Your True Tales
April 2004 – Page 7

Halloween Scare
by Eve K.

In October, when I was younger, my mum and sister went to my neighbor's house, leaving me alone in the house. It was about 4:30 and already beginning to get dark. I took that opportunity to sneak upstairs into the attic to try on some Halloween stuff. I quickly ran up the steps, knowing that if my mum came back and caught me, I would be in deep trouble. Although all the windows were shut, I felt a cold breeze pass through me, but I thought nothing of it at first because I had had no past experiences of paranormal phenomena.

I got out the bag with the Halloween stuff and put on a witch's hat. It was then that I felt and heard a knock on the hat. I immediately removed the hat and turned around, only to realize that there was nothing behind me tall enough for me to have knocked the hat against. As I bent down to pick up the bag, which I had dropped whilst turning around, I saw the handle to the bathroom door turn and the door rapidly opened. I walked cautiously into the bathroom, wondering what had caused the door to open in such a way. I began to feel extremely uneasy and I had a feeling that there was another presence in the room except me. I looked out of the window to check my mother and sister were still outside, and sure enough they were. Just as I was about to turn away form the window, I saw the reflection of the cupboard door sliding open. I turned around hastily to try and see what was causing these incidents, but I wasn't quick enough to catch whatever it was.

Freaked out by what had just happened, I threw the bag back into the cardboard box where it had been all year and hurriedly ran downstairs and out into the front garden, waiting anxiously for my mum to return home. That night, I had a nightmare about what might have followed if I had stayed up there any longer. Evil, gleaming red eyes stared at me from the bathroom cupboard, locking me in the toilet and causing complete havoc all around the house. Several unexplainable things have happened up there since then, including "self-breaking" objects and the computer I keep up there printing strange symbols and writing, but this has been one of the scariest so far.

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