Free Cemetery Tours by Jacqueline Smith

However, knowing how Gavin would react, she may have been better off keeping her thoughts and wonderings to herself.
    “It’s nothing really,” she began, choosing her words slowly and carefully.   “I was just talking to our downstairs neighbor earlier this afternoon.  It turns out that she and a lot of other people who’ve lived here... think that this building is cursed.”  Gavin stared at her for what seemed like a full minute.  Knew I shouldn’t have told him .  
    “Cursed how?” he finally asked.   She wished he could ask the question without sounding like he was humoring her. 
    “Well, for Elise, it’s mostly been technical stuff and strange noises.   But a lot of other people have had problems with things going missing, temperature fluctuations, one lady even said that they couldn’t have friends over because every time she had a guest, they’d end up getting sick.  But she never got sick.”
    “Kate, you’re not seriously trying to tell me you believe in curses now.”
    “Everyone else who’s lived here certainly seems to,” Kate told him.  
    “So what, because a few people had problems with their lights, you actually believe there’s a curse on this building?”  
    “I don’t know what to think, Gavin!” Kate snapped, surprised by how irritated she suddenly felt.   “All I know is that strange things have been happening for months now and I for one would love to know why!  Maybe you don’t care why you’re sick all the time, but I do, and right now, I will take any explanation that I can get!”  Kate closed her eyes and pressed the heel of her palm against her forehead.  
    “Kate, I’m sorry.   Is your head okay?”
    “My head is fine.   I’m just frustrated,” she muttered.  “I want to know why you can’t get better.  I mean, even having a theory would be better than no clue at all.”
    “Yeah, but a theory that can’t possibly be proven is just as useless as no clue at all.   Come on, Kate, you’re smart... ish.  Smart enough to at least know that there is no such thing as curses.”  Kate knew he was trying to lighten things up, but she wasn’t in the mood to joke around.  Instead, she ignored him and resumed her Internet browsing.  Gavin, realizing she wasn’t going to meet him halfway, sighed and said, “I’m going to heat up that leftover Chinese for dinner.  You want any?”  
    “No,” Kate replied.  
    “Right, I forgot.   You don’t eat leftovers.”  Kate glared at him as he stood and made his way into the kitchen.  
    An hour later, she was about ready to give up the search.   She really wasn’t finding anything that she hadn’t already read.  In fact, she was beginning to read the same articles over and over again.  It was interesting, but unfortunately, she hadn’t found any sort of answers or closure.  If anything, she felt more confused.  
    As she was about to exit out of the server, however, one of the page’s recommended articles caught her eye.        
    Riverview Spook:   Local Woman Reports Encounter With Full Bodied Apparition Residing Inside “Cursed” Apartment.  
    She could feel her curiosity spiking as she clicked on the link.   It opened to reveal a short article a lot like the ones she’d read earlier.         
    Mrs. Marjorie Hampton of Dallas didn’t believe in the supernatural before she moved to the Riverview Apartment Complex, located in North Dallas.  However, a meeting with a ghostly entity quickly changed her mind.
    “I was in the kitchen, making dinner for my two boys, when suddenly, I heard a noise, like someone banging on the wall, coming from my bedroom.   At first, I thought it was the boys, but then I noticed that they were both in the living room, glued to the television.  I heard the noise again, so I grabbed a steak knife from the kitchen and went to investigate.  I flipped on the light in the bedroom and that’s when I saw her.  She was standing in the middle of the