My Haunted House

For years growing up, I loved scaring my friends and strangers. Especially on Halloween and after finishing university and starting my career I stopped the scaring. Then 3 years ago I came across an old empty house in need of urgent repairs, it was for sale and I just loved it, built in the 1840s. It looked like a haunted house from the movies so I purchased it. I had some work done to stabilize it and allow me time to plan its renovation. Being an electrical engineer I want to modernize it and make a home for myself. I'm David then 32 and single, but on Halloween night that year, my love of scaring people returned and I started thinking about my scary-looking house. At first, I just wanted some minor things installed that could be used to scare people. But that wasn't enough for me and I started planning a whole house makeover with scaring as its centerpiece. I had the house gutted and started remodeling its interior. With secret panels and staircase and with state of the art audio and visual equipment installed and airlines to allow air to be blown on people from hidden pipes. I redecorated in the Victorian style to suit it's exterior and had finished most just before Halloween. The garden wasn't finished and the rear deck wasn't stained, I had a house warming party for Halloween and used it to scare my friends and family. I even hired an actor to turn up dressed as an old man warning us that the house was haunted. Everyone thought it was a part of the party as it was but as the night progressed strange things started happening and the partying mood started to change. I used my tricks on people who were separated from the rest to give a fright and then started on couples. I noticed that some of the guests were getting uneasy and used my audio system to make a loud thunderclap and the lights went off. Then a short time later lights came back on, Mark had a look outside and told everyone there weren't any clouds in the sky. Slowly the guest started leaving and by eleven there were 4 of us left in the house. Two other left shortly after and it was just me and Miriam 31 who worked with me. She had come with other work colleagues and they had left her behind. But Miriam wasn't worried about the spooky things that were happening. As she had seen me using my tablet just before everything happened and she told me she knew I was behind everything that had happened and wanted me to show my setup. I gave her a guided tour and we started to dance and then kiss before sleeping together and Miriam enjoyed the pranks I had pulled and said she would keep quiet about my special additions to the house. Over the following months, we became closer and married last year and had the wedding at the house. Miriam's mother Pamela 61 then came to live us due to her failing health. Miriam is expecting our first child in July.