Short Stories Collection

The Curse of the Ouija Board (Halloween Short Story)

There is an old town called Sleepy Hollow which is right outside of another town called Salem, the coincidence is that both towns are hunted with their legends and myths from the Salem witch trials to the ghost of a Hessian soldier from the Revolutionary War who was beheaded in battle and who continued to haunt the town. Each town is known as one of the "most haunted places in the world and one of the best places to visit during the spooky season of Halloween'', many people from all around the county or even around the world comes to visit either learn about the history or even get scared by the townspeople. Sometimes people like to visit both towns during the spooky season, I mean who wouldn't want to visit both and experience what it is like to live in the haunted towns of America. There are many warnings for tourists that come to visit the towns especially on Halloween like for example there is a legend about Salam, if you visit on Halloween night you will be kidn*pped by one of the witches from the trails and will be burned at the stake for being out while the witches are doing black magic and their secret rituals.

Well in Sleepy Hollow there is a legend that speaks about an old, haunted house where it dates to the Revolutionary War and has some ties to the Civil War, the legend is someone will go missing on Halloween night in the old haunted abandoned house and will never be seen again. I live in Sleepy Hollow, and I love Halloween. You can say I am a history nerd about each town, and I love learning about all kinds of things about the towns, especially the legends. This year, I am checking out the haunted abandoned house on top of the hill of the creepy old cemetery which was built when the town was slowly building and coming together as a brand-new town. I asked a few of my friends to come with me on Halloween night and to prove a point that the house is not haunted, and you will not go missing.

It was Halloween night in Sleepy Hollow, the weather is very stormy with a huge severe thunderstorm, the cold crisp air filled my lungs as a frozen popsicle stuck together, the old iron gate of the cemetery swings back and forth with a loud cringe sound that makes you feel like something is going to happen, the wind makes the leaves swirl around grave headstones, a black cat hisses in a warning to turn back, the full blood moon shines bright like a flashlight, the old stone pathway up to the top of the hill is cracked and very weak to step on where you can fall and break a bone. My friends told me that I was crazy about asking them to come to the house with them. They stood behind me with a look of horror on their faces and were ready to turn around to run back home crying. I told them

"Hurry up guys, we need to make it to the top of the hill and take cover before the storm gets worse" I said while holding the old game box.

"What about the warning signs, you do know this place is haunted, and what about the old creepy groundskeeper catches up? '' one friend said while hugging her bookbag.

"Well, if we get caught, we might become his next meal. I heard he is a vampire or werewolf or even a zombie," another friend said while hiding behind the girl with the extra bookbag.

"I heard if he catches you, he will make you into a witch stew-like what they did in the witch trials but with real witches" another friend yelled and freaked out by yelling.

"Shhh... guys we have to be quiet and watch your step. You can fall and break a bone or something on the old stone path" I told them and began to walk up the hill first.

"I don't like this at all especially when I have to use the bathroom, are we almost there?" the guy holding the umbrella asked.

"As soon as we get up the hill you can use the bathroom, okay now let's get out of the storm before we end up in the "Wizard of Oz" with a tornado. Oh, look, it's a few monsters doing the graveyard monster mash" I told them while joking.

It took us about ten minutes to walk about the jagged broken stony path and onto the house pouch, the house looked like it was hit by the tornado from the movie and in the back of my mind, I was thinking where the evil witch is going to pop up to scare us with turning back. As I reached the rusted old doorknob, the door slowly opened with a gust of wind, and then boom the door flew open as soon as a thunderclap in the sky above us, it sent chills down our bodies with goosebumps. We enter the f*******n house with flashlights while the lighting outside hit the mailbox that made a sound that sent us into shock, once we were inside of the house safe from the storm, we walked into the living room and saw a very old picture of the headless horseman in Salam with the witch trials.

The photo looked so old that it was peeling and disfigured where you can't tell faces in the photo are showing, it was hanging over the fireplace with tons of spider webs and dust. I walked over to the fireplace and took a long match to light it; the fire turned a weird back and purple flame-like the virgin candle from "Hocus Pocus" there is another legend that says, "the Sanderson sister used to live here a hundred years ago". For years people believed that this place is haunted and if you light the fireplace they will come back and take your souls and even put a curse on you. As I looked at the black, purple flames of the fire, one of my friends said...

"Well s**t, you unleashed the witches and now our souls will be stuck in this house," she said with a big gulp.

