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little girl in white night dress holds a lamp out from her face,
hearing the sounds from below at midnight of her place,
the parents away for the night to gather food for the week,
she walks down the steps of the old home making them creak,
the light from her lamp flickers shapes of evil in her mind,
as the feeling creeps up on her like someone is behind,
turning around to see nothing there as the wind blows,
with a tapping of the blinds making a sound that she knows,
closing the window after settling down the lamp to the floor,
just as she shuts and locks the window thinking nothing more,
something moves outside among the bushes large and white,
she cannot see through the deep darkness of the night,
frozen in fear for a moment she picks up the lamp in her hand,
holding out up to the window as the creature begins to stand,
seeing the light as she sees its face screaming in terror at its eyes,
running up the stairs and under the bed covers she cries,
hearing the sounds of it screaming getting further away,
she never told her parents about this event the next day.