A flash of bright white
Splitting open the darkness
Creating a chill
Silver handle clicks
Hinges screaming in the night
Door slowly opens
🎃
Something standing there
It smells of earth and decay
Red eyes glowing bright
🎃
It cackles loudly
Piercing the silence of night
Vanishes slowly
Opening his eyes
Something in the dark staring
While he is sleeping
☠️
Man screams in terror
The shape slowly dissipates
Red eyes lingering
Upon a dark road
Big house sitting all alone
Ghosts roaming its halls
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Floorboards creaking loud
Ghost hunter turning to look
Frozen in terror
Rapping on the wall
Smiling as I tap the beat
Something just knocked back
The image flickers
Something moving in the room
White and transparent
Boards creaking loudly
Ghostly steps on basement stairs
Spirit ascending
The spirit drifts – moves
Transparent nighttime motion
While the world slumbers

(pen and ink provided by my wife)
It was there,
just at the corner,
a twinkle,
a flash,
something quick,
fading out of sight.
Tick, tock, tick – night time
The hallway floor creaks softly
Footsteps in the dark