COLLABORATIVE WRITING
Y8 CLASS C
Where is grandpa? February 2nd, 2012. I was at my grandmother's house with my family on this day. It was a beautiful day when my cousins and I started playing squeak piggy squeak. Suddenly, the day turned black, a big and strong storm began. A lot of trees started falling down making loud noises. Grandpa told us to get into the house. When we got in, grandpa said to go to the bedroom. Then he locked the door and we got stuck in there. After that, we started listening to a loud and strange sound outside the bedroom. But just after one hour, grandma opened the door and everything was all right, but grandpa wasn't there anymore. Grandma was trying not to cry. We got very scared. We had never seen her like that. All of a sudden, the youngest children started crying and the oldest ones, like me, were trying to make them feel calmer. Then, when the youngest children were almost calm, my grandmother started crying and everyone became more scared than ever. Next, Hannah, who was one of my cousins, made the question that everyone wanted to make: "Where is our grandfather?" Grandma wasn't able to explain to us. I thought that she didn't even know what had happened exactly. Hannah made the question again. She was too young to understand that moment wasn't the best time to ask about it. Elena, my grandmother, was making a big effort to explain to us why grandfather wasn't there anymore. We realized that grandma was not going to tell us what had happened so we decided to find out by ourselves. The kids stayed at home and the oldest went outside. We thought that maybe he had run away or killed himself, but there was no reason for that. So we thought that he could have been murdered, and we started to look for
clues. We looked over the street and we found nothing. So we went to a dark dirty road that would be a perfect place for a murder. We walked all over the street and we saw a crossroad. Gabrielle, my oldest cousin who is crazy about supernatural stuff, looked at the crossroad and said: ''A crossroad can be a covenant with the devil! See? there is something that it has just been unearthed!'' At first we thought that she didn't mean it. Then we looked at her and we were
really serious. She ran over to the middle of the crossroad and saw a picture of my grandfather with stuff like bones. Gabrielle was really scared. She buried his stuff and we all were waiting for something, but we didn't know what indeed. A woman appeared out of the blue. She came to us and said: ''Hi guys, have you been looking for your grandpa? I've just had a really nice conversation with him.'' ''So, where is he now?'', Gabrielle asked. ''in hell. My brother has been taking care of him.''
We started crying out loud. “I can bring him back, but I want something in exchange.'' We knew what she was talking about. It was a while ago since this very known story had began. Now grandpa is back, but Gabrielle isn't.
THE WALL One day, my husband, my son and I were moving to a new house in London. The house was big, old and beautiful. In fact, it was the house of our dreams. We had been living there for a week when we bought a dog called Apple. One day he started barking to the walls. We thought that it was very strange, but we realized that the wallpaper had a hole. Then we started tearing it up. Behind the wallpaper there was an old and wooden door, but it was locked. We didn't understand why, but we were very curious and we decided to discover where the door opened to. Will, my husband, started knocking it down. Luckily, he could make it, and after a few minutes, the door was opened. The room was really dark, so we couldn't see anything in there. We took a flashlight and started looking for something interesting. There was a lot of stuff. We decided to wait for the sunshine to look more carefully. The next day, we started unpacking everything. We found toys, photos, kitchen stuff, etc. It looked like the family, that had lived there before us, left all the stuff in that room. We picked a cute toy and gave to our son, Gabriel. We spent all day cleaning up all the rooms. Gabriel was in a deep sleep when Apple started barking to the walls again. We followed him, but at that time there was no room behind the wallpaper. We decided not to tell anyone about the door because the people would think we were crazy. The sun came down and we were having dinner when Gabriel, not saying a word, stood up and walked to the door. When he opened the door, the room had no floor and everybody stopped and looked down. Suddenly, I looked back and there was a really
tall man smiling at me and pushing all my family. We all fell into the hole. At that moment, my family died. I'm still here writing this letter. I don`t have a lot of time now. And this is my last letter. Goodbye...
