"Whispers Beneath the Floorboards"
The house had been in Claire’s family for generations, sitting on a lonely patch of land surrounded by dense forest. It wasn’t grand—just a two-story structure with peeling wallpaper and creaking floorboards—but it had a history, and Claire had always been fascinated by history. When her grandmother passed and left it to her, she packed her life into boxes and left the city without a second thought.
