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[COMPLETED] A family moves to an old house. There are no neighbors in the area. Strange things start to happen. People get hurt. It turns out that the house has a dark past. Maybe someone died in the house many years earlier.
That sounds like a pretty typical act of a horror story, and that's pretty much what this story is about. But not exactly.
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Emily's family moves to a nice, new-built, modern house on a small street in Old Westburg where there are plenty of neighbors. But something is of about the place. What is that annoying wheezing noise that can be heard all the time and why is Emily getting nightmares of all sudden? Not could a house that was built this recently have a dark past, right?
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