Personal Narrative: Moving To Dotson Street

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This is a true story about when my family and I moved to Dotson Street. When I was 2 years old we sold our old house and had to live in my great-grandparents house, when my new house was being built. My great grandparents were not there because they had recently moved into an assisted living complex. My great grandparents let, Steve, Susan, Cody, Nolan, my dog Chase, and I stay in their home. Everything seemed normal at first while we were moving in, but as time went on things got strange.
The first time we came into the house we noticed our cell phones would either shut off or loose signal. After being there a few days Susan came to tuck my brothers, Nolan and Cody in for bed and turn on their nightlight. As she attempted to turn on the night light, Nolan said, “Please don’t plug in the night light. It was going up and down and on and off and on all night long.” Susan didn’t understand why he said that and left it off anyway. That same night Steve heard something which sounded like it was coming from outside. Steve looked outside to see if there were people outside, but he saw no one. He thought that there might just be someone outside at the neighbor’s house talking so he just went back to bed. The
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If you know how manly men are and dentally don’t want to go hid at his mom’s house, you can only imagine how this must have appeared in our family. After my family and I moved out of the house there has been multiple people who have moved in and moved right back out. After Steve’s mom had done some research she had found out that the only hospital in Rock Hill was located down the street from Dotson. The old hospital was located on Ebeneezer road. The hospital housed all the children that went through the polio outbreak of the 1940’s. The houses on Dotson Street were used as an overflow facility for the hospital. The voices that Steve heard were the voices of the children who had died from

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