Fear- The Complete Trilogy of Horror Short Stories

by Lee Jones

  It is mourning and Kate is the first one up. She gets up and stretches and walks around the vicinity of the tent. Jon is up and checking on the game cameras. Leo wakes up last as always and cooks breakfast over the camp stove. Jon walks back over to the tent. “Nothing on the game cameras”, says Jon. “We will pack up and head off in that direction looking for more clues” says Jon. The team packs up after breakfast, puts on the backpacks and starts walking.

  As they walk along the forest they start seeing more evidence. The noose was the first shock but they start seeing articles of clothing along the path. Jackets, shoes, wallets with ID, watches littering the forest floor. Leo is snapping pictures of the evidence.

  Jon can spot something in the distance. He stops and stares not trying to get too close. It’s a dead body. Clothes were still on it and it was till decomposing. The smell was unbearable. Jon pulled his shirt up to cover his nose. He walks up to the body and finds a note next to the body. Leo hits record on his Gopro then starts snapping away at the scene on his DSLR. Kate starts coughing and wheezing from the strong smell and steps away.

  She looks off in the other direction and notices some movement in the trees. “Hello? is anyone there?” She walks closer to get a better look. “Please I can help, just stay right there I’m coming,“ says Kate. She walks further into the direction trying to get a better view. It appears as if there is a Japanese woman with long grey hair half revealed behind the tree staring back at her for a second but quickly disappears. Kate walks up to that tree looks behind it but no one is there. She looks in all around but does not see anyone.

  Kate walks back to the team. “What did you see up there?”, says Leo. “I though I saw someone,” says Kate. The team continue on the hike.

  NIGHTFALL

  It’s night time and camp is setup. The second night and the team is more than ready to get to some real work

  done. Jon sets up game cameras, Leo with the night vision camera and Kate with the audio equipment. They are planning on doing an EVP session tonight. Kate will engage with hopefully some spirits and try to detect their presence over the equipment. They are ready to start. Leo puts on headphones and start listing and watching the night vision monitor.

  “Are there any spirits with me?” says Kate. She has a spirit box in her hand. She repeats the question. She repeats

  again but in Japanese. 私と⼀一緒に霊がありますか? Nothing but silence for a 20 minutes. They sit and wait and listen.

  “Let’s try something else,” says Kate as she is about to put some equipment away. A yes is heard over the spirit box. Everyone pounces up then patiently watches their equipment for any changes. “Are you alone?” says Kate. They team patiently waits for 10 minutes listening. Then suddenly a “No” comes from the spirit box.

  “Why are you here?” says Kate. This time the spirit box has no response. Suddenly a loud deafening noise almost like a scream is heard and Leo throws down the headphones to cover his ears. The needle on the EMF meter go off to the max. The monitor on the night vision camera goes completely hot white and bright. Everyone is covering there ears and then it stops. After five seconds of intense activity it is again silent. The needle on the EMF drops back down to zero. The screen not on the infrared camera is dark.

  The team is now shook up. They are very experienced and have been on many paranormal experience but nothing this

  intense. Kate has a worried look on her face. Jon flashes the flashlight at everyone. “Is everyone ok!?” says Jon. “There is defiantly something very strong here”, says Kate. Leo looks at his camera to check for footage. He quickly starts scanning through it. The event was so intense the camera footage was completely white and unusable. Jon runs over to check the game cameras. There was defiantly movement as those cameras did start recording around the same time as the event. “I’ll will have to analyze this in the mourning,” says Jon.

  CROSSING OVER

  It’s mourning and the team didn’t get that much sleep. They are groggy but need to continue. Leo wakes up

  first. He walks out of the tent and notices a ring of bones arranged the tent and campsite. Human bones. He stops in fright and runs back into the tent to wake the others. “guys I think you really need to see this,” says Leo. Jon and Kate wake up and and walk out the tent. They rub their eyes then can see. The human bones circling the perimeter of the campsite. Jon quickly changes is look from tired to confused. “Who could of done this,?” says Jon.

