Oh, come on, drop the act, we all know you've always dreamed of giving your classmates a good old fright. Well, now's the time to scare them stiff! Share your Halloween stories with us. There's only one rule that you need to keep in mind: write for a maximum of 20 minutes. Photograph by Kugel
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Halloween stories
Oh, come on, drop the act, we all know you've always dreamed of giving your classmates a good old fright. Well, now's the time to scare them stiff! Share your Halloween stories with us. There's only one rule that you need to keep in mind: write for a maximum of 20 minutes. Photograph by Kugel
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Can you feel it?
ReplyDeleteIt was a dark winter night, with a lot of very dark clouds covering the sky. I was alone at home, and it started raining heavily. The sound of the rain hitting the ceiling confused me. I had a strange feeling... I felt so scared I switched on all the lights in the house. While I was in the hallway, it felt like I was being observed. The paintings so beautiful in the daylight turned sinister, and I dared not look at the mirror. Suddenly, all the lights went off and I felt even more scared. Shocked, I took an umbrella and went out of my house.
Walking along the street, illuminated by the faint glow of the streetlights, I felt observed again. I did not know where, but anytime I looked behind me there was no one. Without being able to help it, I started running. There was nobody in the street, and there were no lights in the houses. Where was everybody? The only person in the street was myself. The word “myself” echoed in my head for a long time. Then, a really strange thing happened. The streetlights went off, and everything in my sight went pitch black. Then I hit something. It was a tree! I was in the park, and I could not see anything. I stopped feeling observed, which comforted me. I remained sitting in the wet ground for I do not know how many hours. No one passed by.
But then, somehow, only one streetlight, the one in front of me, turned on. It was only me, the streetlight, and the darkest night outside. Or was it? Strange voices came in my head, which became clearer: “Only the darkness can save you” Save me? From what? I turned around and discovered it all: The lights, myself... my shadow! I could feel it pulling me towards it. But I ran as fast as I could. And in a dark place, where light will never reach me, I hide from the day. Because light always has a shadow.
In that place I will remain, and it will not be long until you will too. Have you ever felt it? Look behind you and you will notice it: your shadow, always with you, always observing you, eager to drag you into its world...
Carlos, 1º N.A.
I absolutely loved it! Keep up the good work, Carlos!
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time, a cold winter evening, like all other winter evenings, we were very bored and we didn't know what to do, suddenly a friend said:
ReplyDelete- I know a fun game with which we could spend the time.
So we decided to go to a house in where no people live, this house was next to the river where we could jugar, without disturbing anyone. No one lived there because people said that spirits lived there, we never believed these stories.
when we arrived my friend told us the rules of the game: we were 10 people in total, we had 10 pieces of paper, which would be blank. One of the sheets would have written in it a name, we decided the name, Maria, we fold the pieces of paper, and we chose a piece of paper. The person who had written the piece of paper was the one who was hiding, and we had to find her or him. When someone found someone had to challenge, asking the name Maria, if the person was who had the piece of paper with the name didn't answer, if he or she had the piece of paper blank didn't answer and together looking for Maria . When the game ended, we counted and there were 11 people instead of 10. Suddenly my friend lit a torch, and we found a ghost and she said Maria. We runned far away, after, we realized that my best friend wasn't there. Since that day we know nothing of her.
Good job, Ángela!
ReplyDeleteMy worst nightmare consist in...
ReplyDeleteDriving at night coming back home from a sweet night with my friend, I was alone in my car, when suddenly a bright flame apeared walking over the road, I stopped my breath, a cold sensation run over my chest, I heard my heart at botton while the flame passed close to me. I couldn´t believe it, and when I tried to see it on the back mirror I saw a person sat on my back seat. I blinked and it desapeared
Merche said
ReplyDeleteOne night some years ago,my best friend and me met up to stay the night in one of our friens´ house to study for an exam, but in our way, we received a phone message to go to another place near our destination and we decided to go because we were very intrigued. When we arrived at the place, we saw a dark hair weird boy dressed in a mysteriuos black gaberdine and he took us to a dark narrow street.
there, we felt a strange cold, although that night was really warm, moreover we started to hear some noises and loud screams even though there wasn´t anybody more than us ant the weird gay.
