It was a dark night.Nick was alone in his home.His parents had gone out and they said to Nick that they will be late because it was their anniversary.It was Halloween.Nick was a little afraid but he wanted to stay calm.It was 8:00p.m..Things were great since 9.00p.m..Nick heared a noise.He said that it was nothing.Then he heared another noise.He was scared but he stayed calm.He just closed the curtain and the windows.At 9:30 he heared a voise.<<Nick I am here>>,<<Nick I am here>>He tried to find what was happening.When he went to the living room the lights closed.He found a candle and he set fire to it.When he saw,all of the windows were open.He went to the windows to close them a zombie appears.Nick was skreaming like a little girl and he was running in the home.The zombie was chasing him.At 11:30 a ghost appears too.Nick was so tired.Saddenlly his parents opened the door.They saw the ghosts and the zombie.They took out their basucas and they killed the monsters.In the end Nick slept but the zombie woke up and it ate Nick's brain.
It was raining very much outside.It was 8 o'clock in the evening .My parents weren't at home and my sister and I were alone.
Fistly I was watching TV and my sister was brushing her teeth.Outside it was raining too much nad I got scared very much because we were alone , so I had to protect both my sister and myself.My sister decided to go out to get some woods to light the fire.While I was trying to light the fire I heared some steps outside the door.I got very anxious ang my sisiter started crying because she got scared.I didn't know what to do and we called our parents to come bach home.I decided to open the door to see who was there.At the moment I was opening and I saw my friend rining the bell because she wanted to come to our home to give me the homework as I hadn't been at school that morning.
Some minutes later my parents came back and I explained theim what had happened.It was just a starnge visitor who upset us!!!
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Christopher Cruise.
This Monday night, millions of American children will celebrate Halloween. Dressed in costumes, often as princesses or action heroes, they will go to their neighbors to collect candy by yelling "trick or treat!"
For the past two years our Halloween treats have been scary stories written by our own Caty Weaver. Caty has written another original story. Here is "She Reaps What She Sows."
BARBARA KLEIN: Howell Hall was a big, old house, almost two hundred years old. It was a kind of house called a Victorian. Old Victorians can be beautiful, with tall windows and detailed woodwork. But not Howell Hall. It looked dark and oppressive, not bright and cheerful like the other houses in the neighborhood.
Something else was strange about Howell Hall. It was not nice and straight like other houses. Honestly it looked deformed, like some giant had taken hold of it and squeezed.
Maggie and her friend Matthew stood in the front yard and looked at the old house. The children knew they were not supposed to be there. Their parents told them it was dangerous. They told them some kid once went inside and fell through a floorboard and broke his leg.
Maggie and Matthew were not only disobeying their parents. They were also breaking the law. The house had been empty for years and no one seemed to care about it. Still, it was private property and they did not have permission to be there.
And really who in their right mind would want to go inside a haunted house? Yes, I know what you're thinking — another Halloween story about a "haunted house." But Howell Hall really was haunted. All the children in the neighborhood knew the story. Something terrible happened there. That was all people in the town would say — "something terrible."
Whatever it was, it happened long ago. Some said it was back in the eighteen hundreds. Others said it happened in the early nineteen hundreds. Either the details somehow got lost in time, or people chose to forget. Maybe whatever happened was too scary for anyone to want to remember.
What do you think happened at Howell Hall? Yes, you — listening to my voice right now. What do you think happened? Let your imagination run wild when you go to bed tonight. And then, if your parents come in and ask why you're still awake, you can tell them: it's because of the terrible thing that happened at Howell Hall.
And you can tell them about the blood. Oh, yes, there was blood. Lots of it. That's one detail that survived all these years. And here is another detail that survived. When the police came, they discovered the blood but they found nobody — what I mean is, they found no body. They found the owner of the house very much alive. Alive and out of his mind. They found him on the first floor in the music room, calmly playing the piano.
Maggie and Matthew and the other neighborhood children had heard all the theories about what happened at Howell Hall. But not all of the children believed the story.
MAGGIE: "OK. Let’s go."
MATTHEW: "Go home?"
