Scary Story Poll: The Phone Call - Part 1
It's 11pm, Halloween. You drive home from a hard days work. There are a couple of masked people still trick-or-treating at this late hour.
You park on your driveway, and make your way into your home. The family's been at the in-laws for the past fortnight, so it'll be a meal for one and a good old horror movie tonight. You take out your phone from your pocket to check on your messages but, ah, the battery’s dead. Dammit.
As you're walking around the living room, the house phone rings. You pick it up, and are greeted by a hoarse voice. He calls you by name, makes taunts and suggestive comments.
"Who is this? Stop messing around or I'll call the police" you declare.
"Oh, is that so?" the voice replies, "Well, the quickest they'd be able to get here is 10 minutes. That leave you and I plenty of time to get to know each other..." You hang up.
A few seconds later, the phone rings again and the same voice is at the other end. This time he is far more aggressive.
The intensity of the conversation escalates. It becomes so much that the character ends up threatening to kill you if you don't be nice and "play a little game I've thought of." Of course, you refuse.
"Listen" he says, changing the course of the exchange, "Someone's gonna die in your neighbourhood tonight."
"What?"
"That's right...someone's gonna get chopped up...and I'm gonna be the one to do it!"
You hang up again. Some jokes just aren't funny. Who does this guy think he is? You don't need this - you've just had a tough day at the store while everyone else has been having fun. In fact, you are so riled up that you pick that phone up again and hit 'Redial'.
And that's when you hear a ringtone coming from upstairs...
What do you do?
The top result of this poll will directly influence the next part of the story
Think you've got a good idea where this story can go? Let us know here
You park on your driveway, and make your way into your home. The family's been at the in-laws for the past fortnight, so it'll be a meal for one and a good old horror movie tonight. You take out your phone from your pocket to check on your messages but, ah, the battery’s dead. Dammit.
As you're walking around the living room, the house phone rings. You pick it up, and are greeted by a hoarse voice. He calls you by name, makes taunts and suggestive comments.
"Who is this? Stop messing around or I'll call the police" you declare.
"Oh, is that so?" the voice replies, "Well, the quickest they'd be able to get here is 10 minutes. That leave you and I plenty of time to get to know each other..." You hang up.
A few seconds later, the phone rings again and the same voice is at the other end. This time he is far more aggressive.
The intensity of the conversation escalates. It becomes so much that the character ends up threatening to kill you if you don't be nice and "play a little game I've thought of." Of course, you refuse.
"Listen" he says, changing the course of the exchange, "Someone's gonna die in your neighbourhood tonight."
"What?"
"That's right...someone's gonna get chopped up...and I'm gonna be the one to do it!"
You hang up again. Some jokes just aren't funny. Who does this guy think he is? You don't need this - you've just had a tough day at the store while everyone else has been having fun. In fact, you are so riled up that you pick that phone up again and hit 'Redial'.
And that's when you hear a ringtone coming from upstairs...
What do you do?
The top result of this poll will directly influence the next part of the story
Think you've got a good idea where this story can go? Let us know here
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