FINAL (final final) Draft of HK Urban Legends
Mr. C
Carrie Overstreet (8-6)
A Selfish Mans Dynamic Change during Trick or Treat days!
Once upon a time, there was an old man who was mean and selfish because his parents were. Everybody in Fanling Wai didn't like him but owed him money. Whenever the villagers saw him, they'd start whispering:"OH MY GOSH! It's the guy who often wrestle with the poor's! Lets escape!" His girlfriend left him because she thinks he was too busy making money, hating Halloween and being negative.
One day, when everyone told him:"STOP WORKING!!!" He shooed them away as usual, sang lyrics to represent that he hated and didn't believe in dressing up for Halloween and giving out candies on trick or treat days. He argued with different age groups of villagers that came from all over the countries.
One night, the man dreamed a bad dream that his future life would be unlucky. The following night a close friend whom he's afraid of which died a century ago because of cancer. Came back to his house to found him. He told him that there would be three dead people coming back to find him, reminding him how mean he was to people. They would bring him to heaven and hell. They'd tell him if he wanted to be in heaven he'd better started treating people nicely.
He was so afraid of hell he sobbed for the whole night regretting for the pass while he started doing things he had never done before-putting candies into candy boxes!!! When he was going to work the next day, when the children he passed shrieked:"trick or treat!" with candy boxes in their hands, he took out candies and placed them inside. The villagers' expressions represented that what was happening right in front of them was extremely unbelievable. After a few days, when they started believing that he reflected to change, they stopped looking at him with icy stares and invited him to their Halloween parties. At last the originally negative man lived in heaven, and the villagers all lived peacefully ever after.
Ian Lau (8-3)
It was 5:30 in the afternoon; Sam was walking down the hallway of 11/F in Victoria Shanghai Academy (VSA), He was alone and the hallway was dark… he hoped that he would leave earlier so that this won’t happen…
Sam saw Mr. Copus at the end of the hallway, Mr. Copus is a kind and handsome teacher, who is always eating a banana. They didn’t know each other since Mr. Copus is not Sam’s teacher and Sam is not his student. Mr. Copus said to Sam “Can you help me to take these to the office? These are the hockey stuff for the school team,” Sam said “Sure!” and he took it from Mr. Copus. He got down the office and told the reception that Mr. Copus told him to take this down from the 11/F. The lady was shocked and tears started to come out. Sam asked what happened and that’s what the lady said, “Mr. Copus was the best teacher in VSA, but Mr. Parker doesn’t like him because he stole his girlfriend, so Mr. Parker decided to fire him. Mr. Copus was so sad that he killed himself in 3rd floor cafeteria…” Sam was so shocked that he threw away the hockey stuff he’s holding and he ran away. He ran back to the 11/F and he saw Mr. Copus at the down of the hallway saying hi to him. He was so scared that he peed on his pants. Sam blinks his eye and Mr. Copus was gone…
Sam told his story to the others but no one else sees Mr. Copus. After this incident, the 11/F was haunted, horror stuff always happens, such as leaking water and found of skulls. No one would ever stay after school and stay at the 11/F…
Edwin Cheng (8-6)
Jerry Wong (8-6)
Work Example: THE PHANTOM OF THE AUDITORIUM
The land of VSA was originally a part of a theatre called "The Theatre of the Goddess". The theatre had it’s last show 10 years ago when the famous singer CY sang her last song before she was assassinated by a spy from Russia who is disguised as one of the audiences. On that night, she wore the famous medieval red dress with the high tip shoes. CY wanted to seek revenge on the spy, and from that point forward, the grounds near the theatre are said to be haunted by her ghost. The grounds continue to be haunted, even after multiple changes in terrain.
Many years later, a girl named Nicole works in a school called VSA, which was built on top of the land that used to be the "The Theatre of the Goddess". One night, while she was going to make a movie about VSA during nighttime, also, she was a fan of CY, the singer who died here many years ago. Suddenly, heard a ghostly voice coming from the auditorium. Her blood froze for a moment. She thought that it was just an illusion. She continued to walk towards the auditorium as the voice grew louder and louder. She opened the door of the pitch black auditorium as the entire theatre lit up magically. On the center stage, she saw a woman singing in English. The women was wearing the same dress as CY does. Nicole held her photo of CY’s last performance, Bingo, there she is, with her old red medieval dress and the high heel shoes. Nicole walked towards to the woman and tried to ask for her autograph, but she disappeared and reappeared on the other side of the auditorium. Nicole was astonished at that. “Why do you not talk?” Nicole asked. CY said “You are le spy, must get revenge on you, my nemesis!” At the same time, one of the stage lights fell on her, killing her instantly. CY laughed vigorously after that. And she disappeared again in the deep dark auditorium.
Many years later, Nicole’s dried blood is still present in the floor of the auditorium, the school tried to clean it away once, but the blood stayed no matter what kind of bleach, chemical they used and the school eventually had to board it up to prevent any suspicion of paranormal activities.Still, CY’s dress miraculously appeared again in the auditorium’s prep room.
From that point forward, the legend of the ghost of CY continued to haunt the auditorium. Until CY gets her revenge, nobody can ever live in the night of the auditorium.
