The Boy in the woods!

- Submitted by Kate




when I was 5 i just moved to california to a new house my room was small but had a huge window that showed the woods behind the house. well on the first night there i was scared because at the time i hated the dark but my mom made me leave the lights off. so i couldnt sleep and instead went and looked out my window. when i saw this little boy in the woods he was walking towards my window and then when he was about to walk down the hill and towards me i jumped back into my bed and hid under the covers scared out of my mind. the next day my mom told me to go and meet the new neighbors so i went and said hi she was this old lady named sarah but leaved all alone. she gave me cookies and talked for hours she seemed very depressed tho when she talked. so after a while i went home and to bed. that night i stayed under my covers and was fast asleep when i heard tapping on my window it made me wake up but when i looked at my window no one was there or anything that could of made that noise. but as i was walking back to my bed i heard the noise again but this time when i looked i screamed so loud that both my parents came running in, i saw the boy who was walking toward my window the night before but when i saw his face half of it was gone. my parents saw nothing when they ran in cuz the boy was gone. i slept with my parents that night and got grounded the next day for making up a story about the boy of course they would never believe me they didn’t see it. so i went and visited my neighbor we talked again only this time i noticed a picture of a young boy the same boy who was out side my window the night before. i asked her who the boy was and she said it was her son he had died 8 years ago in the woods when he went hunting with his father. he got separated from his father and when he went looking for him he saw a bear and decided to try and kill it for food. bears where common near my home. any way he missed the first shot and the bear ran after him and bit him on the leg making him fall to the ground then he began to eat the side of his face the father then say the bear and shot it right in the head but the boy was already died and half of his face was eaten!