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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Haunted Mansion Mystery by Linda Williams Aber The Haunted Mansion Mystery. Barbie is one of the top girls' properties - the world's #1 fashion doll. Now Scholastic is on the Barbie bandwagon with stories starring Barbie as a reporter with a nose for a mystery. Barbie has a brand-new job at the Willow Daily News. Her first assignment is to interview Mr. Willow, the grandson of the town's founder. But something very strange is going on at Mr. Willow's old mansion. A ghostly face keeps appearing at the window, and there are spooky whispers in the wind. Mr. Willow is so scared he's thinking of leaving. Is the house really haunted? Barbie is suspicious. Could someone be after the Willow fortune? It's up to Barbie and her friends to investigate. Genre: Children's Fiction. Linda Williams Aber. Plastic lizards come to life in this spooky tale that’s perfect for middle-grade readers and comes with a toy. 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Now Scholastic is on the Barbie bandwagon with stories starring Barbie as a reporter with a nose for a mystery.Barbie's friend Kira has gotten her front-row seats to the world . Haunted Mansion Mystery. Barbie is one of the top girls' properties - the world's #1 fashion doll. Now Scholastic is on the Barbie bandwagon with stories starring Barbie as a reporter with a nose for a mystery.Barbie has a brand-new job at the Willow Daily News. Her first as. Grandma's Button Box. While Grandma was taking her morning walk, Kelly reached for Grandma's button box. Crash! Buttons in every size, shape, and color flew everywhere! Could Kelly and her cousins have the buttons sorted and back in the button box before Grandma's return. The Ghosts at Haunted 432 Abercorn Street. For generations people have talked about one house in Savannah more than any other, with horrifying tales of the past owner (Benjamin Wilson) becoming more and more grim with every decade that passes by. This house is known not by a name like the Winchester Mystery Mansion or the Myrtes Plantation. No, it is known simply by its address: 432 Abercorn Street. The house at 432 Abercorn is a place of endless rumors, rumors that draw tourists from around the country, where even rock star Alice "No More Mr. Nice Guy" Copper has made the trip. The privately owned home is not open to visitors, so when we (Ghost City Tours) bring our guests near the house, we always treat the house with great respect, not just for its residents, but also for any ghostly inhabits it may contain or any curse it may emit. On a tour with Ghost City, we, unlike most other ghost tours in Savannah, do not wish to spread the controversial rumors that swirl around the house and its past owner as facts. We prefer to tell the truth. While the stories that have been passed on and on again are indeed fantastic, they are just that: fantastical stories. Stories meant to insight drama, and send unnerving chills down the spine of those looking to hear a frightful tale. However, it is important to separate the facts from the fiction when dealing with the haunted house at 432 Abercorn Street. The History of the Haunted House at 432 Abercorn Street. The story of 432 Abercorn begins in the year 1868, when its ground was first broken, or, rather re-broken. You see, long before plans to build the 432 Abercorn house came to fruition, the land was home to a slave burial site. Suggestion: don’t ever build on top of burial ground, not just because it's in poor taste, but because you and your home will forever be cursed. But, in a city like Savannah, this situation was seemingly unavoidable as many of its structures were built on the forgotten graveyards of the Native Americans and the enslaved Africans. This has lead many people to believe that Savannah is a cursed city, haunted by a curse that has burdened the city with the endless bloody battles of the American Revolution, the War of 1812 and the Civil War. A curse that has also plagued the city with innumerable outbreaks of yellow fever and cholera. Countless people in Savannah have perished at the hands of the curse, leaving these departed souls to linger the grounds of the city for eternity. The area around 432 Abercorn, known as Calhoun Square, is part of Savannah's haunted equation, and is considered a hotbed for supernatural activity (if you want to try your hand at ghost hunting, Calhoun square is the place for you). Some even consider Calhoun to be ground-zero for Savannah's curse, as it has endured more than just battles and diseases. Over the years, Calhoun square has witnessed murders, suicides and disappearances, that have only further wounded the city, leaving it infected with an incurable darkness. The misery and death that lays upon Calhoun Square and Savannah as a whole fills its atmosphere with pain and despair. When visiting the square, you can feel the presence of a sorrowful energy in the air; you can hear the cries of the fallen in the wind; but you may never know who is actually trying to reach you . perhaps the ghost of a soldier, the soul of a slave or the spirit of a Native American. 432 Abercorn Street, photographed at night. The Origin of 432 Abercorn Street. The main street that follows alongside Calhoun Square is Abercorn Street, and the most infamous house on Abercorn is without question no. 432. Construction of the house built for Benjamin Wilson and his family wrapped up in 1869. Wilson was a veteran of the Civil War, with an ambition to climb the Savannah social ladder. The home he had built was considered to be one of the most expensive houses in all of Savannah, and was valued at over 20,000 dollars, a staggering amount at the time. Shortly after the family moved into the new house, Mr. Wilson's wife died, one of the many victims claimed by Yellow Fever. Reportedly, Mr. Wilson fell into a deep depression, but tried his best to pull himself together, as he was now the only parent his children had. It is believed that Mr. Wilson was not the warmest of individuals, hardened by war and lost after the death of his wife. Some say he did do the best that he could given the circumstances, while others claim he was too strict and overbearing when it came to his children. From here on out the facts about 432 Abercorn become hazy. No one is quite sure when or how the legend of 432 Abercorn started, but the twisted versions and various accounts of the tale are unsubstantiated. The lack of facts, and evidence to the contrary, have done little in the way of discouraging many tour companies and their guides from telling the story as though it were gospel. The Ghosts and Rumors about the Haunted House at 432 Abercorn Street. When we give our Dead of the Night Ghost Tour, the first question we tend to get is about 432 Abercorn. The wild and outlandish rumors that surround the house have a far reaching legacy, thus it brings out our natural curiosity. So, we understand that the rumors are why many people wish to take a ghost tour when they visit Savannah.