The Legend Of Spooky Hollow

As this story was told to me ,passed on by many generations of good friends to other good friends I felt this would make probably one of the best Halloween stories on the Net . So sit back get into a Halloween frame of mind and enjoy this special story and you decide if it's Fiction or not !!!!!!!!



The legend is set to have happened just outside Turkey Point, Ont. Driving out of Turkey Point using the old hill, which has a long and winding road going upward past the golf course the road eventually takes you into a little vacation town called Normandale. It is just outside this sleepy little town of one main store and a couple of bait shops, during the summer months that the Legend of Spooky Hallow is said to have been born! As you are traveling up the hill going out of Normandale, past the ever decaying Gothic style gates opening inward towards a lone desolated graveyard you drive past fields that have been freshly plowed , now that they have given up their bountiful crop, there comes a choice up ahead on the road sign saying that you could turn right and stay on the paved road or go straight and continue on a gravel road heading straight towards Spooky Hallow and maybe the beyond?

Pete and Janet had just spent all day at the Point as it is referred to ,Peter putting out the last remnants of the fire they had burning on the beach since dusk and Janet getting the 1950 monarch loaded up with the blanket and picnic basket her mom had used years ago that some how has lasted through time to be used by a younger generation .Having put the fire out Peter does one last check and casually walks back to the navy blue car listening too the waves lapping up onto the beach .The humid night and the full moon would make an excellent drive home Peter thought ,as he was approaching the car that had all been packed up by now and Janet was patiently sitting in the car running her hands through her hair reminiscing in her mind how perfect there day had been away from there small town , just the two of them and the beach . A smile appears across her face as Peter opens the drivers door and gets into the car. He leans over pauses ,and looks at her pretty smile on her face then gives her a kiss ,thinking in the back of his mind how wonderful there day has been. He puts the key into the slot located on the dash and the straight 6 roared to life sending them on there way back home .Using the old hill as their starting point they travel up the winding hill towards home ,the windows down the hot humid air blowing through the car. Their drive had so far been uneventful, the odd set of raccoon eyes shining off the head lights as they scurried off into more secluded surroundings. The fog had started to settle in for the night ,now making the drive all that more relaxing as they where heading into Normandale almost have way home now . Going up the hill past the grave site now , peter thinking to himself that since it had been such a relaxing drive so far that he would take a different route tonight. Instead of taking the paved road to the right , they would drive straight on the gravel road throughout the fields, eventually he thought in the back of his mind since the road was going north that it had to hook back up with the main road sooner or later . They where driving down the gravel road passing the fields long plowed under towards what looked like a huge forest with the road splitting it down the middle .They traveled down the hill into the bowels of the forest blocking out the light from the full moon and the fog thickening so, that Peter slowed the speed down on the aging monarch. Just as he was slowing the car down a huge backfire sounded jolting Janet from seat , the cars speed was dramatically slowing down and the roar of the engine was now gone, as all you could hear was the tires slowing on the loose gravel beneath the tires of the car . Peter looking at Janet with disbelieve that the car was broken , slowly he moved the car over to what he thought was the side of the road seeing that the fog had gotten thicker the farther they got into the forest. Getting out of the car to investigate under the hood, Peter had no idea how he was gone fix the car or really how far he was to the main road . Lifting up the hood there wasn't much to see other then some oil and blue smoke coming out of the engine compartment . Getting back into the car Peter told Janet that the only hope was that he if walked back the way they came from and go to a farmers house to use the phone to get some help. Telling her that she would be alright if she just stayed in the car and cuddled up with a blanket and he would be back soon with help. So off he went looking for help in the thick fog trying to think where the last farm house was on the road they have traveled down. Hours passed and Janet was now sleeping with her blanket wrapped around her with her head leaned up against the car window ,when all of a sudden the was a loud thump that came from the front of the car . The thump had awoken her with a startle not being able to see out the windows due to heavy fog surrounding the car, she called out Peters name hoping it was him returning with help .....but there was no answer in return ,then another thump vibrated the car this time scaring Janet even more.

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