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Twelve high school kids go for a test of courage in the woods near their school one summer evening because, well, that is what happens in these kinds of stories. The goal is to pair up, walk along the path to the old dormitory building, pick up a single brick and bring it back to the start of the path. Before they go, the teacher accompanying them tells them a spoooky story about how the old dormitory burned down with one kid just like them still asleep in it. "And on clear summer nights like this," he finishes, "you can still hear their ghost crying that they want to go home." Two by two, the students go up the path. There are the obligatory scary noises, because - as everyone knows - the teacher is ghosting them among the trees. There are also the usual traps; wet sponges on strings, cloths suspended across the path, that sort of thing. As the students approach the old dormitory, they start to hear eerie voices wail "I want to go home! I want to go home!" All just as
