A Funny and Scary Story---depending on who's perspective.....

Even though this story took place many summer nights ago, I felt it is befitting this time of year because its about tricks, supernatural objects, and scary......

One summer night over a decade ago...Elise was spending the night at my house. Her and Ryan R. (always a cutie) had a thing going on, so he rode over to my street on his bike. For some reason, back in the day it was the thing for boys to chill outside of Cassie's window...whether I came outside or not. 

I had a Ouija board given to me by Lizzy Lincoln (a good friend at the time) because she was scared of it---claimed her closet door started opening and closing (a sliding one at that) on its own after she got it. So, I took it. It wasn't long before I believed in its "charm" from experience with Jenna. My life at the time was filled with spooks (real haunted houses in my back yard, ghosts out of dreams, giant shadow cat-thing in the field...), so it never occurred to me that I might want to burn it---or better yet not even touch the thing! Elise and I had decided to play a trick on someone using the Ouija board, a hair scrunchie, and some of my Papa's fishing line. We tied the line to the scrunchie, put the other end through the screen of my bedroom window, and let the scrunchie hang behind the couch in front of my window. Along came Ryan.....

Well, Elise went outside to get some sugar (mean bitch...just setting him up), while I got the Ouija board out. Yadda, yadda, we brought it up in conversation, he didn't believe in it, we invited him to join! Him and Elise stood on the trailer hitch at my window. We asked it for a sign...Ryan with disbelief in his eye. About that time Elise pulls the line. She was supposed to pull it easy, make it creep up. But, in her excitement she yanked the damn thing, the scrunchie slaps the screen (scaring me even), Ryan leaps backwards off of the hitch like a spastic cat, and scrambles over to his bike. I'm telling you, the fear of God was in his eyes! He looked at us like..idk...wondering why we weren't running too. He paused just long enough for us to notice that he had pissed his pants, hopped on his bike, at took off like a bat outta hell! Needless to say that was one less boy hanging outside my window....although I would have preferred him over some others that came by.

Oh, and Elise ripped my screen because she yanked the line so hard. And for years I would giggle every time I seen the rip.

P.S. the first photo is what my "backyard" looked like at night! 

Love Cassie