The ghost of Graylock

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The ghost of Graylock is a work by Dan Pblaki, translated by Rana Bagherian Kooshgazazi and published by Porteghal Publications. The present horror and horror novel is written for teenagers and is about an abandoned sanatorium that was closed forever one or two years after the suspicious deaths in it; But the truth of the matter was never revealed and the mystery remained a terrible legend in the city of Hudston. Neil, who has just arrived in this city and has heard about the legend of Paradise Nurse, decides to go to an abandoned sanatorium and see it with his own eyes!

Excerpts from the book The ghost of Graylock
“Someone called him Hess.

But it was not.

Neil and his sister stared with round eyes as the camera light shone on their faces from below. They spun slowly. On the other side of the room, near the window, stood a completely dark body. It was like the shadow of one of them. Neil knew this was impossible. The camera light was between them and the body. Their shadow had to fall behind them on the door. Neil was shaking and could not speak. He picked up the camera and tried to see who was there.

The body came forward. In that dim light, Nile recognized the fading details; Long dark hair, and a light dress that was probably a cape.
Neil tried to scream, but could not. Could not move. He could not breathe. He could not blink. He even felt that the blood in his nose was blocked.

“And then, just like the flashlight, the camera went off.”

“Grilak” is the name of an abandoned hospital that used to house and treat children and adolescents; But after the mysterious death of several young patients, it turned into a dark and scary place and rotted in the heart of the forest. During an adventurous trip to Grilak Hospital, Neil and Barry decide to come to the aid of Rebecca’s ghost to reveal the secret of her and her mother ‘s murder to everyone. Their only guide at the beginning of this path is the cryptic clue that Rebecca gave them in a poem she wrote in her yearbook. What is the secret of Rebecca – the crying girl -? Who killed Rebecca and her mother? “Can Neil and Barry help Rebecca uncover the murder secret and calm her soul?”

“Everyone has heard the stories of Gary Lockhall Asylum.
It was supposed to be local. To improve ; A hospital where children and adolescents with mental illness. They were maintained and perhaps even treated. But there was a problem. Several young patients died in mysterious events, and eventually the hospital was closed and the building abandoned to rot deep in the forest.
Newcomer Neil Kiddy wants to see Gary Lockhall with his own eyes. He thinks he’s ready for what he’s going to find in that dark and scary asylum. not ready. . . »

Part One: The Escape
Chapter One Abandoned Hospital
Neil Kiddie was sitting on the porch steps of his aunts’ old house waiting for his new friend, Wesley Baptist, to arrive, with a small bag on his feet. He had found the bag in the back of his aunt’s kitchen pantry, and he knew it would be very helpful to visit Gary Lock Hall. He threw a small flashlight for the dark, one of his sister’s hairpins to unlock, several plastic bags to collect documents, a water bottle, a digital camera, and a notebook and pen in his bag.

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The night before, Wesley had told him the legend of Paradise Nurse. The story with a serious warning “Stay away from Gary Hall … otherwise …! It was over, but all Neil wanted was to go to the forest sanatorium and see with his own eyes where these words and hadiths came from.
When it came to demons and ghosts and scary things, Neil considered himself an expert. Previously, in New Jersey, Neil and his friends knew how to make a ghost page with cardboard and magic. They knew how to film ghosts and how to recognize the excitement that comes to a person in conquered places. It took a lot of practice to learn all of this, but Neil had good coaches; His favorite TV show, Ghost Explorers, aired every Friday night. Neil had not missed a single episode since the show aired two years ago. Hosts Alex and Mark made three important points for better intelligence gathering when hunting for ghosts: keep your batteries fresh, keep your mind open, and keep your underwear clean.

“Waiting for the bus to go home?”
Neil turned and saw his older sister, Barry, standing behind him in the doorway.
“Heh heh!” Neil said. And turned his face. “Did you sleep in salt water?”

Barry continued the joke, saying, “I do not think he will come.” He came to the porch and pretended to look at the deserted street. That strong windy street shook the leaves of the trees, as if an invisible car was passing by an unknown destination. A moment later he sat down next to Neil: “Now, jokingly, you look like you’re going somewhere. “Aunt Clare and Aunt Anna told us to wait for them here.”

