This past week, the students of Mrs. Smith’s senior English class wrote “roll-a-dice” ghost stories. Each student rolled a dice to randomly select a setting, protagonist, conflict, antagonist, creepy element, and spooky sound for his or her story. Mrs. Klass’s sophomores then voted for the story they thought the best. Read the spine-chilling winners below!
First place: Will McGary
One Halloween a group of teenagers were driving down the interstate in the middle of the night, when their headlights turned off suddenly. A scream erupted from the backseat, causing the driver to swerve off the road and into the ditch with a crunch. As they got out of the car to look at the damage, they noticed they were beside a cornfield. All of a sudden, a mutated corncob resembling an unborn baby burst out of the field.
“Eeeew!” all the teenagers exclaimed, piling into their car as fast as possible. The hideous husked creature leaped on top of the vehicle, screaming and pounding the roof with infantile limbs.
“Start the car!” the teens screamed, but no matter how hard the driver twisted the key, the car did not respond.
“I wish I had some salt and pepper for dinner,” thought the cob.
The end.
Second place tie: Natalie Treas
On one fateful night Zane was driving home from homecoming. His date went missing in the middle of the dance, but he figured she was still upset from the argument they had earlier. He told her she was just a friend, but Jessica, Zane’s date, knew better than that. Jessica said she was going to the bathroom when she really just stood in the corner to see what Zane would do. He did exactly what she suspected. He brought her a drink and kissed her!
Zane went home without even looking for Jessica. On his way home, his car stopped in the middle of the road and started driving itself! Zane found himself in the woods off of the highway. He got out of his car to call for help, but it was so late at night no one heard him. He turned around and sees a full size 10-foot mirror propped on a tree. He felt a mysterious force pulling him towards it. That’s when he heard it. Jessica. She was screaming, but Zane couldn’t figure out from where until he looked in the mirror. She was standing right behind him, covered in blood.
Second place tie: Anna Holtzclaw
As Alice, a young madwoman, was walking around Bob Jones campus, she stumbled upon an old trapdoor. Alice was feeling brave, so she opened the trapdoor and climbed down into the dark, underground cave. The air was thick and full of dust, with the only sound being the eerie squeak of a rocking chair in the corner. As she stepped closer, her phone flashlight revealed a bloody handprint on the chair’s armrest. Her heart raced; disgust and fear came over her as she sensed someone or something’s presence.
“Are you the spirit of Bob Jones?!” Alice said with her voice trembling.
With no response, the figure’s red eyes glowed in the pure darkness. It was the demon of Bob Jones. Alice thought he was just a silly myth, but was she proven wrong! The figure got closer and closer with it’s chilling laugh echoing through the cave. Alice lunged at him, but her hand passed through the demon like smoke. The rocking chair squeaked louder and louder and the handprint started to multiply all on the walls of the cave.
The demon’s whisper filled her ears, “You cannot escape me.”
In that moment, Alice knew she was trapped, forever beneath the trapdoor with no way to escape the demon of Bob Jones.
Runner up: Coralie Lawrence
“It was a random Tuesday night, I believe, although it could have been a Wednesday. I had no clock to tell the time. It was cold and creepy and so, so very dark. I had no one to go to; I had no one to scream to about what happened. The only thing I could retrieve was an old oil lamp to barely illuminate my path,” Mildred Myers softly spoke to herself, her feet and legs curled into a tight ball as she kept muttering. Her damp forehead plastered itself to her knees. Her eyes twitched as she sat on the crunchy and unforgiving coarseness of the sand.
She had been shipwrecked this morning and was the only survivor left from the boat. Wondering around, her brain started to scatter to all the known possibilities. First, she would never be found and die on this deserted island; second, she would die of starvation due to never learning about wild berry poisoning; lastly, she would be eaten alive by something in this creepy forest. She had never imagined, however, what would happen tonight. You see, tonight was “All Hallows Eve”, where all the monsters of the dead came lurking to anyone who foolishly stayed our after dark. Mildred, looking for shelter, spotted a shadow in the night illuminated by her lamp.
“Hello?” she cried, “is anybody there?” Her heart thudded out of her chest so loudly that she was afraid it might hear. The shadow grew closer, disappearing almost as quickly as it appeared. That led to the disappearance of Mildred Myers, never to be seen again.
Sponsors’ Choice: Elissa Henson
A doctor was sleeping on a red-eye flight from Texas to California. The doctor was suddenly awaken by an announcement over the intercom system: “Ladies and gentlemen, there seems to be a problem with one of our engines. We will be making an emergency landing to assess the damage. Do not be alarmed. We have everything under control.”
The passengers on the plane stayed completely silent until the landing gear of the plane touched down. As one of the flight attendants opened the airplane door, they felt something brush up against them. The touch felt like when a person brushes against you in a crowd, but the flight attendant dismissed it as paranoia. The doctor, who only ever flew first class, stood to gather his baggage when the lights in the plane suddenly cut off. Before anyone had time to react, they heard a man’s started yell and the sounds of a struggle. As suddenly as the lights had gone off, they flared back to life. No one could tell what had happened, but if someone was to check first class they would find a missing passenger.
The doctor continued to struggle as he was dragged across the ground by an unseen force. The invisible force carried the doctor all the way into the downtown area of the city. As the doctor was dragged down a dark alleyway, he heard chains clanging in the dark.
The invisible man said, “I have always needed a doctor for my children.” Horrified, the doctor took in the small, chained children huddled at the back of the alley and let out a blood-curdling scream.
