"A Haunted House"
by Alyssa Oruska
On an afternoon, on a cold and foggy fall day, a girl and her friends were walking. The girls could taste the fog. Her brown hair flew behind her when she walking; her friend was walking behind her.
“Put your hair up! It flew in my face Valerie!” Valerie then giggled, and put her hair into a ponytail.
“Guys I’m hungry, can we go get food?” Maria, one of Valerie's friends said.
“Sure I guess where do you want to g-” Rebecca said though she stopped her question mid-sentence, when they walked passed this house with a gate around the house so no one would get in.
The group of friends went silent. Valerie stopped walking and looked up at the house. Her friends walked right passed the house. Not even glancing at it.
“Come on Valerie. Why are you looking at that house?”
“What’s wrong with this house? It looks like it was never used. Why is there a gate?”
Valerie had never seen this house before. She was curious about it.
Her friends all looked at each other. Rebecca then grabbed Valerie’s hand and pulled her away from the house and said, “This house is cursed. Don't go in it whatever you do. 20 families had lived in that house. A day later they were reported died. No one ever found their bodies. One boy around the age of 15 was with his friends and they dared him to go into that house. 20 minutes later all you heard was his scream, then nothing else.”
They looked at the house and Valerie looked at her friends again.
“But why would people go in there when there was dead people in it?”
“I don't know, maybe they didn't know about it.” Rebecca said.
“I want to go in, and see what it's like. Who's coming with me?” Valerie voiced.
Her friends all looked at her like she was crazy, they didn't say anything.
“Why are looking at me like that? It's just a house, nothing bad is going to happen.” Valerie said getting a little frustrated.
She then looked at her boyfriend, Ryan, and said “not even you?”
“Sorry, Valerie. I don't want to go in there. It’s disturbing just looking at it from outside. It makes me cringe.”
“Ugh fine but just wait out here. DON'T LEAVE ME. I’ll be out later. See ya later.”
Valerie looked back at her friends before walking into the gate and walking up to the house. Her friends were worried that she wouldn't come back. Ever.
3 minutes later
Valerie saw a leathery brown door. She was starting to get scared and was contemplating on going back outside to her friends. When she opened the door squeaking went all through the house.
“Okay” Valerie whispered to herself.
She thought the stairs were going to break with how much creaking they were doing. She then saw a pair of feet.
“Um. What the he-”
She stopped her sentence when she saw another pair of feet. When she walked down more she saw maybe 20 skeletons with shoes and clothes on them, laying on the floor. The smell of death engulfed her.
“Okay i’m leaving now.” she stated and walked back up the stairs and closed the door behind her.
“Where is she?” Rebecca said getting worried.
“Come on Val where are you?” Ryan whispered.
“I’m calling the cops. This is getting ridiculous. I’ll be back.” Maria said and walked away from the group.
Valerie was walking up the stairs again and turned to her left and saw a door that was ajar. She walked in and her eyes nearly popped out of her head. Her hand flew to her mouth and wanted to scream.
“Okay I called the cops they are coming soon.” Maria said stopping next to Ryan.
“Do her parents know where she is? Does she have her phone with her?” Rebecca asked getting more and more worried as the time went on.
“I think she has her phone, but her parents don’t know where she is. She told them that she slept over Bella’s house.”
Bella was their other friend that wasn’t with them. She had a family party that Valerie’s parents didn’t know about.
Valerie walked over to the picture frame that was hanging on the wall, and was feeling more frightened than ever.
She had saw picture in there from when she was a little girl with her dad eating ice cream and her big brother and sister sitting next to her also eating ice cream.
She turned around when she heard the door slam shut.
“Where is she? This shouldn't take too long.” Maria said.
“I don’t know. What did the police say? When are they going to be here?” Ryan said.
“Should we go in and look for her?” Rebecca said “I’m starting to get worried about her.”
Valerie was starting to get scared. So she turned back around and saw a picture of herself when she was around the age of 3.
“What the heck.” she said to herself.
She walked a little further into the room and saw a picture of this little girl with a doll that had bright red hair.
