Can Stacey solve the haunted house mystery?

Kristy called the meeting to order and announced a special agenda. "This is an emergency meeting to address the mystery of Stoneybrook, and especially to figure out what's going on at that old house. Let's go over what we know so far," she said.

"We know that there are some very weird things happening there ," I said, "and that the house has- or the spirits of the people buried beneath it have - some kind of power."

"That's right," said Claud. "I mean, really. None of us can think about anything else."

"I hear you had a nightmare last night, Charlotte," said Mary Anne. "That sounded scary."

"It was!" Charlotte answered.

"Tell us again about everything you saw and heard at the house," said Dawn.

Charlotte and I told the whole story once more, from faces to flies to flames. The Kristy told us again about what she'd found in Watson's old books, and Claud repeated the stuff she's\d learned at the library.

"There's something else, too," she said. "I wasn't going to tell you all, because it sounds so weird. But I went by the old house today, just before I came here."

We all leaned forward. She looked scared, almost as if she didn't want to think about what had happened.

"I was standing there looking at the house. I wasn't even very close to it. All of a sudden, I felt a hand on my arm, but when I looked, there was nobody there. It was like there was an invisible person standing next to me, and he - or she - wanted my attention." Claud was being very serious. She was not kidding about this.

My mouth was hanging open. I was glad that had never happened to me! That would have really been the last straw. Maybe we should just forget all about this house, I thought. This was getting too scary. I looked around the room. Everybody looked as scared as I felt, but they all looked fascinated, too. I knew we'd never give up now.

Stacey and Mystery of Stoneybrook
Published by Scholastic Inc. 1996
ISBN: 0590425080