Beth (AYAOTD)
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Background
Beth "Bethy" is the daughter of Aunt Dottie and the cousin of Amanda.
During the events of Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Season 1 Episode 3 The Tale of the Lonely Ghost played by Laura Levin
It was the beginning of summer vacation and Amanda is staying with Dottie and Beth while Amanda's parents did their summer research studying Inuit stone carvings. Dottie and Amanda arrive at Dottie's home and Dottie calls to Beth to let her know Amanda has arrived, but Beth ignores her. Dottie takes Amanda up to Beth's room and after Dottie leave, Beth tells Amanda that she doesn't plan on hanging out with her and that in order for Beth to let Amanda hang out with her and her friends, she has to prove she isn't a total dork. Amanda asks what she has to do to prove she isn't a dork and Beth says Amanda has to clean Beth's room every day, she can't snitch and she has to go through an initiation. She continues that the initiation consists of staying the night in the house next door, which is haunted.
During the night Nanny holds out her hand to Amanda, but Beth opens her door and tells her if she touches Nanny's contaminated wrinkly old hand, she won't let her touch anything of hers again. Nanny leaves and Amanda asks Beth about her and Beth tells her that Nanny is crazy and has a connection to the haunted house next door. Beth tells Amanda that Sally is having a pool party, but Amanda can't come unless she goes through the initiation. In the morning, Beth and Dottie argue about Beth wanting Nanny to leave and Beth tells Amanda not to touch her stuff. Before Amanda's initiation, Beth tells her a long time ago a little girl lived next door who was picked on by the other kids, because she couldn't talk and Sally thinks maybe the girl was deaf. She continues that the little girl's mother sent her to go stay with her grandmother while she left to take care of the little girl's father, but the little girl ran back to her house after she was teased by the other kids and the kids locked her in her bedroom and the little girl starved to death. Beth tells Amanda that she has to go to the little girl's bedroom and to use a flashlight to prove she is in it.
That night Beth stays at Sally's house the entire night. The next morning, Dottie tells Amanda and Beth that they have to scrub the writing from the wall of the neighbor house. Beth blames Amanda and Amanda tells her that she doesn't want to be in her friends group anymore. Beth tells Amanda that she is never inviting her to do anything ever again and drags her into the bedroom with the writing on the wall. When they enter the room, the words Help Me are now written all over it. The door closes on its own and the image in the closet mirror changes to the bedroom of a little girl's room filled with dolls. Beth starts admiring all the dolls and walking closer to the closet and walks into the mirror. As Beth disappears into the mirror, a Ghost appears and walks into the room. Later, Nanny and the Ghost walk into the mirror. Amanda walks towards the closet door and Beth asks her for help. Sally and Beth's other friends enter the room and Beth promises not to boss Amanda or Beth's friends around and Amanda opens the closet door, freeing Beth.