3

3130 Words7 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Ghost stories for class 10

The month was coming to an end. Unfortunately, February skipped along happily to March without any consideration for Jessie’s birthday. Another year went by; Jessie stayed two and Megan turned ten! Since Jessie would not have a birthday, Megan would share hers with her twin sister, again.

Megan and Jessie waited for the birthday sleepover to arrive. The twins and their best friends, often did things together, but this would be the first sleepover in the basement room. They planned to push the double beds together, give each other makeovers, have pizza and talk all night. The Fayreweather twins were very excited about having their slumber party. Yet, Jessie was a little nervous about the party. Anxious that Raven would scare Hannah and Nikki.

Confidentially, Jessie told Nikki about the ghost in her basement. That she worried the ghost would cry and moan the night of the sleepover that Raven would ruin everything. If anyone would have a sensible suggestion on how to get rid of the ghost, it would be Nikkipedia.

Thriving on facts, Nikki did some research on the Internet about ghosts, looking for an e-book that might help. Having a voucher to download a book, she downloaded the electronic version of The Starter Séance, by Alistair Sagebourne, the renowned spirit seeker. Studying the text on her e-reader, Nikki hoped to help Jessie deal with Raven.

After reading through the Sagebourne book, Nikki was sure she had found a solution, and stopped by to see Jessie. Explaining that people held séances to make peace with ghosts, Nikki’s suggested they have a séance. Maybe then Raven the shadow ghost would be happy and go away, she would quit crying in the night, and Jessie would not be frightened any more.

Megan overheard Nikki telling...

... middle of paper ...

...ils and shimmery lips decided it was time to go to bed. The four girls went upstairs to brush their teeth, wash their faces, and to say good night to Jay J and Dr and Mrs Fayreweather. Even after the séance, none of the girls wanted to use the downstairs bathroom!

Scooting into the giant bed and snuggling together, the four girls talked for a while, about Raven the shadow ghost. As Jessie fell asleep, she could hear some soft humming that sounded a little like singing.

Maybe Raven was not so sad now that she had friends. Jessie was relieved the ghost was not crying in the darkness. From that night on when Jessie and Megan heard the groaning and creaking in the basement, they said hello and went back to sleep. Raven the shadow ghost had become their friend after meeting her at the séance. When she grew silent in the warmer months Megan and Jessie almost missed her.

Show More
Related

  • Jessie's Friendship In The Slave Dancer By Paula Fox

    881 Words  | 2 Pages

    Purvis wanted Jessie to toughen up so he would survive living on the Moonlight, which he achieved by treating Jessie as an adult, not like an infant. Purvis taught Jessie not to whine and which warned him not to show his concern towards the slaves. By being firm with Jessie, Purvis proves that he has Jessie’s best interests at heart and is looking out for him. Jessie realised Purvis's attitude towards him was Purvis’s way to show how much he cared about Jessie. Telling Jessie not to show concern towards the slaves and not to whine about his situation is evidence that Purvis and Jessie’s friendship was not sweet but instead helped by developing a friendship built on

    Read More

  • Symbolism In The Haunting Of Hill House

    1276 Words  | 3 Pages

    Eleanor has been entirely addicted to the house, but “whatever walked there, walked alone” (182). She commits suicide and will stay with the house forever. Eleanor was a ghost even before she died, she was banished

    Read More

  • Quinceanera

    510 Words  | 2 Pages

    year. The girl celebrating has to do many things during the year to prepare for

    Read More

  • The Other Side of Lucy-Lou

    1270 Words  | 3 Pages

    “Sure. Thank you,” Mrs. Whitmore said. She waved good-bye and shut the door, then listened. When she heard only giggles, she relaxed her shoulders, and went into the kitchen to start on the cookies. When they were finished, she brought the plate up with two glasses of milk to Lucy-Lou’s room. The girls had stopped giggling, and Sarah was sitting across from Lucy-Lou on the other side of the room.

    Read More

  • Sorority House Ghost Story

    715 Words  | 2 Pages

    I searched until I heard a story that gave me the chills. It comes from right around the block from where I live on campus, at one of the sorority houses at the University of Maryland. I collected this story the weekend of April 2nd, at my fraternity house. I asked my friend, a junior from Pikesville, if she knows any ghost stories. Her face lit up as if she was dying to tell me this story since the first time we ever met. She asked “you never heard the story of the ghost in the sorority house?” I replied no. The normally quiet woman demanded my attention away from the TV and went into her story.

    Read More

  • Hardships with in the Holocaust

    1036 Words  | 3 Pages

    “Everything was moving very fast, and as I looked around, I noticed my father and my two older sisters were gone. As I clutched my mother’s hand, an SS man hurried by shouting, Twins! Twins! He stopped to look at us. Miriam and I looked very much alike. Are they twins? he asked my mother. Is that good? she replied. He nodded yes. They are twins, she said.” (“Eva and Miriam”).

