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a plant that tends to grow where not wanted and to prevent the growth of more desirable plants usually by taking up space Soaked to the bone – idiomatic expression : to be extremely or completely wet, especially through the clothing

lacking the people, plants, animals, etc., that make people feel welcome in a place to visit or inhabit as a ghostĭesolate – adj. And I still love being scared out of my wits!ĭo you remember a time when you were scared out of your wits? Practice using the words and expressions you heard in this story by describing it in the Comments Section.Īnna Matteo wrote and produced this story for VOA Learning English. To this day, the thought of it still sends shivers down my spine. That is exactly how I remember the first haunted house my parents took me to. You dig your hands into the candy bowl and fill your pockets with sweets. If you're lucky, maybe a plate of cupcakes, too. He's looking right at you, laughing.įear takes over your whole body, as you run out of the house only to find. From a small window you look outside and see a crazed man holding an axe. It flies toward your neck with blood dripping from its razor-sharp teeth.Īs you try to escape, you trip down some stairs and fall into a cold, dark basement. But a half-human, half-bat creature hangs from the ceiling. Then a deathly white hand reaches out from under a table, grabbing at your ankles! You run faster, this time up a flight of stairs.

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Screaming, you fight with the bones as they entangle your arms and legs! Finally, you break free and run for your life down a hallway.įor a moment, you think you're safe. Hoping to hide, you open a door, but a skeleton falls into your face. You run, but running only takes you farther into the nightmare. The door slams shut!įrom the shadows, things start to come toward you! You can't see anything, but you can hear them coming closer. Suddenly, two bony hands push you inside. Just as you step onto the sagging front porch, the door creaks open. It was probably just a cat, you tell yourself. As you wipe them away, you hear something behind you. Spider webs stretched across the branches get caught in your eyes and mouth.

A pathway lined with broken stones leads to an old house.Īs you walk down the sidewalk, tree branches seem to lean into your path. The front yard is tangled with overgrown weeds and vines. Neighborhood kids talked of ghosts, from a family long dead, walking through the house at night. Now, you remember where you are.This house is from your childhood. An old, ripped curtain blows from a third-story window. It looks as if no one has lived here for many years. Only a lone street lamp casts a dim, yellow light on the sad features of the house. But at second glance, your relief is chilled by the look of the place. You are soaked to the bone and need to get out of the rain. The rain has been falling steadily all night and is only getting worse. We begin as many scary stories have: It is a dark and stormy night.

This short story also gives you vocabulary and idioms for describing something scary. So, let me take you inside a real haunted house. As a child, some of my earliest and most frightening memories happened in a haunted house at Halloween. During the Halloween season, one popular activity is to visit a haunted house.

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