  “Someone is playing a fucked up joke on us,” says Kate. “Apparently there are people following us,” Say Kate. Leo grabs a few pictures with his DSLR and the team quickly packs up the stuff at the campsite. Jon upon analyzing the footage can see that something tripped the game cameras but can’t make out anything. In night vision mode its completely whited out for a few seconds around the same time as the intense event from last night. “Looks like we don’t have any usable footage, I’ll have to make some adjustments,” says Jon.

  The team is hiking and exploring the forest once more. They pass a collection of human bones and a skull on the ground. Leo grabs a few pictures. They then make their way to a cave. “Lets check out that cave over there”, says Jon pointing off in the distance. They stood at the entrance of the cave and could not see much. It was dark looking down inside. Kate grabbed a small pebble and threw it down to listen for a hit on the ground. She counted after she threw it. “One, two, three, four, five,” says Kate. She stops. “I think I heard it at five seconds sounded a splash”, says Kate.

  “So there is water down there,” says Jon. All scattered around the cave entrance is evidence. Mementos such as photos of the deceased, old wilted flowers, necklaces, hand

  written notes etc. This location seemed to the most littered they’ve seen in the forest so far. “Something is different about this cave,” Leo is snapping away and filming on his cameras. Kate takes her flashlight and shines it inside the cave.

  “ Lets setup camp nearby, I want to check out these caves tonight,” says Jon.

  As Kate shines her flashlight she sweeps past and notices 2 eyes shining. She quickly sweeps back but the same thing is not there anymore. Jon is setting up the tent.

  Leo notices a skeleton hanging by a noose on a tree branch and walks over to start taking photos of it. Kate steps in further in the cave to get a better look.

  She notices the ground of the cave is wet. The water goes up to 3 inches deep .

  Kate sweeps her flashlight again and the glowing eyes appear again. “Hello, is someone there?” yells Kate. The water in the cave is starting to get deeper. I is now above her ankles. She takes another step and notices the water goes above waist deep at this point and cant touch the bottom. She quickly pulls her foot back. Kate is sweeping the flashlight frantically around the cave. “Is someone there?” yells Kate again. There is a strange noise she quickly turns the flashlight to that corner.

  Out of nowhere Kate is suddenly pulled down by her feet in the water. She screams. Jon and Leo can hear it and they drop what they are doing and run inside the cave. Kate is hanging on to the ledge of the shore of the small lake inside the cave for her dear life. Something is pulling her from inside the water and she is screaming. Both Jon and Leo run in at the same time and quickly see her with the flashlight. They grab one of each of her hands. They struggle for a couple seconds but eventually pull her up out

  of the water. She makes it on solid ground and is soaking wet.

  Jon and Leo both grab her by the shoulders and escort Kate to outside the cave. “Are you ok?” ask Jon. “What happened Kate?” ask Leo. Kate is shaking and shivering cold from the water. He eyes are big and she is silently trying to take in what just happened.

  “Kate!?” shouts Jon. Kate is just staring into the air. Leo runs over with a town to dry her off and wraps it around her body. “I saw her”, whispers Kate not looking directly at anyone. “What?” ask Jon. “ I saw her”, says Kate a little bit louder this time. “Saw who saw who?” Ask Jon. L
eo has started a fire and brings Kate over to the fire to warm up. She sits down next to the fire. “There is something very evil in that cave”, say Kate. Leo and Jon turn to both look at each other. “ I crossed over to the other side. I saw death,” says Kate.

  Leo runs and grabs his camera gear and starts setting up at the entrance of the cave. He is quickly opening the all gadgets in his arsenal in his cases. EMF meter, spirit box, infrared camera, and audio recorders. “We have to see whats going on!” says Leo frantically setting up all the gear.

