Mary's Wood by H.G.

2001 9th nov: No one ever went through Mary’s woods. The wait was over .
Halloween had arrived. My friends and I had been looking forward to it for a long
time. Me and my friends range from sixteen to eighteen in age. We’ve been friends
for years and Halloween was our favourite night of the year .Only thing is that I
live next to a place where people have been known to disappear , they found one
girl dead here last year actually..It’s called Mary’s woods.

We said we would stay away from it. It had reached eight o’clock and we were out.
My friend who is eighteen, john brought out some drinks...Like beer. We were on
our way to an outing with a bonfire when we drove by Mary’s woods. John was
driving . He put his foot on the brake slowly as we approached by the woods . I
asked him what he was doing and told him to drive .We were late as it was.

Myself, Jay and Connor looked at each other, Connor told John to listen to me and
go ahead. John had a curios look upon his face. I was thinking if he was to even
attempt to get out and go into the woods, I would pull him back. He put his eyes
back on the road and pressed the accelerator. We sat there in silence. How long till
were there? Were not even near yet ! said john. Okay okay, calm down. Something
wrong? I asked. No . He kept silent for a while . He started to twitch and shake a
bit while driving. What are you doing ? I asked. He did not reply, he pulled over. We

all got out of the car. John was walking left to right panicing . Jay got frustrated
and tackled john to the ground. What are you at! ! Jay said. John shoved Jay off ,
stood up and started saying that we needed to drive back to the woods , I thought
to myself, “I knew this would happen!” Why! I asked. I was frustrated with john,
we all were. “Why do you want to go back?” John looked down at the floor like a
child when they’ve done something bad. His voice quivered a bit. “well?” I asked.
He said to us as we past he got a feeling he hadn’t felt for years. It was a felling of
doubt and bad luck. I started to get goosebumps , thinking that we might end up
going back to the woods because John was serious about this. “Can we go back ,
please?” “Alright fine.” I said.

So we turned back. I could feel myself getting butterflies and I started to imagine
things that would happen when were there. As we approached to park beside
the woods the car suddenly stopped causing us to all to push forward. “What
happened? !” I shouted. There was no reply . I slowly looked around to the
passenger seat. Jay’s head was still from the back . I did not want to look at his
face. So I sat back in my seat, shaking with fear, I felt something in the boot touch
my lower back. I looked into the boot and there was nothing. A small grunt came
from the driving seat. John said ina painful voice , “I saw something standing in
front of the car , it jus caused me to stop, im sorry is everyone ok?” he looked over
at jay and froze.

He let out a huge scream. He jumped out of the car and I followed. I ran to the
window of the passenger seat and there was Jay split in half. Connor let out a huge
scream in the back. I could barley see into the car. I walked closer and Connor was
getting thrown around the car, like he was being possessed, John pulled me and
we both ran into the woods. I was running with John through the woods and I
started to feel weak and out of no where I blacked out , several hours later I woke
up, it was still dark and I was lying on a bunch of spread out dead leaves. I saw
something in the distance and I started to walk over to it slowly. There John was

hanging from a tree by a rope looking down at the floor. The wind blew him side to
side , I was so scared I couldn’t even scream. I stepped back slowly and felt a gasp
of air brusk across my back…

2002 7th march: No one ever went through Marys woods. Halloween had arrived…