It was a very cold, winter´s night and Chloe and David were going to the village to buy supplies as they wouldn´t be able to go to the shops because a storm was coming which would bring snow and cut off the road for many weeks. As they were driving down the road David suddenly stopped the car and told Chloe to be quiet and not move. Chloe was very scared. Why had David stopped? She thought.
Just then she heard a loud growl and in front of the car there was a huge beast, it wasn´t an animal that she had ever seen before. What´s that? she whispered to David. David shook his head he didn´t know what it was either. It was very tall, had claws like a bear, but it had legs like a human. Just then, it ran quickly into the woods and disappeared.
David started the car and continued to drive down the mountain. When they arrived in the village, they saw Bert the police officer and they told him what they had seen. Bert looked at them and laughed. David and Chloe were very sad, and Chloe started crying. Bert told her to stop and look around the street. When she looked, she saw 5 creatures just like the one they had seen in the mountains, vampires and Frankenstein’s and ghosts, she screamed. Then one of the creatures took off his mask and David and Chloe realized that it was the 31st of October, Halloween.
David told Chloe that what they had seen on their journey must have been a person in a costume. However, Chloe thought, why would someone be dressed up high in the mountains there are only two houses, mine and the one where nobody lives, and everybody was dressed up down in the village.
They bought the food, wood and other things they needed and went back up the mountains. Chloe was still scared, she didn´t think what they saw was a person, she was looking out of the window all the time. Through the trees just as David turned to go to their house, she saw a big, dark shadow she shouted at David to look but it when he did he didn´t see anything. Was it real or did Chloe imagine it?
Perhaps it was all in her mind.