Many years ago, a male and female sorcerer lived in their village. Rolonda begins explaining the backstory of the snowman. Jaclyn foes outside and gets caught in a snowstorm, but is found by Rolonda. The next day, Aunt Greta assures Jaclyn that the whispers were just a dream. When she lies down, she hears a whispered voice warning her about the snowman. She feels like she's being chased, so she goes back in. Her aunt seems very nervous at first, but quickly dismisses the snowman as just a superstition. When Jaclyn goes home, she asks her aunt about the snowman.

Rolonda mentions a snowman at the top of the mountain, but she refuses to say more. The two girls talk, and Rolonda reveals that the old man on the mountain is named Conrad. On her way home, Jaclyn is greeted by Rolonda. Jaclyn is then chased to the bottom of the mountain by Wolfbane. The man tries to stop her, and tells her to beware the snowman. Scared, Jaclyn runs off for the top of the mountain. The wolf, named Wolfbane, is called off by an intimidating man with a bushy white beard. She looks inside to see if anyone's there, but she is tackled by a ferocious wolf. Jaclyn sees a cabin and knocks on the door to see if anyone's home, but it slowly swings open. Made curious by the siblings warnings, Jaclyn begins walking along the road up the mountain. Jaclyn finds that there are many near-identical snowmen scattered around the village. Eli and Rolanda leave shortly thereafter. When Jaclyn expresses a desire to climb one of the nearby mountains, the siblings become distressed, warning her not to go near the mountains. She meets a local boy named Eli, and his sister, Rolonda, both of whom seem nice.

After they're finished, Jaclyn goes exploring.

When Jaclyn arrives at her new house, she sees a snowman standing in her yard. ' When the snows blow wild and the day grows old. While moving to their new house in Sherpia, a small village on the edge of the Arctic Circle, Jaclyn remembers a poem that her mother used to read to her:

Jaclyn's mother died when she was young, and she never knew her father because he disappeared after she was born. Jaclyn DeForest lives with her aunt, Greta. And in front of every house there's a snowman. At night there are strange howling noises. Plus, there's something really odd about the village. Jaclyn can't believe she's stuck out in Nowheresville. It's a tiny village on the edge of the Arctic Circle. Jaclyn used to live with her aunt Greta in Chicago. 9.1 References in other Goosebumps media.

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