Suddenly, something incredible we haven´t ever seen before happend. the face of the boy became in a horripilant monster with huge canine teeth. We wanted to run and go away but we couldn´t, he was approaching us very slowly and he told us with a frightening voice we should suffer, die and watch over the evil street like him has done it until we find other human body to be our substitute. We tried to leave him, but we were catched.
My friend, fortunately was luckier than me, she got to run away and at least she saved from the evil, but I hadn´t got the same luck as her, in fact when I glanced up to him it was very late, he took up an axe and cut down my head.
Nowadays, I´m the monster who watches over the street but my cowardly friend hasn´t past over here any more. COWARDLY FRIEND!
Maybe you would like to come and visit me. Wouldn´t you? JA, ja, ja
Well done, Monge and Merche! By the way, you really must be a couple of ghosts. I don't know who you are... Aren't you allowed to uncover your identity by some higher spirit or force?
ReplyDeleteThe night was quiet but dark.We were driving when suddenly the car stopped,it run out of petrol.I looked around and I only could see an isolated house which resembled a haunted house.It was Halloween night so I was a bit scared but I decided to ask for some help.We took the shortest route and we saw some strange shadows through the windows and we heard screams and ligths which turned off.
ReplyDeleteAfter a while we decided to knock and an ugly woman opened the door and invited us to the halloween party that they were celebrating.
Hunger.
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to eat. I couldn’t believe my body was very hungry, even if I had eaten one hour ago. I couldn’t think about any other thing but food. I went to the kitchen, and took a piece of bread. The bread was good; nevertheless, it couldn’t kill my hunger. I started to eat as much as I could. Afterwards, all the aliments in the kitchen were in my stomach… But I still was hungry! I started to feel bad. I wasn’t able to understand why this was happening.
Suddenly, all the lights of the house turned off. Outside, a bolt of lighting sounded in a dramatic way. My face was illuminated by it. What a white face. And my body… My whole body was bathed in moonlight. I felt a strange emotion, I started to believe that the night was my friend, it was created for me, to help me.
I heard a noise in a certain part of the house. I clearly knew what I was going to do. I followed the noise.
My little son was very frightened. He was six years old. He was scared of darkness, so he was walking through the corridor, calling me.
‘Dad! Dad!’ , he said. He had fell down into the floor, so that was the noise I heard.
I arrived to the corridor. His neck was so soft and sweet. I hugged him. I kissed him. Blood marked my hands. I drunk it. I felt very relaxed while I was doing this. I realized he had always been my food. Everything I did to look after him was just to finish drinking his delicious blood. I was killing him, but it didn’t matter. I just took away what I gave. I was God. I gave him life, and now I was killing him.
After some days, the police came to my house to investigate the murder. I couldn’t remember anything about that horrible, bloody night. My only thought was that I did nothing. But now I’m here again. Now, It’s a dark, cold night. I am going to go out, to find someone alone in the street . Maybe I can be God once again. I don’t know what kind of monster I am, I just know that I’m hungry!
Blanca Hernández, 1ºA
Today is dark and something tells me that something is going to happen.I ´m scared because I don´t like this felling but I must go to my office.
ReplyDeleteI am driving when suddenly a black cat passes, this situation is beginning to be highly suspicious. After a while I turn my cassette on and someone starts telling scared things. I am very scared but What on earth can I do?
If I stop the car I will go on foot and the night is really hard and cold,and If I go on my way to the office I will crash.I decide to turn off the radio but it is impossible,what is happening?
Suddenly the voice from the radio desappears and I can see how some shadows are reflected in the
road. Finally I arrive at the office and everything is dark and a deathly silence overruns the rooms.where are the people today?
I turn on the lights and all the walls are plenty of blood with the number 666 and scared words.
I am grip by fear,I am tembling and I don´t know what to do.
In a while all the computers switch on and I can read in the screen "you will die" I run away and my car doesn´t work.
I arrive home in a hurry and open the door.My mum is making a jack ó lantern.Oh my god! I have forgotten that today is halloween and everything is possible.But "everything"?
