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A little girl, named Lucy,
was given a small doll by her parents. The doll was a gift from an ancient
great aunt who had now passed away. Lucy was secretly unnerved by the doll which
had nasty little black eyes that seemed to follow her around the room and a cross
expression on it's face. Nevertheless, Lucy had to accept the doll, as she was
well brought up and didn't want to upset her parents by informing them of how
uneasy she felt around the doll. Her parents told her the doll was called Arabella.
Lucy was even more afraid now that the doll had a name. It seemed to make it more
human.
Even so, Lucy never really believed on a conscious level that the doll could do
anything to her. It was just a doll, after all, and only reached up to just above
her knee. So, to put her mind at rest, she stuffed Arabella into the little
cupboard under the stairs, behind a pile of shoes where her parents wouldn't see
her. It was not until a few nights later, when Lucy was lying in bed that she
heard a noise...a shuffling sound, which went on for about five minutes. Then, a
brief dragging noise and finally, a scuttling like light footsteps walking very
fast. Lucy was pinned to the bed with fear, unable to move. Then, she heard a
voice - like a very deep, almost masculine tone - but quiet enough not to wake
her parents. Lucy always slept with the door open and the landing light on, as
she was a little scared of the dark. Therefore she could hear more through her
open door. Lucy heard the voice say "Lucy, I'm on the first step"...And then loud
scrabbling again as whatever was speaking apparently turned tail and returned to
it's place of hiding.
Lucy didn't sleep a wink that night but laid in fear until the break of dawn
when her mother got her up for school. Lucy tried to explain to her mother what
had happened the night before, but was so tired that, when her mother passed it
off as "just a dream" she didn't have the strength to argue.
Lucy begged her parents to get rid of the doll, but they insisted that it had been
the great aunts wish that Lucy would have her doll. She checked the cupboard under
the stairs, but Arabella was exactly where Lucy had left her. She reluctantly went
back to bed.
That night, Lucy fought against sleeping but she eventually drifted off. Presently,
the deep disembodied voice woke Lucy again. She wondered if she could only hear
it in her head. "Luuuuucccccccyyyyy....I'm on the fifth step.." it said. Then
came the scuffling noise and the voice didn't reoccur that night. Lucy was crying
by now, and again she didn't sleep that night. At school, Lucy told her friends
about the doll, and of course they laughed at her. Lucy could only think that if
Arabella was climbing four steps at a time then there was only one more night to go.
That night Lucy decided to shut her bedroom door. When her mother turned her light
out she asked why Lucy was no longer scared of the dark. Lucy replied that she
was and could she leave her light on instead of the hall light? But her mother
pointed out that her bedroom light was so bright it would keep her awake, and said no.
Lucy reluctantly agreed to sleep without her light on. She opened the bedroom
curtains instead to light the room a little anyway.
Just as she began to doze, she heard the noise. And then the voice "Luuucccyyyy...
I'm on the top step..." Lucy knew her door was closed but was still terribly afraid.
Her heart pounding, she knew if she stayed in bed she wouldn't be safe. So she
got up to investigate. She screamed!
Lucy's parents found her body at the bottom of the stairs. They guessed she was
on her way to the bathroom without switching on the hallway light and had
fallen down the stairs breaking her neck. Arabella, the favorite family doll, was
found beside her body. She was......smiling.
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Two gentlemen were working in the town's
small general store. The store was quiet and no customers were shopping until
she walked in. A small frail woman dressed in grey entered the store, and
proceeded toward the dairy section, saying nothing. She picked up a glass
container of milk and, without paying for it or even glancing at the gentlemen,
walked out of the store.
The men, surprised by the woman's thievery, hurried out of the store after
her...but she was gone.
A few days later, the incident occurred again.
The same small woman dressed in the same grey dress entered the store, grabbed a
glass container of milk, and left without paying. Again the men tried to follow
after her, but she was nowhere to be seen.
After a couple of weeks, she appeared once again.
The same small woman, dressed in the same grey dress, entered the store, paid no
attention to the men, snatched a glass container of milk, and vanished out the
door. The men, slightly more prepared this time, quickly followed the woman out
of the store. She hurried down the town's main street and the men found themselves
having to run to keep up with her. She hastily turned down a dirt path, just at
the edge of the woods. This is where the men lost her.
They trekked on further and came to a small cemetery neither of them knew
existed. Suddenly, they heard a small noise. Concentrating, they identified it
as a baby's cry...it was coming from the ground. The ground from which it was
coming from was in front of a fresh gravestone marking the death of a mother and her
infant who were buried together. Unsure of what else to do. the men quickly
found shovels and exhumed the coffin. The crying became louder as they dug.
