Lockdown

September 18, 1982

  My friend James and I were at my house for the weekend, because it was my birthday. We were at my house and my mother brought us pizza for dinner. After we ate the delicious pizza we went over to the tv and started to watch the night rider. We loved this show, but this was a scary episode. About halfway through the episode, I heard a sound from the yard.

“What was that?!” said James.

“Probably just a raccoon,” I answered

Our attention went back to the tv but James was still petrified. In the middle of a life alert commercial, the sound came again, but this time it was a laugh.

“That was not a raccoon this time!!” exclaimed James

“Yeah,” I said

“Well, aren’t you going to do something?”Asked James in a scared voice.

“No.”

We went back to watching Night Rider. All the commercials were for medicine, life alert, and plumming. It was boring. Then we heard a creepy song thing by the glass door. We whipped around to see a red balloon being held by a mangled hand. We sprinted so fast to our beds that we left everything there and knocked over things on our way. We were so scared that we hid under my bed together, we even fell asleep down there.

September 19, 1982

We were scared to death or were we just dead. When my Dad came upstairs we were scared stiff. We thought he was the scary thing that we saw the arm of last night, but it wasn’t. My dad was so confused. Eventually, he found us and told us we were going to the Carnival. We got up and got dressed but then we had an hour’s drive there. 

We arrived around 9:30 am, and we went straight to the Phantom. It was the biggest, best, most awesome roller coaster ever. We rode it 14 times in a row! After that, we went over to the whip. We rode that one about 3 times. Then we rode howler a couple of times. 

We spent hours there, but when we left, the carnival was on lockdown mode. We could not get out no matter what we did.

“Why won’t the doors open?” we asked one of the staff.

“I don’t know, it should be open,” he replied cluelessly.

The park was on lockdown. There were still lots of people inside the park so it wasn’t closed. We went over to the food area because we could not stand going on another roller coaster. 

I, my Dad and James were sitting there for an hour or so, but then we heard the noise. We did not think much about it. Then 5 mins later we heard the creepy laugh, James and I grabbed my Dad and ran the other way. But the balloon appeared right in front of our faces as we ran. We spun on our heals to see another one, but this one started to move First James, then my dad.

“Happy birthday Randy!”