THE HOUSE OF MYSTERY

A Story by jo

there's something very strange going on inside the Haven's house enter if you dare

Every year on Halloween the town of Rocky Shores throws its annual spooks fair and this year was the best so far. According to Puppy and her friends as they walked around the fair grounds

Hey let’s check out Mr. Pitt’s haunted house Tommy Cub told them I heard it’s really scary!

No way! If you guys want to go I’ll wait for you out here Sammy Turtle answered him

Oh Sammy don’t be such a chicken head I’m sure the girls will protect you from the big old scary ghost! Tommy teased. A few minutes later they were waiting on line to go inside. Sammy looked at a piece of wood that was nailed onto an old willow tree that read in bloody letters

WELCOM IF YOU DARE!

Oh great! Sammy thought to himself as he slowly walked passed a big spooky scare crow that was standing by the front gate. It suddenly swung out its arms and in a spooky tone of voice it yelled out

BOO!

Causing Sammy to nearly jump out of his shell. Cookie rubbed her paw on Sammy’s head

Relax Sammy none of this is real it’s just a bunch of rigged up dummies made out to scare you

They walked onto the porch and Vicky Dragonfly rang the doorbell the door made a loud squeaking noise as it opened

Good evening! A deep voice cried out

Is this place really scary? Sammy asked as he gave him his ticket to the old dog. Who was sitting in a rocking chair on the porch

Trust me my young child you’ll get what you paid for! He laughed. And before Sammy could ask him what he meant by that Tommy pulled him inside the dimly lit room. They were some spooky pictures hanging upside down on the walls and a big giant spider web hanging from the ceiling

Okay Sammy just remember what Puppy told you this is all fake he silently mumbled to himself. As they followed a gory sign that read

FOLLOW ME

Seconds later a headless mummy popped out of nowhere swinging his ax just missing Sammy’s head by inches. And even though they all could see that the blade was made out of rubber that didn’t stop Sammy from letting out a horrifying scream. Before he took off running towards the nearest exit

Hey Sammy! Wait up! Puppy cried out as she ran after him

And she’s supposed to be the brave one! Daisy Penguin laughed

I wonder if they’ll be coming back. Vicky asked

Nah! Tommy was cut off as a pair of hands broke through the walls and tried to grab him

Now that was priceless! You should’ve seen the look on your face! Daisy yelled

Yah, yah very funny!

A few more later they reached the end of the tour a pale looking giant walked over towards them and said

Way to go kids! None of the other kids have ever made it this far! He then reached inside a plastic pumpkin and handed each of them a bag full of candy

When they walked outside they met Puppy and Sammy by the exit gate

Look what we got! Tommy cried out holding up his goody bag

Hey way to go! You made it through a fake haunted house but I bet there’s one house you won’t last five minutes in Sammy smirked

Oh yah where? Tommy smirked back

The old havens house

The what house? Puppy frowned

You guys never heard the rumors about the havens place?

The story goes that bout a hundred years an old couple live in the havens house. They were very worthy and were well known for their kindness and holiday parties. It seemed that they were very much deeply in loved and loved by the whole town so it was a great shocked when one night when the cops arrested Mr. Havens for murdering his wife

Oh wow! If he loved her so much why did he kill her? Daisy asked

To this day no one really knows some says that he just snapped others say that he fell in love with someone else. But was afraid that if he divorced her she would take all his money

So he killed her? Did he ever say the real reason why he did it? Vicky asked

No one knows cause he died mysteries before he ever got a chance to say why he did it Sammy shrugged

So what I bet there are about a million towns with the same kind of stories. What’s so special about this one? Tommy asked frowning

Cause according to my brother the havens house is the most haunted house in Rocky Shores Sammy began he told me of how one night a couple of kids broke inside

And? Vicky asked

And nobody knows what happened my brother said that they were never seen again. That the spirit of Mrs. Havens took them

Oh please give me a break Sammy. Tommy smirked

Well if she didn’t get them what happened to them? Sammy frowned

I don’t know maybe Casper hid them some place! Tommy laughed face it Sammy your brother just made that stupid story up just to scare you

Oh yah then prove it Sammy smirked

What?

You heard me I bet that you won’t last two minutes inside that place Sammy repeated

Oh really and what do I get when I prove you wrong? Tommy grinned

I’ll give you my video game the one that you keep bothering me to borrow. I’ll give you the gun shooter game to keep forever if you win. And if I win you’ll have to give up one of your favorite video games Sammy stated do we have a deal?