MAGGIE: "Home? No! In the house. We’re here to explore the house. Are you chickening out?"
MATTHEW: "No way, Maggie. I’m not scared of a house."
Maggie and Matthew looked up again at the big, old house. What they did not see was someone in the top floor window, looking back at them.
(SOUND: Door creak)The children opened the front door and stepped inside. The hallway was covered in spider webs and dust. There were large areas of the walls where the paint had peeled away.
Maggie and Matthew took a few steps down the hall. Suddenly the front door slammed shut behind them.
(SOUND: Door)
MATTHEW: "OK How’d that happen? Don't tell me the wind shut the door, Maggie. There's no wind!"
MAGGIE: "Oh, come on, Matt. The door closed because the house isn't straight. It closed because of gravity. It wasn't a ghost."
Maggie walked back to the front door and reached for the knob to turn it. The knob came off in her hand.
MAGGIE: "I guess it would be nice if we could open it, though."
Matthew looked sick.
MAGGIE: "I’m kidding. It’s an old house. Things are broken. We're not trapped. We can climb out a window."
(PIANO MUSIC)
Maggie and Matthew heard a piano being played somewhere in the house.
MATTHEW: "Who’s playing the piano?”
MAGGIE: “Hello, hello. Is anybody there?"
The children headed down the long hallway. The music got louder.
MAGGIE: "Matthew – there – the music room."
As soon as the kids got to the doorway, the music stopped. A tall piano stood in the far corner of the room. All they could see was the back of it.
The children were shaking as they walked slowly toward the piano. They wanted to see who was sitting at the keyboard. But, what they saw lying on the seat was a pile of bones. Human bones.
MATTHEW: "Is this enough for you, Maggie? Can we go now?"
MAGGIE: "Let’s get out of here. Run, Matthew, run!"
(SOUND: Door slam, kids scream)
MAGGIE: [almost crying]"Matt, who closed the door? Matthew, who closed it? I’m scared, I want to go home. Why did I come here?"
[Sound of Matthew trying to turn door knob.]
MATTHEW: "It won’t open, Maggie. We’re stuck. I can’t believe you got me into this. I should have known better when Jenny and Will refused to come."
Jenny and Will were their friends from school.
MAGGIE: "I’m sorry, Matt. Matt, I’m sorry. I thought it would be fun, especially on Halloween."
(SOUND: Moans )
MATTHEW: "Did you hear that? DO you hear that?"
MAGGIE: "Yes, of course, I hear it."
MATTHEW: "I think it’s above us. What does it want?"
Just then the door that had been stuck slowly opened. Matt and Maggie froze with fear. What would they see on the other side? But there was nothing there. Just the empty hallway. And a way out, they thought.
The children ran down the hall. They were headed for the front room where they could climb out a broken window. Suddenly they stopped. Some one — or some thing – stood a few meters before them. It wore a dark, hooded robe. It just stood there, holding a sharpened stick of some kind and looking at the children. Or appearing to look at them. They could not really see any eyes under the hood.
They heard a horrible noise. The figure started coming toward them.
MAGGIE AND MATTHEW: [screaming]: "NOOO! Go away, go away!"
The figure stopped and then turned and went up the staircase.
FIGURE: "There’s just one way out, Matthew and Margaret. And one chance to make it out. You must follow me."
MAGGIE : "No, Matthew. NO! We can't go upstairs. We have to get to the window in the front room."
Maggie and Matt raced past the stairs. Somehow Matt’s foot caught Maggie’s feet and the two children fell and slid into the front room. They jumped up and started toward the window. But Maggie stopped and grabbed Matt’s arm.
Their path was blocked by something hanging from the ceiling. It was the body of a man with a rope around his neck.
MATTHEW: "I’m not going near that window, Maggie. No way. We’re going with that thing on the stairs."
MAGGIE: "Are you crazy? Matt, that thing wants to kill us.”
And then the man hanging from the rope looked over at them — and smiled a wide smile.
(SCREAMS)
GHOSTLY VOICE: "Matthew and Margaret. There’s just one way out. Follow the Reaper. You wanted to come, against the rules, now death awaits you little fools."
