Horror Tales

20 years ago

Who would live near a graveyard? I mean, really really near. It is so near that you just have to open the back door of your house to see those graves. Well, not really. The graveyard and my house, my old house, is separated by a brick wall with a door. Great huh?

Well, the most unlucky person who lives near a graveyard was me. Well done. I have lived in that old house for almost 18 years. During the day, the graveyard looks like a big field with stones on it. It is at night that you have to be careful, at least.

Thousands of sleepover invitations by me have been turned down by my friends. You know why. They would begged me to have the sleepover at theirs rather than mine. It's not that they don't like me. It's the location of the house that freaks them out.

A week ago while I was feeding my cat in the backyard, I heard a noise coming from the graveyard. I peeked through a hole at the door but saw nothing. Five minutes later I heard the noise again. This time it sounded like a man calling for help, except that he's almost whispering. I heard it because I was standing very close to the brick wall separating my backyard and the graveyard. I went inside and took the key for the door to the graveyard and quickly looked around the deserted land of the dead. I was not afraid at the time because it was 11am, bright and sunny. I looked around searching for the source of the voice and found nothing. At that time, I was just standing about two feet from the door when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I was so startled that I felt like I could die instantly of a heart attack.

"Can you help me?" the man asked anxiously. He looked like a normal man except that he has this tattoo of a reversed cross on his cheek. That's not normal. "Er..yes.." I answered while remembering hard that I never seen this man before. "Can I borrow a hoe?" the man asked again. "Sure. I'll go get them," I answered the man and rushed to my backyard in order to get the hoe. What harm could it be if I lend this man a hoe? I went to the graveyard minutes later with a hoe to find that the man was gone. I shrugged and thought maybe the man had something important and went home. I locked the door and went inside my house. I slept peacefully that night. Glad that everything was normal.

What happened two days after that made our family moved away. Well, my mother and I love gardening so much that we would usually spend our time planting vegetables in the backyard. There's a space enough to plant vegetables like tomato and cucumber. As instructed by my mother, I dug the soil using a hoe. She planned to make a small pond. I did not realized that I dug too deep when I hit something. I kept digging out of curiosity eventhough I was already exhausted.

It turned out that I have found a black coffin. It was buried in my backyard all this time. The coffin was not even buried 6 feet underground like it's supposed to. We called the police and they identified the corpse as belong to a serial killer who practices satanic cult 20 years ago. He, or as they called him the 'Devil's Minion' last comitted his murder by choking a teenage girl to death and then carved a reverse cross on her forehead. When the police arrived at the scene, they found a note beside the victims. The note says,

It is time. I'll come back for you in 20 years, I swear.

The police had been searching for him since and did not have a clue to where he might be until the gardening incident. How did he get buried in the backyard is still a question. My mother decided to move out soon after that. She finally told me as if someone chocked her in the middle of the night when she's asleep. She thought it was just a nightmare. She said she felt two hands on her neck pressing her down in bed for not more than 5 seconds. When she turned on the lights, there's nobody. No sign of forced entry or anything. And shockingly, it all started happening two days before we found the corpse.

And today, glad to be in my new home, my mother and I are eagerly waiting for the news in front of the TV as the authority will reveal the face of the serial killer. The police are puzzled concerning the condition of the corpse. It is not affected eventhough he had been buried for 20 years. He is perfect. As if he is still alive.

We also learned that our previous home turned out to be the location of the last murder. And soon after that, the serial killer's face appeared on the TV screen.

There's a tattoo of a reversed cross on his cheek.