One fine day Aman, Rehan, Rakshit and Natasha were discussing various topics and Rehan started to talk about the haunted house in the corner of their city. Aman was a coward, he got really scared hearing Rehan’s words and so Rehan and Rakshit started to tease him and Aman in his defense he said that he was courageous and brave.

Rehan and Rakshit took a chance and challenged him to go to the haunted house and Aman accepted the challenge. Natasha warned them by sharing her experience that one day when she was walking in front of the haunted house she felt a cold wind passing from the house but it was a sunny day. But no one was in the mood to listen to her.

In the evening, the three friends set on their way to the haunted house. Then Rehan said to Aman,

“Your challenge is to go to the top floor of the haunted house and wave your hands from the room’s window,” Aman entered the deadly house and as he stepped in strange noises and croaking voices were heard but he kept going inside. Then Rakshit and Rehan started following him to exhibit their plan.

Their plan was that Rakshit had to dress up as a ghost in a room to scare Aman. Rakshit was inside the room changing his outfit when he heard Rehan’s voice. He went outside and to his astonishment, there was a long white-coated ghost Rehan noticed Rakshit and both got frightened and started to run as fast as they could. Both of them started to scream.

Aman started to mock them as they had challenged him but they were running in fright. Rehan and Rakshit were not in a mood to listen to anything that he said, and told him to take them outside if he was brave but suddenly the white-coated deadly ghost appeared before them and they ran away as fast as they could.

Meanwhile Natasha with another friend came to the haunted house, as she was worried about her friends. While Aman and Rehan were running to the front door they met Natasha and there they realised that they had left Rakshit behind, but both of them were too scared to go back to risk their life. Natasha made them all go to search for Rakshit, guided by Rehan.

Rakshit was screaming for help, and all the friends found him and helped him get out and again the phantom appeared before them and all of them started running, while running Natasha fell and noticed a leg of the phantom, while it was running to catch her other friends. She had heard that ghost’s usually do not have legs or have reversed legs. Natasha’s other friend who came with her also slipped when she was climbing the stairs and met Natasha.

While Aman,Rehan and Rakshit were running they found the top floor rooms but the room was locked and the phantom was coming towards them. Natasha told her friend what she noticed and both understood that the phantom was a human so they decided to remove the cloth that was covering him and everyone saw his identity; he was not a ghost but a human.

Suddenly Rehan felt that he had seen him in a poster on the wall and surprisingly he was a burglar that the police were looking for. There were posters here and there of the burglar, and so they called the police who arrested him.

The policemen informed the children that he was a robber who robbed the people and used the house to keep the money. To make sure that no one could find him he used ghost costumes to chase the people who came near the house. The policemen also thanked the children for helping them and went away.

One of the friends said that there was nothing like ghosts and they all decided to go home. Before going back Aman thought about why the door upstairs did not open and looked up, and a light lit up and a statue was standing in front of the window. Seeing this he ran towards his friends to tell them what he saw, but his friends laughed at him and did not believe him. Was there really a ghost there?

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