Chapter 8
There, in the center of the room was a small, average worktable. It was brown and stood on four legs. There was an average wooden chair in front of the table. The room was simply described as a toy making room. Dolls filled the room as well as many little things to go along with the dolls. Shadows of some of the dolls were seen in the bright candlelight. There was a puzzle on the table. Joseph turned off his halogen flashlight. Then, Chris and he walked over to the table, and they examined it. They saw a picture of the house, showing the way it would look if it were burned in a fire. Suddenly, the nine large cubes that showed the picture of the house turned and got mixed up. The action stopped, but the puzzle remained mixed up.
Joseph and Chris worked on the puzzle, and they eventually got the picture looking the way it did. Then, the mysterious force pulled them away from the puzzle, and they saw a drama. Temple and Mrs. Knox just learned that the souls of the dead children were in the dolls. They knew that Stauf did it, and he killed the children. They wanted to warn Tad that he was in trouble. Then, the drama stopped.
Joseph and Chris walked farther back into the room. They turned to their left and saw the inside of a cabinet. In the back of the cabinet, there was a tiny doll-sized door. The boys magically shrunk, and then, the strange spirit force pulled them through the door.
Inside, there was a surprise. It was a baby room. It had baby toys, baby furniture, a baby environment, and other baby-related things. Suddenly, an apparition dog appeared in the toy box near the back of the room. It was an angry dog. It had blood flooding from its mouth. Then, it disappeared.
Joseph and Chris looked at each other with wide-open eyes. "This innocent baby room is actually very scary," Chris said excitedly, but mostly cowardly.
"I wonder if there are any puzzles here," Joseph wondered aloud.
At that instant, they were moved right. Then, the bottom drawer on a brown dresser pulled open, and it showed 9 wooden blocks. One letter was on each of the blocks. Many letters were shown. They didn't say anything, as they were scrambled.
"Let's unscramble the letters," Chris said excitedly.
Joseph and Chris took turns unscrambling the letters, and an hour later, they finally completed the puzzle. It said, "GET BOY TAD." Then, the boys were moved back to the front of the room. Suddenly, they saw Stauf looking into a strange window-seat in the back of the room. They heard a baby crying. Then, the drama stopped, and then, the same spiritual force moved the boys to the window-seat. The "window-seat" was purplish-pink, and it was not by any window. In fact, there were no windows in that room anyway! Joseph and Chris thought of it as a window-seat because it looked like a window-seat. Then, they saw an apparition baby crying. The baby was sitting next to a Stauf toy. The toy moved his right arm and held the baby's mouth shut. The baby couldn't cry anymore. His face slowly began to turn blue. The baby looked as if it were dying. Then, the apparitions disappeared.
Joseph and Chris turned around, and they walked to the door and slowly left the room. To their surprise, they did not end up in Stauf's workshop. Instead, they were back in the upstairs hall.
"Why don't we check the locked room on the right side of the room to see if it's opened yet?" Chris asked.
Joseph and Chris started down the hall casually. They walked until they reached the door that was locked. The boys turned around, facing the door. They checked to see if it was unlocked. Sure enough, the door was unlocked, so the boys slowly turned the doorknob and entered the room. They both looked at the bedroom in silence. They both smiled happily at each other. What they discovered was quite interesting.