Alex Chan (8-6)
The Daughter of Adam
One rainy, dark night, VSA’s principle Mr. Parker drove his car from school back home. He can feel the thunder and the heavy storm outside the car. Bald Mr. Parker is very grateful to be in a safe place in a car. In Shum Wan Road, he saw a shadow, it was a beautiful girl, her dress all wet. Mr. Parker stopped the car and asked if the girl wants a ride. The girl agreed and told Mr. Parker that she lived in Aberdeen. When they arrived Aberdeen, Mr. Parker asked the beautiful girl which floor and flat the girl lives because he wants to meet her again later. The girl told him and the girl went up to her apartment. When Mr. Parker began to drive away, thinking of the girl. He found out that the girl left her I- phone in the car. He ran up to the apartment and rang the bell. One of the teacher in VSA, Mr. Copus opened the door, "oh hi Mr. Parker! How did you know I live here?" Mr. Parker told Mr. Copus what just happened. He showed the I- phone to Mr. Copus while he started to cry. He told Mr. Parker that his daughter died 2 years ago, and this I-phone really belonged to his daughter. Mr. Parker is a bit confused. Maybe she is not a ghost, or maybe it’s an illusion. He is thinking of a lot of ways to calm himself down
Ian Lee (8-6)
The Fishermen of Aberdeen
A long time ago, there was a small wooden cottage on a hill by the port of Shum Wan Road, Aberdeen. The cottage was small and old, but it was sturdy and dependable. There lived a small group of fishermen, their names were Lee, Lau and Chan. Every morning they would go to the portside where they would fish for sardines and chat together. One fateful night, they returned to their cottage to feast and dine. A nasty storm swept over the portside, and the strong rain and wind were crashing against the window. The fishermen were eating sausage bread and sardines when they heard a loud knock at the door, Lau went to open the door, as the door slid open a young man entered the cottage. The young man's simple, tattered clothes were dripping wet, so the fishermen decided to offered him shelter for the night.
The young man never spoke, his eyes cold and his face expressionless. The fishermen decided to offer the young man some sardines and clam since he looks very, very hungry. The young man ate a lot of food and exhausted nearly all of the fishermen's food supplies, but he was still hungry and longing. The fishermen were all weak and tired from the day so they decided to rest for the night.
Under the cover of the stormy night, the young man went to the kitchen and took the old butchering knife, the blade was rusty and the handle nearly broken and torn, but the young man ignored the blade’s weak state as he went into the fishermen’s bedroom and raised his rusty and bloodthirsty knife.
First he killed Lee by slicing his throat, then he killed Lau by slicing off his head, he approached the sleeping body of Chan but his footsteps accidentally woke him up. Chan jumped, his eyes wide with fear and surprise, he ran out of the room, screaming; The young man looked at him with his eyes like a vulture, he went after him. Chan ran out of the cabin but the young man kept chasing him, the bloodthirsty maniac sunk his blade deep into Chan’s back, his blood spilled all over the side of the hill, as the green grass embraced the red wave of blood.
The young man ate the flesh of all of the fishermen, the cannibal then exited the fishermen’s cabin, satisfied and full.
Many years later, a school is built on what used to be the old cottage. The school’s name is Victoria Shanghai Academy, and it is said that the blood of the fishermen still remain splattered on the hillside, visible and reeking of death and suffering.
Anson Lee (8-6)
The spirit of the little girl
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Once upon a terrible night, Mr. Bhatia drove a lovely car down the dark and silent Hong Kong Aberdeen road.
Suddenly a little girl pop out in the road, she wears a white t- shirt and her face looks horrible because her face was white seems no blood. When he arrives to Aberdeen road, “can you drive me home? “ The little girl use a deep sound asked. Then he asked her “where do you live, Causeway bay or Kowloon land etc.…?” “I don’t know because I haven’t been home for many days” the little girl said. Suddenly Mr. Bhatia felt nervous and scared because when she is on the way back to the house, she is cold and shock, when arrive to home she suddenly disappeared.
As you see that Mr. Bhatia is a good person, because she left a t-shirt in the car, so he get back for her, he knocked the door, then a strong and powerful man opened the door for him, “May I help you sir, he said” Then he tell the man “your daughter left the t-shirt in my lovely car”, when the man’s wife heard that she cried, then the man told him that my daughter was dead for over 5 years, the man give the photos of his daughter to him.
When he looked through the photos, he felt horrible, after that the little girl always keep annoying him, after 2 years he invited ghost master, then the master negotiation with the girl, but she refuse so master needed to fight 30 rounded of the little girl in the Aberdeen road, finally master had succeed, after that Mr. Bhatia has a great life to enjoyed and haven’t disturbed from the little girl.
Bernard Liu (8-6)
The Curses
Have you heard of the school “Terror-land”? Maybe you haven’t but after you read this myth, you would not want to know about it. There is a horrible curse in "Terror-land", it was a school originally, but because everyone is scared of the curse in that school, the school is empty now.
At night, there will be some shadows walking around inside and when they turn around the shadows of something that looks similar to fangs and long teeth starts to appear and they slowly transform to another creature, they couldn’t see, but they can hear, so everyday during night time, there will be some strange sounds from the school and the neighbors there had already reported to the management council, but it doesn’t seem to work.
When the slimy creature transform to a rotten flesh ,they will mess up the school and they will sneak in to the food stores and mess around, that's why the food stores in Tai Po were always running out of food and there is blood around and broken pieces of clothing left around, Alex, Chung shopkeeper of the food store has reported to the police and the police tried to investigate the reason and they sent out two police, PC65253 and PC61384 to stay there and look for hints. But the next day the two police died beside the food store and they decided to close the file without an acceptable reason. After the news was out, no one has been to that food store again and the shopkeeper has committed suicide, because he is afraid of the curse and he can’t resist anymore.
To avoid tragedies, the C.Y Leung has decided to remove “Terror-land” and after C.Y Leung has accepted the offer from Ms. LAM AH SHUN, they removed it and the curse seemed to disappear, no monsters anymore but people in Tai Po continued to be affected by the psychological impact and they decided to move to somewhere else and the school became empty again and the curse seems to be back again.