Creepy

             My horror story starts out a year ago when my cousin, James died in a horrible car accident I didn’t know him well but no one really did he was a shut in and not much was known   about him. The one thing I did know about him was one thing that kept me away the fact that he practiced a weird religion where he said he performed witchcraft. He died and it was me and my dads job to go through his creppy dirty house to find anything of value.

             My Dad went through the house and I went through the house that to see if there was anything of interest for me but I didn’t find anything. That was until my Dad called me over and said that he had found my cousins video game stash this picked up my interest but when I got over I saw that all of his new video games had been broken along with an NES cartridge of kung fu. There were some remaining games left and a remaining system but they were all retro games. I was kind of a retro gamer I liked playing them on roms but nothing beat playing them on the system. I thought I would pick up these retro games which included paper boy, Track and Field, Punch Out and one of my favorite old games which was Rad Racer. The only weird thing about these games was that the cartridge had been altered the picture had been take off and the game was just labeled with duct tape. I didn’t think much of it at the time and took the sytem and the games. My plan was to try out the system with the games and if the didn’t work I could pick up some games online for cheap.

             I got home and hooked up the Nintendo to my tv and I put in paper boy. To me it was one of the most ridiculous games since no one wanted to be a paper boy in real   life but they would play it in a game. I started up the game and I was terrible at it like I was when I was a kid but this game seemed just a little off from the game I played when I was a kid. All the people in the game seemed a little off the the kid on the newspaper at the start was a little weird looking and had weird red eyes it was funny but made me curious. Everything else in the game seemed normal to me from what I remember except when I tried to cross the street. The cars that normally go by at a slow pace sped up and ran over my character. I didn’t think much of this until it show my character just laying there instead of restarting. Then the car came back on to the screen and backed over my character again and I swear I could hear laughing from the game. This game seemed to be hacked but I loved the extra morbidity of the game so I wanted to play it more but I became increasingly tired. I couldn’t stay awake even though it was 8:00 so I got in my bed and went to sleep.

             I awoke from what seemed to be a really deep sleep but I didn’t know where I was. I realized I was outside somewhere but I didn’t recognize the neighborhood. Then I realize who was holding me it was a police officer he was asking if I was o.k. Then I realized that I was outside in my pajamas on my bike and a cop had stopped me. I guess I must have been sleep walking which was weird because I never did this. The cop told me that I had been riding my bike throwing papers around   the neighborhood. The officer thought at first I was on drugs because my eyes were so red. I told the officer I was fine, he let me go and told me to pick up the papers and go home.

             I went home and slept the rest of the night and I woke and went to school the next day where everything was fine. I went to my friends house to hang out so I got home kind of late but when I got home I had a great urge to play my retro games again so this time I thought I would play track and field. I was pretty good at this game since it was mostly just button pushing which is like how a lot of games are now. This game was slightly off it seemed like all the characters on the screen had red eyes but the weirdest part was when I played fencing. When I hit some in fencing the character fell over and then my character got take over and started to stab the computers character while on the ground. The interesting thing was that I swore I had heard laughing again like in the other game. I like the morbidity of this hack like the other but after a short while I became very tired and I went to sleep.

 I woke up again from a deep sleep my dad had woke me up I realized that I was in the front yard. My dad said that I was running around and jumping in the front yard but he saw me fall and get tied up in the hose. He said that he had been really scared of him because when he found me I was laughing weirdly and that my eyes were really red. He was even more taken aback because I had never been known to sleep walk before. I went in and took a shower and changed my clothes to get all the mud off of me and I could here my mom and my dad talking about how he thought I was sleepwalking because of the stress of the loss of my cousin. I didn’t think that was it but I was tired and didn’t want to argue so I went back to bed.

             The next day was a Saturday and I woke up and had a great urge to play the NES again this time I thought I would try Rad Racer which was one of my favorites. This game seemed to start normally until I hit another car and the car I was driving exploded and was on fire onscreen for a while. While this was happening I heard the laughing I knew was for real now coming out of the game. I played a few more races and the result happened again. Once again I became super tired and went to bed for a nap since it was the middle of the day.

             Once again I woke up from a deep sleep with the sound of horns honking. I woke up quickly and realized I was going the wrong direction on a road. I tried to correct my car but I was to late and I got hit head on by another car I was really messed up and before I passed out I heard the laughing that I had heard from the game. After this I woke up in the hospital my dad and mom were glad to see me wake up. They asked me if I was ok and my dad asked me if needed anything from the house. I asked my dad if he could pick up my psp and he said he would swing by the house and get it.

             My dad filled me in on this story afterwards but this is what happened at the house. My Dad had picked up my psp but had found something he saw the game punchout that he had once liked to play. He felt drawn to play it but returned my psp back to me at the hospital but had hurried off. My mom left not to long after that but when she got home my dad was standing at in the doorway with the door open. He had his old boxing gloves on and when my mom approached he started to beat up on her. She started screaming and my dad eventually realized what he was doing and yelled for my mom to come back but she started screaming an running away. She locked her self in the car and told my dad that she was leaving and that his demonic red eyes would give her nightmares forever. My dad said he didn’t know what came over him and my mom told him that he must have liked what he was doing because he was laughing when she did it and after that she left.

             I came home a few days latter the house had really changed without the presence of my mom but even though I was sad about my mom leaving I knew what the first thing I had to was. I had to throw out those retro games I threw out the games in the trash and before I was able   to throw out the system my neighbor asked if he could have it since he was also out throwing out his trash. I told him that he could have it because I just wanted to get rid of the thing. He told me thank you and that he was going to play his NES game contra.

             I was so glad to have the games gone that I felt like I had a weight lifted off my shoulders. I was able to go to bed peacefully that night and in the morning I woke up in my bed instead of strange place and I felt relieved. I went to the living room and turned on the the tv the news was on and it was talking about a shooting. Then I realized they were talking about next door the news said the neighbor repeatedly shot his wife and when the cops were called he shot at them. The cops shot back but as he got hit the cops could hear a demonic laugh and on officer came on the t.v. and said that if put a chill in his bones because the shooters eyes were so red.

