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seems to be a more direct and intense approach to the ghost. On the other hand the storyteller in the ‘Farthing House’ meets the ghost accidentally. This is brought about when her assigned room had a

‘Serious leak’

and so was taken to the ‘Cedar’ room. Firstly she is happy due to the size of the room, but later when she goes upstairs to get the photographs, she hears ‘crying’ and then when she had entered the room, she got a viable feeling that

‘Someone had been’

in her room. This, unlike the ‘The Red Room’ seems a more relaxed and indirect approach to the ghost. Also this woman does not have a firm belief in science or against superstition this is shown when she says

‘I had never either believed or disbelieved in ghosts.’

The ghosts that each storyteller encounters are very different. The supposed ghost in ‘The Red Room’ seems to mimic a poltergeist, which is very noisy and aggressive as shown, when in the room,

‘there vanished four lights at once…the darkness ...

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