If the door creaked as he was opening it that would have ended it for me. :-)
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I could not show fear, because there were 2 ladies with me and I was their male protector. I do not recall the door creaking, but the man who opened the door had a slight limp, and it was a 2 story house. And we were 3 of us, and the 2 ladies were good athletes, but believe me, I was scared.
My most frightening experience was after watching Dracula (Christopher Lee as Dracula), and I slept in the only room on 3rd floor of my house, and the windows creaked like crazy during the breezy night. I was 18 years old.