Haunted House Scares by Carrie Bates

Author:Carrie Bates [Bates, Carrie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aryn House Publishing
Published: 2018-12-12T05:00:00+00:00

“Drat!” Bernard swore when he saw the creature he’d shot. It was a mere squirrel. He’d thought the rustle in the thicket had been a deer grazing on whatever vegetation it could find. He’d been mistaken. As he looked up from the twitching body of the freshly-shot squirrel, he saw what appeared to be a chimney poking through the conifers to his right. Curious, Bernard ducked his way through the sharp, pine-needle-coated branches to get a closer look. As he approached the property, he noticed there was a sickly stench hanging heavy in the air. It was the smell of something rotting. He tied a handkerchief around his face to stifle the smell.

Figuring there must be a deer or rabbit carcass decomposing nearby, the hunter carried on his trek towards the house. When he reached the front porch, he found the smell was getting worse. The house looked as though it was abandoned. Many of the windows were shattered―the likely work of vandals, and the lawn was amuck with weeds. The house itself was in dire need of a fresh coat of paint. A scaly-looking mold trailed up the side of the side of the house like an ugly vine.

Bernard’s eyes watered from the strength of the stench. He coughed. Every ounce of his reasonable self was telling him not to enter the house but his curiosity took over. He entered the house to find it eerily vacant. He started as a mouse scuttled across his feet.

“Hello?” he called up the staircase. There was no response. Immediately after removing his handkerchief from his face to speak, Bernard wretched from the hideous odor. His stomach turned and he doubled over, vomiting at the foot of the staircase. Still, he made his way up the stairs and peered into the first room he came across. What he saw shook him to the bone. Inside the dusty, unkempt room was the corpse of a woman, or at least what was left of her. Her flesh was as black and slimy as a rotten banana peel. It writhed with worms. Her bones poked through the tattered skin. She was more of a stain than a corpse.

What disturbed Bernard most was the corpse of the child that lay propped next to her. He was like a gruesome teddy bear, the way his vacant bloodied eyes gaped. The lips and flesh around his mouth had long ago rotted away, leaving behind nothing but the teeth and mandible. Inside the gory, festering hole that was his mouth was a mound of hair and a chunk of something blackened and encrusted with blood that moderately resembled a female breast.

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