Halloween Night
John and Scott were a couple of freshman at East Carter High School.
They made plans to spend the night in an old empty house not far from
where they lived. Some say the old place is haunted.
It wasn’t just any old night that they had planned to stay, it was Halloween
Night. They tried to get some of the other boys to come along and join them.
But the others all said: “ NO WAY ”.
The old house was one mile off the main road, with only one way in and
only one way out. The road there crossed the creek 7 times and stayed
washed out. The boys were going to take John’s dirt bike to get there. It
didn’t have a head-light, so they had to get there before dark, or go on foot.
Scott climbed on back and was caring the back pack full of Halloween
candy to eat on for the night. They rode up to in front of the house and
parked the bike. Scott followed John inside. Scott said: Let’s camp in the
big room with the fire place.
John said: Cool, thats where old man Ramey died. They say he was
frightened plumb to death. One winter night, it was so cold, the devil came
in and warmed himself by the fire place. Old man Ramey’s heart couldn’t
take it, and he fell over dead, right about where your standing Scott.
Scott said: That don’t scare me none, I hope we do see some ghosts tonight.
If Satan comes in here tonight to get warm, he just better stay out of the
food. I’ll put this size 9 1/2 boot in the seat of his pants if he even goes near
my back pack full of candy.
By dark they had a nice warm fire going. The boys decided to tell each other
ghost stories before going to bed. Scott started it off, he said: - There was
this woman that worked the night shift in a Nursing Home. Every so often
they would hear a baby crying in the ceiling. They say “ When the baby
cries-Somebody dies ”. The last time it cried, it started at one end of the
hallway, and slowly crawled all the way to the other end, crying the whole
time it was crawling, ever so slowly in the ceiling.
One of the men working that night, climbed on top of a table and raised up
one of the ceiling tiles to take a look. He polked his head up through with a
flashlight. He saw something all right, when he pulled his head back out,
his hair had turned white. He didn’t say what he had seen, he just clocked
out and never came back again, not even to get his pay check.
John said: That story wouldn’t scare nobody. Let me tell you a REAL
scary story. My Dad worked as a janitor on the grave yard shift at the
school, mopping and waxing the floors at night. He had been reading this
book about a women that had became a Christian, but before that, she was
in a cult. Now that she is no longer part of the cult, a little demon follows
her around everywhere, except in church. He’s small, about the size of a
child. She sees him daily, spying on her through windows, and even in
crowded grocery stores. Church is the only place where she is safe.
Anyway, my Dad was thinking about this book while he was mopping the
hallway that night at school. My Dad thought to himself- I wonder what
Satan really looks like? He didn’t say it out loud, he was just thinking it.
A voice from behind him said “ Turn around and find out what I look like ”.
Dad said he did not turn around, he just mopped a lot faster and broke one
of the school rules, you know the one about - No Praying in Schools.
He broke that one a bunch of times that night.
Scott said: “ I would have turned around and looked ”.
The boys laid down for the night. A few minutes later they heard a baby
crying, it sounded like a baby crawling across the floor up stairs crying.
They both jumped up. John said: Scott, go take a look. Scott said: Forget
that! John said: Sounds like it’s headed for the stairs, it’s going to come
down here ! A voice behind them said: “ Go ahead and look ” Scott ran out
the door, with John right behind him. Neither looked back, but they could
feel Satan breathing on the back of their necks. Those boys jumped creeks,
and ran right through fences. They didn’t stop running for about 3 miles.
They only stopped then because GOD had the foresight to have a church
built there. Rest for all those wishing to flee from Satan. That is where the
boys ended up spending Halloween night at, on the front steps of the church
in prayer.
They went back the next day around noon and got their stuff, everything
was still there except the food. The food had all been eaten, probably by
raccoons or, maybe Satan has a taste for Halloween Candy, as well as your soul.
Written 9-29-00 by JLH
