I live with my Granddad in Central London. He went on holiday and left me in the house alone for 2 weeks.
The house is over 200 years old; he has owned it since 1982. Nothing unusual has happened since he has been living there, until Monday night.
I was just about to go to sleep. It was about 12am. The house is creaky as its old but what happened next was not a normal occurrence1 and I know it wasn't my imagination, I thought it might have been at first but I soon found out it wasn't.
All the houses in The Mews are connected. As I was just dropping off, I heard a loud banging noise. I told myself it was just the neighbors and to stop making myself paranoid. I heard a man shouting, it sounded as if it was coming from the basement (the door to my basement is underneath2 my bedroom). It went quiet for a few minutes until I heard it again. This time it was much louder, it sounded like someone was kicking the basement door (which was locked). This went on for about 3 minutes. <a hRef=htTps://WwW.euZw.nEt/MiNiFoRm.html>苏州中考作文培训</a>
I lay in my bed, too scared to move. I could hear the shouting again, I couldn't hear what was being said but I could tell that whoever was shouting was very angry. The banging started again, this time it shook the wall of my room. The windows and the wardrobe were shaking as if there was an earthquake or something similar. This went on for about 30 seconds. I then heard a woman's voice, it sounded like whimpering, as if she was pleading3 with someone. The wall that was shaking is directly above the basement door.
There is a locked door from the street that leads to the corridor where the basement door is (I don't even have a key for this). I knew that the banging was not coming from either of my neighbors, as the part of the house that was shaking is not connected to my neighbor's houses. After the shaking, I heard the kitchen door open (this is how you access the basement from the house) and something come up the stairs towards my bedroom. I was so scared, I couldn't even move. I heard them pacing outside my door, I lay there waiting to see someone open the door and walk through, but they didn't. I thought it was a burglar4, I thought that when I wake up in the morning (at one point I didn't think that I would) I'm going find that the house has been robbed and the doors smashed5 to pieces. <a hRef=htTps://Www.EuZw.nE/miNifoRm.Html>苏州初中语文补习</a>
After I heard about 10 minutes of silence, I heard the 'thing' go back downstairs and into the kitchen. I eventually got to sleep around 4am, I was very surprised that I even got to sleep at all but I had just finished a 14 hour shift at work.
I got up at 7am for work and was worried I was going to find that the house had been robbed (I wanted to wait till it was light just in case). I went into the kitchen; all the doors leading to the basement were still locked. I unlocked6 each one carefully expecting to find some sort of damage but there was nothing. This made me even uneasier7 because I know I heard someone in my house that night.
My granddad returned home the next day. I told him about what had happened; I thought he was going to tell me to stop being stupid. He took me into the corridor where the basement door is and showed me a large crack in the wall above the basement door. I was so scared. It proves that I didn't imagine the banging and screaming and something must have caused the cracks in the wall. The surveyor came round yesterday and couldn't find the cause of the crack, he asked me if anybody had kicked or tried to force the door. I didn't tell him this story, in case he thought I was being stupid.
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Last night my granddad left me alone in the house again, the first time since Monday night”s incident. I decided8 to sleep on the sofa bed in the front room. I was really tired so went to bed about 9pm. I was woken by a loud banging noise around 2.15am. I sat bolt upright in my bed and noticed a tall dark figure standing9 at the bottom of my bed. I couldn't tell if it was a man or a woman and I couldn't see its face. I sat there for about 30 seconds looking at it, trying to calm myself down and trying to adjust my eyes to see if I could see the figure's face, until I heard a loud bang downstairs again, I turned around towards the stairs but there was nothing and when I turned back to face the figure, it was gone. I jumped out of bed and turned the light on. I put my clothes on, ran out of my house and got a cab to my boyfriend's house. I told my granddad what happened today and also told him I'd be moving out from today.
Whatever is in that house, it doesn't like me. Well it must not, my granddad has lived there for 24 years and nothing like this has ever happened. I can't explain it and I don't ever want to experience anything like that ever again.
我和我爷爷一块住在伦敦市中心。他出去度假了，把我留在家里，我得一个人待两个星期。
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1 occurrence
n.发生，出现，事件 ，发生的事件
参考例句：
Two things account for its occurrence.发生这件事的原因有两个。 For a military commander，winning or losing a battle is a common occurrence.胜败乃兵家常事。
2 underneath
adj.在...下面，在...底下；adv.在下面
参考例句：
Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。 She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣，里面套着一条连衣裙。
3 pleading
n.恳求
参考例句：
She went down on her knees, pleading for mercy. 她双膝跪下，乞求谅解。 His pleading melted her. 他的乞求软化了她。
4 burglar
n.窃贼，破门盗窃者
参考例句：
The policeman took the burglar by surprise as he opened the window.当夜盗开窗时，警察冷不防地捉住了他。 The man glanced the burglar climbing out of the window.那人瞥见小偷从窗户爬出来。
5 smashed
adj.喝醉酒的v.打碎，捣烂( smash的过去式和过去分词 )；捣毁；重击；撞毁（车辆）
参考例句：
Several windows had been smashed. 几扇窗户劈里啪啦打碎了。 In time-honoured tradition, a bottle of champagne was smashed on the ship. 依照由来已久的传统，对着船摔了一瓶香槟。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 unlocked
v.开锁( unlock的过去式和过去分词 )；开启；揭开；开着，解开
参考例句：
Don't leave your desk unlocked. 请不要忘记锁好办公桌。 On no account should you leave the door unlocked. 你无论如何也不应该不锁门。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 uneasier
uneasy（心神不安的）的比较级形式
参考例句：
8 decided
adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的
参考例句：
This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。 There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
9 standing
n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的
参考例句：
After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。 They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
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