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Lock- in Scare
Have you ever convinced your friends you were a ghost? In the middle of a stormy night,
I became a ghost. At the junior high lock- in, I gave my friends Nicole, Olivia, Anna, and
Brittney the scare of a lifetime. The creaky stage in memorial hall gym will always make me shiver, due to the memory of my ghost encounter. I never knew how frightening I could be.
Even though I was the ghost in the situation, there was another unexplained phenomenon.
About every thirty seconds the radio that was usually used for P.E. classes on the stage would start to play rap music. Then, it would stop. My friends became frightened, fearing the Scotus ghost legends could perhaps be true. But, I thought of an excellent idea that would allow me to

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