Alan’s story

The following story is real.
It happened when we were 13 years old, and a friend invited us to sleep to her house. We didn´t know what was going to happen that night but this was a night we would never forget because it was the beginning of everything.
Let 's go back to the past, to this summer night.
We were chatting,having fun when our friend told us a story.We listened to it but we didn’t believe it at all. She told us that a few weeks ago , her sisters and herself were playing the game of the cup and a ghost contacted them. He told them that his name was Alan and that he was 6 years old when his mother killed him.
He wanted his story to be known by everyone and he looked for revenge.
After telling this story our friend said to us that she didn’t feel well in her house because strange things started to happen.
This night we took a lot of photos in the garden . A few months later watching those photos we noticed that in one of them a little boy appeared like a ghost in white.We remembered that this night was very late and we were alone. And then we started to believe in our friend’s story.
Until the night our friend played the game of the cup ,strange things happened in her house.Every time we go to her house we feel that something is with us, when we are on the 2° floor we listen to noises in the 1° floor, like a person moving furniture, and the light of her bedroom turns on and off or the door opens alone. When we talked to her by the phone we hear voices and screams.
Apart from those facts, she started to dream things that she doesn’t understand ,like her house but it was different,it was in the middle of the field and there were no houses around.She dreamed that she was on her sister’s bedroom and saw a little boy hiding something in the floor,on the corner.
One day she seemed to see a boy entering her sister’s bedroom. So she went to see,thinking that the boy was his nephew.When she entered the room...it was empty,but she was very brave,and remembering her dream she went to the corner,and noticed that the wood of the floor could be removed. So she did it.
And then,under all the dust,she found a picture,in which was her house like in the dream with a little boy and a woman in front of it.To our friend the woman looked familiar, so she showed the picture to her mother to know if she could recognise her.
Her mother recognised the woman at first sight:She was her great-aunt.Her mother told our friend that the woman was the previous owner of the house,and that she had a son called Alan that dissappeared at the edge of 6 in a misterious way. She also said that the woman went crazy,and saw her son’s ghost, so one day almost burnt the house and she was taken to a mental hospital.
Our friend told her mother what had happened and went to see this woman.When they talked to the woman, she confessed everything. She told them that she had killed the boy because she was jealous as his father always paid attention to his son and not to her.
She confessed everything because the boy appeared every night in her dreams,and she was tired of that.She also confessed that the boy was buried in the basement.
So,our friend and her mother reported this to the police and it went to the house and dug up the boy’s body. The case became well known . After that Alan could rest in peace and the house was free..nothing stange happened again.


by Nicole and Julieta (2nd year)