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We would like to invite you to join our group! A Laughter Club is for people who understand just how serious a matter humor is to one's survival and even to one's success in life. We share jokes, riddles, short stories, and other laughter-provoking thoughts. We have one simple rule: If you wouldn't say it to a child because it contains inappropriate...
While not always humorous, scary stories can also provide relief from the doldrums of daily life, so let's try a new category here and see what develops. This story comes from the early twentieth century (some of you may be old enough to remember the twentieth century!). It happened to a man named Jediah Worthington. As he tells it: I once inherited an estate in New Hampshire from my grandmother on my father's side of the family. The house was a fourteen bed mansion. Large orchards covered the property. I stayed in the mansion to watch over the property until it could be sold at auction. I slept in the only heated parted of the mansion, the servants' quarters adjoining the kitchen. At nights, just before dawn while I slept, my covers would be pulled off. After a few nights, this became tiresome, so I lay awake in bed one night, and when the covers began to be pulled off me, I pulled back. I became involved in a tug-of-war with something that growled. I jumped up in terror, standing up on the mattress, and threw the covers on the floor at the foot of the bed. The remaining nights I stayed in a hotel several miles away. I drove to the estate during the day. I arrived early one morning to look over the bedroom, and in the closet I found some loose floor boards that I pulled up. Underneath was a sort of tunnel leading through a crawl space to the outside of the mansion, with the orchards just a few hundred yards beyond. A few days following, while in the nearby town, I looked up the old cook. I mentioned the night-time goings on. "That," he said, "Would have been the tree imps that take care of the orchards. They were waking you to let you know to begin preparations for breakfast." "Tree imps?" I said. "Yes, the souls of departed servants and family, staying on to care for the orchards, house, and grounds of the estate."
Algonac - Marrow Road - The story behind the road is a woman went out in the middle of the night to find her toddler that had somehow got out alone in the winter. They both froze to death, it is a fact that if you park on the bridge at midnight and honk your horn three times she will appear and see if you have her baby. She is also said to be wearing a white blood covered gown carrying her dead baby. Also a green light will chase people away.
You see there were many mysterious happenings at dead mans curve. Many people had disappeared right here at the curve of the road. No one ever saw what happened and there were no signs of car accidents no skid mark no broken glass or wrecked cars. There was a house right at the curve where a man and his wife lived. They were ask many time did you hear any thing or see anything happen at that curve. They always said we saw nothing. We heard nothing. It seemed that on special nights the disappearances of people animals and cars would happen. There had to be certain weather conditions and the moon had to be in just the right place at the right time. It was very strange. Many people tried to investigate the strange things that happened at dead mans curve for years. But no one could ever figure out what happened or where the people went. Dead mans curve was one of many curves in the long winding road through the south east Texas forest. One night when Paw-paw was a police man, he said he would get to the bottom of this strange situation. So, he parked his police car deep in the forest near dead mans curve. He sat in the pitch darkness all alone except for a few cows that belong to a rancher named Old Jake. Jake place was very spooky because all the trees limbs and leaves made weird faces and it looked like monsters where reaching out to get him .Paw-paw was a big strong brave police mans but when he was sitting there at the fences line of Old Jake's place he was shaking in his boot. He could hear all the strange sounds of the forest like hoot owls and croaking frogs and insects and birds calling. In the moon light he could see barn bats flying. He could hear rustling of the forest underbrush, as some of the night time creatures, like raccoons and opossums and skunks would pral though looking for food. But there was now a very strange sound. He could not tell what it was but pawpaw was scared more scared than he had ever been in his whole life. What ever could that sound be? He though he had heard all the forest sounds there was but this one was a new one and it was very a scary sound. He saw some strange lights near the Dead Man's curve moving and flashing yellow. He was scared and did not want to get out of his car but he knew he had to check it out to see what it was... He slowly got out of his car. He had to walk very slowly because he could not use his flash light to see where he was going. It was so very dark in the forest the Moon light was bright but the forest was so dense that the tree top shut out the light. There was a strange smell, sort of yucky like cow poop. But this smell was different. As papaw trudged through the dark forest he was looking this way and that and up and down and all around. With every step he took he heard a noise. He was almost to the fence when he ran smack dab into a huge spider web. He hates spiders and he fought waving his arms