that New Orleans is the most haunted city in the United
States, but even if every ghost in town departed at once except for the
spirits that inhabit just one particular building… New Orleans would still be
the most haunted. Because the one building of which we speak is the
Haunted Mansion, home to more ghosts, ghouls, spirits, and haints than
almost the entire rest of the world put together.
Why? There’s no one answer. The mortal families who attempted to
dwell within the mansion have always abandoned it within a year or two…
or a month or two… or, occasionally, only an hour or two. But abandon it
they inevitably did, whether in terror, in mourning, or in hearses. When they
try to describe what they witnessed, what they felt, words fail them
completely. (Assuming they can still speak. Some of them can only weep,
or scream, for a very long time afterward.)
At first glance—a stolen look, perhaps, from the gates that offer passage
through the brick walls that surround the estate—the mansion doesn’t
appear so very different from other great houses in New Orleans: the tall
white columns at the front of the house, the cast-iron fence, the glint of
candlelight behind its windows at night. Then you ask yourself why candles
are burning in an abandoned house. Don’t panic! The glow you see isn’t
fire, exactly. It’s something far stranger.
The fates of those who have chosen to enter the mansion vary widely.
Some left with their hair gone white from fright. Some never left at all. The
example of one girl’s destiny after her decision to explore the Haunted
Mansion may serve as a lesson about the very nature of fear itself.…
“ Maybe there’s still time to stop this.”
Audrey Perez sat on the edge of the psychiatrist’s couch, her entire body
tense. Her mind raced as she tried to think of some way—any way—out of
her current problem. It didn’t matter that her mind had been dealing with
this issue for months now, ever since the beginning of summer, or that she’d
already thought up a thousand potential solutions that hadn’t gone
anywhere. There had to be some way out that hadn’t yet come to her but
would if she worked hard enough.
“Maybe… maybe I could talk to my parents about homeschooling
again,” she continued. “This time I’d do my research first. I could give
them more options, counter some of their arguments.”
Doctor Ron gave her a look over the rims of his reading glasses. “Your
parents still work outside the house, though, don’t they?”
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