Gretta
Background
Gretta lives with her sister Maylene on idle farmland. Her great grandnephew is Charles.
During the events of Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Season 2 Episode 7 The Tale of the Frozen Ghost played by Sandra Scott
Daphne uses the knocker on the front door to knock repeatedly and the door eventually opens, and Gretta and Maylene greet Charles. They are excited to see Charles and tell him that they haven't seen him since he was a baby. They say hello to Daphne and then invite them inside. They invite the Limousine Driver to stay and have some coffee, but he tells them he has to go and quickly leaves. They drag Charles and Daphne's luggage to their rooms and Gretta gets upset when Maylene says hosts, but she thinks she said ghosts.
At supper Gretta and Maylene tell Daphne that the power is out because they haven't paid the electric bill in three months. Daphne asks them why they don't ask Charles' family for help if they are having money trouble, but Gretta quotes Shakespeare and says neither a borrower nor a lender be, which Maylene says is what their father used to say. They tell Daphne about an old feud between their father and their uncle Charlie that was caused by their uncle Charlie hiring a Criminal to work on the farm. Their father knew there was something odd about the Criminal, but Uncle Charlie wouldn't listen. Eventually the police came and arrested the Criminal and put him on a train. As the Criminal was being transported, the train crashed and killed everyone aboard it. While they are eating, a breeze blows the window open, and the candlelight blows out. Maylene says she thought they had closed the window and Gretta says they had. Maylene then says the window might not shut properly and Walter, their maintenance man was supposed to fix it but left suddenly that day. Daphne asks if Walter left because Gretta and Maylene hadn't paid him, but Maylene says it was because of the ghost. Daphne asks about the ghost, but Maylene and Gretta don't want to talk about it.
The next morning, Gretta notices Charles and Daphne are arguing, and she asks them why? Daphne tells her that it is because Charles thinks he saw a ghost and Daphne doesn't believe him. Maylene asks him what he saw, and he tells her about the Ghost Child and Daphne mentions that Charles said it spoke to him. Maylene gets excited and says the Ghost Child has never spoken to them. Daphne asks who the Ghost Child is, and Maylene says that there was a boy from a neighboring farm whose father said he used to sneak around Gretta and Maylene's house trying to find where their mother hid her cookies. Gretta says one day he was found curled up in the woodshed frozen to death. The fire in the wood stove goes out and Maylene says there are no logs left, and Daphne offers to chop them some wood. Later, Charles and Daphne show a latch to Gretta and Maylene. Maylene recognizes what it is and uses it to open the flue. They hear a noise, and Charles opens the stove door and gold coins pour out of the stove.