Cabin in the Woods

The cabin in the woods had been abandoned for years, but one night a candle burned in the window. You thought that was strange because it had been abandoned for a long time. You chalk it up to teenagers finding it and are using it as a hang out spot. The next day you go to the cabin and sure enough there is evidence that people have been there. There is trash, sleeping bags, and lots of food bags and alcohol bottles. You decide not to say anything because you know what it is like to grow up in a small town in the woods.

You would do all kind of things when you were young. You did go to empty hunting cabins and hang out. You would setup empty cans and shoot them. At night you would sit around a fire and drink and tell ghost stories. There was this older gentleman that would come around sometimes and tell the best ghost stories. He told stories of people that were murdered, and their ghost haunts the woods. You would all jump and some of you even believed him and would start hearing moans. Sometimes you would even hear screams of the ghost. The gentleman is dead now and you imagine he is in those woods still scaring the teenagers that dare to go into the woods.

You go a few weeks without seeing any lights or teenagers in the cabin. Then you see the lights in the daytime with no teenagers around. You go to investigate. When you enter the cabin, it is cold. It feels 20 degrees colder inside the cabin. You know what this means. You call out is anyone here. You see the lights go on and off. Then you ask do you wish me harm. No response which you take to mean no. You leave the cabin and go back to your cabin.

The reason you know about ghost is because you are a medium. You have been able to see and talk to ghost since you were little. You were one of the people that believed the older gentleman when h told stories. The ghost would gather around him and listen to him. They approved of the way he told their stories.

The next week you start to see the teenagers in the daytime go to the cabin. Just a few at a time. It looks like they are brining supplies in for an event.

After a week of them brining supplies, they disappeared again for a week.

Then one night you see a lot of people head to the cabin. Then you see a couple of goats. You think that is strange. When you see that everyone has arrived you sneak over there to see what is going on. When you reach the window of the cabin you hear the goat scream. They have sacrificed the first goat. At that point you realize these are not normal teenagers, they are some kind of satanic cult. You keep watching because you are fascinated. They do some chants and at the very end they sacrifice the second goat. They finish and when they leave the cabin looks the same as when they first arrived.

Even after what you saw, you still did not call the police. Looking back that might have been a mistake. You know the legend of the woods and cabins. The same thing happened back in the 70’s. They were never caught but the ghost in the woods tell you that they did human sacrifices and that the ghost of the sacrificed are still in the woods somewhere waiting for their revenge.

You figure out they meet once a month. Sometimes they do sacrifices other times they just meet and do chants. On there sixth time meeting you notice something different. They have a person with there hands tied behind their back and their mouth has tape on it. You know what is about to happen. You are not sure you can reach the cabin in time. Turns out you did not have to worry about reaching the cabin in time. A ghost appears and tells you to stand down. The sacrificed ghost will finally have their revenge.

You watch as five ghosts attack the group. Most of the group scatters. The ones that were going to perform the sacrifice were not so lucky. The ghost terrorized them, even doing some physical harm to them. They run screaming from the cabin.

You rush to the cabin to see if the person they were going to sacrifice was ok. To your surprise the rope had been cut and the tap removed from their mouth. You look up and see the five-ghost surrounding them. They are communicating with them. They look up at you and understand that you can see them also. You both say thank you to the ghost. You help them up and you both decide not to go to the police because they would think you are crazy and there is no evidence.

It has been 10 years since that incident, and you now have become the older gentleman that tells the best ghost stories when the kids dare to come into the woods. You are happy when you see that one kid that you know are seeing the ghost around you as you tell their story.