Campfire Stories- Volume One

The Curse of the Hat

Welcome boys and girls to our first campfire stories by my lovely campfire so do gather around. My name is Deirdre Stephenson and I am your host with the most plus I have made some tasty treats for everyone to pass around since I made plenty of candy apples and s'mores to eat while listening to our first tale that won't have a happy ending and it is entitled the curse of the hat.-the storyteller opens her book which is filled of dreadful stories all written by the storyteller herself she begins to read the first tale.- There is a warehouse somewhere in Boston that is full of hats since that is all they sell is hats all sorts of hats a man can dream of owning for himself. There is one hat and only one that looks like it belongs wearing only one goes to an opera house because it is a fancy looking top hat. As the top hat sits on display plenty of customers came to the store but no one bought that hat yet. As the hat just sits on the display yet it has been noticed but no one is interested in buying the top hat. One day a man who is only in his forties who loves to collect all sorts of hats plus he visits the opera house as much as he could plus he works for one as well. When he was in the warehouse just looking around for any type of hat he might be interested in getting that was when he noticed the top hat. As he stood there looking at the hat a smile crossed his lips as he took it off its stand then put it on. He stands there looking in the mirror the hat was near he is busy looking at himself with the hat on. After a few minutes with the hat on he decides to get the hat being pleasant and how well he looked with it on. Jake Turner buys the top hat and he brings it home because he wants nothing to happen with his new hat before he ever gets a chance to wear it. Once Jake got home since he still lives with his elder mother as he helps take care of her. Now in his bedroom he puts his new hat with his other hats he has collected over the years then he leaves his room to tell his mother what he got. His mother was happy to hear the news as she wanted to see the hat so Jake went to get the top hat. Once Jake returns back to his mother showing her the top hat she liked it the minute she was looking at it saying she agrees that he got the top hat after all he does want to look sharp going to that opera house he works for. A week later before Jake headed for the opera house as he is dressed in his best suit and with the top hat on that his mother took a photo of Jake with the hat on as she took a few photos of him. A week later Jake went to have his mother's photos developed so he dropped them off and the following day he went to pick them up. As Jake sat in his car with the photos his mother took as he began to look for his photos. Once he found his photos he just sat there in pure horror to what he was seeing because he was looking at the rest of the photos all of them were normal but his wasn't. The photos of Jake were him looking like someone colored him out all one sees is blackness where the person should be but isn't. When Jake returned home he didn't say anything to his mother just hiding his photos from her but gave her the other photos instead. Since then during the night Jake will wake up to a very bloody nose but when he gets it to stop he just shrugs it off and goes back to bed. It just didn't happen once but every night yet Jake does nothing about it nor does he tell his mother he doesn't need her to worry about nothing. Not only Jake is waking up to nose bleeds but painful headaches to follow that would force Jake to sleep in. One day Jake's mother began to notice the changes with Jake as she asked him if he was alright Jake says he was fine. One day Jake decided he wasn't going to pretend nothing is wrong with him so he calls up his doctor as he explains what is going on with him but his doctor thinks he should have the hospital to check him out because the test he needs done he couldn't do. So the hospital Jake went as the doctor looked at him over and took blood work done and other tests nothing showed what was happening to Jake why he woke up with nose bleeds and headaches. Now Jake got admitted to the hospital as his doctor called his mother telling her Jake is staying at the hospital. A week later after Jake was admitted to the hospital that the nurse found in his bed dead as his sheets are soaked with blood. The cause of death was never known on Jake Turner and for the top hat it was sold back where it came from for another soul to buy it as the curse lives on. That concludes our first story and trust in what I say that no one knows that the hat is cursed and it was the curse that killed Jake Turner. This is your host with the most Deirdre Stephenson bid everyone a farewell until next time we meet again for another scary tale and do bring your friends there is plenty of room by my lovely campfire. Remember don't forget to leave the light on before going to bed never know what lurks in the dark that will take you away in the middle of the night never to be seen again.