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When I was young, there was a girl in the elementary school I went to who could see ghosts.

First of all, it would be better to reveal the name of the person.

The girl’s name was Sarah.

From the moment she entered elementary school, Sarah was famous among the children. Because he had an accident so big that he became famous in an instant.

It wasn’t a common, trivial accident like fighting with a child in the same class or having trouble with a teacher.

The year we entered elementary school, there was a major accident that caused an uproar in the neighborhood.

Sarah found a body buried in the hill behind the school.

The body of a person stabbed to death.

It was the body of a man believed to have been murdered by someone.

It is literally a major accident.

A young girl, only eight years old, discovered the body and reported it to the police.

If you look at it with common sense, the story had more than one or two strange parts.

At the time, the local police station was unaware that a murder had occurred. The murdered man was a homeless man who no one paid any attention to. Sarah had discovered a body that no one had even known existed, let alone found it.

Moreover, Sarah acted as if she knew from the beginning that the body was buried in the mountain behind her.

It wasn’t something I found by chance while walking down the street. It seems that they brought a shovel with them to dig up the body before climbing the mountain.

Sarah herself took a shovel, dug the body out of the ground, and reported it to the police.

All of this happened in the middle of the night.

Sarah was with the body she had dug up from the mountain in the dark of night. Then, he was discovered by police who responded to the report. With a shovel full of dirt in his hand.

━Here. Guys.

When the police arrived at the mountain behind, Sarah pointed to the body with a shovel and said:

Where the shovel pointed, the bloodless hand of a corpse was sticking out through the dirt.

The police were surprised that night and spoke to Sarah like this:

━Kko, kid… ! Did you dig up the body?

━Yes.

━Have you ever seen with your own eyes someone burying a body here?

If you think about it carefully. If Sarah had witnessed the murderer burying the body in the mountain behind her, it wouldn’t have been surprising if she found the body.

━No. I couldn’t see it in person.

━Then what is it? How do you know there’s a body there?

However, I did not witness the scene of burying the body.

Sarah pointed the shovel at the body once again.

━━The guy over there taught me.

━━What?

━━The dead man over there came to me in my dream and showed me where he was buried. So, I brought a shovel and came all the way here.

It was an extraordinary answer that went beyond common sense. A dead person appeared in a dream and showed me the location of the body? However, although it may be hard to believe, the body buried in the mountain behind was not a mannequin, but a real human body.

Police immediately recovered the body and began investigating the case.

Soon after, the killer was arrested by the police.

The killer was a young man in his 20s, and he stabbed homeless people without asking.

The case was solved.

But Sarah’s discovery of the body still remains a mystery.

“8-year-old girl pulls out buried body”

“The girl who found the body “met a ghost in her dream””

It was so bizarre that Sarah’s article was even published in the newspaper at the time. Of course, it goes without saying that Sarah became famous among children. A child who sees ghosts goes to the same school, and is in the same grade as us… .

Even though I was in elementary school, I was very interested in mysterious things.

After the murder occurred, great interest arose in Sarah.

Time passed and I was in the third grade of elementary school.

I was in the same class as a girl who could see ghosts.

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When the long winter vacation ended and the new semester began, there was a girl I had heard about through rumors in the classroom I was assigned to.

I was in the same class as Sarah and was finally able to see her up close.

“Wow.”

You can tell just by looking at it.

Sarah looks different from ordinary children. The child was born to parents who had an international marriage. To be exact, his father’s side is Swedish and his mother’s side is Korean.

There was also some Western blood mixed in.

Sarah was very pretty and had a way of attracting people’s attention.

White skin that is dazzlingly white.

Blue eyes, a sharp nose, red lips, and what stands out most of all is silver hair. It was silver hair that was said to be rare among Northern Europeans.

Her hair, eyebrows, and skin were shining white among all the black-haired children.

‘It’s really white.’

It’s as white as snow. This was the first feeling I had when I saw Sarah. Not only the hair but also the eyelashes are stained white. It feels like I am looking at a carefully made Western doll.

Is it because of its striking and mysterious appearance?

From the first day of school, Sarah was often crowded with children around her. There were children who approached me simply because they were attracted to me by its appearance, and there were also children who approached me after hearing rumors of seeing ghosts.

“Sera, do you really see a ghost?”

“I see it.”

“Do ghosts really exist?”

“There should be?”

