You and some friends are sitting on a dock, late at night. You are on a trip to the Lake of Ozarks that you have been waiting for all summer. Suddenly, you hear a growling noise in the nearby forest. You and your friends look around to see some movement in the bushes. You all chicken out and refuse to go check out what was making the noise. So, you let the noise stay unknown and feel spooked for the rest of the trip. KHS students have also experienced frightening stories just like this.
Adalyn Baron, junior, said, “In fourth grade, [my friend and I] went to my grandma’s house, which was pretty old. [My grandma] had this old doll we would play with.”
Baron said she would always go to her grandma’s house to play with her friends and toys around the house. One day, Baron and her friend had gone downstairs to help grandpa work on an old car in the garage.
“When we had left, we put the doll next to the door,” Baron said. “Then when we came back upstairs it was on the bed, on the other side of the room.”
Baron said the doll never moved again, but the experience had a lasting and frightening impact. She said after that, Baron and her friend had put the doll in a closet and never touched it again.
Baron isn’t the only student that has faced something from out of the usual. There are many different stories about students who have experienced similar things.
Peyton Brown, senior, said. “In second or third grade, I was running around Glendale with my dad trick-or-treating, and I went up to a house with no lights on. It was towards the end of the night so I really just wanted whatever candy I could get.”
Brown said she usually wouldn’t have gone up to any houses with the lights off but didn’t think anything about it since she had just been trick-or-treating. Brown said that on Halloween she had always tried to get the most candy possible.
“This old man opened the door [and] looked very mad. [He] looked at me for a few seconds, and then just slammed the door,” Brown said. “This shocked [me] because I’ve never been treated like that by an adult.”
Brown’s Halloween was very interesting overall. Elsa Bischoff, junior, said she also remembers a time that was frightening.
“My family and I went to New Orleans for a trip, and we went to a nice restaurant for dinner there,” Bischoff said. “We had taken a photo on a digital camera, [and] when we looked back at the photo, we could see ghostly figures in the back of the windows.”
Bischoff said that she was taken aback, and didn’t think that she would be able to see ghosts or even know that ghosts and spirits were real. She said this was the first time she had encountered something like this and was shocked.
“This sparked something in my imagination because I realized that ghosts and people from the afterlife [are] all around,” Bischoff said. “The next day we went [on a] cemetery tour and that was even more frightening because I realized that ghosts were real.”
