When you visit Matt Murphy’s house, all Matt ever does is play Nintendo. You get quickly bored watching. You wander upstairs to his older brother’s room and start to look through his old toys.

John catches you. “What are you doing in here?” he asks.

“Just looking at your toys,” you say.

John tells you that the house is haunted. He says that you shouldn’t wander around upstairs alone. John says that at night the Murphy’s hear crying and banging on the walls. Once, he says, when he was using the bathroom, the toilet paper flew up from the roll on its own and he felt someone grab him by the neck. The lights went out and he heard someone laughing, he says.

You tell him that his story is bullshit.

“Yeah but you’re scared,” John says.

“No, I’m not,” you say.

“Oh yeah,” John pushes you. “Then tell me something more scary.”

So you tell him a scarier story.

You are never invited back to the Murphy’s house again.