- Stop shouting, you are frightening me!

- He can't talk, he is mute…

 

Jim is sharing his room with Mark on the trip. However, the only Mark I know is me, before my reincarnation…

Safe Paranoia

It was a peaceful evening, when everything started. Mark had never been keen on ghost hunting. His friend Jack, as a professional ghost hunter, really wanted to take his friend with him on one of his experiments. Mark, a courageous man on the whole, wasn’t afraid of ghosts or the dark. Although something was keeping him sceptical about it,  he decided to go.

Here it was, The Sanatorium Of Parnitha. A variety of spooky stories had taken place here, like the one with the little white-dressed girl who asks for water. So many previous inhabitants supported that they had seen the girl and a lot of other, weird phenomena like this one.

However, Mark didn’t believe in such things. He found them too childish to pay any attention. The only connection he had with that place was his sister Linda-she had developed a madness and doctors had sent her there, because it was believed that the climate there could cure people but she had died in the sanatorium.

When they got into The Sanatorium, they started the experiment immediately. They switched their night vision cameras on and they started. Jack decided to leave Mark on his own in one of the rooms. He was left with a ball and a ghost finder detector to see if there was someone there. 

Nothing seemed to be strange up to that moment, when suddenly, the ball started rolling slowly but Mark didn’t seem to care….. Jack, who was watching him on his camera, told him by his wireless, to open the gadget to see if there was someone there or if it was just the wind. Unfortunately for Jack, it was the wind. 

After so much effort, nothing interesting happened at all. Mark started laughing at Jack while he was switching his camera off, to start his way back home. Jack, disappointed now, walked all the way to the room where Mark was. At that moment, Mark felt so weird as if something bad was about to happen. He started screaming to Jack! Fortunately, Jack got there in time. 

Now, a tender hug enveloped Mark’s body from behind, which seemed to make him relax.  

- "Ahh.. Jack, you are here…. I’m safe now! "

- "Oh, my sweet brother, it's me …Linda"

THE BIG, SCARRY, SPOOKY HOUSE!!!!

Once upon a time on Halloween day, two boys, Nikos and John, were playing football near a spooky house. Suddenly, Nikos' mum shouted to him to tidy his room. At that time, Nikos lost his attention and threw the football ball on the balcony of the spooky house. Nikos and John ran to get the ball but John remembered that house every halloween, it made scarry sounds. But he thought it can be anything….. cats, birds or other animals.

When they went in, they didn't know where was the stairs for the second floor where the balcony was. They looked in the 14 rooms of that house. They looked again and again but nothing. Suddenly, Nikos smelled cooked meat with potatoes in the oven. When they went to the kitchen, they saw cut legs and hands with potatoes. Nikos just saw it he vomitted and John fainted. When Nikos stopped vomitting, he woke up John. They ran back to exit but there wasn't! Again, they went back to the kitchen, but the cut legs and hands with potatoes wasn't there. They saw blood on the floor and they followed it. The blood stopped outside the fridge. They decided to open the fridge door and when they opened it, they found the stairs in it.

 They went up. At the end of the stairs, they saw the ball. They went to get it. The ball rolled but they found it again and they got it. When they got it, the ball burst and a hole created on the floor which the boys stepped on. Since that day, no one has seen those boys again……

 

When…  (The next chapter I will write next halloween!!).

By Nektarios Giannoulis C1.

It was October the day that me and my mum moved house, It was in a small village far away from the centre of Aegina. I was very interested to see my new house but something told me that something told that something bad was going to happen. So the next day, we went to the new house. It was very beautiful  and the view was awesome. The thing that I didn't like was that we had only two houses that were near but in one , no one lived there  and in the other, was a small family, who had two kids. They were very young. The came to us and welcomed us. All was good and we had already put all our things in the house. The house was perfect for us. My bedroom was exactly what I wanted.

       The first night that I slept there was good but I felt weird. I thought it was because it was a new house. Some day had passed and when I was home alone , felt weird and when I was went to sleep every night, I heard something scratching under my bed and sometimes, my things wasn't there that I had put when I was  home alone. At night, I heard footsteps above me but we didn't have another floor, so, I thought that it was a cat and I walked to ther roof.

