I'm going to fail Core 40... That means I'll have to take a Final... and don't tell me I'm not going to fail I have a feeling I'm going to since I wasn't even able to finish both tests. I'm bound to have not answered about... maybe 8 questions from both tests (the most being the second quiz which was 6) and this is out of 28 (first test was 26) and there's also a LOT that I believe I've missed so... yup... I'm so screwed...
And I also have to raise my Algebra grade up... it's currently an 87 and I need to get it into at least the B range now... T.T I probably won't be able to because of the dang Core 40 which counts for at least 20% of your grade and I have 2 assignments that ARE F's. So I can't get an A like my teacher asked... I'd be able to if I wasn't so stressed out with everything and my mom continuously getting on me for every single thing in the world it seems.
The Biology Core 40 is tommorrow, but I'm more confident with that than anything ^^ I'm currently getting and A in that class (like all the others besides Algebra). The only thing I'm worried about is the fact we only have 45 minutes to finish that dang test... And that's barely anything. I'd at least give us an houre T_T Maybe that way I would've finished it...
Oh... and Maddison got upset today because of one of her friends... so I started to draw a broken-up heart that was shot and shattering on a brick wall background and she said that that was her heart right there. The dude in front of me looked at it though and asked if I was drawing broken eggs -_-' Then I turned the picture around and he said they were eggs in the shape of a heart... I didn't say anything though... I never talk at school really because there isn't a point...
And I had to re-draw Faye (Froslass gijinka) because I hated the first one... I'll have to re-draw a third time too I feel because I hate the pose >> (I can never be happy when I draw something...) I also have a ton more gijinkas that I created a long time ago and found again... I'll probably draw them... but I will have to get the two others into different pokemon...
Oh, and Cris also got into something after school with one of his friends. They literally shoved him down and Cris was kicking at the guy who was trying to hit him (and he fell with a loud thud too). My Algebra teacher was actually the one that had to break them up...
I got bored and then remembered that I wanted to look up some haunted things... well, I decided to look up somethings in Indiana and I came across a few that I have been told a long time ago. Here are some that I remember and looked up:
100 Step Cemetery - At midnight, if you walk up the stairs on the grassy side of the cemetery, there are graves dating back to the 1860s all around. On one's way up you count the steps. When you reach the top, you must turn toward the open field and the ghost of the cemetery's first undertaker will appear. Without saying anything he will reveal the climbers own death to them in a vision. The hiker MUST proceed down the steps, counting them again. If they do not get the same number as they counted before then they will die the way they saw but if they do the vision was wrong. If anyone dares to try to reach the top or level ground by not using the steps, they will be pushed to the ground by a phantom hand which will leave a red imprint on the persons back for several days so those who see it can see the mark of the Devil. Another version goes like this, Carpenter's Cemetery lies just west of 340 and US 40 on CR 675. Locally it is better known as 100 steps. Legend has it that, on the darkest nights when you can't see your hand in front of you, you can walk up the broken steps of this cemetery and count 100 steps. As you walk down, you can count only 99. Its a hard trick to do when there are only 60 or so steps there any other time. The night must be total and you must not be able to see where you step. Legend tells of those trying to walk beside the steps on the ground and of people being knocked down hard to the ground with handprints appearing on their chest. The legend continues that if you are able to safely navigate the steps in the pitch of darkness and make the magical count, then that night before the rise of the sun, the spirit of the original caretaker will make known to you the manner of your death.
Haunted House - coming from I-74 and hwy.44 at Shelbyville go towards Rushville to rays crossing. Look for big grain elevator then turn left at 600n. follow the rd. till it curves left then right then left to the T that is union rd. turn right. Go over bridges (rd.curves a lot). The house sits on left side all by itself about 5 mi. from first bridge. Story has it a young girl was accidentally shot in this house. You will definitely know this house when you see it. It is a boarded up mansion and has barb wire fence around the whole thing so no one can get in. There is a bright light shinning on the house at night. The house is pad locked and there is keep out signs on the front and lots of graffiti. You can still go and stand outside the fence. You can hear scratching on the boarded up windows coming from the inside and on the front doors. Each time it got louder and louder like something was trying to get out. It sounds like someone pacing hard wood floors on the inside. Moaning can be heard and faint talking. Kids used to go inside and perform rituals but a lot of kids were hurt in the house and bad things happened to them so they make sure no one goes in now.