    Read More

  • Raven's Home

    642 Words  | 2 Pages

    When it comes to television fiction, the screen has always loved Raven-Symoné. Her natural charisma and comedic-timing is what made her characters in The Cosby Show, Hangin' with Mr. Cooper and The Cheetah Girls--among others-- so memorable and beloved. Her titular role as psychic Raven Baxter on the Disney Channel's Emmy-nominated That's So Raven (2003-2007) is no different. Rumors of a series reboot caused a gleeful stir, when production for Raven's Home finally began last year. A trailer released in June revealed that, after failed marriages, Raven and her best friend Chelsea (Anneliese van der Pol reprises) are bunking together with their children. Unbeknownst to Raven, her son Booker (Issac Ryan Brown) has inherited her future-telling

    Read More

  • Ghost Story of Haunted Row House: Philadelphia

    1419 Words  | 3 Pages

    So this past year I heard a ghost story from my mom’s coworker and friend. Her daughter recently purchased an old row house in Philadelphia. She lives there with her husband and they have a daughter, who was about two years old. They started to notice REALLY [eyes get large] weird things happening around the house, it was really eerie and started to make them nervous. Their daughter has a playroom in the attic, and she used to say, actually, she still says that there is somebody up there. She describes him as an African American male--well she says it’s a “Black man”--and she says he sits there and watches her play. When she told her parents...

    Read More

  • Ghost Story of the Kingsville Haunted House

    1396 Words  | 3 Pages

    This story, although somewhat unique in its exact plot, contains many elements that make it a typical and traditional ghost story. These elements suggest common fears in today’s society of people in general, and children specifically.

    Read More

  • Summary Of The Story Of Berenice

    1499 Words  | 3 Pages

    with no thought of the shadows in her path, or the silent flight of the raven-

    Read More

  • Toni Morrison's Beloved - Bold but Unsuccessful

    736 Words  | 2 Pages

    The ghost, however, loses little time in effecting a more solid manifestation, as a young woman runaway whom Sethe shelters, and by whom she comes to be dominated.  She gives up her job to be with Beloved and while the girl ghost thrives, she and Denver are reduced to near starvation.  It is only when Denver dares to come out of her isolation and invoke the help of the rest of her black community that Beloved can be sent back to her grave and Sethe and Paul D. reunited.

    Read More

  • poe

    679 Words  | 2 Pages

    Throughout “The Raven”, Edgar Allen Poe depicts the speakers slow decent into madness through onomatopoeia, personification, and dialogue. As the speaker nears slumber one dreary night, something seems to wake him up and draw his attention to his door, where a tapping coming from the door. The noise seemed to be tapping, yet it was near midnight and the speaker did not expect any company. Although he had almost fallen asleep he believes that the person tapping at the door might be his lost love, Lenore, so he decides to answer the door yet when he does there is “darkness there and nothing more” (24). The onomatopoeia of the tapping begins his descent into madness and continues through the whole poem, ultimately leading to him going insane at the poems end. Yet once he opens the door he stares “deep into that darkness peering” (25). At this moment Poe sets the eerie mood by having the speaker open the door to nothing, although the tapping still keeps him awake. After closing the door and walking back to his bed, the speaker hears the tapping again, but louder and coming from his window lattice. He walks to his window and opens it to find a “stately Raven of the saintly days of yore” (38). The speaker sees the raven as almost royalty from a time long ago. As the raven walks into the room the speaker’s sadness turns into a smile, foreshadowing his future lunacy. After opening the...

    Read More

  • A Tear Between Twins

    1926 Words  | 4 Pages

    February 13th, 1979, Janae and I were born in Sunrise Hospital, four minutes apart, to two anxious, ecstatic, and not to mention exhausted parents. Immediately following the birth, the doctor glanced up at my mother and father and announced that they were the proud parents of identical twin girls. My sister Janae was born first weighing a mere four pounds 11 ounces and I swiftly followed, weighing a hefty seven pounds zero ounces (very large for the average twin). The doctor proceeded to tell my mother that identical twins automatically have a special bond that exists between them, and that she was to enjoy the many fun, challenging, yet exciting experiences to come. One of the most challenging experiences to come would be the dreadful day when the two of us would realize that we couldn't be together always. That memorable day we slept together, side by side, in our rectangular clear plastic hospital beds -- determined to be inseparable for the remainder of our lives.

    Read More

  • The Open Window by Saki

    879 Words  | 2 Pages

    However, Saki deliberately replaces the ghosts with a human character, who manipulates truths instead. Despite all the tropes, there was no ghost in the story actually. Vera, the lying human character decided to make up a story about her “dead” uncle and aunt’s brothers, who would walk through this large French window, which was always kept open (595). It was said, “Ro...

    Read More

  • Haunted House Essay

    786 Words  | 2 Pages

    As we approached a turn in the haunted house I got kind of frightening but yet happy. I could see the light at the end of the tunnel, and I could hear children and adults talking loudly and some even crying after the experience in the haunted house. Felicity, Jazmine, Aunt Sam, and I were all glad that the haunted house had come to an end. I heard Khristian, Lizzie, and Uncle Jon come out laughing.

    Read More

More about 3

Open Document