       All these things happening mede me  freak out and I was scared , so I asked my mum about my things that had changed position and she said that she hadn't moved anything. I was very scared  but I didn't say anything. I said to myself that nothing was happening and It was all in my mind.

   One night, was in the living room. My mum was out with her friend and I was alone, chilling and watching TV. I heard something knocking on my door and I went to check out who it was but  nothing was there. I was scared, I was felt awkward and had a feeling that someone was watching me. I went to calling my mum but I didn't want to ruin her day and scare her for nothing. It was pretty late so I went to sleep and the moment I closed my eyes, I heard screaming from a little boy. I got up and with quick movements Iwas out of me house and I went to my neighbours. I was very lucky that they were up. I called my mum and said the she had to come quickly. I told  every thing to my neighbours and when my mum came I said her too. My neighbours told us that there had been a small family who had died there. My mum and I were freaked out and very scared. We couldn't sleep at our house so we slept at our neighbours' and in the morning, we moved out.

   It has been 3 years later now and all was going well until recently I was sleeping and the next day, I woke up with scratching on my back I was very scared and that night, I was too scared to sleep and I was afraid that this boy ghost was back, after much time had passed. I was going to sleep when I heard a whisper in my ear which said that he was back……    

When the intern walked slowly into the detective's office in the police station, he was almost scared. It was his first day and he had heard rumours about a strange new case that was assigned to the detective who he was doing an internship with. "Come sit, boy", the detective said, without looking at the intern. 

"What's the case I've been hearing about?" asked the boy.

"Oh, that? You know what's great about reportets?"

"I don't think so, sir…"

"They record everything that happens, and this one's no exception. She recorded everything. The damn fool that killed her didn't think to even break the camera".

"So can we see the footage, sir?" said the intern, already thinking that the killer might have left the camera there for a reason.

"Of course, but you won't enjoy what you see." The intern doubted that. One of the reasons he wanted to become a homicide detective in the first place was his love for horror films. "So what's the victim's name, sir?" asked the intern.

"Linda Greatwood. Now, quiet! It's starting!"

        "Hello everyone", started Linda in the video "We are outside the Bright Horizons Asylum, a building whose dark history is covered in mystery and questions. Those questions are the ones that we'll be answering today!" she said with a smile and gestured to the man behind the camera who followed her to the front door.

        The Asylum was a big old stone building in the shape of a square with many windows but only one entrance, the front door.

       "We are lucky! the door is locked from the outside", the reporter said, while getting her lockpicking tool out. "This is ilegal in so many ways", thought the intern.

When the reporters got in to the dark room, Linda turned on her flashlight. "Before it became an asylum, this building was a mansion of a great family of the city, the Drays they were called!" Linda continued further into the building, constantly looking back at the door. She was scared, even though she was trying to hide it, You could see it in her eyes. The room they were in was large with two curved staircases going to the same place, a balcony with a big door.

        After she passed through the door, Linda started talking again. "This was the the small canteen, only the most violent prisoners ate here -" she was interrupted by a loud sound coming from the first room, the sound of a door closing. "Umm, that was probably just the wind, right?" said Linda, she must have got an answer from the cameraman because she rushed to the door and tried to open it. "The door is locked from the outs-". Again, Linda was interrupted, this time by a male scream. The camera dropped to the floor but you could clearly see Linda looking back slowly and a figure dressed in a straitjacket, standing on the balcony in front of the camera, the sleeves of the jacket that would hold the two arms together were cut. The man was covered in blood. He had three scratch marks on his heel. The man jumped towards Linda, with seemingly no effort and landed right in front of her….. Then, the detective and the intern heard a female scream, and the footage cut there. Some blood from the dead cameraman must have gone in and stopped the recording.

        "That was very strange indeed, detective!" The intern said with a smile, clearly trying to hide the fact that he was traumatised by the recording. "Go home kiddo, you look like you just saw an elephant giving birth." The detective said. After the intern was gone and the door was closed, the man removed his shoe and started scratching the three scratch marks on his heel. "This will be a fun one!" he said with a laugh.

