A Ghost?

This is for the Vocal Campfire Ghost Story Challenge to be judged by Chelsea Catherine and Meg Anderson both prize-winning Vocal members.

The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night, a candle burned in the window. We were walking back home after a night at the pub and it was dark, but that light worried me.

There were rumours that the cabin was empty because of what had happened there many years ago. The stories were probably made up of urban legend, but we had been there during the day, never at night,

You walked into the cabin on a warm summer's day and it was freezing. We actually took thermometers once and they just showed a normal temperature but my blood felt it was going to freeze and whoever I was with felt the same way too.

Once we were there and it started getting dark, I switched on the torch on my phone nothing happened, my friend tried his cigarette lighter and matches but couldn't get anything to light, we felt there was something there, and started to believe the cabin was haunted.

While it was light we saw the boards on the floor and the walls were darkly stained, that may have been rot or it may have been something else, you always think blood, but the stains were dry though the cabin was rotting.

When we asked anyone about the cabin people either denied knowledge or just said to keep away.

But there was that candle. When we were there we couldn’t get a match to light but that candle was burning in the window. Then I am sure I saw movement, but I had drunk a lot and knew I should just get home and forget about it, but I asked my friend and he said: “there’s two of us we will be fine”.

So, stupidly we went.

We got to the door, which was not locked and entered the cabin.

There was no candle and we were frozen, colder than ever.

We wanted to run and scream for help but the blood was freezing in our veins.

I managed 999 on my phone but it dropped from my hand into my pocket.

My mate was white as a sheet, I probably was too.

We felt petrified with terror.

Something was coming and we were trapped like flies in a spider's web.

My consciousness was fading, and voices were saying “We Have Your Souls Now”

I could see something, I don't know what, but something was being pulled out of me.

I was silently screaming, and then there was noise and flashing blue lights.

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I woke up in a hospital bed. My extremities suffering from frostbite.

There was a nurse and a policeman.

“You were lucky,” the policeman said. Your call was picked up and we heard voices saying that they were going to do very bad things to you and feed you to their animals, when we tracked where you were we knew we had to be fast, You are not the first and you won't be the last, We wanted to demolish the cabin but Lord Summerisle says it has to stay and if anyone does venture in then on their own head be whatever happens to them. The ghosts have a right to anything that strays into their domain.

We’ve never seen any ghosts but we have seen the carnage that they have wreaked, you and your friend were lucky we pulled you out in time. When you leave here never ever visit that cabin again, it is a place of pure evil, but luckily it is contained within it's own four walls.”

I would be taking the policeman’s advice.