An original mysterious tale, written by our student Aadya Maheshwari.

Aadya is a student, studying at the prestigious Asian World School, Jaipur. We are proud to have her as a student of the Creative Writing Program through Applied Storytelling under the mentorship of Trainer Khusshbo Chokhaani. We congratulate Aadya for this exemplary true self-expression.

The Haunted House

Once on a very dark, cold night there lived the Nicholls family.  They were a kind-hearted, happy family. Their house was quite grand, but it was strange sometimes as well.

The story begins with the Nicholls family fast asleep in their warm cozy beds.  During the night when the clock struck midnight, a silvery white ghost appeared.  After the ghost appeared, he yowled a very spooky sound.  Whenever he yowled that sound, lightning struck!  Even though the sounds were so loud, the family was still asleep.

Well, asleep except for two – Molly and Holly, the 9-year-old twins.  The twins were adventurous. They decided to find what was making that spooky sound.  They jumped out of bed and started looking.  First, they looked under their beds, then behind the clock and all around the house but they couldn’t find where the yowling was coming from. They looked outside but they still couldn’t find where the noise was coming from.  Eventually, they gave up.  Holly said, “If we saw whatever that spooky thing was, should we have told them off?”.  Molly replied, “Yes”.  They silently crept back to bed.

In the morning Holly and Molly heard a crying sound coming from outside.  The girls politely asked if they could go outside.  Their Mum replied, “Of course, you can go, as long as you get dressed first”.  “We will Mum,” they said running up the stairs and flinging off their pajamas along the way.

After the twins got dressed, they quickly raced outside to the grassy garden.  Suddenly they came to a stop when they were face to face with a crying ghost.  Molly said bravely what’s the matter” while shaking. “Are you alright?”.  “I keep scaring people but all I want to do is to help” said the ghost sadly.  “Hmm,” Holly said.  “I’ve got an idea!  Our Dad is an excellent inventor.  I’m sure he can help!”.  “Great!” said the ghost.  “I’m glad you found me”. All three decided to meet after the girls had told Dad what had been going on.

The girls found their dad busy tinkering in the cellar making new fantastic inventions like he always did. Dad said, “I’m making a no spooky sound medicine”.  “Well, what a coincidence.”, said Holly. Molly asked Dad if she could borrow it and off the girls went carefully clutching the medicine making sure they didn’t spill a drop.  They gave the ghost the medicine.  He trusted the girls by drinking it all up.  That night, the ghost went back to the Nicholls family house and tried to make a spooky noise, but it didn’t happen.  He knew that the medicine had done its work.  The ghost was so thankful for the twin’s help, he silently floated into the girl’s bedroom and whispered, “THANK YOU!”.

But wait, later the family was asleep, and the ghost was cured so who just made that yowl?

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