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Ghost stories
from kids - 20081103
Granddaddy
Shondrea, Towles Intermediate Montessori
One day I was asleep on the couch. I awoke to a funny smell
of pipe smoking tobacco, and in the doorway stood my granddaddy
who who had been dead since I was 11. And it would’ve
been OK but I had never seen him without his walker. He was
wounded in World War II at Pearl Harbor, and of course I thought
I was seeing things.
I knew he was dead and on top of that I was
so afraid of dead people, but this time it was different.
It was like we were in our own world so I got up because I
was going to run, but I didn’t. He turned and started
to walk up the stairs and I had to follow for some reason.
He never said a word.
He started to climb the first flight of stairs
and I could hear him stepping up each stair. He began to climb
the second set of stairs. Then just as he got to the top,
he disappeared. I could no longer smell sweet pipe burning
and the feeling I had just left, and I knew he was gone.
The Evil Eye
Aubrey, Towles Intermediate Montessori
There was once an old man who had an illness of his eye that
made his eye look strange. So he hired a servant to take care
of him. One day the old man was afraid that he would die,
so he asked the servant to come and check on him every night.
One particular night the servant was going
into the room to check on the man, and the man woke up. The
servant was so scared of the man’s icy blue eyes that
he took the mattress off the man’s bed, which made the
man fall to the ground. Then he laid the mattress on top of
the man. The man struggled to get the mattress off himself,
but he suffocated and died.
The servant heard someone scream. He knew
that he was in big trouble, so he took the boards off the
floor and put the dead man under them. Then he nailed the
boards back down.
Suddenly he heard sirens and sat down like
he had not done anything. The police came in and asked the
man if he had done something that he shouldn’t have done;
he simply said, “No.”
The servant was getting nervous about lying
to the police. Then he thought that he heard the old man’s
heart beating. He screamed in fear, “OK. I did it! I
killed the old man!”
The heartbeat he had really heard was his
own. He was arrested and taken to jail.
Haunted School Bus
Kathryn, St. Joseph Hessen Cassel Catholic
School
It was 3 a.m. on Monday morning and Bill looked out the window
at the bus stop. There was a haunted school bus. But Bill
did not know it was haunted. Bill started to get ready because
he did not know it was 3 a.m. He thought it was 7:50 a.m.
When he was ready, he went to the bus. When
he opened the door, a skeleton was the driver. Bill thought
that it was a costume. He was the only one on the bus. He
was a little scared. There were spiderwebs all over. The seats
were torn up. It was very scary!
He looked out the bus window and saw the clock
in the bedroom window. It said 3 a.m. He ran to the driver
and said, “I want to get off this bus now!” Then
the skeleton said, “Once you are on, you can’t get
off!”
Bill sat back down and began to cry. The skeleton
said, “You can get off. I’m tired of your crying!”
The bus stopped and Bill ran off. He went
straight home and hugged his mom and dad.
Haunted Principal’s Office
Jessica, St. Joseph Hessen Cassel Catholic
School
Once there was a haunted principal’s office. There were
dry bones in there. She has a cage to put you in if you are
in trouble. One night my friends and I went into the office
and saw what was in her desk. There was a sharp, sharp pencil
and a pocketknife.
A dog stays overnight in the office. There
was a haunted light that would not shine on the principal
but would shine at the kids. Then we got scared so we went
to our parents and told them about it.
I went to get a flashlight. My parents came
with me. I went in first. It was scary! My mom and dad ran
home fast. I said, “I will die if I ever go in there
again!”
The Spirit of Kathleen
Zachary, Haley Elementary School
What are ghosts? Some people say ghosts are spirits of dead
people. Some say they live in old houses, graveyards and cellars.
I say there is a ghost at my mom’s work at Allen County
Cardiology named Kathleen.
They call her the lady in the white dress.
Several employees have had encounters with her. Lawrence,
a nurse, saw her in the basement and asked if he could help
her, only to have her vanish right in front of his eyes.