Matthew and Maggie knew there was no choice but to go upstairs. They walked slowly up the steps.
The Reaper stood at the top. When the children got to the first landing, they looked up and saw the Reaper speeding down a long and twisting hall. They followed as fast as they could, but the Reaper was always a few steps ahead.
The Reaper entered a room. There was a greenish light and strange sounds coming from inside. Matthew looked at Maggie.
MATTHEW: "This is it, Maggie."
They walked into the room.
CHILDREN: "SURPRISE!"
Matt and Maggie looked around. There were Jenny and Will — and Michael and Sophie and Derrick and their other friends from school.
And there was the Reaper. Without the hood.
MAGGIE: "Dad! DAD! How could you. I was so scared. I thought we were going to die."
MAGGIE'S DAD: "But you didn’t. And you DID learn a lesson. And we all had a good time teaching it — including Matthew."
MAGGIE: "Matthew! You knew about this the whole time? You were faking it?”
Maggie turned around. The dead man was very much alive.
DEAD GUY: "I’m Mr. Silva. I manage this property and I'm a friend of your dad. And, you know, I think we could have a lot of fun making this place into a haunted house every Halloween."
Maggie's face was red. Her pride was a little hurt, but she was ready to forget about that. She turned to her friends.
MAGGIE: "Well, guys, what do you say? Wanna go trick-or-treating now?
(MUSIC)
CHRISTOPHER CRUISE: "She Reaps What She Sows" was written and produced by Caty Weaver. Maggie was Daisy Bracken, and Jack Goodwin played Matthew. Doug Johnson was Maggie's dad. And Mr. Silva was Mario Ritter. You can find an MP3 and transcript, along with links to our other Halloween stories, at voaspecialenglish.com. Join us again next week for THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English.
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Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Faith Lapidus. And I'm Barbara Klein. October thirty-first, this coming Saturday, is Halloween. Millions of children will dress as ghosts, witches, skeletons, superheroes, princesses — all sorts of costumes.
Then, with parents usually nearby, they will walk through their neighborhoods. They will go door to door, yelling "trick or treat." This threat of a trick, all in good fun, quickly brings a treat, usually some candy. Then the trick-or-treaters will go off to the next house.
But, you know, there is a reason people in ancient times were careful to honor evil spirits and the dead with a night of their own. The masks that people wore on All Hallows' Eve were meant to hide their identity, so they would avoid a most frightful trick. But now, do you want to know a story that is even scarier than that?
Do you mean the story of my mother? That story? It makes me shake just to think about it!
Faith's mother lived in a small town in New York State when she was a girl. The fall season was beautiful in the Adirondack Mountains, but it was very cold at night.
There was a girl named Arial at my mother's school. She was popular but not very nice. She told stories about people. She ruined them with her gossip.
Missus Hart was a very kind teacher at the school. Everyone liked her.
"Class … "
she said one morning early in the new school year,
"… we have a new student, Pearl Dew from Kentucky. Please welcome her."
Arial saw an easy victim in Pearl. And my mother says Pearl was very strange. She was so thin and her skin was so white you could almost see through it. She had long black hair. It reached so far down her back, she had to bring it around the front so she would not sit on it. She did not look healthy.
Arial did not help the situation for Pearl, did she? No, she made the situation worse. Soon terrible stories about Pearl and her family were going around the school. Kids were saying that her father had murdered a family of five back in the hills of Kentucky, but got away with it.
Yes, Arial started that rumor. She said Pearl's father had buried them deep in the wilds of the mountains, so their bodies were never found. No one could prove he killed them. Arial also told a lie about Pearl's mother. She said the mother knew about the murders and could not live with the truth, so one night she threw herself off a mountain.
Everyone believed Arial. They all knew that Pearl did not have a mother.
"She fell by accident. She loved walking in the hills. She would never leave me. It was an accident. My father's not a murderer. That family — he didn't even know them. No one knows what happened to them. Why do you say these things, Arial? Please, stop. What did I ever do to you?"
When Pearl would ask her to stop, Arial would just laugh. Or she would act frightened. "Don't get your Dad after me, Pearl," she would say.
