Hello again Story Club members.

I'm Ivy, your ghostly host with the most and keeper of the strangest, spookiest tales on earth.

Today is another Ivy's chilling tale.

This tale story club members goes out to my beloved five-year-old

listener, Augustine, who is huddled up in Washington, D.C. craving a terrifying story about a

girl who loves apple juice so much that she's willing to go head to head with the dead for it.

Ooh, let's slurp up some spooky.

Today's tale is one that I call the haunting of Rosa's orchard.

Rosa lived in a cozy little house at the edge of town, surrounded by sprawling apple orchards

that painted the landscape in shades of green and red.

Rosa loved her home.

She loved running through the fields.

She loved hearing birds in the morning.

She loved being able to look out of her bedroom window at night and see stars in the sky.

But if there was one thing Rosa loved even more than the rural tranquility of her home, it was apple juice.

Ah, she loved it so much that she made her own apple juice,

pressing the apples from her garden into the sweetest, most refreshing beverage anyone could ever taste.

She dreamed about growing up and one day becoming a professional apple juice producer

using her delicious local apples. However, Rosa's peaceful life took a turn for the bizarre

when strange things began happening in her normally very predictable home. First, the thing

started out small. A missing glass of apple juice here, an empty bottle there.

Rosa thought she was just being forgetful, but the disappearances became too frequent to ignore.

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