In the days following your escape, your family contacts Jake's relatives. He and his friend had been missing for nearly 20 years. But authorities fail to find any signs of the house you saw - as if it never existed in the first place. Your story makes the news, but soon, there are questions about just how you came to possess a book written in a missing person's blood.

Since the book seems to confirm your story of a "haunted" house, and since you weren't old enough to murder people when the two disappeared, the book is confiscated as evidence in a missing-person's-turned-cold-case investigation. Your family members are thought of as prime suspects, but no other clues confirm these suspicions of guilt, so the whole thing merely acts as a dark cloud on your life, and your family's continued wellbeing. You later hear that several investigators on the case have met with unusual and untimely ends, fortunately nowhere near you or your family.

Some days after the worst of it blows over, as you drift off to sleep in your own safe bed, you have a troubled dream.
You see a room with a small box filled with treasure, and realize it's in that haunted house! If only you'd known!
As you wake, you're plagued with regret, and though you can't return to the house, this sense of regret colours your days until you pass away.

 
You failed to get the treasure. And you ruined your family's good name.

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