Haunted Mall

What can make a place haunted in a town full of ghosts? Just ask Frank Halny about his mall and he'll tell you, ghosts are nothing: its emptiness that's the real horror.

For about six years in the late 80's and early 90's Frank Halny was convinced that a brand new, fully modern, seaside mall was just the thing to put Scareborough back on the map. It would bring buisnesses that needed employees, it would bring in visitors who would see how lovely the town was and drive more tourist traffic. There would be no downside.

Everyone told him, no one will come to a mall in a cursed town where the living live side by side with their ghosts. They warned him that something worse than the ghosts lived in that bit of forest, and nothing had ever lasted out there.

But he built the damn thing anyway. Thirteen hundred square feet of granite and glass. Three stories, with a fountain and a glass elevator.

This one isn't a field-of-dreams kind of story. No one came to the mall Frank Halny sunk his whole fortune into. Not a single customer ever shopped there, and every buisness closed in less than two weeks. Even Auntie Anne's pretzels. The teens who had briefly held jobs at the hot topic and the coldstone used to say that it was eerie how silent that place was. Not a single ghost in the whole place. Frank never really recovered. Now its mostly falling down and the forest is slowly taking it back. Sometimes the absence of a ghost is more terrifying than their presence.