The Haunting Gameplay

Larry leads on through another archway into a conventional kitchen, with icebox, wood-fed stove and oven, plus a meagre larder. Some of the food stuffs may be edible - there is canned soup and meat, rice kernals, several pastas and a few bottles of homemade wine. The produce which has not spoilt has been eaten by rats, judging by the spoor left behind.

A staircase here leads to the basement and a door leads back into the main corridor. Three more thumps come from overhead, louder this time.

Returning to the corridor entrance, Larry sees a staircase off to the right and three doors opposite the rooms just investigated. Returning to the first door (Room 1) he opens it to find a room filled with boxes and junk, such as rusted water tanks and old bicycles. At the far end of the room is a cupboard, boarded up.

Valentin's shout echoes around the house. The thumping noise has now stopped.

Larry finds a rusty claw hammer and wrenches off the boards. Three bound books are found within, all diaries of one W.Corbitt, the address in the flyleaf indicating he was a former inhabitant of this house.
The Corbitt Diaries are in English though some of it is oddly phrased.

Larry pockets the books, feeling upstairs may need their attention first. He heads up the stairs.

Heading up the creaking staircase to a darkened corridor, the windows here on the right are filthy. Three doors stand ahead of you at intervals along the left hand wall.

The slam on the hardwood wall echoes around the corridor but there is no responding sound.

As Karabekian goes casually for the knob and jumps back as it suddenly starts to rattle violently. This goes on for several seconds then stops.