You wrestle with your own fear for a moment.
You are alone, in an abandoned house, that is supposedly haunted. You're armed with nothing but your flashlight, and you want to go up some rickety-looking stairs to follow some crying that you heard in this house.
But it sounds like a kid. And it could be some kid who snuck in here for fun on Halloween night and got hurt.
Your concern outweighs your fear in the end, and you follow the sound of the crying up the stairs to the third floor. At the end of the hall, there's a hatch swinging open, with a ladder dangling down from it. It looks like it leads up into the attic.
The crying's coming from up there.