On the first day of school, Sarah heard children ask questions about ghosts several times.

I happened to be sitting next to Sarah. Whenever Sarah talked to the children, I would listen. However, should I say that I feel a bit dizzy as I continue to listen to it? I also slowly wanted to talk directly to this girl who could see ghosts.

It was when all classes for the first day of school had ended.

I spoke to Sarah outside the school building during dismissal time. Until then, there were so many children around Sarah that it was difficult to talk to her.

“Over there!”

“Why? Jinwoo.”

Thanks to her sitting next to me, Sarah clearly remembered my name.

My name is Jinwoo.

“Are you going home now?”

“Yes, I have to go.”

“Can you talk to me for a moment?”

An afternoon bathed in reddish sunset light.

I caught Sarah trying to go home from the school yard.

Sarah stood on the sand and looked at me with a puzzled expression.

“Story? What story.”

“Ghost story. I have something I want to ask.”

“Ah… ! That kind of story? What are you curious about?”

What I want to ask.

From the moment I heard the rumor that the body was found, there was something I wanted to ask Sarah. It was a question that had been buried in my heart for two years. Finally, the moment came to talk to Sarah.

“You said you could see a ghost.”

I took a deep breath and asked Sarah a question.

“… Then can you show me the ghost too?”

I want to see ghosts.

That was a wish I had always had since I was young. The child who sees ghosts is now by my side. In that case, I guess I’ll have to somehow ask them to show me the ghost.

Was my question unexpected?

Sarah frowned.

“You want me to see a ghost? Why do you want to see that?”

“Because I’m curious. So, can you recommend a place? Do you know where you can see ghosts? This neighborhood is a haunted house. It doesn’t matter if it’s a different neighborhood than this one. Most of the places I went to were crap.”

“No… .”

In short, I am asking you to recommend a place where you can see ghosts.

If a child who sees ghosts recommends a haunted song, I can definitely see something, right? Even if you can’t completely see a ghost, wouldn’t you be able to feel part of a psychic body or experience some creepy psychic phenomena?

“If you tell me a good place, I’ll buy you something to eat.”

“Are you serious right now?”

“Of course I’m sincere. Or should I buy it first?”

Sarah looked at me with a puzzled expression as I tempted her with food. A pretty girl was staring at me, but I wasn’t discouraged at all. There was really a chance to see a ghost, so there was no reason to worry about saving face.

“I’m asking this seriously. I want to see ghosts.”

I wasn’t asking as a joke.

I put on a serious expression and continued talking to Sarah. Because I’m completely smiling. Sarah, who was dumbfounded at first, seemed to be willing to have a serious conversation with me.

“Good. If you really want to see a ghost, I’ll tell you where to find it.”

“Really?”

“Really.”

To my surprise, I heard from Sarah that she was willing to tell me where the ghosts were. As soon as I heard those words, I cried out in joy. I never thought I would get an answer in just one day. Even though I told you, I thought it would take a long time.

‘Where can I see ghosts?’

Is it also a haunted house? When you think of a place where ghosts reside, the first thing that comes to mind is a haunted house. Or, even if there is no special story, it is just an abandoned house. I focused my mind and listened to Sarah’s voice.

“Over there.”

Sarah raised her finger and pointed somewhere.

If you can point to it, does that mean it is close to school? I rolled my head and looked at the direction Sarah pointed to. The moment I turned my head and looked behind me, I couldn’t help but be surprised.

Because the place Sarah was telling me about was not a haunted house or anything.

“Over there.”

“It’s school, right?”

That was the school building we went to.

I swallowed my saliva and asked Sarah back.

“Are you saying there’s a ghost in our school now?”

The place where ghosts are is not a haunted house or an abandoned house, but a school?

It was an answer I never imagined.

“Yes. You can see it over there.”

Sarah wasn’t just pointing to the school building.

Surprisingly, the place she was pointing to was our class window.

3rd grade, 5th class.

The place where we took classes not long ago.

And this is where we will be taking classes for the next year.

“… … .”

It was right then.

I saw something like a faint shadow near the window of our class that Sarah pointed to.

There was someone left in the empty classroom after the funeral.

Although it was faint, I could tell it looked like a person.

A pitch-black thing writhed beyond the window, maintaining the shape of a person.

“You don’t have to go far, Jinwoo.”

A chill ran down my spine.