Yes, although Pearl's father was apparently not the threat that Arial needed to worry about.
Weeks went by, and October came. People put pumpkins on their porches and hung skeletons or ghostly shapes on their front doors.
The children at school noticed a slow change in Pearl that month. She began to talk a little more. Sometimes you might see a little smile, or hear a quiet laugh. In late October, she sent out twelve invitations for a Halloween party. My mother got one. So did several of her friends. Pearl even invited their teacher.
But not Arial?
No, no, not after all that torture Pearl had to suffer from Arial.
But Arial did not understand that reasoning. She was angry. In fact, it was the first time anyone saw her speechless. She was so filled with rage, she could not put a sentence together.
But that did not last long. Arial told my mother that she planned on attending the party anyway. She said she did not need an invitation.
The night of the party was cold enough that you could see your breath. My mother dressed as a ghost, so she could wear a heavy coat under her white sheet. It was difficult to get to Pearl's house. She and her father lived in an old house in the valley of a mountain. There was a footpath, but parts of it got a little rough.
But they all got there safely?
Well no. They never got to the party at all. My mother said all the guests first met at her house. They decided it would be best to walk to the party as a group. So they started along, dressed as witches and zombies and the like. It was fun, she said, playing little tricks to scare each other along the way. The group entered the woods near Pearl's house. The kids were excited, happy to be going to a party. They could see the lights in Pearl's house in the distance below.
So what happened?
Well, the kids and Missus Hart, their teacher, saw a woman ahead of them walking very close to the edge of the path. Missus Hart quickly reacted.
TEACHER:
"Oh my god — she's going to fall! We have to warn her. Miss! MISS! Run ahead, kids. Oh, no!"
It was too late. The woman went over the edge. Yet she did not fall. She was floating in the air. She had her arms held out.
WOMAN:
"Come to me, child, come to me, my little girl."
All of a sudden two girls come crashing out of the woods and across the path. The girl in front is clearly Pearl. Her black hair is flowing like wings of a dark angel. But who is she pulling behind her?
TEACHER:
"Pearl, STOP! You'll fall off the cliff. You'll kill yourself. Who is that with you? PEARL!!
Pearl stops and looks toward the floating woman.
WOMAN:
"Come to me, child. Come to me, my Pearl."
My mother shined her flashlight at Pearl and the girl behind her. And there for an instant a look of insane fear stared back at the group from the face of Arial.
(SCREAMS)
Well, after that night, no one ever found any sign of Pearl or Arial. Pearl's father also disappeared that night. The house had been decorated for a party that never took place.
At the cemetery in town, there are headstones for Pearl and Ariel in graves that hold no remains. My mother says she visits sometimes when she goes back to her hometown. She told me that the last time she was there, she noticed something for the first time. If you mix around the letters of Arial's name — spelled A-R-I-A-L — it spells "a liar."
Our program was written and produced by Caty Weaver. I'm Barbara Klein. And I'm Faith Lapidus. Transcripts and podcasts of our programs can be found at voaspecialenglish.com. Join us again next week for THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English.
PAT BODNAR: Now, the VOA Special English program AMERICAN STORIES.
I'm Pat Bodnar. October thirty-first is Halloween. In the spirit of this ancient holiday, we present a story written by Special English reporter and producer Caty Weaver. It's called "The Boy on Graves-End Road."
NARRATOR: Kelly Ryan was making dinner. Her ten-year-old son Benjamin was watching television in the living room. Or at least she thought he was.
KELLY: "Benny-boy, do you want black beans or red beans?"
BEN: "Red beans, Mama."
Kelly: "Don't do that, Ben. You scared me half to death! You're going to get it now … "
NARRATOR: Ben had come up quietly right behind her.
(SOUND)
KELLY: "I'll get back to you, stinker!"
NARRATOR: Kelly goes to the phone, but as soon as she lays her hand on it, the ringing stops.
KELLY: "How strange. Oh, the beans!"
NARRATOR: Kelly turns her attention back to cooking. As soon as she does, the phone rings again.
KELLY: "Honey, can you get that?"
