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In the first chapter of The Canterville Ghost, Mr. Otis buys the Canterville Castle. Everyone tells him he is foolish because the castle is haunted. Mr. Otis laughed it off and took his family to the castle a few weeks later. Mrs. Otis noticed a red stain on the rug, and the housekeeper explained it was the blood of Lady Eleanore de Canterville, who was murdered on that spot by her husband. He disappeared seven years later and his body was never found, but his ghost haunts the castle. Mrs. Otis wanted the stain removed at once, but the housekeeper explains that it is a tourist attraction and cannot be removed. The Otis son, Washington, called it nonsense, and removed the stain. Immediately, lightening lit up the room and thunder shook the building.

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