Deal Tommy answered giving him his paw to shake

Three days later they headed out towards the old Havens place beyond the woods

Are you sure you guys want to go through with this? Vicky asked staring at the house

Yah both Tommy and Sammy answered

Okay then we’ll wait for you out here and whoever comes out first loses Vicky explained

What do you mean we’ll wait out here we’re going in with them Puppy added

Why? I didn’t make any stupid bet Vicky frowned

Oh don’t be such a wimp Vicky besides Tommy isn’t the only one who doesn’t think this place is haunted Puppy shrugged

They all sneaked in through a broken window by the back door once they were inside. They noticed some dry red spots on the floor

Is that what I think it is? Sammy nervously asked shining his flashlight on it. A noise coming from the next room interrupted

What is that noise? Puppy asked

I don’t know and I don’t want to know Sammy muttered before hiding his head inside his shell

You girls wait here we’ll go and check it out come on Sammy, Tommy said before he wondered off

Umm Tommy don’t you think we should stay together hey Tommy where did he go? Sammy asked

Don’t know he was here a second ago Puppy shrugged

Huddled close together they walked into the dining room

Hey Tommy are you in here? Puppy cried out. Tommy’s screams interrupted her they ran down the hall and into the room in where the screams came from

Hey Tommy are you okay?

But instead of answering her he just kept screaming

It took them a few seconds before they finally saw what Tommy was so scared of hiding within the shadows of the room was a ghostly old woman with bloody fangs hanging out of her mouth. They all ran back down the hall and out the broken window and they didn’t stop running until they got back to Puppy’s house

I told you! I told you that the place was haunted! Sammy proudly cried out once they were inside of Puppy’s back yard

So pay up!

Don’t be such a cheater Sammy the beat wasn’t for you to prove if the house was haunted or not. It was to see who would run out first and since we all ran out at the same time. None of you guys won Daisy answered

I think that we should go back Puppy added

What! Are you nuts did you see the fangs on that thing! Sammy exclaimed

Sammy there’s no such thing as ghost besides my gut tells me that there’s something weird going on inside that house. And that something has nothing to do with Mrs. Haven’s ghost Puppy exclaimed

They went back the next day right after school once inside they started searching every room

Oh wow! What do we’ve here? Puppy asked as they looked round the basement. There were boxes filled with a bunch of spooky stuff but the most interesting thing in the room. Was a witch’s costume that looked exactly like the one that they’ve seen the day before

I knew it! See Sammy there’s your ghost! Puppy cried out

Hey what are you kids doing in here! An angry voice yelled from up of the stairs. For a moment none of them spoke as the sound of footsteps came closer

The question is what are you doing in here? Puppy frowned

That’s none of your business! The bear growled showing his teeth

Hey wait! It was you! Daisy suddenly cried out I know those teeth anywhere!

What?

You’re the one who have been scaring every one away from this house why? She added

Little one you don’t know what you’re talking about now I want you nosey kids out of my house right now! The bear yelled

Your house? This isn’t your house nobody has lived here for years Vicky frowned

Well it used to be a long time ago this house used to belong to my grandmother until she died. And since my dad couldn’t offered to make the payments the bank took it over the bear started to explain

I’m sorry to hear about your grandma but that still doesn’t explain why you don’t want anyone to come in here Puppy told him

Ever since I was a young cub all my daddy could talk about is how my grandma didn’t trust banks with her money. So she hid it somewhere inside this house and never told anyone where so my father didn’t want anyone to move in and find it so he started the rumors of it being haunted. A year later he died from a heart attack and that’s when I took over but I’ve been so busy trying to keep everyone away. That I never have a chance to look for her money I don’t want to hurt anybody. All I want is to be left alone in peace and find my grandma’s money so I can pay off the bank and make this place a home again the bear answered

We can help you look for it! Puppy told him

That’s very nice of you young pup but�"

No really it won’t be any problem Puppy interrupted we promise to keep your secret safe

Umm well if you really don’t mind I could sure use all the help that I can get the bear shrugged

Two days later they found his grandma’s money it was hidden inside the wall of one of the upstairs bathroom behind the toilet

And as a reward for help finding it the bear not only did he treat them to all the ice cream that they can eat. But every Halloween he would turn the Havens house into the best haunted house in the whole town of Rocky Shores