The Orphanage

From: Sherry (Cherrypie131@aol.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Long Island
Source: Form Submission

out a year ago, I slept over my friends house. Her house is right next to a small, and very old cemetary. When I first stepped into her house, I got an eerie type of feeling. We were there all alone for a few hours, because her parents went out to the movies and dinner. I would hear all types of sounds. Some from the basement, and it sounded like some were coming from inside the walls.

I told my friend about the noises, and she told me that it was just the pipes, and the house was settling. I believed her until around ten o'clock.

We were in the middle of watching a movie (with the lights off) and she had to go to the bath room. So we stopped the movie and she went to the bathroom. At that point, I was all alone, sitting on her couch in the dark with the tv screen blue. It was silent for a couple of minutes. Then all of a sudden, The movie came back on. But I didnt touch the VCR, and she doesent have a remote (so she couldnt of turned it on with out me knowing.) I walked over to the VCR and looked for the stop button. I finally found it and the screen turned blue again. Then, I heard some one call my name. I thought it was my friend so I called her name, but she didn't answer. She finally came back after five minutes. I asked her if she turned the movie back on and if she was calling my name, she said no. She said she was in the bathroom the whole time. We finished the movie and went into her room. We were sooooooo bored, so we decided to call some friends. When I called up our friend Steph, there was a weird sound in the background, but Steph couldn't hear it. My friend told me that she allways hears that sound and that its just the phone. We diced to change phones. But the same thing happened. I told Steph to stop talking for a minute so I could really hear the sound. It sounded like someone was saying help, but I wasn't 100% sure.

A couple of hours went by, and we decided to go to bed. I couldn't sleep at all that night. I just stared at the glow-and-the-dark stars that were on the ceiling. I saw two red eyes start to appear on the ceiling. I called my friends name but she was sleeping. They kept getting bigger and bigger. I got sooooo scared, so I screamed my friends name. And when she woke up, the eyes dissapeard.

We talked to her parents the next morning, and they told us that the house was next to a very old cemetary, for young children. The house used to be an orphanage, and a deadly disease was going through it, and many children died.