Babysitter Woes

From: Trisha (NyokoKuri@aol.com)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Child's Room
Source: Form Submission

I babysit, a lot. Mainly I babysit this four yearold little girl who lives above me. I'm scared to death of her room, from a few experinces. I was babysitting late at night, and she simply refused to go to sleep, I picked her up to carry her into the room to put her to sleep, and she started screaming, crying, refused to go in. I thought it was simply because she didn't want to go to sleep. So, I asked "Why are you scared?"

"THE MONSTER THE MONSTER THE MONSTER!". She was truly scared, I don't mean " I'm scared, hold me." I mean, she wouldn't go in there for the life of her. So I closed the door, and put her to sleep on the couch. The next day, I was babysitting again. It was around 8 P.M, and it was dark outside. All of a sudden, the power surged, causing everything in the house to go out. When the lights came on, there was a "Peek-A-Boo". Now, she has a doll that says 'Peek-a-boo' that you have to push it's stomach. But it's on the top shelf in the closet, where she can't reach. It didn't have any dolls by it at the time. We both bolted out of the room.

I decided to give her room one more try. We were sitting in there playing candyland a week later. All of a sudden she clang to me, and cried. "It's gonna get me it's gonna get me!" So I picked her up, ran out of the room, not even stopping to flip the lights off as I left. People say children's imaginary friends are ghosts.. Well, what about their imaginary monsters...?