Her presence is often felt by the disappearance
of charts, stethoscopes and blood pressure cuffs. At night
there are really strange noises and her voice is heard throughout
the building. Once when I was there I felt something brush
past me when I was in the kitchen. My hair stood up on the
back of my neck. They say her favorite thing to do was to
cook meals for her husband, so it made sense I would find
her there.
I never felt scared or threatened, just a
little spooked. All of the employees think she just likes
to be remembered and have a lot of fun by taking their things.
I believe in ghosts … do you?
Haunted Hotel Room
Madison, Haley Elementary School
One Halloween night, two teenagers were walking in a hallway
at the Capper Hotel. They were on their way to a Halloween
party in Room 666 on the 13th floor, and the room was supposed
to be haunted.
When Hannah and Tyler got up to the room,
the party had just started, and at midnight they started telling
ghost stories. They turned off the lights and shut all the
doors. At 12:05 a.m. the flashlight went out and a shriek
of horror filled the room. Finally when somebody turned on
the lights, they saw that Tracy was missing. They all found
her lying in the hallway. She said, “Somebody pulled
the back of my ponytail and dragged me to the hallway.”
Ronnie asked, “What did the person look
like?”
“Well, it was a woman. She was wearing
a pitch-black dress with black high heels,” Tracy said.
Then Dylan asked, “Was she young or old and what was
the color of her hair?”
“Her hair color is black and she was
young.” Tracy got up off the ground and they went down
to the front desk to tell the gentleman about what happened.
But when they got there, no one was around; everything looked
abandoned.
Everybody gathered back in Room 666 and grabbed
their things and left the Capper Hotel. Everyone was scared
to stay after what had happened to Tracy. Hannah looked up
the ghost and the Capper Hotel on the computer when she got
home. She found out the hotel had burned down 25 years ago;
the staff and a woman had all died. Now they were all ghosts
and haunting the hotel.
A Spooky Story
Christian, Towles Intermediate Montessori
Once upon a time there was a little boy in a cave, but he
never came out. Everybody wondered about the boy, but all
of them were too afraid to go in the small cave.
Over these past years, they still wondered,
and wondered, and wondered. They wondered what he ate; they
wondered if the boy was being taken care of. But of course
he was taken care of because really brave people went into
the cave, and guess what they found?
They found bulls with human faces! And that
was just the beginning.
Suspects
Jason, Towles Intermediate Montessori
It was Tuesday when it all started. I was reading the newspaper,
and three men in a gang were on the loose, looking for money
to steal. I was really scared! They said one guy in the group
never said his name when they asked him what it was. They
said that guy is the leader.
The other guys’ names were Jarry and
Plack. Jarry and Plack were goof offs. Plack had big earrings,
a clown suit and a hook for a hand. Jarry had a long-sleeve
shirt, little ears, long neck, a crown and huge eyes. However,
the gang leader just had a jail shirt and a black ski mask.
They all like to steal from rich people.
One day they decided to come to my house and
steal. They couldn’t come to my house, I thought. We
have doors locked and windows closed. So I went to bed that
night. I heard footsteps going Thump! Thump! Thump! Thump!
across the upstairs bedroom. I went up to see my dad lying
down on the floor with my mom and sister knocked out.
They grabbed me but I jumped away. Then Plack
jumped too, but he tripped and fell down the stairs. Then
Jarry chased me, but he fell in my messy room. But the guy
that I call Sonar threw a knife at me. I took the biggest
toy I could find and I threw it at him, and he took the chute
to the basement, and the cops came to get him.
The Purple Gorilla
Arianna, Towles Intermediate Montessori
Once it was a dark and spooky night and Camp Potawatomi. All
the campers were in the Mess Hall except three. Those three
were gone, gone forever. I will tell you the story.
One day three snotty girls, who liked to play
pranks, went to Camp Potawatomi. No one wanted to be in their
cabin. All the counselors were too nice to deserve these girls.
