The House in the Field
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She told this to her circle of friends, and some of us decided to check the place out the following day (which was, fortunately, a Saturday). So, we met in the field at noon and tromped off to explore. What we found there was the typical old falling-apart farmhouse. Empty rooms (except for the equipment and such), creaky floorboards, and piles of wet shattered plaster, beer bottles, graffiti, and cigarette butts. Then we rounded the corner from the old living room to go upstairs, and each of us stopped dead in our tracks....
There were no stairs. Apparently, the stairwell had collapsed into the cellar long ago, leaving only a yawning opening 10 feet above a tangled pile of old timbers on the cellar floor below. And yet, Candy had sworn she had seen someone walk by an upstairs window. We explored the house more completely, now being VERY careful since we knew just how bad off the place really was. We didn’t find any second staircase, and there was no way to reach the second floor. Its a mystery that has remained unsolved, as in the middle of our exploration we heard the truck door slam outside, and we all beat a hasty retreat out the back so we wouldn’t get caught trespassing.
I don’t know if it was a ghost she saw, or if it were someone who could climb like an orangutan, but it’s all a moot point now. That house was demolished only one year later, and a nice shiny new modern split-level was erected in its place. I wonder if the owners of that house have any late night visitors...
她就把這件事告訴了我們這些朋友，有些人就決定轉天去看看究竟是怎麼回事（正好第二天是星期六）。於是，星期六中午我們就在牧場集合去探險了。進去之後，我們發現其實這就是一所廢棄了的農舍，空空的屋子（除了那些機器和甘草），踩上去咯吱咯吱的地板，一堆一堆潮溼的牆皮脫落下來，滿地的啤酒瓶、菸蒂，還有牆上的塗鴉。隨後我們走過起居室來到拐角處準備上樓，這時所有人都被眼前的景象驚呆了…
根本就沒有樓梯！明顯可以看出，很久以前樓梯就塌了，樓梯井足足有十英尺高，底下地窖的地板上摞著一堆不知道多少年了的老木頭纏在一起。可是，坎迪發誓說她看見了有人從樓上的窗戶走過。於是我們更仔細地繼續搜索，每個人都很小心，因為大家都知道房子已經年久失修了。我們並沒發現其他的樓梯，而且絕對不可能有辦法到樓上去。肯定有秘密我們還沒發現。我們正在搜尋的時候，聽到外面卡車門砰的一聲關上了，因為是擅自闖進來的，於是我們趕忙從後門出去了。
我不知道坎迪是不是看見了鬼，或者有人能像猩猩那樣爬上樓去，總之一切都沒有定論。一年後人們拆了老房子，隨後一座漂亮的現代建築矗立在那裡。我就在想，新房子的主人會不會有夜半來客呢…
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