Hide and seek in the country side – Submitted by Rafila
i was playing hide and seek in the country side and had a group of ten people. Since this is the country side there is no lighting available but torches and the moon light allowing us to see. We all agreed on racing back home but since i was the fastest as everyone had claimed i had to close my eyes for 20 seconds and then catch up with them. As soon as i opened my eyes everyone was gone. No where to be seen, since i didn’t want to run i walked and then all of a sudden to my shock i saw a young girl crying and walking towards me. I realised then that her face was covered in blood and her arms were moving really weird then as i froze the girl stopped crying and started floating towards me making no sound and had her hands stretched out as if she wanted something. I almost peed my pants and ran screaming as fast as i could. I told everyone what had happened back at home but none believed me they claimed that i was missing for an hour before i returned. The next day i went back to check out the spot in which i saw her and found a bone of some sort stuck in the earth. i led everyone to the spot in which i found it and they dug it up and found a skeleton of a young girl. It was later discovered that the girl was murdered by her psycho dad. That was really freaky and i had therapy after that to help me in which i went through after the ordeal.

The Boy in the woods! – Submitted by Kate
when I was 5 i just moved to california to a new house my room was small but had a huge window that showed the woods behind the house. well on the first night there i was scared because at the time i hated the dark but my mom made me leave the lights off. so i couldnt sleep and instead went and looked out my window. when i saw this little boy in the woods he was walking towards my window and then when he was about to walk down the hill and towards me i jumped back into my bed and hid under the covers scared out of my mind. the next day my mom told me to go and meet the new neighbors so i went and said hi she was this old lady named sarah but leaved all alone. she gave me cookies and talked for hours she seemed very depressed tho when she talked. so after a while i went home and to bed. that night i stayed under my covers and was fast asleep when i heard tapping on my window it made me wake up but when i looked at my window no one was there or anything that could of made that noise. but as i was walking back to my bed i heard the noise again but this time when i looked i screamed so loud that both my parents came running in, i saw the boy who was walking toward my window the night before but when i saw his face half of it was gone. my parents saw nothing when they ran in cuz the boy was gone. i slept with my parents that night and got grounded the next day for making up a story about the boy of course they would never believe me they didn’t see it. so i went and visited my neighbor we talked again only this time i noticed a picture of a young boy the same boy who was out side my window the night before. i asked her who the boy was and she said it was her son he had died 8 years ago in the woods when he went hunting with his father. he got separated from his father and when he went looking for him he saw a bear and decided to try and kill it for food. bears where common near my home. any way he missed the first shot and the bear ran after him and bit him on the leg making him fall to the ground then he began to eat the side of his face the father then say the bear and shot it right in the head but the boy was already died and half of his face was eaten!

Scavenger Hunt – Submitted by Lilian
Two of my friends are moving away so my other friend, June, decided to organize a party. The party’s theme was Halloween. There were about 11 pple there. We decided to have a scavenger hunt.I teamed up with my best friend, Cherry (nickname).It was about 6:00 because we all had to eat dinner first. It was starting to get dark.The first thing on our list was a porcelain doll.Cherry and I were a bit nervous because we had always thought her dolls were scary; they all stared at you. We decided to check the washroom first because that was the closest room. Cherry looked under the towels while I looked in the laundry basket. Suddenly, the faucet turned and squeaked and water started pouring out of the faucet. Cherry and I were startled but dismissed it because we thought it was something wrong with the pipes. We didn’t find the doll so we left. We tried the living room. Cherry looked behind the couch and I looked behind some family photos. Then the TV turned on by itself. We got really freaked out. We got even more scared when we saw the remote on the floor with the porcelain doll lying on top of it. I blinked and I could’ve sworn that it moved its head. It kept staring at us and we just placed in our scavenger basket. When the scavenger hunt was finished, Cherry and I told June and the others about what happened. June frowned and insisted that she had hid it in the attic, behind some old boxes. Cherry and I gulped and we dropped our basket, but the porcelain doll was gone! June, Cherry, the others, and I checked the attice, along with June’s mom. June moved some boxes away and there was the porcelain doll. It was smiling…almost evilly. June picked it up and it slipped out of her hands.Cherry caught it though. June said that there was water on it. Cherry and I looked at each other. The sink…

Dead Campers? – Submitted by John Ford
I was working at Comer Scout Reservation this past summer up in Mentone Alabama. Me and a few other Staff members were standing in the Staff area talking. Me, and a friend looked up, and saw a “person” standing behind a tree near a tent. At first we thought it was a Camper who had snuck into the Staff Area. We heard something in the woods and began to yell: “Hey! Come out, we know you’re there!”, and “We’ll get the Camp Director out here!”. After 5 minutes we stopped yelling, and listened. We heard rustling in the woods…STILL! So after some arguing, me and 4 other staff members went into the woods to look around. We got about half way into the woody area and saw the “person”. It was dressed in casual clothes…it looked like jeans and a t-shirt. When we went to go get the “person” it dissapeared! Turns out 2 people were murdered at Desoto State Park 2 years ago. I’m sure it was the ghost of one of the murdered campers.