‌‌Yet Another Halloween Topic - The Laughingly Spooky Stories Vault‌‌‌‌

[RafaC]

Greetings humans,

Hope you’re all not that good today. 

Here’s a twilight space in the community to share that story: the one that started with you being scared to death but ended up with you laughing out loud, by yourself or with your mates, that one you never forget.

I’ll start by sharing my own: when I was around 7 years old, I was having a little kickabout with my mates in the playground late at night, it’d have been around 10 pm I guess, and there was a huge area nearby being remodelled so there were loads of rubble around us. Then as we stopped playing, we started to hear a sound coming from something running around amongst the debris. One of us saw a shadow passing from one pile of wreckage to another very fast. 

We couldn’t tell what it was but as all of us were between 7 to 10 years old, and it was late at night, we were all very scared at this point, some of us obviously started to cry.

Being scared to run, or to go and check what was the creature, one of us started to shout for help. When the shouting began, the creature presented itself to us: an enormous Rattus norvegicus, aka brown rat. But I mean, it was really big, I swear, specially for a 7 year old lad. It was as big as a cat and of course it was as scared as we were.  And also, due to how the playground was built, we couldn't run away from the rat, we were sort of trapped between the playground and the animal.

When everything  seemed to be lost, after the point when it felt like we were all going to be devoured by the brown rat, all of a sudden our hero arrived: one of my mates’ dad appeared out of the blue holding a broomstick, as at this point it was clear that the rat wasn’t going anywhere without some hassle and havoc first. My mate’s dad tried to shoo and move towards the creature in order to scare it, but it kept running away from him and when it ran towards one of the other kids in a threatening way, he had no choice but to throw the broom aiming the rat as if it was a spear. 😂

Of course he missed the rodent, but that scared the poor creature enough, to the point that we never saw it afterwards (which is of course as good for us as it is for the furry animal). And because we had just seen that courageous parent acting like a proper hunter, we had no choice but to burst out laughing, a mix of relief, amusement, naiveness and the comicality of seeing your mate’s dad performing such an act.

So that’s it. hope you’ve enjoyed my Halloween story and if you guys have some fun stories as spooky as mine, let’s hear them! 🎃

[RafaC]

Yes, same with me @Cleoriff, before I went through that rat episode, I feared rats but just as any other kid fears them. Going through such a direct, first hand experience like that makes you even more scared, traumatised even to a certain degree.

And yes @Mi-Amigo, @lewys-gp's efforts are noteworthy indeed 😅

[lewys-gp]

@Cleoriff my sister is scared of spiders, and I mean scared. And years ago, there was one in her bedroom, so my father was tasked with capturing and getting rid of it! But you can imagine what happened when she witnessed the spider evading him.

I don't think she slept in that room for at least two nights after that haha. I think I would be much more worried about a bat though, @Cleoriff. Maybe, even a rat @RafaC 😆.

Glad you liked the stories, @Mi-Amigo.