Some People Are Twisted
If TV shows and movies have taught us anything, it’s that some people are so desperate to get a house that they will ignore every warning sign that ought to send them screaming in the other direction: the lonely, deserted lane it’s on, where the silence is only broken by the ominous cawing of a crow. The overgrown woods just behind the house, where unseen things rustle quietly in the shadows. The startled looks on the faces of the townspeople when the main characters tell them that they’re thinking of buying the old Robinson house.
And most of all, when someone straight up tells them that the house is haunted. I promise you, movie people, there are other houses out there—houses where your children can frolic in the yard and where you can work on your novel but where you don’t have to deal with ghosts. Heck, even a crowded apartment in the city is better than a house where the toys in the old nursery move on their own.