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THE HIDDEN CHILD
THERE IS AN OLD, GREY HOUSE ON MARTIN STREET, ACROSS
FROM CHADSEY HIGH SCHOOL (DETROIT). A FAMILY OF
HILLBILLIES JUST MOVED IN ABOUT NINE MONTHS AGO
AND WERE TOLD BY THEIR NEIGHBORS THAT THE PEOPLE WHO
LIVED THERE BEFORE THEM COMPLAINED ABOUT ODD THINGS
THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE HOUSE. THE HILLBILLY FAMILY
ITSELF STARTED TO COMPLAIN ABOUT THE ODD NOISES. ONE
NIGHT, THE HUSBAND WAS IN BED AND HEARD A NOISE
COMING INTO HIS BEDROOM AND BEFORE HE KNEW IT, THERE
WAS A WITCH ALONG THE SIDE OF HIS BED. HE TRIED TO
GRAB THE WITCH, BUT IT DISAPPEARED BEFORE HE COULD.
HE CALLED THE POLICE, AND THEY COULDN'T FIND
ANYTHING. A FEW DAYS LATER, FOOD BEGAN TO DISAPPEAR
RIGHT OUT OF THE KITCHEN WHILE EVERYONE WAS SLEEPING.
THIS TIME, THE POLICE WERE CALLED AGAIN AND STAYED
RIGHT INSIDE THE HOUSE. THE POLICEMAN HEARD A NOISE
ONE NIGHT BUT HE MADE TOO MUCH NOISE TRYING TO SNEAK
AROUND AND SCARED THE WITCH AWAY. THEN TWO POLICEMEN
WERE PUT ON GUARD INSIDE THE HOUSE. ONE NIGHT,
THEY HEARD A NOISE COMING FROM THE LIVING ROOM AND
THEY SAW A FIGURE COMING TOWARD THEM. THE POLICEMEN
WERE PLENTY SCARED, BUT AT LEAST THEY KNEW WHERE THE
NOISE WAS COMING FROM AND WHERE IT WENT. SIX
POLICEMEN WERE CALLED INTO THE HOUSE AND THEY ALL
WENT INTO THE BEDROOM. THEY DISCOVERED A TRAP DOOR
INSIDE THE MASTER BEDROOM AND THIS TRAP DOOR LED
DOWNSTAIRS INTO THE BASEMENT. HERE THEY FOUND A
FIGURE CROUCHED INTO A LITTLE CORNER. THEY TOOK A
CLOSER LOOK AND DISCOVERED A BOY WHO WAS APPARENTLY
RETARDED IN ONE OF HIS ARMS. THEY SEARCHED FOR THE
PARENTS OF THE BOY AND DISCOVERED THAT HE WAS TWENTY
YEARS OLD AND HAD BEEN PUT DOWN THERE WHEN HE WAS
BUT ONE YEAR OLD.
Submitter comment:
MRS. KOZOREK CLAIMS THAT SHE WAS ACROSS THE STREET
ABOUT FOUR HOUSES AWAY WHEN THEY BROUGHT THE BOY OUT OF
THE HOUSE AND PUT HIM INTO AN AMBULANCE AND SHE ALSO
CLAIMS THAT THE BOY DIED OF A HEART ATTACK AT
RECEIVING HOSPITAL AND THIS HEART ATTACK WAS CAUSED
BY ALL THE EXCITEMENT. THIS STORY TOOK PLACE
ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO, SO SHE CLAIMS.
Where learned: MICHIGAN ; DETROIT
| Subject headings: | PROSE NARRATIVE -- Tale |
Date learned: 12-00-1963