Little Mary

In a small place called Rome Ohio I went on vacation with my aunt and my cousin. My aunts boyfriend had parents that lived there and they needed a house sitter for a few weeks so they could go on vacation. When I first arrived here I swear it looked like little house on the prairie. There were probably twenty houses tops in the whole town and the roads were dirt instead of paved.

On the way there my aunts boyfriend joked about the house being haunted and I just laughed it off, because I wasn't scared of something I couldn't see. When we reached the house it looked cozy and sweet like your grandmothers place. The house was a two story with a huge porch and black shutters. I thought about what Brian my aunts boyfriend said about little mary haunting the place, but quickly forgot about it when I saw the town hottie, which is a whole other story.

Upon entering the house I remember feeling kind of light headed and sick. I thought it was just the long drive so I went up stairs and told my aunt I needed to lie down. She showed me to my room and I went to sleep. When I woke up it was dark outside and the room was dark. I heard my aunt and everyone downstairs talking and I opened the door to go out when I heard a noise behind me. I turned when I heard somebody say don't shut the door leave it open. At this time I laughed and said scaredy cat, cause I thought it was my cousin. She never responded so I went down stairs.

I asked my aunt where the restroom was and she said I'd have to wait cause Brian was in the shower. Then I turned just in time to see my cousin walk through the front door. I asked how she snuck out so fast and she said what are you talking about I dropped the conversation thinking she was just trying to scare me.

Later that night we were getting ready for bed and I went up the stairs to get my clothes so I could shower. This time I turned on the light in my room and once again on the way out I heard it again don't shut the door leave it open, but this time I dropped everything in my hands and stared face to face with a girl my age. She was dressed in a dress from the early 1900's she had long hair and I noticed she had burns on her dress and she was so light I could see right thru her .I was so scared I closed my eyes and then opened them again but only this time she was gone. I grabbed my clothes and told myself I was just spooked from earlier but out of curiosity I asked Brian what happened to the girl mary that supposedly haunted the house and he went to the other room and brought back some papers he had gotten off the computer to show me. As I looked at them my stomach got tight and I felt nauseous because the clippings had a picture of the girl mary diller age 13 died of severe burns from a fire that trapped her in her room a long time ago.

I now know why she asked me not to shut the door and why her dress was burnt...... I also know now that I'm not crazy and I really got to meet the ghost of mary diller.......scary but true....a lot more things happened down in Rome but those stories are too scary to talk about.