Reply To: CG Cookie Community Halloween Challenge

Sometimes, words alone can spur on visual imagination. Bullet-shot paced descriptions in screenplays do better, as they quickly fire up film producer’s imagination.  

“Scary” only if you (in imaginary victim’s shoes) are unaccustomed to hauntings and be totally shell-shocked. Unscary if you have fully acclimated to them, being hard-skinned and no longer shell-shocked.  Novelty in hauntings wears off for the latter. 

As sensitives or mediums, visitors always ask: “Is your home haunted?” Surprised, you the host respond with a knowing expression, a sigh and a smile:  “Ooh, isn’t it?” Slip of your tongue gives them eebie jeebies. Curious, you then ask, cautiously and suspiciously: “Now, why do you think it is haunted?”  They look at you, perplexed, wondering why you seem oblivious to the flickering and flittering shadows around you. You are religious and protected, shadows therefore being banished from your sight.   (Suggestion only). 

Another idea.  A shaking bed in a room where you as an intruder not only just see or hear things, also FEEL them. 

While you sleep, a  vapour rises from the grave afar, knowing you trespassed on their favourite space. Soul breezes or storms into your room.  Your imagination here. …  Have your way. 

 In a haunted bedroom, you just half wake and suddenly FEEL ghostly fingers teasing your scalp, stroking and fingercombing your hair. If you have long hair, you might wake up with plaitings done to your hair. That is not ever all. Other bumps of surprises can be such as a soul poking his thick finger inside your mouth and rudely awakening you with a hard fingernail pinching at the furtherest back of your tongue. 😛  You wake suddenly, feeling confused and wondering: “Wha-what was that? Did I just swallow a spider?” Well, it felt like a thick-bodied spider. Then came a ghost’s outburst of laughter. He’d tease you more, if you were female: “Haw, haw, haw, haven’t you ever heard of love?” Suggestion only.