BEN: "Hello? Oh, hi. Yes, I remember. Sure, it sounds fun. Let me ask my mom. Can you hold? She might wanna talk to your mom. Oh, um, OK. See you tomorrow."
KELLY: "Ben, your rice and beans are on the table. Let's eat."
(SOUND)
KELLY: "So, what was that call about?"
BEN: "That was Wallace Gray. You know him, from class. He wants to play tomorrow. Can I go home with him after school? Please, Mom? I get bored around here waiting for you after work."
KELLY: "But, Ben, I don't even know his parents. Maybe I should talk to them."
BEN: "You can't, Mom. He was with his babysitter. He said his parents wouldn't be home until late tonight and they would leave before he went to school in the morning. Please Mom, Wallace lives right over on Graves-End Road. It's a five-minute walk from here. PLEASE,?”
KELLY: "Well, OK. What's so great about this guy, anyway? You've got a ton of friends to play with."
BEN: "I know. But Wallace is just different. He's got a lot of imagination.”
NARRATOR: The school week passes, and Ben starts to go home almost every day with Wallace. Kelly notices a change in her son. He seems tired and withdrawn. His eyes do not seem to really look at her. They seem … lifeless. On Friday night she decides they need to have a talk.
KELLY: "Sweetie, what's going on with you? You seem so tired and far away. Is something wrong? Did you and your new friend have a fight?"
BEN:"No, Mom. We've been having a great time. There's nothing wrong with us. Why don't you like Wallace? You don't even know him, but you don't trust him."
KELLY: "Benjamin, what are you talking about? I don't dislike Wallace. You're right, I don't know him. You just don't seem like yourself. You've been very quiet the past few nights."
BEN: "I'm sorry, Mom. I guess I'm just tired. I have a great time with Wallace. We play games like cops and robbers, but they seem so real that half of the time I feel like I'm in another world. It's hard to explain. It's like, it’s like … "
KELLY: "I think the word you're looking for is intense."
BEN: "Yeah, that's it — it's intense."
KELLY: "Well, tell me about today. What kind of game did you play?"
(SOUND)
BEN: "We were train robbers. Or Wallace was. I was a station manager. Wallace was running through a long train, from car to car. He had stolen a lot of money and gold from the passengers. I was chasing right behind him, moving as fast as I could. Finally he jumps out of the train into the station to make his escape. But I block his path. He grabs a woman on the station platform. She screams 'No, no!' But he yells 'Let me through, or she dies.' So I let him go."
KELLY: "What happened then?"
BEN: "Well, that's what was weird and, like you said, intense. Wallace threw the lady onto the tracks. And laughed. He said that's what evil characters do in games. They always do the worst."
NARRATOR: Later, after Ben went to bed, Kelly turned on the eleven o'clock news. She was only half-listening as she prepared a list of things to do the next day, on Halloween.
KELLY: "Let's see, grocery shopping, Halloween decorating, dog to the groomer, hardware store, clean up the garden …
(SOUND)kelly
NEWS ANNOUNCER: "… the victim, who has not been identified, was killed instantly. Reports say it appears she was pushed off the station platform into the path of the oncoming train. It happened during rush hour today. Some witnesses reported seeing two boys running and playing near the woman. But police say they did not see any images like that on security cameras at the station. In other news, there was more trouble today as workers protested outside the Hammond … "
KELLY: "No! It can't be. The station is an hour away. They couldn't have gotten there. How could they? It's just a coincidence."
NARRATOR: The wind blew low and lonely that night. Kelly slept little. She dreamed she was waiting for Ben at a train station. Then, she saw him on the other side, running with another little boy.
It must be Wallace she thought. The little boy went in and out of view. Then, all of a sudden, he stopped and looked across the tracks — directly at her.
He had no face.
NARRATOR: Saturday morning was bright and sunny, a cool October day. Kelly made Ben eggs and toast and watched him eat happily.
KELLY: "You know, Benny-boy, a woman DID get hurt at the train station yesterday. She actually got hit by a train. Isn't that strange?"
NARRATOR: She looked at Ben.
BEN: "What do you mean, Mom?"
KELLY: "Well, you and Wallace were playing that game yesterday. About being at a train station. You said he threw a woman off the platform, and she was killed by a train."
