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thunder and lightning. Henry opened the bedroom window and told them to leave, but they kept pointing at the cemetery and saying, "Soon you'll be with us." Henry ran downstairs to the study and got his rifle out of the gun case and loaded it. Henry swung open the door and pointed his rifle at the three figures in the storm and told them to leave or he would shoot them dead in their tracks.  They didn't move, they just kept calling his name and pointing at the cemetery.

  Henry raised his rifle and opened fire on the three figures.  The bullets did nothing but go right through them. Henry ran back inside the house frightened out of his wits knowing he had shot right at them. Henry locked the front door and carried the rifle upstairs to his bedroom. He looked out the window and the three figures were gone. Henry said to himself, "I must be sleepwalking. That's what it was." Henry put the rifle down, climbed into bed and went to sleep.

  Then a few minutes later there was a knock on the front door which got louder and louder until Henry couldn't block out the noise. So he got out of bed, grabbed the rifle and headed downstairs to see who was at the door. When Henry opened the door there stood Monique with a noose in her hand and her two parents were reaching out to him telling him to put the noose around his neck. Henry turned away in terror and started shooting at them with his rifle, but the bullets didn't stop them because they were already dead. Henry threw the rifle down and ran upstairs and right as Henry reached the top of the stairs the noose wrapped around poor, frightened Henry's neck.

  Then Monique gave Henry a push and Henry's neck snapped just as Monique's had. Henry's dead body was released from the noose and Monique and her parents dragged Henry's dead body through the stormy weather over the hill and to the cemetery where his grave was already dug.

  The next morning the police came by to investigate the noises of gunfire at Henry's mansion. When the police knocked on the door the door wasn't shut all the way, so the police entered calling out to Henry. There was no response. One of the officers said, "Look at the top of the stairs.  There's a noose dangling from the rafters."

  As the officers reached the top of the stairs there were three sets of muddy footprints. When one of the officer's turned to look at the steps, he followed the muddy footprints

  down the stairs out the front door. The officer decided to call in for backup and treat this as a homicide

  As the officers were searching the property one of them found a shoe and another officer found sets of footprints leading to the top of the hill.  The grass was matted down as though someone had been dragging something behind them.

  The other officers met the other two officers at the top of the hill and they all were shocked at what they saw. The chief of police said, "I've been to this cemetery before and was present at Monique's burial and her parent's burial before that and there were only three graves, not four." "Are you sure?" asked one of the officers.The chief said, "I've been Chief of police for over thirty years and have I ever made up anything." "Well, no sir," said the officer.

  All the officers went down to look at the tombstone it read, "May my greedy husband that killed me R.I.P." One of the officers touched the writing on the tombstone and said, "This is fresh blood." The chief's response was, "There's no way Monique and her parents came back from the dead to kill Henry the same way Monique died. Or did they?"

  After further investigation from the crime scene investigators, they decided to exhume the body from the fourth grave.  Henry's body was in the grave with his eyes wide open in terror as though he'd seen a ghost. The writing was determined to be the blood from Henry's own body and the tombstone was dusted for prints. It had several sets, but none other than Monique and her two parents.

  Many rumors spread throughout the town about what happened to Henry. Many teenagers would stop by to break into the mansion and see the noose hanging from the stair and maybe even get a glimpse of the ghosts of Monique and her parents.

  Each night, after the clock struck twelve, the front door would open and the noose could be seen swinging back and forth at the top of the stairs.  A shadowy man could be seen putting the noose over his head and being pushed by a dark figure. The man's body would then be dragged down the stairs and out the front door before vanishing into thin air.

  Other teenagers told stories about going to the top of the hill on a stormy night and seeing a freshly dug grave and three shadowy figures dragging another shadowy figure down the hill to the grave.  One of them would write something on the tombstone and then the figures disappear.

  Another story was told by a teenager that if you run back and forth over the four graves calling Monique's name six times she will rise up out of her grave and scratch your eyes out. Henry's death was later ruled as unexplained and Monique's as suicide. Since then the mansion was boarded up and no trespassing signs were posted on the property, but that didn't stop thrill seekers from getting a glimpse of a ghost.