Summer Camp Nightmare
By: Paige Mclauchlin
Tags: Creative Writing, Fiction, Thriller, Short Story

creative writing

During the middle of summer, a girl named Robyn Darling was getting ready to go to summer camp, in North Carolina, with some of her friends. She started to pack up her things, making sure she didn’t forget anything. After she was done, she put all her bags downstairs to be put in the car. Her dad, Robert Darling, carried the bags out. Her Mom, Jude Darling, was cooking lunch in the kitchen with her sisters Lana and Billie. Lana is in College and Billie is a Freshman. When her dad had everything in the car, they all had their lunch together. After they were done, Robyn and her dad headed out to the camp. The drive was about three hours long so they were jamming out to music. When they finally got to the camp, her dad got her suitcase out and helped Robyn to find her cabin. Her dad said goodbye to her and was heading for the car. She went outside and that’s when he yelled,” Bye Honey!¨. Robyns face got as red as a tomato and went back to her cabin.

About fifteen minutes later, her best friend, Maggie Walker came and they were so happy to be sharing a cabin together. Maggie gets into a lot of trouble but she’s super nice. Robyn was kind of nervous to share a cabin with Maggie because she can get to wild and annoying when she is bored. But she is also a good friend and Robyn was happy to spend the summer with her friend. When they both unpacked, they started to walk around until someone on the intercom said.¨ All Campers, Please report to the auditorium.¨ Everyone was in a rush to hear what the camp counselors were going to talk about. Everyone was filling up the bleachers and sitting on the ground. Everyone waited for about five minutes until someone came out.

They told them all the camp rules and at the end that everyone just needs to have fun. Before everyone left, the counselor said, ¨There is a mystery at the place. This campground has said to be cursed. The kids and also the counselors from back then always reported about weird noises or shadows in the cabin that look like people.¨ One girl asked, ¨Well what happened next?¨ The counselor then continued, ¨ They all disappeared. The whole camp. Gone.¨ Everyone was silent. There was a long silence and then the counselor said, ¨The End¨, and he excused everyone to go back to their cabins.

Maggie and Robyn were chatting afterward with these two boys, named Kyle Benson and Ben Green, about the story. The four of them kept talking and getting to know each other until it was dinner time and they all walked to the lunch room. After their dinner, the four of them were told they we need to walk to the campfire after to have smores for dessert. When everyone was heading out, someone on the intercom yell,¨The campfire will be canceled tonight due to a thunderstorm right our way.¨ Everyone rolled their eyes. Then the person said, ¨So please report to your cabins.¨ Robyn and Maggie invited Kyle and Ben to their cabin to play board games. They both said sure and they all went to the cabin.

While they were playing clue, they could hear the thunder banging from the sky and they saw the lighting bolts reaching for them. They all got kind of scared so they stopped playing games and got blankets out to watch a movie. The only movies that Robyn brought were horror movies, which are her favorite genre. The movies she got out for them to choose were The Exorcist; The Sixth Sense; The Shining, and The Poltergeist. They all decided to watch them all that night. It was much scarier to watch during a storm but they all managed to stay awake to watch all the movies. During the last movie, The Poltergeist, the power went out. They were all sitting in the dark, waiting for some light to turn on.

¨Do you have any candles?¨ asked Ben.¨I think there is some in the emergency kit in the closet.¨ said Robyn. They found the candle and lit them all up. Robyn and ben put the candles all around the cabin. After they got done with the candles, the both of them sat back on the floor. Maggie and Kyle were talking about the movie but Robyn and Ben wanted something to eat. It was still pouring outside so they decided to wait longer. Everything was fine until one of the counselors yell on the speakers.

¨EVERYONE PLEASE STAY IN YOUR CABINS AND LOCK ALL THE WINDOWS AND DOORS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE!¨ screamed the counselor. Maggie and Robyn jumped up to lock up everything. Ben and Kyle blew out all the candle except for one. When they all were done they sat back down, in a circle, on the ground. All of them were talking about what was going on because they all were still confused about the announcement that the counselor made

¨Im so scared right now,¨ Robyn said shaking in her blanket ¨We need to figure out what’s going on and we all have to stick together. ¨Theres nothing to worry about guys, it’s probably because of the storm,¨ said Maggie rolling her eyes. Ben and Kyle agreed with her but Robyn was still doubting that it wasn’t the storm that they should be worrying about. They were all crammed in one of the corners, waiting to see if any more news would come. But there was nothing. Just absolute silence in the cabin. They were all shivering. It made Robyn think if the time were she went to Alaska…

She went ice fishing with her dad and some of her cousins. While fishing the ice broke through and she fell in. Her dad quickly rushed to her and got her out. While she was getting dried, everyone was packing up everything and getting ready to go home. When they got in the snowmobile, the engine wasn’t starting. They didn’t panic but then it started snowing. ¨Can´t we just walk back to the house?¨ asked Robyn. ¨We could try, but it’s about to be snowing really heavy,¨ said her dad. They were all freezing but managed to find somewhere close to stay.

