I have been afraid of a lot of things, over the course of a long life. I grew up in a house that everyone said was haunted. The next day, a home health care nurse looked in a mirror in the bathroom. Standing behind her in the reflection, she said, was a translucent crone with a cruel, knowing expression. I’d said something similar to my children in that same house when they were young.

Source: New York Times October 31, 2018 15:00 UTC