and stumbling all over the place trying to get that spider web off of his face and out of his mouth. He fell down on the ground and was rolling around on the forest floor. He looked like a wild man as he tried to get the spider web off. It stuck to him like it was glue .There he was in pitch dark forest on the ground and he felt something cold and slimy in his pants leg. His heart started to beat so hard and he was breathing very hard. He jumped up and started doing a crazy dance shaking his legs trying to get what ever was in his pants to fall out. The spider web was still on his face. He did not know what to do. He was being attracted by so many things. All of the sudden a big tree came crashing down and part of it hit Pawpaw right on his head. It gave him a big whack on his noggin. For a minute or two he was plum goofy. When he came to he was even more scared because he did not know where he was and it was so very dark and the tress where making the monster faces at him. Also all the weird forest noises were so loud. That icky spider web was still all over his face and that slimy cold thing was still crawling in his pants. If that was not enough he heard a very loud roaring and swishing noise and saw a very bright glowing light. It lit up the whole forest he could see everything he had not be able to see in the dark. He was still very scared because he had never heard or seen anything like this before in his life. He forgot about the slimy thing in his pant and the spider web that was still stuck on his face and he started to walk towards Dead Mans Curve. As he got closer he wondered what he was seeing and hearing. He could not believe his eyes or his ears. Then he saw a truck coming down the road it looked like old Jakes truck. The sound was getting louder and louder and the glow of the bright light was getting brighter and brighter. He could not believe his eyes. The road was opening up and making what looked like a tunnel. There was a giant gate that was swing open. And a very bright light was shining through the tunnel. The light was now changing color to yellow and green and then red. Jake's truck move into the tunnel. Jake was screaming what is happenin!. My truck will not sto!. Where am I going? Old Jake screamed! Help me! he said but his voice faded away and the tunnel closed up. The light faded and again it was pitch dark. Paw pawâs face was white with fear. What just happened? He asks himself. The road was back to normal but Old Jake was gone. He disappeared! HE JUST VANISHED!
Paw-Paw ran to his car got in and pulled out fast as a jack rabbit.
He drove to the house on the curve and knock on the door. The old men came to the door and ask what do you want? Paw-Paw was still shaking and was still white as a sheet. He could not talk good and stuttered trying to say DIIIDDDDD you seeeee tthhaata ??
Did I see what? Ask the man. Paw-Paw again asks the old man, did you see any thing? The old man said NOPE! I aint seen anything in forty years mister. I am blind. Paw-Paw asks, Did you hear any thing?
The old man said Mister, I am very hard of hearing too. Well how do you know what I am saying ask Paw-Paw. Well sir, the old man said I can read lips . Paw-Paw is the only one that saw what happed but no one will believe him. Jake never did come back. And many other people have vanished on Dead Manâs Curve. So beware of Dead Mans Curve if the moon is full.
Well now, old Sam Gibb, he didn't believe in ghosts. Not one bit. Everyone in town knew the old log cabin back in the woods was haunted, but Sam Gibb just laughed whenever folks talked about it. Finally, the blacksmith dared Sam Gibb to spend the night in the haunted log cabin. If he stayed there until dawn, the blacksmith would buy him a whole cartload of watermelons. Sam was delighted. Watermelon was Sam's absolute favorite fruit. He accepted the dare at once, packed some matches and his pipe, and went right over to the log cabin to spend the night.
Sam went into the old log cabin, started a fire, lit his pipe, and settled into a rickety old chair with yesterday's newspaper. As he was reading, he heard a creaking sound. Looking up, he saw that a gnarled little creature with glowing red eyes had taken the seat beside him. It had a long, forked tail, two horns on its head, claws at the ends of its hands, and sharp teeth that poked right through its large lips.
"There ain't nobody here tonight except you and me," the creature said to old Sam Gibb. It had a voice like the hiss of flames. Sam's heart nearly stopped with fright. He leapt to his feet.
"There ain't going to be nobody here but you in a minute," Sam Gibb told the gnarled creature. He leapt straight for the nearest exit - which happened to be the window - and hi-tailed it down the lane lickety-split. He ran so fast he overtook two rabbits being chased by a coyote. But it wasn't long before he heard the pounding of little hooves, and the gnarled creature with the red eyes caught up with him.
"You're making pretty good speed for an old man," said the creature to old Sam Gibb.
"Oh, I can run much faster than this," Sam Gibb told it. He took off like a bolt of lightning, leaving the gnarled creature in the dust. As he ran passed the smithy, the blacksmith came flying out of the forge to see what was wrong.
"Never mind about them watermelons," Sam Gibb shouted to the blacksmith without breaking his stride.
Old Sam Gibb ran all the way home and hid under his bed for the rest of the night. After that, he was a firm believer in ghosts and spooks, and he refused to go anywhere near the old cabin in the woods.