Her memory faded when she realized that she was still at the camp freezing in the corner with her blanket. It was about 2:37 and that’s when they all heard muffles on the intercom. Maggie decided to make a plan where we all just make a run for it and just try to find a restaurant or somewhere to stay. They were all on board with the idea. They all got their shoes on and waited some time before they leave. When it turned 3:00, that’s when they began to look outside and see if anyone was outside. They all started running to the woods to hide. When they were all hiding in a bush, they noticed something red heading toward the camp. Ben and Kyle gasped because they got a closer look at what it was. There were about 10 people holding pitchforks. ¨RUN!¨ Kyle whispered loudly. The ran through the woods, which felt like hours, but finally made it out to the road and stop running until they found someplace to stay. They all ran for about 7 minutes when they saw a bar that was opened 24/7. They all took and couple breathes then they walked inside. The women standing behind the bar asked us what they were all doing here.

¨We were staying at the camp a couple of miles back. Something weird was happening their so we decided to get out of there because it didn’t seem safe,¨ explained Kyle. The women asked them to sit down and she got all of them waters. She asked them only one question. ¨What color was the moon?¨ she asked. They all looked at each other and looked back at the women strangely. She asked again. There was a long pause and then they all kind of said it was reddish. The women rubbed her head and said, ¨Not again¨. They all had confused looks on their faces and wanted to know more. The women told the story about the Roanoke colony that just vanished from plain sight. Nobody knows where they all went and there was no evidence to show where they all might have gone to. ¨ The camp that you were staying at is that colonies land and people say that those people haunt that place but only on blood moons. The only thing left was the word Croatoan carved in one of the trees.¨

The women said that they would be safe here and that she would give them a phone to call their parents. They all decided to just call them in the morning so they wouldn’t wake them up. Ben and Kyle wanted to go back to save or to warn people but they didn’t want Maggie and Robyn to know. They decided to wait until they fall asleep or get distracted by something. It was 4:03 and Maggie and Robyn both were helping the women out with the dishes. That’s when Ben and Kyle left. They left a note so Maggie and Robyn knew where they went. They both started running fast to the camp. When they found the camp they both went back in the woods to retrace their steps. They both then heard something coming towards them so they hid in one of the trees. The footsteps were getting louder and louder until they were found. A person with a pig face and didn’t have a shirt on, told them to follow him but once they got to the front of the camp the pig man pulled out a butcher knife and killed both of them.

Robyn and Maggie went out to the bar tables to catch up with the boys. They didn’t see them. Only the note. The called for the women.¨Why would they do that!¨ exclaimed Maggie. ¨They just wanted to help save the people,¨ said Robyn. ¨Shouldn’t they be back by now?¨ asked Maggie. They all waited for about 15 minutes but nothing happened. The boys never came back. They just assumed that they were gone and they would never see them again.

At about 5:54, they all decided to get in the car and drive past the camp to see if the ghosts were still. They didn’t see anything so they drove through the entrance but stayed in the car. They drove all around the camp for about 1o minutes. Nothing was bad at the camp so they all assumed that it was safe. “I’m going to go to our cabin to go get my phone,” said Maggie. “Okay but be quick,” said Robyn.

The women and Robyn watched Maggie walk away in the Fog. They both waited in the car. They waited for about 5 minutes. They started to see the red light again and were panicking. The women started the car and were getting ready to leave but then they saw Maggie running towards them. Robyn rolled down the window and yelled, “HURRY UP THEIR COMING!”

Maggie was about 7 feet away, running so fast her legs were about to fall off. When they could see her in the fog something came out of nowhere and grabbed her Maggie. All they could hear were the faded screams from her. “WHY WHY WHY!” cried Robyn. “We need to leave,” said the women.

Robyn was crying the whole way back and just wanted everything to end. They finally got back to the bar at around 6:30. Robyn was shaking so the women carried her in and gave her a drank to calm her down. The women were on the phone calling the police while Robyn was sleeping. Later that morning, Robyn’s parents got notified from the police and rushed to North Carolina to pick up Robyn. After a couple of hours, they met up with her at the police station to take her home. On the ride home, her parents tried talking to her but Robyn was still trembling.

When they got home Robyn swung the car door open and jumped right out of the car. She immediately turned on the news. The news report was about all the missing people from the camp. Robyn was about to turn the tv off because she says a picture of Ben, Kyle, and Maggie. The news report said everyone at the camp just disappeared and all their belongings. Robyn was thinking about the story the women told her at the bar about the camp and realized it was right.

The news then showed a picture of a tree. The words carved on it were “Croatoan”.