NARRATOR: Kelly felt like a fool even saying the words. She was speaking to a ten-year-old who had been playing an imaginary game with another ten-year-old. What was she thinking?
BEN: "I said we played that yesterday? I did? Hmmm. No, we played that a few days ago, I think. It was just a really good game, really intense. Yesterday we played pirates. I got to be Captain Frank on the pirate ship, the Argh.
"Wallace was Davey, the first mate. But he tried to rebel and take over the ship so I made him walk the plank. Davey walked off into the sea and drowned. Wallace told me I had to order him to walk the plank. He said that's what evil pirates do."
KELLY: "I guess he's right. I don't know any pirates, but I do hear they're pretty evil!"
BEN: "So can I play with Wallace today when you are doing your errands? Please, Mom? I don't want to go shopping and putting up Halloween decorations."
KELLY: "Oh, whatever. I guess so. I'll pick you up at Wallace's house at about five-thirty, so you can get ready for trick or treating. Where does he live again?
BEN: "Graves-End Road. I don't know the street number but there are only two houses on each side. His is the second one on the left."
KELLY: "OK. I can find that easy enough. Do you still want me to pick up a ghost costume for you?"
BEN: "Yep. Oh, and guess what, Mom: Wallace says he's a ghost, too! I suppose we'll haunt the neighborhood together."
NARRATOR: Everywhere Kelly went that day was crowded. She spent an hour and a half just at the market. When she got home, decorating the house for Halloween was difficult.
But finally she had it all up the way she wanted.
KELLY: "Oh, gosh, five already. I don't even have Ben's costume."
NARRATOR: She jumped into her car and drove to Wilson Boulevard. The party store was just a few blocks away.
Kelly soon found the ghost costume that Ben wanted. She bought it and walked out of the store.
EILEEN: "Hey, Kelly! Long time no see. How's Benjamin doing?"
KELLY: "Eileen! Wow, it’s great to see you. How's Matt? We've been so busy since the school year started, we haven't seen anyone!"
EILEEN: "Matt's good. Well, he broke his arm last month so no sports for him. It is driving him crazy, but at least he's got a lot of time for school now!"
EILEEN: "Anyway, Matt was wondering why Benny-boy never comes by anymore. We saw him running around the neighborhood after school last week. It looks like he’s having fun, but he's always alone. We don't need to set up a play date. Ben should know that. You just tell him to come by anytime — "
KELLY: "Wait, wait a minute. Alone? What do mean alone? He started playing with a new friend, Wallace somebody, after school, like everyday this past week. Ben hasn't been alone. Wallace Gray, that's it. Do you know him? Does Matt?"
EILEEN: "Oh, Kell. Kelly, I'm sure he's a fine kid. I don't know him but don't worry, Ben's got great taste in friends, we know that! I'm sure he wasn't really alone, he was probably just playing hide and seek or something. I didn't mean to worry you. I guess everybody's on edge because of what happened to the Godwin boy this morning."
NARRATOR: Kelly suddenly felt cold and scared. What Godwin boy? And what happened to him? She was not sure she wanted to know, but she had to ask.
EILEEN: "Frank Godwin's youngest boy, Davey, the five-year-old. You know Frank, we call him Captain. He used to be a ship captain. Well, this morning the rescue squad found Davey in Blackhart Lake. They also found a little toy boat that his dad made for him. Davey and his dad named it the Argh. Davey must have been trying to sail it. It’s so sad."
KELLY: "Wait, he's dead?
EILEEN: "Yes. Davey drowned."
KELLY: "Where's Blackhart Lake?"
EILEEN: "It's right off Graves-End Road, right behind that little cemetery. That's why they call it Graves-End. Kelly, where are you going?"
Kelly: "I've got to get Benjamin."
(MUSIC)
NARRATOR: Kelly raced down Main Street. She had no idea who Wallace Gray was or how he was involved in any of this. But she did not trust him and she knew her child was in danger.
Finally she was at Graves-End Road.
BEN: "Only two houses on each side."
NARRATOR: She remembered what Ben had told her.
EILEEN: "Right behind that little cemetery."