  INTO THE ABYSS

  A few hours have pasted its almost dark at this point and Kate is too scared at this point and has elected to remain in the tent. Jon and Leo are going to conduct an EVP

  session tonight at the cave. A few bats fly out of the cave. Leo clicks on all the equipment. The monitor on the night vision camera is turned on. Jon walks up to the shore of the lake where Kate was attacked. He sweeps his flashlight looking for any evidence. The water is dark and murky. He cant see anything. Jon grabs the spirit box and turns it on. “Is there a spirit here?”, says Jon. Leo puts on his headphones and listens while watching the monitor.

  “Yes” is heard from the spirit box immediately. “Are there others?” ask Jon. An immediate “Yes” is heard over the spirit box. Leo notices a humanoid silhouette in the monitor. The red showing warm and the blue areas showing cold. He shows Jon and points to the spot on the monitor. The figure is slowly moving towards them on the monitor but by flashlight they cannot see anything.

  “Can you show me that you are here?” says Jon. This time the spirit box does not go off but Leo hears something over the audio recorder. It’s very faint and he goes to his laptop to enhance the volume of the faint sound. It’s a voice. Leo slows down the playback speed. It appears to say ....

  Suddenly Jon interrupting sweeps his flashlight around the cave and see’s several glowing eyes. Not just one but its over been 20 to 25 shining back. Leo turns to his monitor and sees several silhouettes in the monitor. “Is there an evil spirit here?” Jon ask. Suddenly Jon is dragged into the water. Leo gets up and drops his headphones. Two hands appeared to be grab on his ankles.

  Jon is know holding on the the shore of the lake with his finger tips. Leo grabs his hands. Jon’s hands are slowing

  slipping and his head almost submerged under water. He tilts his head up to get more air. His mouth is now taking in water and he is gurgling trying to breath. Jon is swept under the water and completely submerged. Kate is yelling at the entrance of the cave too afraid to go in. “Whats going on?” yells Kate.

  “Jon he just went under the water!” says Leo. Leo hears something and points up his flashlight. It appears to be an old woman with long grey hair. Kate notices the woman from before. The woman is appearing to walk on water. Walking towards them.

  “Quick get out!” yells Kate. Leo runs towards the entrance where Kate is at but before he can make it something grabs at his feet.

  DEATH

  “Leo!” yells Kate. Leo is quickly swept away his fingers

  barely griping the gravel into the darkness his flashlight disappearing into the water. A loud deafening noise like a scream is heard and Kate quickly covers her ears. She turns and runs. Smoke is bellowing from inside the cave and quickly moving out the cave.

  Kate doesn’t have time to grab anything and runs through the forest. She is running as fast as she can. He heart beating 100 miles per minute. She trips on a trip branch on the ground and falls over. She hears and a noise and lies still on the forest floor. She looks up and its the figure. The demon. Just standing above her helpless body watching her. Kate quickly gets up and runs she doesn’t know where but she runs in any direction away from the demon. The moonlight and the stars now just lighting the forest. She is almost out of breath and stops for a moment to rest. She looks up and notices a several bodies hanging on nooses hanging on the trees above her. At least a dozen on the same 2 trees. She starts running again and looks behind. Her vision starts to blur.

  Her neck feels tight. It starts getting tighter. She stops running and drops to her knees. Something is choking her. She is gasping for air. It feels as if a rope is wrapped around her neck. She places her hands as to remove something but nothing is there. Kate is slowly losing consciousness. Her vision begins to darken. She has been taken to the other side. Her dead body falls over

  AFTERMATH

  It’s been a few months and officials are now sweeping the forest to search for bodies. After all an annual search was done to recover bodies of loved ones who took

  their lives in the forest. They come to the cave and notice the campsite. They see evidence but cannot locate any bodies. One man stands at the entrance of the cave and turns on his flashlight. Nothing.

  As they search the forest they look around. Up the trees they see a body of a woman. But not a Japanese woman. It was Kate hanging by a noose from the tree. They cut the body down and the death is ruled as a suicide. The footage from the cameras at the campsite were recovered. The evidence was stowed away never to be seen again.

  The End.

