National Day

At age nine, I discovered R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps series. For the next couple of years, I spent sleepless nights tearing through tales of shrunken heads, evil snowmen, and rampant mummies. But my favorites were the ghost stories.

One of them was called Ghost Camp. It’s about two brothers who notice strange things happening around their summer camp. In one instance, a girl drops her hot dog into the fire. When she pulls it back out, there are no burns on her arm. Later on, the brothers find out that—DUN DUN DUN!—the other kids died in a mysterious fog and their spirits were stranded at the camp. Shock! Horror!
 

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