As some of you may know, my mom is an English teacher. This year she’s taking her 8th grade students on a school trip to Canterbury. They’re staying at this amazing Victorian house which is turned into a hostel.

One day, when she was in a bit of silly mood, she told her kids that although you can’t really see it in this picture, if you look just right you can see a woman standing in the window. She has been haunting this house for years, looking for her children.

Of course they immediately believed every word of it. So, my mother being the woman that she is, she asked me to write a short scary story to tell her kids so that they’ll be nice and scared when they stay there.

The woman in the window

The Ellelsie House was built on Dover Road in Canterbury in 1875. It…