''The Dark Street''

One night, my best friend, two boys and I were walking in a very dark street with NO people around there. Some days before, we had heard some strange things about this street, that if we walk across it a little bit, we'll see a big scary house and that house is haunted and inside, is a ghost of the old man this house belongs to.   

We walked and before we spotted the house, we suddenly heard some footsteps in the woods! Quietly, step by step, we started to go back, but then, my best friend screamed! I looked behind and I saw a strange man pull her into the woods. My friend and I ran to save her. One of the boys kicked the man and the man fell down. My best friend managed to pull away from the man's hands and then we all started running, but I was the last who started to run and somebody pulled me off my feet and I fell down. I screamed as loud as I was able to. One of the boys ran to me and there was again the strange man who was pulling me. The boy threw a rock carefully at him and he let go my foot. I started to run away with my friend. We followed my best friend and the other boy.

After 4-5 minutes of running, we stopped to rest. Then suddenly, I felt an ache on my knee. I took out my phone and I turned on the flashlight. I had hurt my knee and blood was running of it. In the dark, we heard some strange noises and we were scared, but we had to continue to find the way out of this labyrinth. One of the boys helped me to walk all the way out. Our phones didn't have any signal and after many minutes, we managed to escape and we arrived at a road with lights FINALLY!!! Fortunately, we didn't see this man again. When we calmed down a little, I telephoned to my mum to come take us in front of a cafe. We told her I just fell down and I hurt my knee.

This was the scariest and most stressful thing that has ever happened to me and my friends. I hope nobody goes down that sreet after us….. Or else I think they will have the same luck as we had…….    

   Maria M.

Once upon a time, on my birthday, some of my friends were coming to celebrate it! We went for a lot of walks in the area until night was falling…

At one moment, I told my friends about a house near to mine…

"This house is very small and it's in a big, spooky forest! In it, lives an old woman with dozens of her dogs.That woman is very bad and sharp and for that, we must stay away from her!"  I said to my friends.

One of the children, without fear of this fact, proposed to go to this forest and after, to the old women's house! My other friends followed.  I tried to change their minds but they did not care…

I decided to do not go because I thought they will be scared and they will come back quickly!

 

The hours were passing and my friends did not come. I started to worry about that and I decided to go in the forest to see what happened. I walked into the forest and I looked everywhere but I did not find anyone! I quickly ran back to my house and I told all the adults what happened. Everyone ran to the forest to find the children. I knew that "game" would not be good at all and would get us into trouble! They separated and scattered to make it easier to find the children but with no luck – they did not even find one child!

They decided to call the police. It was the only solution! My dad realized that no one was looking in a place….. at the house! Yes, at the house where lived the malicious, old woman! They were afraid to go in it, but they had to do it for the children.The adults went into the house, except me and my big cousin.

We returned home and waited with the hope that parents returned with my friends. The time passed without anyone returning back. We called the police! The Police were coming and we led them into the forest.They walked to the woman's house and went in!

 

They never came back… I didn't know what happened, but I was very scared of this place! Then, suddenly……. I woke up after this terrible nightmare!

One day, my friend Joanna and I went to the forest in Agia Marina, Aigina. We went there because we wanted to walk. But this forest was very creepy and scary because in the forest was a church and one little house. 

When the sun rose a little, we started to go to the village but we didn't know how. We ran to the right, and to the left but we didn't find the way back. When my friend started to cry, the bells of the church started to ring. We started to run towards the small house but when we went inside we saw blood everywhere. We were scared but we didn't want to go outside. We stayed in the house and we tried to call the parents. There was no internet so we couldn't call them. 

We got up at 5 o'clock and we didn't have any battery on the phones. Outside, it was very cold and scary! When the sun came up, we went out to find a way to go to the village. We walked for 2 hours and we wanted to drink water but we didn't have any. Later, we found a small lake and we went to drink water but next to the lake, we found a dead person and next to the person, we found a knife with blood. We started to walk back to the small house but when we got there, we heard somebody screaming, 'Help help'! We ran outside to help him but we saw a person at the church. We went to him to ask what it was and he looked behind us. When we looked behind, we saw a woman with the knife in her hand………..

