4. Ghosts

You speak, oh gratefull Lord
In a whisper I can not hear,
As I lie awake in my bed,
My pillow draped with tears.

My thoughts are bottled up inside
I can not let them out,
your like a ghost I can not see,
come save my from me doubts.

I woke screaming. I had had the same nightmare 365 times. The ride down the hill, the sudden jerk, the horrifying pain slashing into me, screaming and every thing suddenly going black. I had had this night mare every night since the accident, the accident I never walked away from, the accident I still think about even in death.

The Haunted Hotel
By Wilkie Collins
Continued by Quinn Darrow

Ghosts
Have you ever seen a ghost? Would you ever want to see a ghost? Well, here are some real life ghost stories.
It all started when I was paired with a “Big” from the
Big Brothers and Big Sisters program, a program that allows kids and adults from the community to hang out with each other each week. My “Big’s” name is Carol and her roommate’s name is Becky.

When we first moved into our house in 2004 we have heard from everyone from our naborhood that a woman had gotten murdered from her cereal killer ex husband. I was scared at the thought of the subject. But I did not believe it. The relater told us that nothing like that has ever happened. But I always wanted to know what were the red spilled stains all over the attic floor.

ROOM 263
BY: COREY WILLIAMS

May ninth, nineteen-seventy-five…

Some people believe in ghosts some people don’t but I am one person that does believe in ghosts. I believe in ghosts mostly because my sister has had an experience with one. It happened just down the road in my Grandpas house a long time ago when she was just a little girl. She was up in the attic taking a nap on one of the couches. When she heard creaking noises from across the room.

It was the winter of 1873, and Vermont was having the biggest snowstorm of the year. It had already snowed 5 feet in the past three hours, and there was no sign of the snow stopping or slowing down. In the small town of Killington, an old woman was deathly ill. Her husband had gone off to work before the storm had started, and obviously wouldn’t be able to come back until the storm was over.

Go
Home
Or
Stay
Terrified!

The Girl

By Teera Paye
Oxbow High School, Grade 8

Here eyes were black like coal.
Her skin was white like fresh snow.
Where did she come from?
Why exactly is she here?
How did she get here anyway?
The door is locked.
I am the only one with the key.
The window?
No way!
It is two stories up.
She couldn’t have climbed up.
She comes toward me.
I back away.

Ghost

By Nikko Malerba
Woodstock Union High School, Grade 12

Most terrifying that is not,
Or was, or is
Just a remnant.
All lost
People, places, things.
They were but forgotten
They are forgotten
They will not be forgotten
Not things they be.
But things that were.
Attached they felt.
Now they linger
In how thoughts,
Or our imaginations,
Or in our closets,

Ghosts are white
The come in the night
Halloween they make
Houses take shape
People put them around
To help stare someone down
They cause a great scare
When someone is caught unaware
They mean
Halloween
When kids wear cute outfits
With their cute little baskets
They collect candy
And they feel all dandy
LOOK!
A GHOST!
Fhew!
That was close!

By Moya Cavanagh
Browns River Middle School, Grade 8

In the darkened
Cloak of night
I hear their voices
Speaking.

Ghosts are white creatures lurking in the night
They are figments of our imagination pushed so far that they become real.

Prompt 4
Ghosts
By Matt Eaton

G is for ghastly creatures that haunt late at night.
H is for hellish, devilish, beasts.
O is for oh snap.
S is for Shazzam get away from me!!
T is for “that’s what you get ghost”.
S is for silently creeping through the night, circling around for another attack.