Mª Teresa 1ºNA
The haunted house
ReplyDeleteOn my last holidays I was visiting my best friend Maria. She lives in Germany, in the forest. We were talking outside her house when I saw a big old house, so I asked her about it. She said there were a lot of stories about the house, the people of the town said it was haunted by an old woman who had died there.
I was really curious then I asked her if we could explore the house. She was scared at first, but she consented, after I promised I'd invite her to the next concert of Pearl Jam in Spain. We took a flashlight and went to the house
The house was completely abandoned, it was filled with dust and spiders and even bats! I hate the bats! I thought it was really frightened and cool and Maria thought it was scary, but remembering what I had promised her, she followed me.
After a few minutes we found the library, which was on the second floor, and suddenly, the flashlight stopped working: the batteries were dead. Maria screamed and while I was trying to calm her down, we heard a noise, which made her scream louder, so I told her we could get out of there if that made her feel better.
So we ran quickly towards the door. And we were just outside when the door slammed shut by itself. Maria hid behind a tree while I looked at the house one more time and saw an old woman by the window. It was the coolest haunted house ever!
Nowaday I’m waiting for the next concert of Pearl jam
1ºNA. blanca crespo
- The door has been opened! A frightened woman cried.
ReplyDelete- What are we going to do? My neighbour shouted.
There is a big and deserted house in my town. It is surrounded by an enormous variety of dried up vegetation.
An old legend in the town says that a long time ago it happened a disaster in this house with the family who was living there. One night, a fire destroyed everything inside the house and the family was burned out. It is said that if you go anywhere near the hill you can hear the painful screams of the family`s ghosts, who are still into the house. This is the reason why nobody has ever opened the doors or windows since they died in order not to go out.
However, we did not know why the door had been opened. The family`s ghosts had run away. That night, everybody could hear terrifying noises:
- Why have we been burned? Why!
Even, a neighbour felt knockings at the door trying to enter the house.
Now, the ghosts are free to go wherever they want, so you should be careful in the night ...
Everything began that damned night on 30 October. I have been working in my orchard until very late since the last floods have devastated it. When I went home, I remembered that I have left my mobile phone in the orchard. As soon as I shut my house door, everything became a real nightmare. The sky, my house, the landscape, everything became dark and bleak. Consequently, I began to quiver. So, I decided to ask for a help but nobody appeared. I was completely alone. I could scarcely see anything when a huge vampire appeared all of a sudden. Its cloak was so bright that I got into shock. Once I got over, I was alone again. I was in my bed and everything was red, red like blood and that bright cloak that I will never forget. What did happen that night, that damned night?
ReplyDeleteEverything began on my 18th birthday, since that day I haven't known what I do during the night. I put on my pajamas and go to bed, but in the morning when I wake up I find myself dressed. It's as if I had been out all the night, sometimes when the weather is bad my clothes are wet and stained with mud. I always close the window in my bedroom but in the morning I find out it is open. I try to remember but I can't, it's a kind of deep sleep imposible to remember. I've tried to set my alarm clock to ring at the middle of the night but it doesn't work, I might not be there to hear it... The worst thing is that I wake up with blood in my mouth and I am afaid I might be hurting innocent people, but what makes me feel more frightened is that I love that taste of blood in my mouth.
ReplyDeleteIt was a lovely and peaceful night, such a night that seemed everything was going to be perfect.
ReplyDeleteA couple decided to have a special dinner to celebrate their love. The man was obsessed with the idea that she was leaving him because everything was so perfect that something must go wrong. Everything was as he expected, they had a warm and interesting chat as they ate, and suddenly, the girl found a wedding ring in her glass of white wine.
At this moment, she started to laugh at him while she throw the ring to his face and confessed she was dating someone else. She was so cruel with his feelings that he went mad and thought for a moment that her heart must be with him forever in a way or another, so he just took the knife from the table and stabbed her uncountless times. After that, he ripped her heart out and started to eat it while her corpse was still warm and full of tears.