  THE UNDEAD

  OUTBREAK

  By Lee Jones

  PROLOGUE

  An epidemic is bound to wipe out the worlds population…

  OUTBREAK

  Upon arriving at Hardsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Rochelle is a flight attendant on her last leg before her week off. She worked so hard and now she is going to get to take a well deserved vacation. She is rolling her bag of luggage from the jet bridge into the terminal. New passengers standing in line are waiting to board the next flight. She gives a sigh of relief as she walks by the crowd its all over for now.

  She walks down and checks in with the hostess at one of the in terminal restaurants. It’s a pretty fancy restaurant for being in an airport. She is seated and rolls up her luggage and starts reading a menu. “I heard the salmon was the best thing on the menu,” a strange man says. “Waiter can you get this lovely lady a martini,” says the man.

  Rochelle looks over to the man. “Why thank you, and may I ask you for your name?” says Rochelle. “I’m James, I’m here in Atlanta for business, he replies. The waiter brings of a large martini and places it in front of Rochelle. “I’ll take the salmon”, Rochelle talks the waiter. “What exactly do you do James?” ask Rochelle. “Ohh investments, stocks, bonds, pretty boring stuff nothing of interest to a pretty woman like you” says James.

  “You have a way with women don’t you?” replies Rochelle.

  “When I see someone like you I can’t resist. Where are you headed to next?” says James. “Ohh, I’m on vacation now, it’s been a few years since I had one,” says Rochelle. “Where are you going I’m sure you’ve been seen so many places”, replies James.

  “I really have no idea where I’m going, I was hoping to just figure it out,” says Rochelle.

  Rochelle takes a sip of her martini. Boom! She drops her martini the glass breaks apart. An explosion is heard. There are screams and people running from the jet bridge towards the inner terminal. Rochelle gets up walks from her table and can see there was a crash. One of the planes crashed into the terminal building airside. Black smoke is spewing quickly and a fire has started. “ “Someone get help!” a man screams in the background. Rochelle having some emergency training wants to help. James looks over to Rochelle, “we should help get these people out of the fire” says James. They both look at each and nod then run over to the crash.

  The pilots appeared to be dead and crushed from the impact. The heavy black smoke is making it difficult to see and breath. The plane crashed nose first into the terminal from the runway. A chunk of metal left a wide opening in the fuselage from the impact. Some passengers remain strapped into their seat unresponsive. One man was missing his legs and dragging himself to safety with his arms. Another woman screaming at the top of her lungs. “Help! help!” says a victim. Rochelle and James run over to help the victim. “Are you ok?’ says Rochelle frantica
lly. Unknown to Rochelle a man walking down the aisle very slowly dragging his feet is in a daze.

  The man grabs Rochelle by the shoulders from behind and attempts to take a bite out of her flesh. James Tackles the man to the ground. The remaining passengers that seem dad appear to to suddenly wake up from the dead. Their heads snap and turn watching Rochelle and James. Aggressive, full of energy and biting. “Somethings not right!” says James. The injured woman that Rochelle was helping suddenly starts biting aggressively at Rochelle. Rochelle steps back frantically. “Whats going on!?” says Rochelle. “Let’s get out of here I’m not trying to find out!” replies James. James grabs Rochelle by the hand they both run from the plane wreckage.

  In the terminal they continue running and coughing from the smoke. They make it to about the end of the airside terminal and look behind them. A hoard of people are running in their direction, but they appear to be the passengers from the plane. The passengers appear to be injured, bruised and moving awfully fast to be just have come from a plane crash. Rochelle and James look at each other and then continue running. They make it to the train connecting the airside concourse to the main terminal of the airport. They just made it in time, the doors shut just before the horde reaches them. The people bang on the windows but the train pulls away.

  Rochelle is breathing heavily. “I have not a clue what just happened back there”, says Rochelle. The train gets to the main terminal they make their way bast baggage claim and out to the street. Masses of people are moving from the airport pouring into the street and fleeing in cars. Rochelle hears her cell phone go off. It’s an emergency alert from the government. All the other people pull out their phones with the same alarm.