“Aunt Clare said they would be back soon.” “None of them told us to wait for them.”
Her sister pursed her lips. “Shopping for dinner. Indirectly speaking, wait for them. “I do not want to make them angry just two days after we came here.”

“I have some plans,” said Neil Aram. He thought that the more I was around my aunts, the more I thought about my mother. He kept his mind to himself.

“Map?” Barry looked at him left and right, as if he were arguing with him. “I apologize.”

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When Barry kindly put his hand on his arm, Neil was about to shout the truth out of frustration: I need to think of other things!

“You’re not the only one who’s struggling with these currents,” Barry said. stand up.” He shook his head at the door. “Let’s go watch TV.”
“I’m not struggling with anything,” Neil lied. “I just do not like to sit and hug the knee of grief when we come to a new city where we can go.”

“Do you want to wrap up your aunts and look at your headset?” The tone reminded him of the main street of Darb Vadaghani, which he had encountered for the first time a few days ago; A polluted river that smelled like leftover coffee; A small yellow waterfall near the bridge on the outskirts of the city and collapsing on a concrete dam; A rotten rail with crumbling wooden clamps that passed through what was once a thriving commercial center; The grasses were so tall that they fell from side to side with the crumbling timber that it sounded like a whistle when the wind blew over their tall stems; And sidewalks that were cracked and broken.

It was strange that people did not fall and their hands and feet were healthy.
“The only place you can go in this city is Aunt Clare’s pastry shop,” Barry continued. “Did you and Wesley think what would happen to you in your headset?”

“We are not going inside the city.”

Berry ate. “So where are you going?” He asked.

“Crazy house,” Neil said hesitantly. “His name was Gary Lockhall?”

“There’s a psychiatric hospital there,” Barry said. “I do not think he should be called a crazy house anymore, except in horror movies.”

“Wesley says he has a soul there. “We are going to look for the soul.”

“never.”
Neil went furious and said, “What do you mean, Omra?”

“Carefree, Neil!” Where in the world did you think you could sneak into an abandoned building? God knows what poisonous things are in the air. “It remains to be seen what, or when, he may have settled there.”
Neil regretted it. He had better lie. Why are they always so bad at lying? The thought of an empty building in the forest was his only motivation for waking up that morning. The night before, when Wesley had talked to him about the hospital, he was excited that he had finally found a reason to come to the headstone. He had something to do and a place to go and escape his parents’ fantasies. In New Jersey, his mother was overwhelmed by a flurry of confused thoughts that sparked her father’s separation. His father left them earlier that year and moved to California to pursue his old acting dream. (Abandoned Hospital)

Neil’s parents had made an escape route for themselves; Both real and imaginary. And now Neil was doing the same. The child goes to his parents. He hoped that Janet Nurse’s riddle would help him escape all these problems. Fortunately, he did not have an antenna phone near the mountain, otherwise Barry could have stopped him. Aunts were almost inaccessible in the pastry shop.

But still, it was possible to find any of them.
Neil tried to smile. He shrugged and said, “Now that I’m so worried, why don’t you come too?”
When his sister raised an eyebrow, she realized she had gone too fast.

Barry took her arm and said, “What a suggestion! “Come on.”

The sound of thumping came from the street and Neil pulled back. Thin rubber wheels spread the dirt. The boy on the bike braked and slipped to stop. Wesley Baptist.
“Hello Nile!” Attendance? Another turned into the street and approached quickly. Then he stood next to Wesley and took off his helmet. Neil immediately realized who the boy was. Wesley said he had an older brother, but did not say he would come with them.

“This is Eric, too.” (The ghost of Graylock)
Eric looked like a stretched example of his younger brother. His face was longer, his jaw was bony, and he was four-shouldered. His eyes and skin were a little darker than his younger brother, but it was still a picture that both boys were from the same parent. Eric shook his hand as he sat on his bike.
“Jumping out of their band this morning,” Wesley said. So he decided to come with us. “A guitar player.”

He smiled at Eric Massey and looked at his sour little brother on the left. “They did not throw me out,” he said under his breath. I’m not going anymore. “The group was awful.”

