Braille Challenge
Braille Challenge
2012 Preliminary
Junior Varsity – Speed and Accuracy – Passage 1
A-Haunting We Will Go 5
Doors suddenly slam shut. 4
29 Shades fly up. Footsteps are 5
heard in the night. Is a strong wind the 9
cause? Or is the place haunted? 6
Who Are They? Experts who 5
study these things believe that ghosts are the 8
35 cause. Most experts say a ghost is 7
the spirit of somebody who may have died young, 9
or maybe met a sudden death. 6
Arthur Myers is a ghost expert who 7
travels around the country visiting 5
haunted places. One house he 5
51 visited is called the McLoughlin 5
House in Oregon City. The house 6
is now a museum, and people come from all 9
over to visit it, hoping to see or hear 9
the ghosts who live there. 5
A small boy is just one of the ghosts 9
14 haunting the house in Oregon. 5
The Dead and the Restless The 6
McLoughlin House was built in 1845 6
and owned by a doctor. Another old 7
house is right next door, and in the 8
middle are the graves of the doctor and his 9
wife. According to people who have worked there, ghosts 9
93 go back and forth between the houses. Mary 8
Slaughter was a tour guide and used 7
to hear footsteps when nobody was 6
upstairs; smelled pipe smoke when 5
nobody was smoking. Shades would fly 6
up for no reason. Can ghosts be the 8
explanation when strange things happen in 6
other houses? 2
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Braille Challenge
2012 Preliminary
Junior Varsity – Speed and Accuracy – Passage 2
A Lost Button 3
Nancy Wilson worked there, too. 5
She told a story about a special 7
44 button missing from one worker's sweater. 6
Everybody looked for it. All of a 7
sudden, it came rolling across the floor. 7
Nancy and Mary think a boy ghost did 8
it. 1
The boy "lives" next door and 6
has been blamed for other things, too. 7
Tools left in one house often turn 7
50 up in the other. A child visitor is 8
sure he saw the boy ghost and asked a 9
tour guide, "Is that little boy 6
supposed to be downstairs all by himself?" 7
Some people who buy old houses to live 8
in complain that ghosts live there, too. A 8
woman in California decided to do 6
something about it. She was tired of waking up 9
at night to strange sounds, so she 7
asked an expert for advice. The 6
101 expert said she should talk to the spirit and ask 10
it to stop. The woman stood in the middle 9
of a room and said, "Listen, this is my 9
house. I love it here, and I'm not 8
moving out. So all this nonsense has 7
to stop!" From that time on, she noticed a 9
change. The strange noises stopped. 5
The Company You Keep Someday you 6
may visit an old house, or 6
decide to live in one. There's nothing 7
44 to be afraid of. Remember, you can 7
talk to ghosts. Tell them to go or stay, 9
whatever you please. Maybe you'll even 6
enjoy their company. 3
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