Today's visitors who visited the house, which was occupied by a family which was considered rather influential in their time, had been preserved in this town which remained as a historical site.  Visitors who spotted a phantom mother carrying a baby at the top corner of the house, and a recurrence of a girl jumping to her death will be told the story. 

Set in a Wild West type of the 19th century, there was this family who had a lot of kids.  The mother who has a strong influence over her kids always had ways to deal with them whenever anyone is misbehaving.

Their house was somewhat huge; made red bricks without any plastering finishes (that was the style of houses during that time).  Having a block just for accomodation and its permeter stretches to a considerable area of vegetation which appears to be their own garden or plantation.

Whenever the eldest daughter misbehaved, the mother will order her to sleep in a basement room which was somewhat like an "isolation cell" in a detention centre as she has the tendancy of creating a nuisance whenever her mother is taking care of her youngest brother who was still very much a toddler.  Little did the mother know that this room which her daughter was made to stay in had a reason why she would always resist going in whenever she was punished.

The basemetnt of the house was reinforced with wooden beams.  A walk down to the "isolation cell" took about 5 minutes and the path is dimly lit by oil lamps that lined it loosely.   Whenever the eldest daughter had to sleep there, she had to walk there alone, sleep for a night and only allowed to return to rejoin the rest the next morning.  The nights got creepier whenever she sees a shadowed pair of legs as if someone was sitting at the edge of the platform above her room and kicking the legs in a playful manner.

On one tragic night, the daughter, who had already grown up over the years, had already got considerable fear of that scene and when she snapped, she ran all the way back to the residence block at night, up the 7th floor and jumped to her death.

That is why whenever visitors who were spooked by the jumping scene will always see other objects in place as if someone had threw it down from the building.

The next scene showed one of the villagers running out to prevent military forces from invading the village.  Fortunately, no one was hurt as the troops were attempting to move in via trucks.

I was last seen narrating the story and giving the model of the house a wipe; but as my fingers moved near the spot where the phantom mother was spotted, I could feel a gust of wind, and quickly covered the whole model in the white sheet of cloth.

Eyes opened, it was already near 10am.




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