Twenty years have passed since my sister and I made an unsuccessful joke on our cousin. But I am still tormented by the question: what happened that night? It was just a joke!
At that time I was fourteen years old, my sister was ten. Once, on New Year's Eve, relatives from the city, our uncle and aunt, came to our village. They brought with them their son Tolik, the same age as my sister. On the very first evening, our parents, grandparents took their visiting relatives to visit someone. They decided not to take the children with them.
As a senior, I was told to look after the younger ones. Frankly, I was outraged by this alignment, because friends and girlfriends were waiting in the yard. The evening was ruined. I saw the cause of my troubles in Tolik, so I decided to recoup on it.
Merchant Eremey
- Let's tell Tolik that a monster lives in my grandmother's closet, - I persuaded my sister.
She enthusiastically joined this game, and we began to "process" Tolik. We told him that the old wardrobe in the grandmother's room long ago belonged to the greedy evil merchant Eremey. During the revolution, the merchant was killed, and his property was distributed to poor fellow villagers. However, since that time, the ghost of the former owner has lived in the closet … In general, my sister and I have given free rein to our imaginations. Tolik listened to us with an open mouth.
- If you enter a room with a wardrobe at night and pronounce the merchant's name three times, you can see his ghost! - I finished my "horror story" in an ominous whisper.
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- Fairy tales are all, - remarked Tolik doubtfully.
- Do not trust? Try to go into the room and call the merchant. Unless, of course, you are not afraid, - and added meaningfully: - I was not afraid in my time …
Bad joke
The trick worked. Tolik went to grandmother's room. It was clear that the boy was scared, but he did not want to hit his face in the dirt in front of us. Therefore, having gathered up his courage, he confidently stepped into the dark room. My sister and I, barely holding back our laughter, closed the door behind him. My little sister immediately put her ear to the keyhole, but I hurried to the kitchen. The fact is that part of the wall between the grandmother's room and the kitchen was rotten, and there, near the floor, there was a small hole that was used by domestic cats with might and main. Father and grandfather did not have all the hands to patch up this gap. Armed with a poker, I leaned over to the hole and listened.
- Well, Eremey, Eremey … - Tolik's voice rang out.
He hesitated, apparently listening. And then he made up his mind and said loudly again:
- Eremey!
I was just waiting for this. I thrust a poker into the hole and grabbed my cousin by the leg. You should have heard him screaming!..
In general, when we entered the room and turned on the light, Tolik was sitting in a corner whiter than chalk and looking at the wardrobe with wide eyes. It was then that I realized that I had gone too far.
- Tolik, what are you doing? We were joking. But my brother didn't seem to hear me.
He continued to look at the closet and kept repeating: “He's there! There!.."
Revived ghost
The consequences of our trick were dire. My sister and I foolishly, giggling, told our parents about everything. But those, against expectations, did not laugh, but gave us a well-deserved thrashing. But this is nonsense. The worst thing is that since then Tolik began to stutter and often woke up screaming at night. But the most striking thing is that my brother did not believe that we were playing him. He claims that he really saw a ghostly silhouette against the background of the cabinet!
However, this is not all. Since then, something strange began to happen in our house: either the grandmother complains that things disappear from the closet and reappear, then the doors suddenly open by themselves. And grandfather once almost died of a heart attack, after he saw a ghostly silhouette against the background of the cabinet in the dark.
How can this be explained? Perhaps our fantasies have spawned a monster?
Konstantin LUKYANOVSKY, Dnepropetrovsk
