"Family Folklore" By Serenity Cooksey

Me and my family have many different stories that are specific to our family. Alot of wich happened in my great grandmas old house. My great grandmas old house is huge it was made in the 1800's so it is kind of shaped like a church. It has eight rooms and three bathrooms. This house also has a gym/basketball court /storage room the only lights in this room are sky lights so when it is night it is pitch black in that room and you can't see any thing. I think that this room is haunted because for one my great grandpa died in it and since then things will like just fly at you when the room is dark.





So in this house since my room is like inside the gym I mean like seperated but you have to walk through it to get to my room. I hated whne i had to walk through the gym at night to get to my room because it was pitch black in there! So one the night before halloween my parents had to go to this halloween party way late at night so me, my little sister, my little brother, and my sisters friend were in my room wich is one of the rooms in this house where you can here everything that happens in the whole house so every little gust of wind that came through my house we could hear.





So after they left for their halloween party we went into my room and watched tv. We kept hearing these sounds but we just thought that they were the trees hitting the old wood or the wind. So as we sat in my room we heard the back door open ( that was super creepy) then after we heard that noisse we opened my door and walked up to the back door it was closed and locked. Then we yelled hello and still no one answered but we were almost positive that some one was in our house. We pratically triped over ourselves running back to my room when we got in there we heard the noise again but this time I pushed my little brother into the closet and told him to be super quiet grapped a yard stick broke it over my knee just in case my sister grabbed a hammer and her friend hid in the closet with my brother.





After this we opened the door and saw that the back door was wide open . Right at that moment someone started running at us i screamed and like almost ped myself because I was so scared then my sister like screamed silently in her head like a humming noise then she got ready for the person to get there she had the hammer up high like it was going to hit the person in the head and the end where you pull the nails out. Then like two seconds before the person would have like killed my sister we both realozed that it was my mom in her halloween makeup trying well succeeding in scaring the living s@!# out of us!



So my sister ended up not hitting my mom in the head just in the knees and not as hard nut she couldn't totally stop herself when she was allready in swinging position. So the point of all this was to show you how much my parents like to scare me and trust me it is not fun!