The Old House? The Hermit"s House? No one lives there now do they? Used to be an old man who did. Never came out; never saw anyone. Just stayed locked up there in his own little world. People used to see lights coming on at night, but no one ever actually saw him. Don"t know who he was or what he was doing. Children all thought the place was haunted, of course. I myself remember sneaking up to a window once with my g**g of friends, before we lost our nerve and dashed away, giggling madly with relief.
But he"s gone now. Died up there they say: died as he lived, in the old house all alone.
When I first came to The Old House it had stood empty for a little over thirty years. I had, I recall, been asked by its then-owner, a distant relative of the previous occupant, to look over the place
