Mike Anderson's Short Story: The Haunted House

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It was a cold, windy Friday night the orphanage “Safe Anchorage” was having the kids go to bed. But one kid wouldn’t go to bed, his name was Steve he was a 9-year-old boy who had just been at the orphanage for 2 months. He was about 5’5, he had short brown hair, and had hazel eyes. His parents were both murdered, as they once were criminals too. Steve never knew the truth about them until he had nowhere to go, and because of this he had a really tough time sleeping, yet alone talking. Every day he’d stay inside the house and just look outside the window for the whole day and would only accept to eat dinner but only hand-full of food. Tonight it was a different night the wind was blowing harder than usual and there was a different scent …show more content…
In every house, all the knives were all in glass cases showed for bragging rights. Soon, they decided to look into the house of Mike Anderson, once they got to the house no one lived there. It was stranded, but there were no signs of the knife, but there was bill mail, which showed both names if the ex-home owners. Mike Anderson and Alice Anderson, and this lead to new clues, because they looked at Alice’s profile and it showed she owned two properties the stranded house, and a beach house in Florida. Both as both got deeper into the case their boss began to get nervous and thought that the case was too intense for both of them to handle, eventually, they have been kicked off the case. This made both of them mad to the point where they destroyed the office and both got fired. They ended up doing drugs and being alcoholics, leading them to be homeless out on the streets. Steve lived homeless for the rest of his life and died of an overdose and a heart attack; while Johnson was put in jail for life as he went on to kill his own boss. Years later after both men had died the case was never solved. There was a theory that Mike Anderson was never actually dead he faked his owned death so that the police would get off his back. But this theory couldn’t be proven true since no one could find Mike after his

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