Talipoo

By:  Robert Chauncey

 

 

"Yo, Jesse, let's go stir up trouble at that deserted camp on the outskirts of town," Joel Furgasan, a high school dropout, said smoking a cigarette.

"Are you crazy!  That place is haunted.  Haven't you ever heard about that hunter who got killed in them woods," Jesse Craney, said taking Joel's cigarette and smoking it himself.

"Yeah I heard about it."  Joel said, "Doesn't it go something like this:"

About three years ago, there was a hunter!  One day he came back from an uneventful hunting trip to find that his door had been knocked completely off its hinges.  He walked inside and saw his room was a mess.  Then he heard something growl and when he turned around he saw something dart behind his dresser.  He took out his knife and kept it close to him.  Suddenly the things tail whipped out from behind the dresser and with lightning quick reflexes the hunter brought the knife down, cutting the tail off.  The thing howled and then ran back into the woods.

That night the closest cabin to the hunter's about a mile away, heard a scream coming from the hunter's cabin.  The man of the house got on his horse and rode over to the hunter's cabin.  When he got there he found the hunter mutilated.  The only thing left salvageable was the hunter's coonskin cap.  The cap had a tail tied around the raccoon tail.

Just then something screamed from the woods, "Give me my TALIP00!  Give me my TALIPOO!"

 

"Wow! You tell that story pretty good," Jesse said praising Joel.

"So now will you go with me to the camp?"  Joel said.

"Yeah, sure," Jesse said getting up from his comfortable chair.

When they got to the camp, they took the trail leading towards the center of the woods.

Suddenly Joel stopped, "Wait I thought I heard something coming from behind that tree.  You stay here. I'll be right back," Joel said walking towards the tree.

Just then Jesse heard a blood curtailing scream come from behind the tree.  Jesse ran to the tree to see the remains of Joel and then he heard a growl from behind him.  He turned around to see the thing leap from the ground to Jesse's face.  Jesse didn't even have time to scream.  When the thing ran back into the woods it screamed, "Give me my TALIPOO!"