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My grandparents lived in an older home on Walnut near the end of town. I believe the old grocery store a couple of houses away is now a Casey's gas station. Anyway, the house has an interesting setup where the front and back bedrooms ran the width of the house with a landing in between that linked the bedrooms. There was a bathroom off to one side and the stairs on the other. The stairs were off the living room which also was the length of the front of the house.
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When I was, I think, seven or eight years old, I was at my grandparents' watching ET with my grandparents and family.
The living room was set up,
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so my grandma's chair was about halfway back. I was sitting next to her chair pretending to learn to crochet and suddenly felt very uncomfortable. I was a pretty fearless child, so I looked in the direction of the feeling. Leaning over the rail of the landing was a shadowman. He had no face but long arms and fingers. His head turned toward me, and I felt a feeling of darkness and dread. It was a terrifying feeling. I stared at them, then turned toward
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