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As Mike arrived at the end of the hallway, he looked on the left side and saw the door to room 1408. The door was different then all the other doors he had seen along the hall; it was slightly bigger and the color was different. All the other doors were black and freshly painted while the door to room 1408 had an old greenish color and there was places were the paint had been chipped. Mike also had a hard time seeing the number of the room since the paint was slightly faded away. When Mike inserted the key in the door handle, his heart was beating as it never had before. Even if Mr. Enslin was afraid, he turned the key and swung the door wide open leaving it to produce a squeaky, irritating sound.
He entered the room and opened the lamp that only produced a dim light. Mike then placed his overnight case on the floor and shut the door. He walked farther in and saw two doors, one was the washroom and the other one was the closet. Mr. Enslin then took out his Sony minicorder and started to describe what he observed. On the walls, there was an amber colored wallpaper with some dark stains, and the floor was wooden, making a cracking sound every time someone stepped on it. In front of the window, there was a long and silky burgundy curtain. The room did not have much furniture either. There was a queen sized bed white cream colored sheets, one average sized lamp, an old phone, two red sofa chairs, a coffee table, a little refrigerator and a toaster which was placed on top of the coffee table. In the room, there was also two framed pictures. One was a picture of an old town and the other picture was a small family on a farm. Mike had also realized that the room had a particular smell; it smelled like an old basement that had not been ...

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...e hallway and went down the elevator. As he was impatiently waiting for the elevator to arrive, Mike could not remember anything that just happened a few minutes ago. Mike tapped his pants and he could not even feel his Sony minicorder anymore. He then raced back to the room, unlocked it, only to find that the room had been transformed into a humongous hole. He could not even write anything anymore since everything he collected through the night had been lost. Mike then mopped around right into the elevator, pressed down and waited to get out. When the doors opened, Mr. Olin was there waiting for him, knowing that Mike would not have stayed. He then laughed and chuckled. Mike threw him the key and after catching them, Mr. Olin told him: “Ha-ha, I told you know one can stay in that room longer than an hour and by the way, I hope the scotch does not stain your shirt.”

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