The Cabot Family

It was the summer of 1901 in Rutherford. In this quiet town was a poor family named the Cabots. The Cabots were a stoic and private family, that rarely interacted with the fellow residents of Rutherford. There were four family members: Megan, John, and their twelve-year old twin daughters, Allison and Alice. The family, was in a word, peculiar. They would often stare outside of their windows from their living room. The family would sit there for hours without talking to each other and would suddenly vanish. This particular summer, a tragedy struck the Cabot family on July 15th of 1901. The Cabots had never been well-liked in their community and were seen as strange. Anyone that spoke with the Cabots had ended up seriously injured. A victim,
Clarissa Gray said that she just greeted the Cabots one morning, and the family simply stared right into her eyes. A few days later, Clarissa had broken many bones when her house collapsed on her. The house had been new and when the police investigated, there had been no structural damage that could’ve caused the collapse. The twins’ teachers explained that the twins would walk around school with a chilling aura around them and how the twins would never interact with the other students. The townspeople were quite frightened of the family and decided to set the Cabot house on fire.
So, on the night of July 15th, two men lit a match and proceeded to burn the house down to the ground. The twins and John were out of the house at the time, but Megan had been sitting in the living room. Even as the fire burned brightly, the men did not see Megan leave the house. There was a private family funeral for Megan a couple of days later. The rest of the Cabot family moved to a nearby home in Rutherford. As months passed by, the family was seen less and less.
The twins, Allison and Alice would go to school, but wouldn’t come back until after a couple of weeks. John would be seen sitting in the living room, in the same position for days. And a year after Megan Cabot’s death, the family simply disappeared. They had somehow moved away or vanished in a single night. They were never seen again. In the place of the Cabots’s old house, a new house was built 5 years after the disappearance of the Cabot family. The residents of Rutherford did not dare to move into the house, in fear that Megan Cabot would come back and come back for revenge. On the night of the twentieth anniversary of Megan Cabot’s death, the townspeople saw whitish streams of light coming out of the house. They believed the streams of light to be the spirit of Megan. The men that had set the Cabots’s house on fire had been horror-stricken and vanished three days later. The bodies were found with burns all over their bodies, in their house. There were no signs of a fire. The townspeople say that Megan Cabot finally got her revenge. To this day, people of Rutherford are still leery of the Cabot house. The residents try to observe the house to see if the whitish streams of light, which they say was Megan Cabot’s spirit, would come out of the house. But it never did. It is clear to the townspeople that know this story, that Megan Cabot got her
revenge.