There seem to be a couple of mistakes in your sentence; let me fix those first: In any case, he was not the sort of boy who readily believed in ghost stories, especially not one as riddled with holes as this one was . not one as riddled with holes as this one was = not a story so full of inconsistencies and anomalies.
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