One fine day, three children- John, George, and Missy- were playing football in the street as usual. George passed the ball too high, and John missed the pass. The ball went rolling on the other side of the street. Missy called John and George there. When they saw where their ball had landed, the expressions on their faces changed. It was the haunted house of an old man that ate anything that came into its garden. Right now, it was sleeping.
All three of them crept into the garden with the fear that they could be eaten up any minute. They took the ball from the garden when a drop of John’s sweat fell into the grass. The house woke up, roaring. It saw the children picking up their football and trying to run away hurriedly. It recognized Missy as it had taken her kite once. It showed the kite at its doorstep which lured Missy immediately. Even though John and George warned her, she kept going toward the kite. When she was close enough, the house started pulling her inside. John and George went after her, but they also started getting sucked inside the house. In no time, all of them were eaten, but they didn’t die. They were in the first room and they heard the house tremble. All of a sudden, the floor started opening from the center to make them fall inside. They all knew that if they fell in that hole they would die, so they all stayed on the corners of the room.
Eventually, the floor hole started shrinking and closing. When it closed completely, they started exploring. They went from one door to another. Soon, they reached a large room that had everything you could think of- pogo sticks, cricket bats and balls, shuttles and many more things. There were also some people whom they met. They were so glad to know that some of them had survived and so were the people who were trapped inside. They asked them how long they had been here and the people answered 1 year. They had survived on the little food and water that had been wasted by the owner of the house. He was an old man whose wife had died several years ago. They also said that the spirit of his dead wife haunted the house. There were only two doors to the house, one which they came in from and another that they were going to go in. After all the people went in, the door magically closed and locked them inside. Everybody started panicking, as they couldn’t see anything in the dark. Soon their eyes got accustomed to the dark and they saw a dead body there. They knew this was the wife of the man who had died years ago and who haunted the house.
They pulled the body out of the glass coffin in which it was kept. As soon as they did that, they heard a sound as if the house was dying. Quickly, all of them together managed to find a way out of the house and chucked the woman’s body out on the streets. Then, they went to the owner and asked him about the dead body. He told them the story of the woman and also thanked them profusely. He invited them for dinner as well. After that day he started giving out the things of the people which the house had eaten. The children were rewarded for their bravery. But the best thing of all- Missy got her kite back.
By:
Rishit Garg
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