Barry stood and rocked himself like a dancer on stage. Neil was looking at him as he straightened his long brown hair and straightened his light blue T-shirt. “I play the viola,” Barry said. The words that came out of his mouth turned red.
Eric looked at him straight. “On this account … I know how difficult it can be to work with other musicians. I work with an orchestra, which is a little different. But still … “Barry cleared his throat and glanced at Neil.” Maybe I should come with you guys. I mean … it’s probably not a bad idea to have one or two bigger ones with you. “I say it for his safety.”
Neil pursed his lips. He hated that Barry treated him like a child. He was only four years older than her.

“I just have to take my ketone. Without waiting for an answer, Barry returned home and slammed the door behind him.
“Who’s bigger?” Wesley said to Neil. “I thought you said you were only sixteen years old.”

“Do not bother him,” Eric said calmly. That girl is also looking for adventure. “Just like you boys.”

Wesley smiled at Neil, and Neil raised an eyebrow.

Season Two (The ghost of Graylock)
The Baptist brothers leaned their bikes against the porch wall. They all had to walk because Barry did not have a bicycle and was afraid to sit on someone else’s bicycle. Neil was nervous, but at least Barry did not want to stop him from going to Gary Lockhall.

The members of the small group turned to the right from the end of the alley and started walking on the side of the road. The summer sun shone through the trees, casting a shadow over the foliage. The sound of crickets singing became louder and louder in the almost abrupt waves. The beauty of the afternoon did not match the goal the group was pursuing. Neil had realized this, but he was still more excited with each step he took. He could even feel the presence of the building in the forest waiting for him. “How much time is left?” He asked.

“Ahead is a side road,” Eric said. “I can not believe that your aunts’ house is so close to this place.”
“I can’t believe Neil had never heard of Gary Lockhall,” Wesley said. “I just told him last night.”
Barry ran forward so he could walk beside Eric, saying, “So am I! “I mean, I knew about it for years.” After a few moments of annoying silence, he added, “How did you get to know each other?”

“Well, Wesley is my younger brother,” Eric grinned. “We have known each other for a long time.”
The berry blushed. “Yes, I understood that. “But where did Wesley meet Neil?”

“Of course, the library,” Wesley said.
A few days ago, when Neil and Barry arrived at their aunts’ house, the first thing they did was go to the pastry shop together. After eating a wonderful juicy pastry at the shop’s cozy cafe, Neil thanked Aunt Clare and Aunt Anna and asked if she could walk down Tally Street, which runs through the middle of the headstone.
He still could not get the image of his mother’s teary face out of his head. A week ago he had told her baby, I need to be alone for a while. Aunt Claire suggested she take the kids with her for the summer. Headstone was several hours from their home in New Jersey. Neil’s uncle Felix’s home in Jersey City was closer to them. But he himself worked late in New York City. Then they had to be alone all day and most of the afternoon. At night, they had to lie down on a sofa bed.

Instead, Neil had fled to the village with his sister to have unlimited time and to be able to think of all the painful things he was constantly remembering. Neil now realized that one could not escape oneself. He also realized that his mind was not much different from his mother’s. (The ghost of Graylock)

On his first day in Headstone, Neil climbed Tally Street several times. He kicks the rocks in his path and leaves the bushes in front of the village houses, whispering incomprehensible songs to himself.
Neil had walked past the library twice before seeing a boy sitting on the steps. The boy was seriously staring somewhere in the distance. Neil turned to stare at the boy, but saw nothing but a steep road with a forested slope in front of him and the leaves of distant trees swaying in the breeze.
The boy asked from the top of the stairs, “Do you see?” A few seconds later, Neil realized that the boy had spoken to him.
“Who do I see?” »

The boy smiled and said, “The green man. »
He was wearing a white T-shirt with something like a purple ice cream dripping on it. Her wavy black hair was curled over her head like a salty earth tee.

Neil looked down the street and tried to find someone who defined him as a “green man.” But there were only trees and hills and sky and clouds.

“Do not say you have not heard anything about green men,” said the boy. He then motioned for Neil to come up the stairs. “You can probably see better from here.” Neil went and sat down on the steps next to the boy. “Green men are one of Ireland’s folk tales,” said the boy. “It’s a kind of forest ghost.”