When
they reached the coffin, they pried off the lid and inside found the small,
grey-dressed woman...dead...with a live, crying infant in her arms...and three
empty glass containers of milk. The poor child was mistakenly buried alive and
the spirit of her deceased mother kept her alive until she was found.
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Lisa's parents had gone to a party for
the evening. And all poor Lisa had to do was stay home and watch her two little
siblings, making sure they didn't get in any trouble. Wishing she were out
hanging with her friends on a clear and beautiful Friday night instead of at
home baby sitting the two kids, Lisa flicked on the TV in the den.
The kids were in the next room, the living room, playing with their toys. After
flipping the channels for what seemed like hours, she finally came across a
made-for-TV movie that looked pretty good. A romance, her favorite. As Lisa
started to settle into the movie, the kids came in, saying that they were
hungry and wanted something to eat. So while the kids took over the television,
Lisa went into the kitchen to make spaghetti for the three of them.
Just as everything was about to be finished, the phone rang. Lisa went to answer
but her little brother got to it first and said, "Hello? Smith residence." No
answer. "Gimme the phone!" Lisa said, snatching from her brother. "Hello, who
is this?" Lisa demanded. "I'm near" said the voice on the other side. "Near
where?" Lisa replied, but there was nothing but a dial tone. A little shaken,
Lisa checked on the kids and finished preparations for dinner. She set up the
table and dished out spaghetti for everyone. After everyone chowed down, the
kids decided to take a nap on the couch while Lisa finished up the movie. As
she turned on the TV, she saw it was almost over. "Great... she mumbled right
before the phone rang again.
Forgetting the previous episode, she ran to the phone before it woke the kids
and shattered her peace. Snatching up the receiver, she blurted, "Hello?". "I'm
closer" reported the other end. "Huh, excuse me?" said Lisa. But once again,
nothing but a dial tone. Lisa was bugging out now. "I'm near, I'm closer?"
"What the heck?" she wondered aloud. Deciding to get to the bottom of it she
called the operator. "Yes, how may I help you?" the operator said.
"I'm getting a couple of strange phone calls here and I was wondering if
you can tell me where they came from?" asked Lisa.
"No," replied the operator, "but I could put a tap on your line and the next
time he calls I can tell you where it came from." Lisa thanked the operator
and hung up.
She walked over to the kids and woke them up. She didn't want to scare them but
she had to have them awake in case of emergency. Lisa deliberated on calling
her parents, but she decided that she is old enough to handle this herself. "I'm 17,
and I'm brave" Lisa knew, "I can handle this". Just as she was summoning her
courage, the phone rang. Lisa told the kids to stay quiet and on the couch.
She answered the phone with a faint, "Hello?" The weirdo said, "I'm here now,
and my, it is so sharp..." He giggled in the background.. "Huh? Wh.. What's so
sharp?" Lisa blurted. "Where are you?" But the man hung up. Instantly the phone
rang again. It was operator. "Get out now! Those calls are coming from inside your
house! I will call the police! Get out!"
Lisa slammed down the phone, grabbed her keys and the kids and flew out the
front door. They got in the car and locked all the doors..All of a sudden,
police cars came roaring up the driveway. One car checked on the kids while
four policeman burst into the house. They searched everywhere until they finally
came to the attic. Upon going in they found a young man standing in the corner with a
cellular phone and a butcher knife, getting ready to head downstairs.
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Back in the 1890's when trains of the
Santa Fe Railroad first began to run in the vicinity of Ardmore, Oklahoma, one
was held up by bandits seven miles from town where the tracks crossed Caddo Creek.
Afterwards the robbers retired to an old house, where they divided and quarrelled
over the spoils. One robber was shot and killed. It is a tradition that part or
all of the booty was hidden for a time in or about the house. People soon began
to say that the ghost of the murdered bandit walked about the place trying to
find where the money was hidden and for many years nobody was willing to live there.
However, about seven years ago, a family named Lynch moved into the deserted
building. One afternoon, in the summer, Mrs. Lynch left her two oldest children
at home and crossed the fields to visit some neighbors. An hour later, she heard
her children screaming and ran out with her friends to learn the cause. Almost
in hysterics, the youngsters came flying along shouting that someone was tearing
the kitchen to pieces and that the tea-kettle was laughing and singing. Mrs.
Lynch and others went to investigate. They found the tea-kettle steaming in the
middle of the kitchen floor. A fire was burning in the cook stove, though none
had been burning in it when Mrs. Lynch left home. The mystification of the
onlookers was changed to horror when they observed that drops of blood were
sprinkled about. The next day, the Lynches moved out and no family has lived
in the building since . . .
