They called it a haunted house.

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The villagers believed that it was a haunted house. They feared it and told far-fetched stories about it. Some had seen a cadaver coming out of its rusty, iron fence, others had heard creepy sounds at unearthly hours. They say, “Rumor grows as it goes.” – and this was exactly the case in the instance of the harmless Dinger House situated on the edge of the fields.

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Tom