So they got the deserted cabin. Now counselors said there
was a purple gorilla who was in the basement but of course
the snotty girls did not believe a word they said. Now the
story of the purple gorilla begins.
One day a mad scientist’s son went into
the basement of the house. He was not supposed to go down
there. The boy heard a sound. Bang! Bang! Bang! He wondered
what it was so he went in. Then all of the sudden… Bang!
Bang! Bang! The cage broke and out came the purple gorilla.
But before the father could help, the purple gorilla gobbled
them both up. That is the story of the purple gorilla, and
now you have a better idea of what is going on.
So the girls went down in the basement, thinking
that nothing was down there. But after awhile they heard moans
and groans. They were so scared they ran up to their cabin
and slammed the door. But all night the moans and groans kept
them up. Then in the morning they got struck by lightening
and died. They think it was the spirit of the purple gorilla.
Now the girls haunt Camp Potawatomi by playing pranks on the
campers like they did when they were alive!
Ghostly Son
Foster, Haley Elementary School
One time in the cellar of a building there was a poor man
trying to get out.
“Help, I want out, let me out!”
But no one helped him. But then he heard something.
“Who is there?” he yelled. A silent
WHOOSH! went by him and then… “Boo!”
“AHHHHHHHHHHH!” he said.
“Oh, I thought you were one of those
school bullies. Sorry!” the thing that screamed boo said.
“Who are you?” the poor man said.
“I’m a ghost and my name is Billie.”
“Billie? My name is Billie, too. Weird,
huh? And I had a son named Billie Jr. No offense, how did
you, you know, die?” he asked.
“It’s a very long story, and I don’t
like to talk about it.”
“OK, and that son I had, well, he died.”
Billie the ghost tried to pry the cellar door
open with his hands. It worked. You are free to go. That is
what the ghost thought. Billie (the human) walked away and
turned around. “Aren’t you gonna come with me?”
“This is my home,” the ghost said.
“Goodbye.”
From that day forward Billie the human did
not know that Billie the ghost was actually, Billie Jr.
The Ghost Before Night
Brianna, Haley Elementary School
One scary night a ghost
Was in the park at night.
The ghost was doing some reading
Then the ghost was playing in the dark.
The ghost was having a lot of fun.
And then the ghost went home.
In his soft bed reading a good book.
The Haunted Creek
Chase, St. Joseph Hessen Cassel Catholic School
There once was a boy named Tom and his friend Tim. They liked
to play a lot. One day the haunted creek was born. They were
playing by the creek.
The haunted creek is hungry and eats the kids.
The parents went looking, but couldn’t find them. The
parents called the police. They went looking, but could not
find them either. The kids were gone forever!
Halloween went by and the kids were never
found. The haunted creek struck again.
The police were looking by the creek. The
creek was hungry again and ate a policeman. It was mysterious!
They never found the secret of the haunted creek. The creek
never appeared again and the people were gone forever!
The Scary House
Nick, St. Joseph Hessen Cassel Catholic School
There was a scary house that my brother told me about. I didn’t
believe him. I had to go see it myself. It took a while to
get there. When I got there, it seemed really scary from the
outside. I thought to myself, “I hope I will survive.”
I decided to open the door and go inside.
I walked up the stairs. They were very steep. There were three
doors to go into. I decided to go into the first door. There
were 60 bones and five dead people. The dead people came back
to life. I became even more scared.
I tried to run out the door but I couldn’t.
The dead people got to the door first and shut it. I died
inside that house.
The Haunted House
Jacob, St. Joseph Hessen Cassel Catholic School
I heard stories about that house. The house is old and falling
down. The man that lives there always wears a mask and he
is dead. When he died, he put a curse on the house. If you
go in his yard, the house will eat you.
After he eats you, he will spit you out as
larva. The curse can only be broken on Halloween night by
children who bring treats in his yard. See you at the house
on Halloween.
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