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Atari Age - Volume 1 Number 1 - May-June 1982

By Sergio Herrera

Retro Magazine of Atari Videogames

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Beware...

HAUNTED HOUSE!

If you think Atari's Haunted House game is scary, wait till you find out what's lurking in the shadows of real-life haunted houses.

Walking home late at night on a deserted city street, a man is witness to a phan- tom home coming.

In a lonely mansion on the rocky cliffs of Cornwall, England, the cry of a ghostly mourner pierces the eve- ning stillness.

And in the White House, a royal visitor answers a knock on her door to find the ghost of Abraham Lincoln staring at her from the doorway!

Incredible? Absolutely. But the evi- dence of hauntings, based on the experiences of reliable witnesses, continues to baffle scientists who search for logical explanations.

An Eerie Homecoming The ghostly presence in a haunted house can reveal itself in many differ ent ways. Sometimes the people in the house claim to see a ghost. They may glimpse a hazy, nearly trans- parent figure. But sometimes the ghostly vision is shockingly realistic.

Take the experience of a gentle- man walking home down Phillimore Street in London late one night. There were only two other people on the street-a woman walking in front of him, and a man walking slightly ahead of her. The woman caught up with the man in front of her and passed him. She glanced at him as she walked by-then let out a bloodcurdling scream and raced across the street, running away into the night.

The gentleman who had seen the woman's strange reaction hurried to catch up. As he neared the other man, he saw him take out a key and open the door of a house. The pur suing gentleman caught a glimpse of the figure as it entered the house-it had the face of a corpse!

This strange story doesn't end there, though. The gentleman re- turned to the house the next after-