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Back in the early 1980s my aunt lived in a house that was literally located in the middle of nowhere.It used to really creep my younger brother and me out, but we loved to go there because my aunt had four children. 在上个世纪80年代早期，我姑妈家住的房子基本上可以说是位于荒郊野外。那是一个曾经使我和弟弟毛骨悚然的地方，但我们还是喜欢去她那儿，因为姑妈家有四个孩子。 The house was very old, and it had all wooden floors. There was always an uneasy feeling when you were inside. For the most part not much happened that was out of the ordinary when we were there. There were a lot of noises during the night, though. On several occasions I heard floorboards creaking, as if someone were walking around. Most of this seemed to be coming from upstairs, and sometimes in the hallway downstairs that connects the front of the house to the back rooms. Sometimes I also heard a thumping sound from upstairs at night. The thing is, no one stayed upstairs ever. There was just a spare room, a bathroom and some small storage spaces up there. 这栋房子已经非常有年头了，地板都是木制的，只要你呆在里边，就总会感到有些不自在。尽管在夜里有这样那样的叫声，但是我们在那里呆的绝大部分时间内并没有发生什么不正常的事情。有好几次，我都听到地板在吱嘎吱嘎的响，好像是有人在上面行走一样，这种情况下大部分是从楼上传来的，有些时候是来自楼下连接楼前楼后房间的走廊。但事实是：楼上什么人也没有，那里只有一间空房，一个洗手间，此外，在上面还有一些不大的储藏间。 | 
