Haunted House

My English teacher told us to write a fictional story with three details: character, a woman with a secret who wants to tell someone; setting, a closet; and detail, a record player with no record. This is where my imagination took me.


In an old abandoned house, that has been on the market for at least ten years, there many stories about why this house is haunted. Some say a husband killed his wife with the record playing, left her in a closet and ran away to married another girl. The scary part is there is no body in the closet and no record on the record player. People think she still lives there and hides the record hoping he will come back looking for the record, the song that was played at their wedding, so she can have her revenge. Others think that she just wants someone to talk to because having a story like that stay on your chest that long can make you go crazy, or she might just want to go out on dates but is scared that guys won’t like her because of all the scars on her face. Others say that a long time ago there were little teenagers playing seven minutes in heaven. There was one girl that had a major crush on this one boy and she got seven minutes in heaven with him. They made out in the coat closet down stairs. After the seven minutes he left the coat closet first; leaving her awe struck. She was so excited that she really wanted to tell her best friend but before she could he had asked her best friend on a date. Meanwhile there is a record playing during the whole scene. She gets really mad (more hurt) and takes the record so she can burn it and try to forget about the boy who broke her heart. Rumor has it her best friend and the boy go back to that house to remember the first time they got together. When people try to come in they scare them away so they can have the house all to their self. No one really knows why the house is haunted…it is all up to your imagination.