PRELUDE TO CHAPTER ONE:
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SEPTEMBER 2009
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An eerie silence had fallen over the town of Crystal Falls. The town, coincidentally located near Lake Eerie in Michigan, was rumoured to be one of the most haunted locations in the whole world.
This day in particular was somewhat uneventful, the autumn leaves had covered the ground, and it seemed like just yesterday that the summer had ended. A light rain was falling over the whole town, and soon would turn into a thunderstorm, which as the town was unaware at the time, may have been an omen of things to come...
CHAPTER ONE:THE NIGHTMARE BEGINS| PART 1|
It had been so long since Seymour Harper had been in a good mood, for numerous reasons too. Sure, summer was nearly over, however, Seymour had never liked summer, due to the humidity and the heat it brought with it. It was the final day before school was set to start back. Seymour, being only sixteen years old, was of course facing the typical days adolescents faced.
Seymour lived in a modern two-story house in the suburban area of Crystal Falls, with his older brother Chip. Chip was thirty-four years old, and had been Seymour's guardian since he was ten, when the brothers's parents disappeared while on an expidetion to Africa. They were, as Chip had told him, archeologists, and had always been away when Chip himself was a child. Chip himself stated several times that he never figured out what exactly had happened to their parents, and after six years, both brothers had given up hope of seeing them again. But today, Seymour felt it in his gut things were going to be different. True he only had two friends, Cooper Holmes, whose father was the mayor of Crystal Falls, and Earnest Dawson, an uber-geek who could fix anything you put in front of him, be it a computer, which he was especially skilled at, or a car. Seymour himself was into the paranormal. Whether it was because he had spent his entire life in Crystal Falls, the self proclaimed "Most Haunted Place in the World" was unclear. But Seymour had always suspected there was something going on, despite Chip's frequent claims that there was NOTHING unusual in the town, and the whole idea was for a tourist trap. At this moment, Seymour was at his computer looking up all the legends about the town, and finding a lot of supected incidents, in fact, he surely would've missed the bus that morning if Chip hadn't called him upstairs from his basement bedroom. Seymour told Chip goodbye and climbed on the bus. He made his way down the aisle and sat down beside Earnest and Cooper, not knowing this would be the day his life would change forever.
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SEPTEMBER 2009
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An eerie silence had fallen over the town of Crystal Falls. The town, coincidentally located near Lake Eerie in Michigan, was rumoured to be one of the most haunted locations in the whole world.
This day in particular was somewhat uneventful, the autumn leaves had covered the ground, and it seemed like just yesterday that the summer had ended. A light rain was falling over the whole town, and soon would turn into a thunderstorm, which as the town was unaware at the time, may have been an omen of things to come...
CHAPTER ONE:THE NIGHTMARE BEGINS| PART 1|
It had been so long since Seymour Harper had been in a good mood, for numerous reasons too. Sure, summer was nearly over, however, Seymour had never liked summer, due to the humidity and the heat it brought with it. It was the final day before school was set to start back. Seymour, being only sixteen years old, was of course facing the typical days adolescents faced.
Seymour lived in a modern two-story house in the suburban area of Crystal Falls, with his older brother Chip. Chip was thirty-four years old, and had been Seymour's guardian since he was ten, when the brothers's parents disappeared while on an expidetion to Africa. They were, as Chip had told him, archeologists, and had always been away when Chip himself was a child. Chip himself stated several times that he never figured out what exactly had happened to their parents, and after six years, both brothers had given up hope of seeing them again. But today, Seymour felt it in his gut things were going to be different. True he only had two friends, Cooper Holmes, whose father was the mayor of Crystal Falls, and Earnest Dawson, an uber-geek who could fix anything you put in front of him, be it a computer, which he was especially skilled at, or a car. Seymour himself was into the paranormal. Whether it was because he had spent his entire life in Crystal Falls, the self proclaimed "Most Haunted Place in the World" was unclear. But Seymour had always suspected there was something going on, despite Chip's frequent claims that there was NOTHING unusual in the town, and the whole idea was for a tourist trap. At this moment, Seymour was at his computer looking up all the legends about the town, and finding a lot of supected incidents, in fact, he surely would've missed the bus that morning if Chip hadn't called him upstairs from his basement bedroom. Seymour told Chip goodbye and climbed on the bus. He made his way down the aisle and sat down beside Earnest and Cooper, not knowing this would be the day his life would change forever.