When Mrs. Hastings warned Elisabeth and Jason not to hang out that night, they
laughed at her face and ignored her. The two children had never listened to their mother, so they wound`t listen to her that day either. They decided to go to an abandoned house in Newcastle with their friends, place where they couldn't go at night. They went to Hanna's house to invite her to hang out with them. They went to a really nice place where the biggest party of the city was going on. The house was old, but everybody was having a really great time. Sometimes Elizabeth thought she could see some shadows moving all over the place. She ignored it because she thought that could be only an alcoholic effect. But once other people saw it too and everybody was really afraid of them because they were getting bigger and bigger. When the shadows started to make noises, everybody started running away from the house. But they couldn't, because when they were getting closer to the door, it closed itself. They tried to go out through the windows, but it was locked too and the key had disappeared. They tried to use their phones, but there was no signal. They went to the back of the house and tried to use the back door. Elisabeth jumped and she got out of the house, but the door locked behind her. The door was a type of door that could see what was happening on the other side of the house. And a few moments later, a shadow took Elisabeth. Hannah and Jason screamed. They tried to go to the basement so that they could see if it was a safe place, but when they went downstairs, the lights went off. Suddenly, they heard sounds of steps and the sound was getting louder and louder. When they saw a little light coming out of a little window, they cheered. But it was too late because when they got up, Hannah had disappeared. Jason ran towards the window and when he looked through it there was a man with a knife on his hand and Jason's friends on the ground. They were all dead. Jason jumped out of the little window, but it was too late, because the murderer stabbed his arm. Jason was screaming a lot, but no one was listening to him. The murderer took off his black mask. But before Jason could realize who the murderer was, the man stabbed his heart. The murderer left Jason and his friends in the house. After that, he set fire to the
house and left.
It was a cold and dark night. I was together with four friends: Jonathan, Eduardo, Pedro and Lucas on my farm watching a movie. We heard a noise outside and Lucas went to check it out. We kept on watching the movie, but as Lucas didn't return, we went to look for him. The back door was open and there was no one outside. We couldn't see anything and we thought that Lucas was trying to play a trick on us. We took a flashlight and started looking for him. We went to the back of the farm and Lucas was there, on the
ground, bleeding. He was dead. Everybody was really scared. We tried to call the police, but our phones didn't have any signal. We were completely alone. When I saw Lucas's head, I noticed that there was a devil's sign. Scared, I went back to the house to decide what we were going to do and we noticed that Pedro was gone too. So just Jonathan, Eduardo and I were left. Suddenly, we heard a loud noise and the lights turned off. After a few minutes, the lights went on again and Jonathan wasn't there anymore. Eduardo and I ran to the car to look for a police station. Half way on the road, the car went out of gasoline and Eduardo and I tried to call someone again, but there was no signal. All of a sudden, the back of the car caught on fire, so we started running, but we didn't know where we were going. We ended up in the woods. We ran a lot and luckily we found two hunters. We told them the whole story, but they did not believe us. We tried to tell the story perfectly, but they still couldn't believe us. We asked if there was a police station or a restaurant with a phone that we could call someone, but they thought we were insane and the devil's sign was a lie. So they
walked away and left us in the woods. Eduardo and I wanted to go back to the road and look for someone, but we couldn't find the road. We spent the rest of the night trying to find a way to the road. We heard a noise. I looked back and my friends were gone. The sign was on my back. I was going to die.
On February 13th at night, Stephen was driving home and passing by an empty countryside highway. He was completely alone. There were no cars on the road. But suddenly a car appeared in the front of his and started blocking him. He got bothered and Stephen told him some bad words. Stephen passed him and after a few moments later his tire bursted and he had to stop on the side of the road. Stephen started changing the tire when the mysterious driver appeared. He
stopped, stared and then he said: "Do you need any help?", a man in a black cover asked. "No, my tire bursted.", replied Stephen. The man walked back to his car starring at Stephen. Finally, when Stephen had already changed the tire, he went home. Stephen was a bit scared because once again there was no one on the road and if he crashed his car, no one could help him. But fortunately he got home safe, scared but safe. Stephen just couldn't sleep. Every time he closed his eyes, it was like living
the horrible moment at the road again. it was a nightmare, but awaken.
Later on that night he called his friend and told him what had happened on the road. His friend, named Jack, thought the story was weird. So he went to Stephen's house to try to help and calm his friend down. Jack had already heard a similar story from some truck drivers. They always told him not to drive specially at night. The story was about a man who had died in a car accident a few years ago on the same day, that is, February 13th. The ghost used to walk down the road trying to find new victims like him. Then, he thought that would make him free to go to Heaven. Jack told him that it was only a story, because many times he went through the very same road late at night and couldn't see anyone there. Stephen came down and realized that it should be just his imagination. Maybe his mind was just trying to play a trick on him as it was already late and he was just tired. A few minutes later, Jack left his friend's house. The bell rang and both men suddenly froze as it was really late and no one should be walking or visiting at that time. Then as the bell rang again, they asked: "Who is there?", asked both men. "You know who I am. The man of the road ..." , said the voice. "I know you aren't real .. ", said both men. "You know that you are lying. You know that the man on the road is you or I should say we...", said the voice.
