Board Thread:Writer's Showcase/@comment-29927891-20180319182520

When I was what, like, eleven or twelve; me, my mom and my brother went up to my great grandmother's house. She had been dead for quite a long time, and I had never met her. I was perched in her room on an ancient chair. When I had sat, dust had puffed up and I had coughed, fanning it away. Then I noticed a paper on the bed. I couldn't see the words written on it, but it had seemed to be in Spanish. I grabbed it and placed it in my pocket to examine later. As a kid, I always liked examining things in old houses. It was, cool, I guess.

So imagine little me, sitting, bored, on a chair, eating some potato chips. Suddenly something flickered, out in the hall. I figured it was just a faulty light, and went to investigate. I looked up, but the LIGHT wasn't flickering. I looked around.

"Hello?" a gurgling, choked voice said from behind me.

I turned around, there was no one.

"Help.." the voice said again.

Where was the voice coming from..

Suddenly, something cold had grabbed me.

It felt like fingers. I turned, and they engulfed my throat. I screamed, kicking at air.

My mother came rushing to the rescue and the hand suddenly slipped away.

The flickering stopped.

"Your face!" she shrieked. "It's blue!"

"Mom, mom." I had said grabbing her hand. "I was sitting in the chair in that room, a-and I saw some flickering. I went to look. And I heard something.. And there was a voice, like a little girl's, but nobody was there.. and then.. thin air.. grabbed my throat..."

Her face was horrified. She stared at me.

"Honey.. your great grandmother.. before she died.. she was speaking nonsense.. about flickering, and a little voice.. and the doctors said she had a neck injury, but she looked fine.."

She grabbed me, my brother, her bag and drove off, definitely speeding. When we got home, I sat down and tried to decipher the message on the paper, and now I'm very bad at other languages, but when I figured out the words.. what it said in English was heart stopping.

The paper read: "Esconde ella te conseguirá."

In English, the paper roughly said: "Hide she will get you."

Even now, as a 14 year old, it gives me the chills.

In fact, I recently brought up my great grandmother with my grandmother, her daughter. I asked if she knew Spanish and my grandmother looked very confused.

"My mother hardly used real English. She definitely never knew Spanish."

.... Then who wrote that note? 