Ellis Perkins, who lives in the vicinity, had the latest known experience in
the old dwelling. One afternoon, about four years ago, he was caught in a
heavy rain storm while hunting. The only shelter . . . was offered by the old
house, so he and his bull dog ran into it to get out of the rain. He walked
upstairs and looked around the second floor, but there was no sign of recent
occupancy. He shut the door at the top of the stairway and descended. As his
foot left the lowest step, his dog sprang around and looked toward the top, his
hair bristling; then began to bark as though he scented the presence of a
stranger. Mr. Perkins said that he also looked back toward the top of the
stairs. Under his gaze the door knob turned. The door opened, as though to
permit someone to pass on to the stairway, and closed noiselessly. The hunter
waited for nothing more. Followed by his yelping dog, he sprang to the front
door and rushed out into the downpour. The wind must have blown the door open,
friends tell him, but his invariable retort is, How could the wind have turned
the door knob?
From the New York Times, Reprinted in a textbook, Basic Writing.
By Harold Y. Moffett and Willoughby H. Johnson,
Harper & Brothers, New York, 1937
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A woman has just left a mini-mart after
purchasing a few odds and ends for supper that night. She walks to her big four
wheel drive vehicle and climbs in. She puts her bag over on the passenger seat
along with her purse, she settles in and starts up the engine. She pulls out of
the shopping center, onto the main road. It's about 8:00 and she is trying to
rush home to get supper started, knowing that her husband will be starving.
As she drives she feels a chill run up her back, so she turns on a little heat.
She has a very unusual bizarre feeling that she can't quite name. All of a
sudden this maniac swerves by her car almost running her off the road. He stays
along side her car waving and pointing at her, swerving dangerously all the
while. She's frantically trying to keep control of her car while trying not to
run into this maniacs car beside her. She finally speeds up and leaves the
weirdo behind her.
She turns on the radio for some soothing, calming music.
She's relaxing, trying to talk herself into a calm state after the incident
with the unknown driver. All of a sudden she sees bright lights flashing her
from behind. She glances in the rear view mirror and it's the same car, driven
by the psycho she's just encountered 3 minutes ago. She ignores him and
concentrates on the road only to be flashed again from behind by the glaring
lights. She once again looks in the mirror back at him. Her forgotten radio
station is interrupted by a news flash about police helicopters in the area,
on the trail of a serial killer. She turns the radio off and concentrates on
the road and turns her attention away from the pesky car behind her. She's only
a few miles from home and again the car behind her flashes a bright blinding
light straight into her rear view mirror. She's had enough of this guy but she's
not bold or stupid enough to stop and confront him.
She tries to lose him by going down some back roads. She's hoping he will go on
his way and not follow. As she turns down another dirt road she sees his lights
once again. She quickly picks up her cell phone and hits 911 quick dial. She
tells the police the story of what's been happening. They assure her that they
will send out some squad cars to meet her at her home, but she will need to
drive around for about 10 more minutes so the police can get to her house before
her. So she drives on, only to have the maniac drive up closer to
her bumper, threatening to hit her car, flashing her each time.
She is frantic now and can't wait to pull into her driveway. After about 10
minutes she heads down the road to her home and the safety of her husbands arms.
She sees the police cars ahead and suddenly feels all the pressure and frantic,
wound up nerves in the back of her neck relax. She rolls into the driveway and
the unrelenting car behind her rolls in behind her. The police are stationed
outside her home in the bushes and in the neighbors bushes.
As the frightened
women jumps out of her running car and runs to her husband who is waiting by
the garage, the police approach the old man in his car. They have their guns
drawn and they instruct him to get out of the car with his hands up. He's
shocked and doesn't understand why the police are pointing guns at him. He gets
out and the police start frisking him against his car. When he's asked about
the incident and why he wanted to scare the woman. He looks up with sad
eyes and says, "I was simply trying to save her life, but she wouldn't let me help her".
The police are baffled and they know that they have a senile man on their
hands. They ask him what he means by "saving" her life. The man says,
"If you'd check in her car you'll find him. He has a knife in his hand. He tried
to kill her over and over again. I flashed my lights so she would look up and
he would then lie back down in the back of the seat".
Two policemen quickly run over and throw open the back door of the woman's car. A
sharp glistening knife swipes out at the first policeman making no contact, the
second policeman fire's immediately at the body and arm attached to the knife. The arm
goes lifeless. The police quickly pull the body of the dead serial killer out from
the lady's back seat. He was still clutching the knife he was going to use to kill her!
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