The Ghost that said, "Boo!"

Yesterday my daughter, Em and I wrote a story about a little ghost.  He tries to scare people but can't.

Em wanted to document the story herself.  Here is the first paragraph:

"Onse upon a tim ther was a gost. He live in a hauntend tas ad it in a tost.  On halwen it sim w not on the dor.  The gos wet daw the sars.  Te ont the boooooooo."

I do have to wonder why so many of our words are not spelled the way we say them.  funny.