The roommate’s death
The roommates remain at their deserted college dormitory over a holiday break. One of the girls goes out on a date that evening, and the other one turns in and goes to bed before her roommate returns. Later that night the sleeping girl is awakened by gurgling and scratching noises coming from outside the hallway door. Frightened, she locks the door and cowers inside the room until morning. When the girl finally opens the room and ventures outside, she discovers the bloody corpse of her roommate in the hallway. The murdered girl’s throat had been slit, and she had bled to death in the hallway while clawing at the door.
The Babysitter and the Man upstairs
A babysitter left alone in charge of sleeping
children receives several threatening phone calls. After reporting the calls to
the phone company, the girl is notified by the telephone operator that the
calls are originating from the upstairs extension. The babysitter flees the
house just ahead of an armed intrude who has already murdered the children.
(A young couple living in a large isolated
house had gone out to a dinner party one evening and left the babysitter in
charge of their two children. The children had been put to bed and the
babysitter was watching the television when the phone rang. She answered but
all she heard was a man laughing hysterically and then a voice saying, "I’m
upstairs with the children, you’d better come up”. Thinking it was "one of
those phone calls” or a practical joke she slammed down the receiver and turned
the television sound up. A short time later the phone rang again and as she
picked it up, the unmistakable hysterical laughter came down the line and the
voice once again said "I’m upstairs with the children, you’d better come up.”
Getting rather frightened she called the operator
and was advised they would notify the police and, should he phoned again, could
she keep him talking in order to give them time to trace the call and have him
arrested. Minutes after she replaced the receiver the phone rang again and when
the voice said, "I’m upstairs with the children, you’d better come up’, she
tried to keep him talking. However, he must have guessed what she was trying to
do and he put the phone down.
Only seconds later the telephone rang again, this time it was the operator who said, "Get out of the house straight away, the man is on the extension.” The babysitter put down the phone and just then heard someone coming down the stairs. She fled from the house and ran straight in the arms of the police. They burst into the house and found a man brandishing a large butcher’s knife. He had entered the house through an upstairs window, murdered both the children and was just about to do the same to the poor babysitter.
Clown Statue
A couple with children was trying out a new babysitter. About an hour after they left for a night on the town, they realized they had forgotten to give her their cell phone number, so one of them called her. After she wrote down the number, the babysitter asked if she could watch satellite TV in their bedroom. She had just put the children to bed and wanted to watch a particular show (The parents did not want their children watching too much garbage, so the living room TV did not have satellite channels). Well of course she could watch TV in their room, they replied. The babysitter had one other request, could she put a sheet or blanket over the clown statue that was in the bedroom? It kind of made her nervous. Take children and go to the neighbours, said whichever parent was talking to her. We’ll call the police. We don’t have a clown statue. The police caught the clown as he was running through the neighborhood.
Letter of Intent
In Berlin, after World War II, money was short, supplies were tight, and it seemed like everyone was hungry. At that time, people were telling the tale of a young woman who saw a blind man picking his way through a crowd. The two started to talk. The man asked her for a favour: could she deliver the letter to the address on the envelope? Well, it was on her way home, so she agreed. She started out to deliver the message, when she turned around to see if there was anything else the blind man needed. But she spotted him hurrying through the crowd without his smoked glasses or white cane. She went to the police, who raided the address on the envelope, where they found heaps of human flesh for sale. And what was in the envelope? "This is the last one I am sending you today”.