NARRATOR: And what Eileen had told her. Kelly got out of the car and walked down the street. She looked around.
BEN: "It’s the second one on the left."
NARRATOR: She could see the lake. Some fog was coming up as the sky darkened on this Halloween night. But there was no second house. Instead, what lay before her was grass and large white stones. The cemetery. Kelly walked through the gate into the yard of graves.
Kelly: "Ben?"
NARRATOR: No answer. She kept walking.
KELLY: "Ben? Answer me. I know you're here."
NARRATOR: Again no answer. But the wind blew and some leaves began to dance around a headstone. Kelly walked slowly toward the grave. Suddenly the sky blackened — so dark, she could not see anything. She felt a force pushing at her. It tried to push her away from the grave. But she knew she had to stay.
KELLY: "Benjamin Owen Orr, this is your mother. Come out this second!"
NARRATOR: No one answered, except for the sound of the blowing wind. The darkness lifted. Silvery moonlight shone down directly onto the old gravestone in front of her. But Kelly already knew whose name she would see.
KELLY: "'Wallace Gray. October thirty-first, nineteen hundred, to October thirty-first, nineteen hundred and ten. Some are best when laid to rest.'"
NARRATOR: Kelly took a deep breath. Then …
KELLY: "Wallace Gray this play date is OVER! Give me back my son. Wallace, you are in TIME-OUT."
NARRATOR: Suddenly, the ground shoots upward like a small volcano. Soil, sticks and worms fly over Kelly's head and rain down again — followed by her son, who lands beside her.
BEN: (COUGHING, CHOKING)
KELLY: "Ben! Ben!"
BEN: (COUGHING, CHOKING) "Mom, Mom! Are you there? I can't see. All this dirt in my eyes."
KELLY: "Ben, I'm here, I’m here baby, right here. Oh, sweet Benny-boy. Can you breathe? Are you really ok? What happened? How long were you in there?"
BEN: "I don't know, Mom. But I didn't like it. I didn't like where Wallace lives. I want to go home."
KELLY: "Oh, me too, Sweetie. C’mon, Ben, put your arm around me. C’mon.
(SOUNDS)
BEN: "And Mom, one more thing … "
KELLY: "What is it, Ben?"
BEN "I don't want to be a ghost for Halloween."
(MUSIC)
PAT BODNAR: Our story "The Boy on Graves-End Road" was written and produced by Caty Weaver. The voices were Andrew Bracken, Faith Lapidus, Katherine Cole, Shirley Griffith and Jim Tedder. I'm Pat Bodnar.
Michael Jackson and his friend went in the forest.He said to his friend if she wanted to be his girlfriend and she said.
-Yes,I do.
-But I must tell you the truth.I’m a wolfman.
-Stop the jokes!
Then he became a wolfman!
The girl run away but the wolfman caught her ate her.
But this is a movie!
Michael Jackson and his girlfriend saw this movie but the girl was scared and they left from the cinema.Michael Jackson sang a song:<>
At this time,the Zombies appeared!The zombie caught michael Jackson and and they made him a zombie.Then, zombies started to dance very well for three minutes. The zombie chased the girl into a house.The zombies managed to enter. They went to the girl but suddenly the girl woke up.All that was a dream!
I think,it was a terrific movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ONE DAY , A LITTLE GIRL WENT TO THE HAUNTED FOREST AND SINCE THEN SHE WAS NIT SEEN AGAIN. AFTER SOME YEARS , IT APPEARD TO THE LITTLE GIRL BUT IT WASN’T A PERSON BUT A GOST AND THE GIRL WARNED THE OTHERS IN THE VILLAGE THAT A GOST WAS COMING AND SAID TO LOCK THEIR HOMES OR OTHERWISE THEY WILL BE CURSED FOR ALL THEIR LIVES . BUT NO ONE BELIEVED THE GIRL AND EVERYONE WAS OUT THAT DAY WHEN THE GHOST CAME TO THE VILLAGE AND SINCE THEN, EVERYBODY IN THE VILLAGE WAS CURSED FOR EVER…
BY DEPPY NEON, AEGINA