Werewolf Hollow - If you drive down the lane at Werewolf Hollow, there is a stop sign. Look close and you will see blood flowing on it. As you go on, there are cornfields. You can see a male ghost. Be careful not to stop your car because he will scratch your car. He is trying to warn you not to go on. There are some abandoned houses and if you get out of your car (if you dare) and go up to the houses, you can see a ghost in one window. In another window, you hear noises and a hole in it.
I looked around and found some more I remembered:
The Haunted Bridge - a railway bridge over White Lick Creek. The ghost of an Irish worker who was killed many years is said to haunt the remains of this old railroad trestle in Central Indiana. He was one of many Irish workers who were hired cheap to help build a bridge across White Lick Creek back in the 1850's. The workers were building pylons that would support the bridge and doing this by framing up the sides of a base and pouring concrete inside. One afternoon, a wooden platform collapsed and dumped one of the workers into the wet cement. He slowly sank into the pylon and the other workers could hear his fists hammering against the wooden sides as he drowned. There had been nothing that could have been done to save him...one minute he was there and the next he had vanished! Construction was delayed for several hours while the company tried to decide what to do. Finally, they declined to tear the pylon apart to find the body of a man who was obviously dead and work continued, despite the protests of some of the more superstitious workers. For some years after that, local residents reported the sounds of the man's final screams as he pitched into the concrete. They also claimed, along with a number of railroad men, that the sounds of hammering could be heard coming from inside the concrete pylon. After the trestle was torn down many years later, people started to report the apparition of the man could be seen wandering the area, trying to flag down oncoming trains.
Tall dark and handsome - If you drive down Elizaville Rd. early in the morning (1:00am-3:30am) you are likely to see to see a man beast standing about 7feet tall that looks like a towering shadow. It's not certain why he wanders the fields, churches, and cemeteries (Browns Wonder). All that is known is he is in search of someone or something very important to him. If you get out of your car and scream bloody murder into the night sky he will track you down and drag your body into his domain where you will be eaten bones and all. Many missing people have been linked to the mysterious small town of Elizaville. Maybe a murderer is responsible, but this figure has been reported wandering those parts since 1924!!!
Hell's Gate - Go through Brazil going north on the main road. You will go over a bridge or overpass then you turn left on 1500 road. Go down that street until you get to an old train tunnel. Stop the car and flash your lights three times. Then go through and turn around. Go through again, but stop in the middle this time. Turn your car off and sit there for 10 minutes. Then the graffiti will start to glow and blood will run down the walls. If you see your name on the wall, banging on the windows and the roof of the car will start. After it stops, start car again and go through. There is a tree and you will see (if you see your name on the wall) two kids hanging from the tree, but don't stay to look around go fast cause after you see your name your supposed to die. There are seven different bridges in that area and you are supposed to drive through all of these bridges starting by going down Coal Bluff Rd. and at the end of driving through all 7, you look back and you will see Hell's Gates closing behind you.
Diana Of The Dunes - Around 1915, the area that is now the Dunes State Park in northern Indiana was mostly uninhabited wilderness. The stories spread around the vicinity of Chesterton , Indiana that fishermen who were along the beach at certain times of the day had been lucky enough to catch a glimpse of a naked woman swimming in the lake. The story spread that a beautiful woman was living as a hermit along the beach and her notoriety grew to a point that many compared her to the ancient Greek goddess Diana...hence the name of this legendary creature. In truth, her name was Alice Marble Gray and she was the daughter of an influential couple from Chicago . Alice had traveled extensively and was cultured and educated. She had worked in the city as an editorial secretary for a popular magazine, so what had made her take up the lonely life of a recluse. Some have claimed that Alice came to the dunes because of a broken love affair but actually she left the city life because her deteriorating eyesight had made her work impossible. She had sought refuge in the rough land that she had enjoyed as a child. Alice moved into an abandoned fisherman's cottage on the beach and lived a life of peace, borrowing books from the library, walking in the woods and of course, swimming naked in the chilly waters of Lake Michigan . In 1920, Alice met a drifter named Paul Wilson and he moved into the cabin with her. He was an unemployed boat builder with a shaky past but he seemed to make Alice happy and the two of them stayed together until 1922.... when tragedy struck. The badly burned and beaten body of a man was found on the beach and police suspected that Wilson had a hand in the murder. He was questioned but eventually let go. He and Alice moved to nearby Michigan City , Indiana, where they made a small living selling handmade furniture. Alice bore her husband two daughters but he treated her terribly, often beating her severely. In 1925, Alice died in her home, shortly after the birth of her second daughter. The official cause of death was said to be uremia poisoning...complicated by repeated blows to her back and stomach. Wilson disappeared and later turned up in a California prison, serving time for auto theft. The fate of Alice's daughters is unknown. Legends of the dunes say that Alice still returns to the beach and the wilderness that she loved so much. Over the years, many have claimed that they have seen the ghostly figure of a nude woman running along the sand or disappearing into the water.