“The forest ghost?” Neil asked. Something like a soul? »

“Not exactly,” said the boy. More like … like a creature. »
An existing? It was both interesting and confusing for Neil. The boy looked a little crazy. “Do you want me to remind you to see it?” »

Neil recalled how Alex and Mark kept their minds open. “Okay,” he said. »

“It’s more of a mental issue,” the boy said. You must first relax. Look around the mountainside. Let your eyes blur. On the other side of the small valley was a landscape of fading greenery. Tree, tree and again tree. The boy continued, “Now let the light and the darkness of the leaves express themselves.”

«Expression forward? »

“Just try. »

A few seconds later something strange happened. Neil did not know how, but the same act of staring – concentrating – took him elsewhere. He could feel the breeze caressing his face and the coldness of the stone steps beneath him, but it seemed … somewhere else. (Abandoned Hospital)
“Light and shadow mingle. Take a closer look. You are drowning. That’s right. In that image fade. Behold. A face. »
The boy was right. As the shadows mingled with the mass of leaves on the hill, Neil suddenly saw a pair of eyes blinking and their mouths opening and closing as if they were singing silently with the wind blowing through the leaves.

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Neil gasped and his face disappeared. He turned to the boy. “Was that a real thing?” Green man? »
The boy laughed, “Did you see it, no?” Then he fell silent and stared into the distance again. “It’s very strange that one can find them so easily,” he said. Sit down and stare for a moment at whatever you want … She will finally look at you. »
Neil smiled happily at seeing someone who was probably as weird as he was. He must have seen that face in the trees. If this boy saw it too, then they were both the same. And none of them were crazy.
The boy smiled as if the green man on the other side of the road had blinked at him. “Indeed, I am Wesley. »
Neil realized right away that they were friends. (Abandoned Hospital)
On the way back to the pastry shop, Neil stared blankly at different parts of the city – sidewalk stains, brickwork patterns and shadows falling on the cement – and tried to discover the hidden life in them. But he still could not help but think of his parents. How could a skill like Wesley’s help him uncover the secrets his parents had long kept secret? Secrets for which he had not yet been able to find a convincing answer.

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“We’ve arrived,” Eric said. And he stood by a dirt road that led to a pile of dense pines. At the crossroads, beside tall grass and hanging branches, stood a small wooden sign on a wide beam: Gary Lockhall – State Hospital.

“Do you see?” Eric grinned. None of the crazy people said. It is very tasteless. »
“What would you like to say?” Wesley asked. “Welcome to the crazy house?” (Abandoned Hospital)
“Where is he?” Neil asked. »
“Behind the trees, you have to cross a bridge at the end of the road,” Eric said. The main building on a small island in Gary Lake Lake. Forests of state property. You have nothing else. »

As the group stood at the beginning of the trail, a strong wind blew the coniferous leaves of the tall pines and turned them over. The needles were scattered in front of their feet. The pungent smell of sticky juice hung in the air.
“Are you sure you want to do this?” Eric said. »

“Is it dangerous?” Barry asked. »

“Probably,” Eric shrugged. »
Barry sighed and hugged himself, as if trying to protect himself from a cold fire that had no external presence. But in the end he took the first step on the dirt road. They walked in silence for a while. Several side roads branched off along the way. Neil could see several buildings in the distance through the dense trees. old houses. It remained to be seen whether anyone still lived in them.

Finally, Barry said, “You who do not really believe that the hospital has a soul, do you?” He was talking directly to Eric; It was clear to him how Neil and Wesley felt.

“When so many people claim to see it, it’s hard not to believe it,” Eric said. »

“Who did you see?” Barry said softly. »
“Nurse.” »

If Neil had not heard from Wesley the night before, he might have laughed. But now he was listening to Eric tell the story to his sister. It was the second time he had heard it, but again his hair straightened in tension.
When Eric’s story was over, Barry stood in the middle of the dirt road and said, “Then we’re going there … Why? »
“There is a lot to see,” Eric said. Fifteen years ago, when Gary Locke closed, his patients were either transferred to another center or released. It was very scary. Even leave the whole laboratory sample and medical table and report! »(Abandoned Hospital)

Wesley ran forward. “Tell them about the solitary chambers carved into the walls. Or a trace of blood on the floor of his hallway. Or a painting on the wall of its spiral staircase. »

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