`` The Haunted Wood ! Are you crazy ? What under the canopy is the Haunted Wood ? '' `` The spruce wood over the brook , '' said Anne in a whisper . `` Fiddlesticks ! There is no such thing as a haunted wood anywhere . Who has been telling you such stuff ? '' `` Nobody , '' confessed Anne . `` Diana and I just imagined the wood was haunted . All the places around here are so -- so -- COMMONPLACE . We just got this up for our own amusement . We began it in April . A haunted wood is so very romantic , Marilla . We chose the spruce grove because it 's so gloomy . Oh , we have imagined the most harrowing things . There 's a white lady walks along the brook just about this time of the night and wrings her hands and utters wailing cries . She appears when there is to be a death in the family . And the ghost of a little murdered child haunts the corner up by Idlewild ; it creeps up behind you and lays its cold fingers on your hand -- so . Oh , Marilla , it gives me a shudder to think of it . And there 's a headless man stalks up and down the path and skeletons glower at you between the boughs .
Oh , Marilla , I would n't go through the Haunted Wood after dark now XXXXX anything .
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