Spooky Hallow - One night a guy and a girl were out driving around and the guy thought it would be funny to scare her by taking her to the old bridge. So, he made up a story about the place to set the scene. When they arrived, he stopped the car on the bridge and turned off the headlights. When the engine stopped running, he pretended to be scared and told his date that the car had just died. Not long after they had been parked, they heard a strange noise outside. It seemed to be coming from the roof of the car. The guy assured his date that it was nothing and he confessed to trying to scare her. She wasn't satisfied and he decided to prove it to her by getting out of the car and looking around to be sure they were alone. The girl waited for her date to return, but he never did. After a few minutes, the noise continued. It became a very unmistakable scratching noise. The girl was getting mad at this point and she, too left the vehicle to find her date. When she got out and looked up she was horrified to see her date hanging by his feet from a beam on the bridge. He was bloody and blowing in the wind, causing his nails to scrape on the roof of the car. Story is that if you shine your lights under the bridge and flash your lights three times you can see the woman hanging. Also, from experience cars have died with the lights flashing inside and no explainable reason.
Gypsy Graveyard - At the back of this cemetery, one can find fresh dirt from gypsy graves from the 1800's. Also, glowing figures seem to move towards you as you approach it. Visitors beware, people have been known to get raped and killed when visiting this site.
Blood Road - It is County Road 700 just off the Eaton Pike outside of Dunkirk, Indiana, a small town north of Muncie. The story is that a farmer and his young son used to ride up to the fields and the woods to do work, and the young boy would always jump out of the back of the truck when it was going down the road. So one day the farmer got tired of it and put a chain around the boys waist and hooked it to the truck to keep him from jumping out. While on their way home from the fields the farmer hit a large bump in the road, a bump that is still there to this day, and the boy fell out. The unknowing farmer kept on driving and drug his son all the way back to their house, which is over 2 miles away, behind the truck. If you drive down the road heading west you can not see anything, but if you turn around at the next crossroad and head back east, after you go over the bump, you will see a trail of blood on the road from where the boy was drug behind the truck. Also the house where they lived is reported to be very haunted, because the story says that the farmer was so disturbed by what he had done that he buried the boy's remains in the basement of the house.
Carroll High School - It is believed that Carroll High School is cursed and haunted. Every year a junior student dies surprisingly, and eventually the student comes back to haunt and be known. One example, not mentioning the name, a girl who died, came back to be remembered. A day after her death, in class, a boy took her original seat and fell off. To everyone's surprise, they asked him if he was alright. He then replied, in a shocked look, "No, not really." The teacher asked why. He replied back "I didn't fall, I was pushed." However, some former students say that this story is not true and they have never heard of this incident happening.
Columbia City - The Haunted Jail, the ghost of a murderer is said to haunt the site of the retired jail. It is now used as a haunted house throughout the Halloween season, and members who work there in the off-season report a lot of paranormal activity. Noises such as footsteps and scraping along walls are also reported the only thing that runs is the electricity, there is nothing as far as a heating system to be mistaken for the noises. There is a door that always must remain open if it is shut when you walk away and come back it is always open. Some workers have seen some blurry object touch there hand, and feel something touch their shoulders. Then there is the 3rd floor, there isn't much in there, and some say it's the most haunted part of the jail. There is supposed to be a woman's ashy foot prints on the wall, but there is nothing that could cause ash to be up there. One night one of the workers had set his keys down stairs and took his girlfriend up to the 3rd floor, he had told her not to say abbagail (Charles Butler's, the murderer, wide that he murdered) three times, though she did. When they went back down stairs, every light was off and his keys were laying on the floor.
Devil's hollow - On Cedar Canyons Rd. right before Auburn Rd. If you look up on the hill to the right you can see what looks to be a chimney stack, however it is just a smoke stack for an out door barbeque at someone's house. There have been police reports and arrests made from cults going up there and sacrificing goats and pigs and various other satanic ceremonies occurring. If you go there at midnight you're supposed to be able to have a sense that she is still there and haunting. This is stronger if you go there during a full moon. The story goes that a woman lived in a house up on a hill by herself. This old woman would speak to a friend about how there was kids that would break stuff on her property, sneak up to the windows and look in, and overall harass her. They would tell people she was a witch. One night in early 80's these teens set her house on fire and wouldn't let her out of it. The building stood for a while but now all that stands is the chimney. people who go there for a "spook show" are run off by the ghost of this woman because she feels like they are no better than the teens that killed her. There was no new house built on her hill. After a few years what was left of the house was caving in and police were down investigating the area so the falling house was tore down and removed but they left the chimney. There is still a police investigation on this. The teens who did this has not been found.
