Scary Stories: In The Dead of Night Part 1:

I have never been much of a believer in ghost stories. Tales of monsters, ghouls, Werewolves, Vampires, Evil Creatures. All these things have always seemed to farfetched for me to believe, or at least that is what I used to think. However my opinion changed significantly after having the most chilling, spine-tingling, petrifying experience of my life. Whilst I have managed to escape a horrible fate, the fear and trauma of my experience will live with me for the rest of my life. What was this experience you ask? well let me tell you the tale of a young man without a care in the world, coming as close to death as you possibly can be, though managing to escape and live to tell the tale. But be warned this tale may shake you to the very core. So lets start at the very beginning and believe or not it was actually in a bathroom.....

The school bell rang to signal the conclusion of the first period of the day leading onto morning break. My brain was fried, I have always struggled with Math and today was no different. It really does not help when your teacher is as boring as a drying rack, talking slowly, in monotone, almost like he did not care whether we heard him or not. I have rushed to the bathroom as my stomach has decided to cause me troubles, I have no idea why, I did not even eat anything for breakfast this morning maybe it is a bug or something. Which may not be the worst thing in the world I could use a day off after the snooze fest that has been this week. It seems like all the teachers at my school got together over the weekend and just decided to create the most boring week of classes in history. Oh well at least I have a bit of reprieve as I don't have to be back in class for another 25 minutes. As I am sitting on the John (weird slang for toilet for those that don't know) I hear my cellphone buzz, a notification has popped up. I unlock my phone and check it, one of my classmates has posted on the main school Facebook page. That's strange students normally never post on this page, it is only ever the principle or his assistant, letting us know of another pointless event like Athletics or Cross Country is coming up. I check the page and on it is a video, but strangely I do not recognize the account that posted it, I dunno maybe it is a new student or something. I open the video and watch, it was only two minutes long and looks completely normal on first glance. It starts off pretty tamely with just a silent person, walking around showcasing our school grounds with the camera, however after the first minute things start to get weird. The person with the camera enters a building that I do not recognize, I did not even realize we had a building like it at school, but then again I do tend to stay around one area. Inside the building there is an abandoned hallway, with a few classrooms on either side, it looks identical to the other buildings around the school, the only difference being wooden lockers in the center of the hallway instead of metal ones.

As the person makes there way down the hallway, the building seems to get darker and the windows in the doors of the classroom are boarded up. The person filming makes their way further down the hallway until they stop in front of a the large wooden wall that lies at end of the hallway. The person remains stagnant for about 10 seconds moving the camera up and down filming the wall, but when the video hits the 1:30 mark the person swings the camera right around to look behind them. It happened so suddenly that it was, almost like they had heard something behind them. The person moves the camera around the hallway, which has now basically become pitch black with only a slight hint of the wooden lockers in the middle visible. The video reaches the 1:50 mark with no new developments, it seems as if this was the end of the video, but just as it reaches the 1:55 mark a black hooded figure appears in front of the cameraman and as a last move rushes towards the cameraman as the video cuts to black. I freeze for a moment, trying to process what I have just seen I am in complete shock. Thoughts are rushing through my head I cannot seem to work whether the video was fake or not, I did not see any signs of editing, there were no jump cuts, no camera changes and the video seemed to just run as one big long shot. To try and make sense of things I attempt to watch the video again, but just as I am about to press the play button the video disappears, leaving a little bit of text saying that it has been removed. I freak out and try to swipe upwards to refresh Facebook but no matter how many times I do it the text remains. I go up to the search bar and search for the name of the account that uploaded it and go to their page. No name pops up nor any search results, it just says no results found. I don't know how the account has been removed that quickly but clearly something is up. I get up off the toilet wipe my bum and flush. I move to the sink to wash my hands and as I stare at myself in the mirror, I make a decision, the only way I am going to get to the bottom of this is by finding that building myself. I finish washing my hands, use the air dryer and leave. As I start walking down the hallway towards my locker, I start questioning what I am doing, should I go? should I stay? should I get help? should I tell a teacher? I don't know, all I do know is that my curiosity has been spiked and I need to get to the bottom of this. It is probably just some practical joke put up by some students, there is no such thing as ghosts or ghouls, I have nothing to be afraid of. Screw it I am doing it I am going to find that building and prove that this is nothing more than a hoax. Little did I know at the time, that this would be the start of a horrifying series of events that has completely shaken my perception of reality and that what I would find in that abandoned building would be the start of a horrendous traumatizing experience that would change me forever....

Thank you for reading part 1 of my first scary story 'In the Dead of Night' I really appreciate it. This is going to be the first short scary story that I will post on this blog, I have many other scary stories planned so please tune in to read them all, I promise it will be worth your while, I am the best short story author remember ;). Nah not really but I hope you enjoy them anyway, let me know of other types of stories you may want me to make and I will do my best to. But for now thank you so much I look forward to bringing you the next one and always remember to dance like a chicken and live your life to its fullest have a good night :) .

Dauking Out *salute