"Great, I am going to be witches' first meal and I didn't tell my parents that I loved them," another friend said while hiding behind her for safety.

"Come down, you don't believe in this witch legend and it's just a bunch of Hocus Pocus. Oh, s**t who grabbed my hair, seriously guys it's not funny" I told them after my hair got grabbed the first time.

"Do you dare look at me and What the f**k was that... is that a black cat in the window?" the girl said while pointing at the window with a dark black object sitting there with glowing green cat eyes.

"Is that the same cat as Thackery Binx, if it says he better not steal my woman when he turns into a ghost" the guy friend says while blushing.

"He is so sexy, I can bang him anyway in human, ghost, or even cat form," she said and giggled.

"I think I might be sick, while you guys set up our stuff, I am going to go find a bathroom and properly puke after hearing that," I told them and got up to leave.

As I walked throughout the house, I noticed old creepy things like a doll with large creepy eyes that follows me while I walk past by. The doll looked so creepy that I will start having nightmares, as I quickly walk faster out of the doll's view, I saw a bedroom with a bathroom, as I walked into the bedroom I notice there was an old note that says "warning do not play this on Halloween, you will be cursed for live and play at your risk", I grabbed it from the closet floor and brought it back down the party. As I try to figure out why there is an old creepy warning note, I heard a scream and run to the living room with the game box over my head and I was about to throw it at someone when I recognize the scream.

"What happened and who screamed?" I asked with a confused look on my face.

"Sorry I thought I saw a ghost, like of some sort," she said trying to catch her breath with her hand over her chest.

"I have no idea but look at what I found upstairs in a closet of one of the bedrooms," I told them and showed them the box with the warning note on top of the box.

"Let's play if you are not scared and sorry I forgot my flashlight and phone you know just if we do get kidn*pped or worse killed in this house," another guy friend said.

"Okay let's do it and does anyone want to back out now," I asked my friends while sitting next to the fire and around the coffee table.

As we begin to play the storm began to get worse with more thunder and lightning that shook the whole house. Suddenly, a big gush of wind came through the window and made the doors inside of the house slammed shut. We looked at the fireplace and thought it was going to burn out from the wind, but it didn't. We went back to the cursed Ouija board and noticed that the planchette moved all by itself and spelled out "get out now" as in a warning, we laughed as though someone moved as a prank to scare us when it moved by itself. We end up screaming on top of our lungs and ended up fainting, once we woke up, we noticed that of us is missing from the group. We got scared and started to panic where we almost have a real panic attack. I saw something creepy and saw the headless horseman with a sword in his hand ready to kill us right here in the creepy haunted house on Halloween night. I started laughing and thought it was just a funny prank until he said...

"YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED TO PLAY THIS GAME, NOW YOU ARE NOW CURSED FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIVES WHERE SOMEONE YOU LOVE WILL DIE ON THE NEXT HALLOWEEN NIGHT," he said in a horror creepy voice and then disappear into thin air.

We looked at each other and then screamed while grabbing our stuff then ran out of the house. We ran so fast that the cold air made us shiver with goosebumps. I ended up tripping over an old grave headstone that said my name, birthday, date of my death, and small description. I just hit my head hard on a sharp stone that I felt blood dripping down my face and into my mouth which tasted of sweet iron and metallic. I passed out from the smell and the taste of blood, my friends ran so fast that they forgot that I was the last person left behind and didn't notice that I was missing. A few weeks passed and the local newspaper and news channel said "Missing local teenager from Halloween night in the haunted house with me on her throat. We have no leads of how this happened or why the police are still investigating. The girl's family has been contacted and will be planning a funeral service after the investigation is done and the killer has been caught"

I woke up from my deep slumber of sleep in a puddle of sweat and tears rolling down my cheeks. I knew I just had a nightmare and I started to have a panic attack knowing my nightmare was one of the worst nightmares I have heard. As soon as I got myself together, I pinched myself so hard that I started to bleed from my sharp fingernails. I couldn't fall back asleep after that, and I couldn't wake up my parents to tell them about the nightmare. I stood up from my bed and tossed the history books, hocus pocus and my notebook of the town's legends notes off my bed. I crawled back into bed and took the glass of water on the bedside, took a deep breath, as I took a sip of water, I grabbed my laptop and opened it. After I put my glass of water back on the table, I begin to write one of my many short Halloween stories before I end up forgetting the horrible nightmare I just had. I now know to never read any more history about different legends, while watching my favorite Halloween movie and eating tons of candy before bed.