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So there was a lawyer traveling through some small town, he has to be somewhere by tomorrow but as he's driving late at night one of his tires blows out. He'd stopped close by an old farm house and went ahead and took his things and headed up towards the house. An old woman answered and her husband stood behind her.

"I'm sorry to bother you folks this late at night but my car blew out a tire and I was wondering, since I've been driving all day, if it's alright if I stay the night."

They both smiled and invited that man in. "Of course you can, you can put your clothes in this room down here." And the woman took him down a long hall, pointing out the bathroom on the way down, between there and the bathroom was another door. "We keep this locked, don't ever go in here, don't look through the key hole." She sounded very serious, then moved onto his bedroom. Once he'd put his stuff down they showed him the kitchen and got him a drink of gin, husband and the man laughed in the kitchen along with the wife while she cooked. After they'd eaten a midnight snack they all went to bed.

During the night the man grew thirsty, so he got up and walked to the kitchen for a glass of water, on the way back he stopped at the door. He grew curious and decided a look wasn't going to hurt him so he did just that. Inside was a room lit by the moon light outside, there was a small rocking horse in one corner, and small short dresser and a pretty little bed, and on the bed a little girl with blonde hair was jumping in a yellow little summer dress. "that's odd..." The man thought, but he shrugged his shoulders and went to bed.

Eventually later on through the night he woke up again and this time the glass of water had gone through, he got up and passed the room again to the bathroom. On his way back he decided to look through again, only this time he saw nothing, a tiny black dot, with red surrounding it. "Ok I think it's time for bed." He thought and went back shaking his head.

In the morning the Old man and his wife contronted him at breakfast. "We're not mad, we knew you looked, we just want to know what you saw." The man blushed and apologized several times before telling them what he saw.

"Well, the first time just saw a little girl, I don't know why you keep her locked in there, but the second time, I saw.... well I dunno what I saw, It was a little black dot... surrounded by red I think."

The man and woman looked at each other with a horrified look on their faces. The man grew concerned about it and asked what was going on. "Well, our daughter is albino..." They said, he sank back in his chair relieved and laughed softly.

"Is that why you keep her locked up in that room?" He asked, wondering if these people were alright in the head.

"No..." The woman shook her head, the husband placed his hand on her shoulder and leaned in close to them both. "She died thirty two years ago..."