Our story starts on the island of Aegina.It was Halloween.Two friends,Tom and John were sleeping at John's house for the night.At the end of the street where John lived,there was a haunted house.

The house's owner,Mr Brown had died 25 years ago.John wanted to discover what was in the house,but he was afraid to go alone.So he told Tom and they both agreed.There they were,in front of the house and it was 8 o' clock at night.

In the haunted house,there was a light on.They went inside.When they got inside,a voice said  "welcome".The door behind them closed. 'You have four hours to escape or else you 'll become monsters'!There was a staircase,a hallway and a living room.Tom decided to go alone.He went up the staircase and John went to the living room.John found out that next to the living room,there was a library.A sign said "Family Library".He wanted to search for a book about the house.Meanwhile Tom saw a lot of pictures of Mr. Brown.John,finnaly found the book!But when he pulled it from the bookshelf,a hole under his feet opened and he fell down into a cave.It was very dark.He was glad to have a flashlight to see in the darkness.

Tom found a room.The door opened,but because it had never been opened in 25 years,it was very difficult.Finally it opened.

He heard a noise..Brainnssss!In that room there were a bunch of zombies.He quickly ran out of the room.He locked the door.But he knew they 'd eventually get out.It was just a matter of time.

John turned on the flashlight.He was in a cave.Slowly after looking around the cave,he recognised it.That was the spooky Loch Nes cave.They said there was a monster in the lake of the cave.Suddenly he realized he was walking on the Loch Nes monster.He walked slowly.

Tom ran to the hallway.He couldn't hear the zombies.He calmed down.He saw more paintings,but he noticed that one of them had its' eyes moving.Then he fell down…he was in a maze.He wanted to find John quickly.It was 10:30.They only had one and a half our to escape the haunted house.

After a bit of walking,the Loch Nes monster woke up.John started running.He found some stairs that were going up to the house's backyard.In the backyard there was the maze.John heard Tom.

J.-Tomm!Tomm!Where are you?

T.-I'm in the maze!

Suddenly they heard a noise….Grrrrrrr…..

J.-What's that noise? Do you think it is a….

T.-Gulb..Is it a…

BOTH -Monster!!!!

The monster had woken up.

Ahhhhhhrrrrrr!!! It was 11:40.

J.-Quick!Follow my voice!

T.-Ok! Aahhhahahaha….AAAAAAAA!

J.-What happened?

T.- I fell on somebody's head.

?-Get off me!

T-Who are you?

?-I shall not reveal myself.Kazam!

J- What was that?

T- I don't know.Look.Come down here.

J.- Ok, if you say so.

T.- This is a secret basement that the guy who left put cameras and traps all over the house.

J.- And he also had fake noises from the internet.But who is he? I say we should follow him.

T.- Agreed.

They slowly followed him.When he stood still, they caught him and he was wearing a mask.They took it off…..

Both- Mr Brown!?!!

Mr Brown- You caught me.

T.- Everyone thought you died 25 years ago!

Mr BR- I faked my death.

J.-But why?

Mr.BR.- Because silly kids were ranging my bell and then they'd run. This is why I 'm hiding and keeping kids away.

T.- I 'll call the police.

 

It was 11:59.They were outside  of the house.The police got there at 12:00. Mr. Brown was in the house.They took him to the police station.But remember what the voice had said:' You have 4 hours to escape or else you will become a monster forever….'

 Last year, my friends and I were going to Vagia, because it was halloween. It was very exciting until something 

happened. Vagia 's arthitecture was old-fashioned. It was old and very spooky.

    We went for trick or treat to all of the houses. When we had collected many candies,we desided to 

go to the park, in the area.

    Later, we heard a loud noise. We were afraid, because we thought there was a ghost. After five minutes,

we made sure that it was a ghost. Suddenly, the air became stronger, trees were moving hereand there and we  

didn't know what to do.

     This was very dangerous for us  because we were alone in the big forest. We left. Some of my friends were 

amazed because something like that had never happened to us before.

     After, we got home, I tried to sleep, but I failed ,  because I was thinking about the ghost over and over again.

Helen !!