When he realized what he had done, he started to wonder how their life could have been if she would had just said “Yes, I do”. His counciousness was driving him crazy, so insane that he couldn´t believe his eyes. In a while, the corpse was looking at him, and just for a second, he thought it had started to move. Her soul came back from the other life to have her revenge!
He got shocked so hard that he started to feel his right arm very rigid and in pain. He fall down on his knees while he was figuring out there wasn´t so much time left, so he tried to grab the ring and hold her hand hoping someday she could forgive his sins and make a new start together.
Finally, there was a deathly silence covered by a lovely and peaceful night that seemed everything was going to be perfect.
HALLOWEEN STORY
ReplyDeleteIt was a cold night and Mary and me were in her new house. I was visiting her because I hadn't seen her house before. It was Halloween, so Mary had lighted a lot of candles.
We were talking about holidays, life, death...when Mary decided to go quickly to the small supermarket near her house. She told me: “I am hungry...Do you want to have dinner with me?”
Therefore I stayed at her new home listened classical music (Mary loves that music!). It was too dark...
Suddenly, I saw a palid girl looking al me in te other side of the living room. I almost died of fright because I thought I was alone!!! That surprise made me nervous. That girl didn't speak, she only looked at me...And her face was so familiar... What a weird girl!!
I wasn't able to look al her. I stayed to shake, but I decided not to run away. If I showed my fear, she would attack me. Consequently, I'd have to go to her: I stood up with my eyes closed, and I started to walk to the place where she was. When I was opposite her, I opened my eyes...That girl was pale! When I was to touch her, I felt too much cold... Oh, it was a mirror!!!
Hello everyone. This is my story:
ReplyDeleteIt was the last day of October. We have been walked for an hour. It was a beautiful day, one of these days of Autum where the sun shines and it is very nice to stay at the countryside. It was warm and she had a warm smile. I thought that it was the best place to say it. I pronounced these words: would you like to be my wife?”
She looked at me and suddenly, she began to shake. “Why are you shaking?, Are you scared?”, I told her.
She was deathly pale and I didn’t why. “What it’s wrong? Are you in love?”, I asked and she said: I’m sorry my darling but I’ve always imagined this moment in a different way. I had dreamt with a dark and a foggy night, under the moonlight and with zombies and monsters around us. I have always thought that in this moment you turned in a wolf man and I started to freeze as horror looked me right between the eyes… After that I started to run away from her while I screamed with pain: “you are crazy, you want to be the Michael Jackson’s girlfriend in Thriller”.
THE MURDERS OF DEAN FOREST
ReplyDeleteIt was a really dark and stormy night of October. A group of five friends had decided to happen the night os Halloween in a old cabin located in some place of Dean Forest, near Glucocestershire, in the southern part of England. Inside the cabin, all of them were listening attentivly around a great chimney to the old histories that Kevin was tellin about the legendary forest.
Suddenly, a wind blow opened the door strongly and extinguished the chimney. The darkness and the silence flooded the cabin. Nobody cuold breathe.
They all remained speechless on having seen how out of the cabin something was moving between the undergrowth, entering increasingly the legendary forest.
Carld, Kevin and Johao decided to infinite a tourch to go out in search of the fear some being whereas the rest of them would remain inside the cabin.
When they went out the cabin they could estimate how a few mysterious fingerprints were enteriing the forest and decided to follow them.
After several hours following the tracks, they decided to return to the cabin and to hope that it was dawning close to the rest of the group.
On having come, they could see how the bodies stained with blood of two of his companions llacían in the soil, without life.
Scared to death, they decided to ask for help for telephone, but someone had cut the line of telephone.
Desperadoes, decided to return to go out in search of the horrible creature, armed with beaks and knives that they had found in an old trunk of the cabin.
On the following morning a foresters' patrol who was recognizing the zone discovered to the bodies of five young persons asesinadods.
Nowdays nobody has managed to explain what happened this tragic night of Halloween.
NIGHTBEER
ReplyDeleteSaturday evening. I was going with a couple of friends to Raúl’s house. It was supposed to be a perfect night: the most important football match of the season, food, party for the celebratation afterwards… and beer, of course. Everyone knows watching a football match is not the same without some beers.
