"My dad, who grew up poor and lost his father as a teenager, had cultivated a knack for stretching every penny he earned. Years before we moved to the U.S., he squirreled away what he could, which helped him get settled in Pennsylvania when a locally headquartered company offered him a job on an H-1 Visa. Several months after my dad settled in the U.S., my mom, my brother, who was just six months old, and I joined him."
"Even though I was very young at the time, I will never forget the first encounter we had. One night, sometime after we'd unpacked the last of the few belongings we'd brought with us, I heard my mom calling for me from the landing that connected our rooms on the second floor. When I left my room and found her, she was turned toward the stairs."
A family emigrates from Kuwait to Pennsylvania after the father secures an H-1 Visa job and saves to resettle. The father leaves first and months later the mother and two young children join him. The family rents an affordable, century-old house under an ominous oak in a run-down neighborhood and faces stares and hushed whispers from neighbors while the mother struggles with English. The house is weathered and cramped, and unsettling occurrences begin soon after moving in. A vivid first paranormal encounter occurs one night when the mother calls from the landing and is found turned toward the stairs.
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