One night his friends wanted Miles to
join them, exploring an abandoned house

that was rumored to be a haunted house
full of scary ghosts.

Miles refused to go, superstitious, and
too scared to enter the house.

Nobody ever saw his friends after
that night.

He told the police he believed the house
his friends explored had taken them.

But the police laughed at his crazy theory,
said they searched the house

and didn’t believe his friends had
gone in it.

But he knows the house devoured his friends;
in nightmares he’s seen them screaming,

their spirits trapped in that old, haunted house.

Bob Boyd