Moody Lane - The story is back in the horse and buggy days, two brothers were out for a ride. One brother fell off and the wheel decapitated him. The light is the lantern of the other brother looking for the head. The brother is with his lantern passing one row at a time in the corn. If you go when the corn is down, you will see a light come towards you. If the corn is up (the best time to go) you see the orange/red glow from the lantern at the end of a row. It will move through the row of corn and you can see the light above the corn. It's slowly moves to the end of the row and back to the start of the row. Then it will move up one more rows. You can watch the light come closer and closer one row at a time. What you are supposed to do is drive down the lane, turn around and drive back down it, turn your car around, park it and flash your lights three times and then shut them off. Then you will see the light cross the road.
Reeder Road - A girl named Elizabeth Wilson drowned in a swamp after the car she was riding in went off the road into a swamp. People say that if you drive down the road at night you can see Elizabeth waiting on the side of the road waiting for a ride back to her house down the road. People who claimed to give her a ride back to her house get as far as Ross cemetery before she disappears. The same cemetery that she was buried in 1955.
Another story that has been told is it was a cool fall night and a guy and his girlfriend were parked on the side of the road for a little late night make out session. They were all cozy there, when they started hearing a scraping sound on the roof of the car. The boyfriend would tell his girlfriend that its fine, its just the wind. A little more time passes and the scraping starts getting louder and faster. The girl obviously a little uneasy asks that her boyfriend take a look. So he gives in and says ill just be right back. Its now been a bit, and the scrapping hasn't stopped and the boyfriend hasn't returned. The girl, who is now getting worried about her boyfriend, gets out of the car to have a look. When she gets out of the car, she finds her boyfriend hanging by his belt from the tree. It's said that on some cool fall nights, especially near Halloween, that you can go there and park your car and here scrapping on the roof. Around solstices and equinox's, if you were to go there that there are various satanic rituals that occur, including sacrifices of animals. Every Halloween the people that live in the house at the end of the road, place an ad in the local paper here, asking that people leave them alone that there are "real" people who live here and do not wish to be bothered.
Dan's Run - Daniel Guthrie was murdered and placed in a shallow grave near the corner of Pixley Knob Road and Cemetery Hill (Mountain Grove). Guthrie's body remained undetected for one year before being found, unearthed and reburied in nearby Mt. Zion Cemetery . The hole he was buried in is still open (about 4-feet deep) near the edge of the woods. Homes in the nearby area have experienced sightings of a young man with a large, handlebar bushy mustache, doors open and close by themselves, footsteps walking up and down hallways at night, footprints found outside bedroom windows, objects moving by themselves, and ghostly whispers. Also, a tape recorder left on Guthrie's gravestone in Mt. Zion later revealed a faint, haunting man's voice crying, "Help me, God help me, please help me..."
Devils Road - long time ago on these train tracks a bus load of kids got hit by a train, leaving all of them dead but the driver of the bus, so he went crazy and shot himself while standing on the tracks, some say that if you go and park your car on the tracks, put your car in neutral, the kids will push you off the tracks, some have even seen the glowing headless man walking towards their car from the tracks, and then disappear.
The Strand Movie Theater - The Strand is said to be haunted by one of it's previous owners. There have been multiple sightings of the man. First there was a woman cleaning the theater one day with her 3 and 5 year old children running around. As she was cleaning one of the theater's she heard her children screaming. She went to see what was going on and they both told her that there was a man at the top of the stairs (the stairs that led to the balcony). The woman called one of the workers in and he asked the kids what the man looked like. They gave him�a very elaborate description. A few days later that same worker was closing up after the shows and was making sure the emergency exits were closed. As he walked out of the hallway to the one exit he looked up to the projection room and saw a man duck his head really quickly. The man fit the same description the 3 and 5 year old children gave just days before. He ran immediately upstairs; the only way to get to the projection room and there was no one to be found. About a week later a man came along and bought The Strand and the worker noticed this man looked very familiar. He talked to the man and found out that the man's father used to own The Strand as well and killed himself in the projection room years before. I heard this story from one of the workers at the theater now; the same man who saw the ghost when he was a teen working at the theater. The ghost has since been spotted watching people through the projection room window, but ducks immediately upon being spotted.
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