The Creeps! || Book of Spooky Stories (COMPLETED ✔️)

18 ~ Carmen Winstead

(FROM URBAN LEGENDS AND CREEPY STORIES)

A/N: It's not a true spoopy book if we don't add the infamous Facebook chainmail ghost! 😂

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Carmen Winstead was 17 years old when her parents decided to move to Indiana. Her father had lost his job and the only way he could find new employment was if he moved to a new state. The move caused a lot of problems for Carmen. She had to leave all of her friends behind and start at a new school in Indiana.

Carmen had a hard time making friends at her new school. She had joined in the middle of the school year, and no one really wanted to make friends with the new girl. At first, she spent many of her days alone, walking to class without talking to anyone, but she eventually started hanging out with a group of five girls.

Carmen believed these girls were her friends, but as it turned out, they were spreading nasty rumours behind her back. When Carmen confronted the girls about it they spit on her and bullied her every day since. Her life was miserable.

At first the bullying was just a bunch of name calling, but it soon turned much worse. One day, Carmen had left her books in the classroom during break time. When she returned to get her books, she found people had scribbled horrible messages all over the cover and pages in sharpie.

Another day Carmen had opened up her backpack to find someone had poured yoghurt all over the insides. Upon opening her folder, she also found her essay was covered in the dairy product. Carmen was too embarrassed to tell the teacher what happened to her work and got a zero.

Sometimes, if Carmen was really lucky, she'd come to school to find her locker vandalized. Sometimes crude drawings, other times things like "slut" and "bitch" written across.

What finally did it was when Carmen was at recess one day. She stuffed her hands in her pockets to warm them up, when she suddenly felt something warmish and squishy in her pockets– dog poop.

Carmen had finally had enough. She quickly washed her hands at the outside fountain and decided then and there she would report the girls. Carmen would stay after class and tell a teacher.

However, Carmen's decision came a little too late.

That same afternoon, the school had a fire drill. Deciding this would be the perfect time to embarrass Carmen in front of the whole school, the gang of five girls moved to where she was standing, near the sewer drain. The bullies began getting in Carmen's face, slowly nudging her to the open manhole.

When the girls pushed Carmen, she tripped and fell face-first into the manhole. The girls giggled, seeing Carmen fall, and once the teacher called Carmen's name they shouted, "She's down in the sewer!"

All of the students began laughing. Some whispered a bit before. However when the teachers looked down the manhole, all laughing stopped. Carmen's head was twisted at a sickening angle and her face was covered in blood. Even worse, she wasn't moving.

The teachers couldn't do anything. Carmen was dead. When police and paramedics arrived and went down into the sewer, they determined she had broken her neck. Her face had been torn off by the ladder during the fall, and she had landed on her head onto the concrete bottom.

The police hauled Carmen's body out of the sewer and sent her to the mortuary. Everyone had to stay behind as the police questioned Carmen's classmates. The five girls who had pushed Carmen lied to the police, saying they witnessed Carmen trip and fall. The police believed the girls, so Carmen's death was ruled and accident and the case was closed.

Everyone believed that would be the last they heard of Carmen Winstead, but they were sadly mistaken.

Months later, Carmen's classmates began receiving emails on their MySpace's. The emails were titled "They Pushed Her," and claimed Carmen hadn't really fallen down the sewer, that she was pushed. The emails also warned the culprits should own up and take responsibility for the crime. If they didn't there would be horrid consequences. Most people dismissed the email as a hoax, but others weren't so sure.

A few days later, one of the girls who pushed Carmen was home alone and taking a shower. She heard cackling coming from the drain. The girl freaked out, naturally, and ran from the bathroom, a towel barely covering her as she dripped down the hall. That night, after some self-reassuring, the girl bid her mom goodnight and went to sleep.

Later that night, the mother was awoken by a loud noise that echoed throughout the house. The mother ran to her daughter's room, only to find it empty. There was no trace of the girl. The worried mother called the police and they conducted a search of the area. Eventually, they discovered the girl's grisly remains.

The girl's corpse was at the bottom of the sewer, covered in muck and poop. Her neck was broken and her face had been torn off, just like Carmen. One by one, all of the girls who pushed Carmen were found dead at the bottom of the sewer. They were all killed the same way; neck snapped, face ripped off.

However, the killings didn't stop there. More and more of Carmen's former classmates were found dead. It seemed that anyone who didn't believe Carmen had been pushed were also found down in the sewer.

They say that Carmen's ghost is still on a rampage, hunting down anyone who doesn't believe her story. According to the legend, Carmen will get you. Whether it's from a toilet, a sink, a shower, or a drain. When you go to sleep, you'll wake up in complete darkness, paralyzed, unable to move. Then, as you scream in horror, Carmen will come and tear your face off.

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A/N: (Cue the class "if you don't share this with 15 people Carmen will be in your room tonight" threat.)