The environment was weird, although we did not notice anything due to the excitement. When we arrived in Raul’s house, the match was about to start and we decided to prepare the dinner so that everything is ready when the match started.
When we were going to sit down and start enjoying the night, one of my friends came with the worst news possible: WE DID NOT HAVE BEER!!!
We were running out of time, so a friend and I decided to go out and try to find a supermarket or a bar to buy beer. In spite of being early, the first supermarket we found was closed. Suddenly, we found a bar open. We run and asked the waiter for some beers. His behavior was not normal and we realized he was a zombie! We run away looking for somewhere else, but the next supermarket we found was also full of zombies.
After visiting many supermarkets and bars we realized the city was full of zombies. The only human were us. However, we could not think clearly due to the lack of beer and we decided to turn into zombies.
Antonio Martínez Pérez
One summer, 15 years ago my close friend and I were on holiday at the beach. Every night we slept in the same room and we talked before going to sleep. One night we were talking about a girl who had disappeared on a beach near there and Nobody knew anything about her for 5 days. In the middle of the night while we was sleeping I heard a noise and I woke up very scared. I thought about someone was into the room and we were going to happen the same as that girl. The room was dark but I saw a shadow behind the door and I was terrified and I couldn´t say anything. Meanwhile I didn´t know that my friend was just scared and She couldn´t speak. After two hours I slept. Next morning I woke up slowly and I discovered that it was all a mistake. One of the shelf picked up and the shadow was clothes. My friend and I were laughing the rest of the holiday but never forget that scared night.
ReplyDeleteIsabel García Salas
That cold autumn day, my friends and I decided to stay at the lonely country house next to the green, muddy marsh.
ReplyDeleteThe sky, full of large black clouds, announced a bleak, wild storm. While the wind was screaming, we started telling horror and mystery stories…
“The man was found hanging by his neck from a tree. He used to live alone in an old, grim house. Everybody called him “the madman”. The police searched every room in the house. When they opened the cellar’s door, a putrid smell polluted the air. There were loads of women dead bodies inside hundreds of coffins. Their eyes sockets were empty. He cut out women’s eyes and put them into jars preserved with formaldehyde. He was an obsessive collector of all kind of eyes.”
Suddenly, candles blew out and we all started shouting. A flash of lightning illuminated the room and I could turn the lights on. Then, I was petrified: none of my friends had eyes!
(I tried my best):)
Maria José Calvo.
1ºNA.
The eyes from the nothing
ReplyDeleteIt was a very dark afternoon. Rachel was walking home across the park, as usual. But she was walking more quickly than the other days.
When she got out from school, suddenly she felt a presence. She couldn't see anything, but the girl knew there was something strange, something new that she couldn't explain. Something abnormal.
Rachel ended up running to scape from the nothing.
She could feel a look fixed on her. The eyes examined all her movements. They followed her.
She felt lightened when she arrived home.
But that night, the eyes came back.
She was lying in her bed, when someone whispered her name in the shadows.
And her blood ran cold.
-Rachel -the voice repeat.
The girl covered herself with the sheets.
-Please! Leave me alone.
The fear was flowing for her veins.
-Rachel, please. You have to listen to me -the voice beg her.
-NO! - Rachel was frightened-. Please, get out from here. Don't hurt me!
She could feel someone breathing in her neck.
-Rachel, I won't hurt you -the presence promised.
Rachel swallowed hard.
-I can´t hurt you -suddenly the voice turned maternal-. You are the apple of my eye.
The girl curled up on the bed and shouted:
-NO! GET OUT!
And she fainted.
The following day she already have forgotten the presence. And the eyes never came back.
Many years later the girl had grown up. She was an independent woman that had made a living as an extraordinary lawyer.
But one day, she had to defend a criminal who decided to revenge.
And when the knife started to stick into herself, the girl who was inside her started to remember, like she was in a dream.
“You are the apple of my eye...”
-The voice -murmured Rachel, before she fell over, and died.
Now she is looking at her non-reflection. When she looks a mirror, her image wasn't reflected in it. But she can see her own eyes. Her own look.
The look from the nothing.
-You -she whispers all the time, to all mirrors of the world-. You are the apple of my eye.