remember that tree everyone said was haunted?

They said strange things happened near it-sightings, creepy noises, people disappearing. Sometimes I believed the rumours; sometimes I was sceptical. But it didn't really make a difference. The tree was there, and sometimes, they said, it whispered to you.
(This was written for a zine, which can be found here: https://muggleweasley.wordpress.com/zine/. Please consider checking out my friend's story as well!)