Most people expect ghosts to haunt their homes. Or the place they died in.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1dVxvrC0hY
I haunt neither.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEq0r1kErcq
I had the chance to go anywhere. To choose one place that I would stay in for the rest of my undead existence. Why would I choose the place I’d already spent all of my living days in?787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRstnbMNfNe
I picked a hall. An old, old Tudor manor house that’s been here since before the Norman Conquest.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9ZqAbsypRo
I hear you questioning why I picked this place, out of everywhere on Earth, I picked here. Why?787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLTdkaX9Mgo
I hear it’s best to pick somewhere you have a connection to (don’t ask me how, it’s one of those things you just wake up after death knowing) and so I did. When I was a child, my parents brought myself and my siblings here. A lot. It’s free to the public and we were always short on cash. The train wasn’t too expensive, either.
The only downside now is that people expect me to be some old time ghost from the 1500’s.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7mU1ljoywG
I can hear them. Those that believe forget that. Those that don’t believe don’t seem to care either way. They call me Margaret. They call me the White Lady. They say I died in 1527. They say I’m waiting for my brother to return home from Ireland.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhJB0FRRfln
But I am neither, and they’re all wrong.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhCd6qxzUAr
I’m just a ghost. A young girl that died not so long ago, haunting a place that is centuries older than herself. Sometimes I get bored.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjHJ5VCJPUO
Sometimes I like to mess with them. I’ll take keys and hide them, or I’ll knock the pictures on the wall askew ever so slightly. Just enough for them to know I’m here, but just enough for them to question my presence.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLdLqOcwlUz
My latest venture has been the most fun. There’s a replica of an old Elizabethan dress is one of the chambers. I like to make the skirts ruffle when someones back is turned. There’s a chest full of replica chain mail, too. I like to move the chest when it’s nearly closing time. The volunteers hear the heavy scraping of the chest along the floor and come running up the stairs. But they never see me, not when I don’t want them to.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsLBCTQBQpv
They say the hall is haunted by many ghosts, but it’s not. Just me. It gets lonely, being the only one here in such a big hall. There are so many chambers and dining rooms, and the kitchen itself I’m sure is as big as the house I used to live in.
They visited one day. My family. My parents and the two siblings I left behind. They didn’t stay long; I think it reminded them of me too much. My younger brother trying on the heavy metal helmet and my sister tying the maids apron around her waist… I used to do that when I was as small as they are. I tried to get their attention, to let them know I’m still here. I tried all my usual tricks, but none of them worked. I ruffled the dress but my father blamed it on a hidden air vent. I tapped on the windows but my mother blamed it on a bird. They left all too quickly, and I stood at the window and watched them go. My heart longed to go with them, but it had stopped beating too long ago.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUfyMVC0Zhx
It gets awfully lonely, being a ghost. You would have thought the world would be full of ghosts, given all the people that’ve died over all the thousands of years. But it’s not. It's just me. Or that’s what it feels like anyway.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiERykODCT3
It's not all it's cracked up to be, this whole living-dead thing. I imagined being a ghost would be fun, playing pranks on people and having a laugh until the end of time. But it's hard to laugh when there's no one to laugh with. It's hard to have fun, really, when it's just me, myself and I.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡm7APx6R4nr
Perhaps one day I'll go to Heaven, if it exists. I'll join my family and we'll live happily ever after on a cloud way up there in the sky.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6zKqm3GEsX
Yes. I'd like that.787Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxFf8Cqb4Om
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