Once there was a young man who lived in a big house in north Scotland. The village was small and in the winter it was really scary there. One snowy night, a man named Louis, was cooking dinner for him, when the phone rang and he picked it up. After a few minutes on the phone, he suddenly smelt gas and smoke and when he realized, his kitchen was on fire. He tried everything to stop it, but he couldn't stop it because there was a lot of fire. Louis, in real desperation, went to his bedroom and caught everything
he could, but the fire was getting bigger and bigger. As Louis was trying to save his life and get as many things as he could, for a second he thought that there was another person in the house as well. He heard screams as the person was trying to escape from something as he was locked. In desperation, trying to save the other person's life and his own, Louis divided between saving either himself or the voice, he decided to save the voice. At first, he shouted: "tell me who you are! I abdicated from saving my life in order to save yours! I am trying to help. Please, tell me where you are! Then you may leave the house alive." The voice didn't answer. He quickly fainted, because of the smell and smoke that
were constantly on his nose. As soon as the neighbors saw the house on flames, they called the police and the firefighter. When they arrived at the house, the fire had already destroyed everything. 3 hours later, after the tragedy, Louis woke up and saw cops taking a body to an ambulance, probably that mysterious voice's owner. Incredibly he felt healthy, so he started picking up the things of your house. Some days later, he realized that the neighbors were very kind, but they didn't answer Louis anymore. One day, months later, his neighbors were going somewhere wearing black clothes. Being really curious, he followed them. Then, he arrived in a graveyard. There was a father and many friends. Then he saw the name in the gravestone: Louis Gravehood. He
fell asleep and never woke up back again.
Once upon a time, there was a man who worked as a clown in the circus. His name was Bob and he came from a simple family. He had a good heart and since he was a child he had been playing with a clown. When he was 18 years old, he went to work in a circus in Dallas, Texas. The circus was big, many people visited it every weekend. In the circus, there were many attractions, such as: animals, jugglers, balancers and clowns. 20 years later Bob was working in the same circus. On the 13th of May, on a Friday afternoon, Bob was rehearsing his presentation of the night. On that day, just before the circus was crowded, the clowns tried to give a torch to Bob, but accidentally Bob's clothes immediately got on fire. As a consequence Bob was burned. Unfortunatelly he died. In the morning, after the accident, his friends found his body and buried him under the circus, because it was his favorite place. In every presentation, the audience saw a shadow which jumped and danced with the artists. A week later, the shadow had a strange behavior. The shadow started making loud noises. The shadow screamed so loudly that made the ears hurt. So everybody was frightened because of the shadow. After 3 days, nobody was going there anymore. The circus bankrupted. But every night the shadow has been in town, jumping and dancing on the roofs of the houses. If you live in Dallas and have heard some noise on the roof of your house, it may be Bob. Be careful!
Yesterday night, October 31st 1987, three teenagers left their houses about ten o'clock PM. The street was almost as full as Times Square in the New Year's evening. The teenagers who were: Bob, 13; Luck, 14 and Joe , 14; decided to play some tricks at the street houses. As it was full of people, they wouldn't be discovered. So they decided to wait at an abandoned house. Suddenly, in the moment that they were entering the ho use yard, the windows started banging. The door was a bit open. Then they saw three
shadows entering the room. The guys started screaming and crying. The shadows began to get closer and closer. Suddenly, when they were face to face with the boys, the shadows started calling their names nonstop. Immediately, the boys knew that were very scary ghosts. A mess started. The papers started flying around and they were terrified. Everyone fainted. Two bodies on the cold floor. Bob was the last one. He woke up and realized that his friends were dead. He started running and screaming to the dark streets of Lakewood, Texas. He went to the police office, but no one was there. Walking in the streets with
nothing to do after the death of his friends, he tried to call his mom, but the phone had no signal. Then he realized that someone was following him. He ran to the street in the dark night. He was very afraid and he didn't know what to do. Next, he heard a loud and scary laugh. it was the ghosts! At that moment, all the courage that he had in the begining of the night had disappeared. He decided to go the first shop where he would see someone working. Maybe a hospital or a shop, maybe not. He couldn't think about where he would go. He could just run. All of a sudden, he saw a bus. He started screaming and moving his arms. The bus stopped and the man, who was driving, asked him what was happening. Bob explained
his situation to the driver. He didn't believe in what the boy was saying, but he offered taking the boy to his house. While the driver was bringing Bob home, he slept. When he woke up, he was at home. Someone was calling him. When he went to the kitchen, his friends: Luck and Joe were talking to his mom. Then he realized that it was just a nightmare. Luckily, just a nightmare.