She looked a little bit down, towards her feet and saw that doll that was in the picture above. The doll then looked up at her and Valerie screamed a little and said …
“Oh my goodness! She’s been in there for like almost 10 minutes and we haven't heard her scream. Where is she? I’m getting so worried about her. What if she doesn't come back? What if she doesn’t remember us? Oh my gosh where is she?” Maria rambled.
“She’ll come back.” Rebecca said “hopefully” she mumbled.
“Who are you? What’s your name? Are you here to play with me? No one ever plays with me.” the doll with bright red hair said.
“WHY ARE YOU TALKING TO ME?!?!?!? YOU’RE A DOLL!!!” Valerie screeched.
“Whoa I’m sorry okay. Im Sophie.” the frightening doll said.
“Okay i’m Valerie.”
“Can you come play with me? No one ever plays with me.” Sophia pronounced.
“Um, sure. I guess.” Valerie spoke.
Sophia and Valerie then started playing with tea cups. Valerie was thinking that it was kinda weird that she was talking to a doll but she didn’t question it.
4 minutes later
Valerie had said something wrong and now the doll was furious. The dolls eyes were blue but now a dark colour of red that had gazed over. The doll had turned possessed.
“Those 20 families down there never made it out alive because me. You disrespect me i’ll kill you!” the doll said.
Valerie ran out of the room and ran down to the other room where a tv was on. Valerie was confused that how they would have a tv in a haunted house. The TV was playing Cabin In The Woods. She turned and look on the wall incase another doll was under it, but she found a picture on the wall that looked like a person that was famous it kinda looked like Justin Bieber, Valerie couldn’t remember his name though.
“Where is she? She was supposed to be out now. OH MY GOSH do you think she’s alive?” Rebecca rambled.
“Don’t think like that. She’s your best friend.” Ryan commanded.
Valerie then heard a little laugh and turned around and saw Sophia.
“No one runs away from me!” She screeched with bright red eyes. You could see them from miles away.
“Oh yeah well guess what I just did!” Valerie screamed and ran passed Sophia and ran right out of the door. She ran down the stairs and she found herself right in front of the basement door where she found the skeletons.
One of the skeletons opened the door and then Valerie screeced. Loudly that the group of friend had heard.
“Okay this is ridiculous I’m going to go in there and finding her.” Ryan said.
But the girls wouldn't let him. They were telling him not to go in and get her but their conversation stopped when they heard her scream. Ryan started running towards the house at the same time Valerie was running out. She ran right into his arms and was pushing him backwards. Her friends saw and opened the gate.
Valerie started talking, but was out of breath “DON’T go in there. EVER.”
20 minutes later
Because she was traumatized, she was crying hysterically. The police had came and called her parents and a small crowd was starting to form around the house to see what was happening. Her friends were trying to calm her down but it wasn’t working. The door to the house opened and the police walked out with a doll with bright red hair. Sophia. Valerie saw and ran towards the police and took the doll out of their hands and opened the door of the house that traumatized her and throw her back in. The police and everybody else were confused.
“That doll is a demon.” Valerie voiced through her tears.
6 years later
Valerie hasn’t walked around that block since that night. Rebecca and Maria are still her friends, Ryan is now her fiance. She had to go to therapy because of what she had seen. Now, she’s getting better.
She gets these nightmares about what she saw in the house. No one hasn't been in that house since that night. They’re planning to take it down and renovate it. Valerie didn’t go to school, she was homeschooled. People now know her as ‘the girl that went into that haunted house that they’re planning to take down.’ Valerie hated it.
Valerie isn’t the same person as she was 6 years ago. She is a very quiet and a content girl now. Before the incident, she was a very popular, and an outgoing person. But now she is afraid, but happy. Every now and then it all gets too much for her that's mostly on the day of the incident.
“People think that the people that reported the deaths in that house were joking. Well they weren’t I saw it, it was creepy. I'll never be able to walk around that block any more or go near that house because of that incident. I have nightmares because of that house. Im scarred for life. Listen to people when they tell you not to do something.” Valerie at the age of 23 who is engaged and is moving to California told us on the day the incident that happened 6 years ago.
“No one runs away from me! I’ll get you Valerie!” Sophia the doll with bright red hair screeched.