5. House of the Dead

Children often find themselves at the mercy of the adult world, and sometimes feel powerless to influence the course of their own existence. At times, they may be tormented by the complexities of a life that no one has been able to satisfactorily explain to them. In a small house in Glen Burnie, Maryland, the life of 10-year-old Billy Bean is already in crisis. He and his teenage sister are attacked in the middle of the night ‚Äì pinned to their beds by unseen intruders. Billy knows that there is something evil in the house, and it is slowly destroying his family. As the attacks get worse, he struggles to learn the secrets of the house on Little Road‚ and fight them in any way he can, to save his sanity.

Plot summary and ending

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Complete story — includes the ending

In Glen Burnie, Maryland in 1970, 7-year old Billy Bean has gone through the worst moment of his childhood that he would never forget. In 1970, the Bean family moved into a new home. His parents are Patricia and Bill, and his siblings are his older teenage sister Patty and younger brother Bobby. After a while, a series of supernatural incidents start to plague the family. After a couple years, Patty gets married and moves out of the house. Billy's father becomes an abusive alcoholic and also removes himself from the house after a conflict with Patricia, leaving her to care for Billy and Bobby. As life in the house continues to unravel, Patricia begins to lose her sanity and becomes the focus of physical attacks by the entity haunting the house, even finding herself being strangled at night. After this, Billy and his family leaves the house. Years later, Billy finds some answers to the ghost who tormented his family from an investigator.

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