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The Baxter House

Posted on December 25, 2023March 7, 2026 by mark

The Baxter House: by Mark Douglas Doran

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Tom Wilson, your average, awkward high school student living in the small town of Springbrook Gardens is the happiest kid possible. His favorite TV show Ghostly Hauntings has arrived for a live broadcast. Witnessed by the largest audience in history. His greatest dream has come true. What could go wrong?

But there’s one catch he doesn’t know. The show is entirely fake. The cutthroat head producers will do anything for ratings. Faking paranormal activity, from chairs moving to thumps on the wall. While inside the Baxter house, they’ll take it to the next level. And try to summon the spirit of Joseph Henize. Said to be a spirit whose desire is to enslave mankind.

Believing it to be an urban legend they laugh it off. But they’ll fail to realize the truth until it’s too late. Now countless thousands of lives are at stake. Tom’s grandfather tried stopping Joseph many years ago and was locked up in an institution for it. Tom’s father wants his son to have nothing to do with the house.

Now Tom will be called upon to stop Joseph and save the town. But is he a hero? Can he find it within to stand up to something truly evil? Or fail and lose the ones he loves?

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