The Old Castle: A Family's Mysterious Home

To start with… this is not a normal house. This is a very old castle, but I call it a house since I was

born in the castle. It’s almost like the house is alive the older it gets. It’s like the house is breathing

sometimes. My whole family have lived here their whole life… so it’s a very old castle. After my

grandparents died, my family was alone it that house. We were used to be around 7 people in the

castle, but now we are only 4 because my 2 brothers moved out. So now it’s only my me, my mom

and my 2 sisters. I tried to talk my mom into selling the house because it was too big for us, but

she couldn’t sell the house, since it has been our family’s house for a long time. My dad was a really good friend to me, but he was busy most of the time because he was the one to put the food on the table. My dad and I is hunting sometimes and that is the only thing we do together. It was hard to live in the house when I was younger, and still kinda is… When I was younger I though my brother was walking outside my bedroom door, so I went up from my bed and went out to the hallway and saw a shadow that was taller than my brother. So I went after him and tried to make him stop, but he started running down the stairs and I couldn’t follow up. So I went back to my room and back to my bed to sleep. The next day I asked my brother if it was him, but it wasn’t but I though “He was probably sleep walking”. But that is almost 5 years ago now… A little after we moved to the castle, my dad started getting sick, and it was with the same disease as my grandparents had... He was getting worse and worse… there was nothing we could do to make him healthy. My dad was only half awake and was now lying on his bed with my mom by his side. I walked down the stairs and was thinking about life, and then I saw all the pictures we had of family members on the wall. Our castle was really homely for a castle. We started to put out advertisement about our house to try to get it sold… but it took weeks before someone even contacted us. It was a widow with her 3 kids. She wanted a big house for her kids, even though she knew it was a castle. She said it has always been her dream to get a big house and feel like a princess. So me and my mom discussed if it was a good idea to sell the house to the widow. At the start we were thinking she couldn’t take care of such a big house alone. But she were very kind so we gave it another chance. We showed her the room where my father was in and that wasn’t on purpose, but when she saw him she wanted to help. Then she said “I am a doctor. I think I can help!”. We gave it a chance and she gave him some tea and it helped him. So now he could stand up but he was still really weak and it would take weeks before he was healthy... We turned our backs away and she disappeared… She looked like my grandmother, but younger.