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Introduction

Some stories are just immortal; they do not die but go on traveling through whispers, family talks, or local legends like the chilling tale that supposedly comes from Spokane Valley, Washington in 1983. So the legend goes regarding a modest couple, well-respected in the Sheriff and his wife who had simply started out in life happily. But one folly, one drowning in the love of beauty, and one enigmatic shadow in the mirror changed all that.

It tells their full story. Love, pride, fear, and the cost of chasing perfection.

Chapter 1: A Happy Beginning:

The disciplined but kind young sheriff was James Turner. His soft-spoken wife, Maggie Turner, spent most of her time at home and on occasion worked in a small taxidermy shop that preserved birds and animals for collectors.

Perfect, to begin with. 

He was proud to wear the badge of the sheriff, and Maggie cooked, kept house, and helped with the shop work. They were not rich, but they always were content. “Money has nothing to do with happiness,” Maggie would tell her girlfriends. “It has to do with peace at home.”

But peace is a fragile thing.

Chapter 2: The New Year Party:

By the time it was the end of the year 1983, some of Maggie’s colleagues had invited her to their New Year’s Eve party. At first, she hesitated. They knew that she had never much liked parties nor contemporary modes. 

“Come on, Maggie. You have to come!” 

“But why?” 

“Because it will be fun. Just try something different.”

In the end, she did agree and donned her best dress, putting on a brave face.

Yet the instant she had entered Maggie had felt out of place. The women at the party were glamorous, hair perfect, makeup glowing, smiles sparkling. They were laughing, dancing and pictures of the world. Maggie noticed the way some women looked at her crooked teeth and plain looks.

She overheard whispers. “She doesn’t belong here.”

“Why did she even come?” Her heart sank. She left the party quietly before midnight.

Chapter 3: Two Weeks of Silence:

Maggie stayed home for the next two weeks. She refused to go out and would not even return to work. She barely talked with James.

James tried to console her:

“Maggie, you need not compare yourself with anyone. You are more than enough for me.”

But Maggie’s mind was constantly rehashing that night, laughter, whispers, stares shattered her confidence.

Chapter 4: The Strange Commercial

And late one evening, ’round 2, sleep escaping Maggie, she found herself up and perched on the sofa, flicking through the air for something to watch, when, out of nowhere, along came some weird commercial.

Only, it wasn’t an ordinary ad. It was for a beauty cream. The man on the screen turned his face straight to her. Those eyes of his carried life. His words came slow and even, almost in some kind of a trance:

“Why are you sad, Maggie? Don’t you want to be beautiful?”

In mid-breath, she halts.Did he say my name?

But the man goes on:

 “Never be left out with this cream. You will shine. Order now and start your new life.”

Maggie, who was confused but also desperate, dialed the number. The very next day, the cream was delivered.

Chapter 5: The Cream:

At first, Maggie used the cream with excitement. She looked into the mirror daily, waiting for changes. But instead of glowing skin, red rashes appeared. Her skin burned and peeled.

James noticed and begged her to stop:
“Maggie, please. This is hurting you. Let’s see a doctor.”

But she shouted back:
“You don’t understand! This is the only way. I have to become beautiful.”

The cream became her addiction. She used it morning and night, even when her skin looked worse.

Chapter 6: The Shadow Appears:

The narration was already terrifying, but the following week something even more terrifying took place. Shockingly as she stood before the mirror, Maggie observed a dim figure standing behind her. She shrugged at first believing it to be her thoughts, but then shrugged aloud.

‘Don’t listen to him. I can help you. I can make you the most beautiful woman in this world.’

Maggie froze but her shattered heart wanted to believe. She whispered:

 ‘What do I need to do?’

At this the shadow smiled:

 "Listen to what I say. Put on the cream. Trust me and no one else." That night changed everything about the shadow.

Chapter 7: Losing Control:

James grew worried. Maggie no longer cooked, cleaned, or laughed. She stopped answering the phone. She stopped meeting friends.

Her world became only two things: the cream and the mirror.

James called doctors, but Maggie refused to leave the house. He called priests, but Maggie screamed and locked herself in the bathroom.

Slowly, her love for James turned to anger.
“You don’t care about me! You just want to stop me from being beautiful!”

James cried at night, helpless. He was a sheriff who could protect his town, but not his wife.

Chapter 8: The Breaking Point:

One rainy night James came home after a duty. The house was dark. He proceeded to the basement where Maggie was practicing her taxidermy.

What he beheld caused his blood to run cold.

Maggie was seated in the middle, with the animals and birds that were preserved. Her hands were bloody. And in the corner--habited was the police jacket of James.

But James himself,... was bound to a chair, where he stood with his dead body, like one of her taxidermy specimens.

Maggie said to the dark in the mirror:

 “Now he will never leave me. Now he is perfect.”

Chapter 9: The Vanishing:

And the strange noises and screams and flickering lights according to what neighbors had been telling were still coming from the Turner house. When they got inside, there was a dead James and no Maggie.

Some said she had been absorbed into the mirror, by the shadow it contained. Others swore that she ran off into the woods and was lost to the frenzy of madness.

But most of the people in the vicinity said that they could still see her reflection in the mirror of the shop. Sometimes at late hours, the glass apparently even went to the extent of smiling at those staring at it.

Chapter 10: The Lesson:

The tragic tale of Maggie Turner is not just a ghost story. It is a warning.

It tells us about:

• The danger of beauty obsession.
• The pain of loneliness.
• The tricks of mental illness when ignored.
• And the fear of giving power to shadows that live in our minds.

Even today, old residents of Spokane Valley call it the 1983 Mystery. They say the shadow still lives in the mirror, waiting for the next broken heart to believe in its lies.