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5. Haunted. Have you ever been in a house where things go bump in the night? Do you believe that some buildings or places are haunted? Is there one in your town? Tell us a story about it. Make it believable.
Alternate: Lockers. What one thing do you wish no one to know about in your locker? Or what is the most important thing in your locker? Deadline: Friday Oct. 17.

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4. Ghosts

Ghost Whisper

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.

remember

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.

Haunted Hotel

The Haunted Hotel
By Wilkie Collins
Continued by Quinn Darrow

Ghosts

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.

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GHOSTS

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

ROOM 263
BY: COREY WILLIAMS

May ninth, nineteen-seventy-five…

Ghosts

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.

The Ghost of Killington's Past

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.

G.H.O.S.T.

Go
Home
Or
Stay
Terrified!

The Girl

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

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

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!

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Speak of The Dead

By Moya Cavanagh
Browns River Middle School, Grade 8

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

Ghosts

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

Ghost Poem

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.

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