While looking for something in my desk draw, I discovered an old folder which contained various artifacts from my youth. There was one item which stood out, a short-story I’d written in primary school ( I was about 12years old) entitled ‘Hauntings’ which I received a mark of “Excellent! 20/20″. I thought I’d share this story with you here.
Hauntings
My family are now living as far as possible from the haunting scenes of our past.
In the sunshine and joy of our new life, with the children and our love for each other, we were trying to forget the anguish of our loveless inheritence.
But the hidden secrets of the past rose up to trouble us again after all that time.
The first sign of haunting was when all of our crops disappeared in less than an hour. The next one was when all of our cows died overnight & all of their throats were cut in exactly the same position. Now, you could say a human could have done this but that seems highly unlikely because there were over a hundred cows and more than a thousand hectares of crops, no human could do that in an hour.
One weekend the rest of my family went on a camping trip while I stayed at home to watch over the property. That night I watched some TV, drained the fridge of food & softdrink, and then after a while I decided to go to bed. I went upstairs to clean my teeth. I opened the bathroom door and walked in, I headed towards the cabinet on the wall. I opened it to find it pitch black. There was no wall, no toothbrush, no nothing. I thought this can’t be right because I couldn’t see the garden out in the backyard either. I lent out the window to view it from the outside to find there was a brick wall there.
Quickly I shut the window and ran to the door but suddenly it swung shut and locked all by itself. I started to shout for help but no one could hear me anyway. I slowly turned around to the black hole in the cabinet. My knees were now shaking and my heart was pumping at a million miles per hour. I started to panic and I didn’t know what to do. All I could do was just stand there, looking into that endless black hole watching and waiting for something to happen.
After a while I got control of myself and moved over to where the shampoo bottles are kept and picked one up in my right hand. Then I threw it into the dark holes waiting to hear it hit the bottom, but there was no noise.
I walked towards the cabinet in fear. Even though I was scared I wanted to know what was in there. As I got closer I could hear noises coming from inisde.
Slowly I raised myself so I could just see in, suddenly something slimy grabbed my hands and I was pulled into the cabinet at the speed of light.
I never saw my family again!
~THE END~
I must of just watched Poltergeist or something! What do you think? Do you believe it was worth 20/20 ?
January 26th, 2006 by 
Anthony
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