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get close to it. The chest is more than full, and obviously cannot be closed. In fact, gold chains and jewels have fallen out of that chest and cover the surrounding floor.
    But the reason why no one dares to get close to the treasure chest is a large black dog that sits on the chest’s cover. It looks as if it is ready to jump. It has reddish, glowing eyes, and growls viciously, baring its long yellow fangs. If anyone has dared to bother the dog by throwing a stone or has tried to shoot the dog, immediately that person has been attacked himself.Usually the growling alone has caused people to just leave everything and run. Whoever dares to stay longer would become hypnotized by the horrible reddish eyes. This would account for the many skeletons that are said to be lying in the grotto.
    It is difficult to say who or what that vicious dog is, but Felipe said that it could be a cursed crew-member of the pirate’s ship who now has to suffer for his greed.
    One strange thing usually happens. If someone returns to the place where he had found the grotto before he had run away in terror, he will find the whole area looks untouched, as if someone has covered up and camouflaged the hole. No matter how much the individual will dig a second time, it will be useless.

House Plays Host To Live-in Ghost
    When Clouis and Marilyn Fisher moved into their “new” Victorian home in 1979, little did they know the charming old house was already occupied! The Fishers first saw the house while they were driving around Rockport, a quiet little town on the Texas Gulf Coast. A yard sale was being conducted in the front yard of the place and the Fishers stopped to browse. Of even more interest to them, however, was the “For Sale” sign on the house. The place was pretty run-down, but Clouis, a dedicated “fixer-upper,” and Marilyn welcomed the challenge of restoring the place back to its circa 1881 splendor.
    The previous owners neglected to tell the Fishers that the house came complete with a ghost, but it wasn’t long before Clouis figured that out for himself!
    At the time the Fishers and their three children moved in, the house was badly in need of rewiring. The wiring would not even support an air-conditioner, which was badly needed during the hot summer of ’79. One July night stands out even now in Clouis’ memory. It was about 1:30 a.m. when he awoke with a start and realized that a light was faintly glowing in the room. He described what he saw to be a “glowing fog” that floated into the room, sort of circled around, and then went out, and into a large room next to the bedroom. The night had been unusually hot. But suddenly, Clouis felt an arctic blast of cold air enter the room. He said he was literally petrified.
    Clouis did not mention the strange incident to Marilyn, who had slept soundly through the night. Nor did he mention his strange experience with any friends or other family members. He just tried, with little success, to put the occurrence out of his mind. Soon after this initial encounter, Clouis also began to hear strange, unexplainable noises as well.
    Several weeks after the purchase, Clouis, who is a Realtor, attended a company sales meeting in nearby Corpus Christi. A new employee, a woman he had never seen before, walked into the room. After she wasintroduced to Clouis, she very matter-of-factly inquired, “Have you seen the ghost in your house yet?” It was then that Clouis realized, with some relief, that he hadn’t been imagining things.
    The lady went on to explain that in 1946 she had come to Rockport as a young single school teacher. She had rented a small upstairs apartment in the spacious old house that Clouis had bought for his family. Soon after she moved in, she came home from school one afternoon and went straight upstairs to her apartment. She heard footsteps of someone walking outside her room, and then the footsteps went down the stairs and out