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This is a special Listener Terrors episode. The stories sent
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in by you are micro-terror listeners. Send in your own
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story at micro-terrors.com. Whoa! Welcome to MicroTerrors. Scary stories for kids.
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Where it's always the spooky season. Full of chills. Thrills.
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And spine-tingling spooks. MicroTerrors are family-friendly frights for those ages
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8 and up. And while our stories are for younger ears,
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we are still talking about things that go bump in
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the night, and some children may not be able to
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handle what others can. Parental consent is recommended. Now, for
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tonight's Micro Terror. Knock Knock by Declan, age 11. The
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gravel crunched under Ben's boots. The night was silent. Ben's
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mind raced. All he could think about was the movie
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he'd just watched. It was called Knock, Knock, from the
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Horror Stories brand, Terror. He had read all the Terror
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books and listened to all the Terror podcast episodes. Ben
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loved horror, so naturally he was in heaven when the
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new Terror movie came out. After he had walked for
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a while, Ben saw his house emerge out of the darkness.
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He could hear his dad playing the guitar in the
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living room. He opened the door with a creak and
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said hello to his dad, then went to take a shower.
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That night, all he thought about was the movie. It
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was about a boy that had created an evil spirit
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with his own imagination. The boy meant for the spirit
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to be his friend, but the spirit went evil and
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destroyed everything the boy had. His house, his family, and
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then even him himself. In the movie, nobody believed the
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boy when he heard scratching at his bedroom door. Then
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the boy started to hear the knocks, but still no
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one believed him. Then one night it came for him.
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The boy was never seen again. Ben thought about this
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for the rest of the night. When the sun rose
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over the horizon, Ben woke up and got ready for school.
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When he got on the bus, he saw his two
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best friends, Connor and Sophia. They gestured for him to
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sit down, and he did. Ben told them all about
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the movie. He said, It was so scary. There was
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a jump scare at every turn. Ben kept talking until
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the bus had arrived at the school. Ben kept thinking
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about the movie the whole day, all through ELA, all
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through math, even during recess, his favorite part of the day.
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That night, Ben could swear he heard scratching at his door,
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just like the movie. He was terrified.
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His mind was going wild all night so that he
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couldn't sleep. He told Connor and Sophia the next day,
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but they dismissed him as crazy. Ben started to feel
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like he really was going crazy. After he took a
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shower that night, Ben went to sleep thinking about the scratching.
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He woke up at three in the morning and he
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heard the mysterious scratching at his door still. This went
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on for days until Ben heard a knock, knock at
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his door. Suddenly, the door creaked open, and a figure
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silhouetted by a shadow appeared at the door. Knock, knock, Ben,
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he said. The Zoo Monster by Monroe, age 8 Once
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there was a little girl named Annie. One day, Annie
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went to the zoo with her family. While she was
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walking around, she saw a strange sign that said, Monster Exhibit.
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Annie laughed and said, Yeah, right. There's probably nothing behind
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that wall. She stayed there, watching for a moment. Then
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she saw one of the zookeepers carrying a long stick
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with a piece of meat on the end. He carefully
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lifted the stick over the tall wall. Suddenly, whatever was
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behind the wall snatched the meat so fast that Annie
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couldn't even see it. Curious, Annie slowly walked closer to
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the wall and peeked inside. Suddenly, a huge hand shot
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out from the darkness, grabbed Annie by the neck, and
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pulled her over the wall. Annie let out a blood-curdling scream.
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The zookeepers came running, but it was too late. By
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the time they looked inside, there was nothing left of Annie,
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except a pile of bones. The Chasing Figure by Marley,
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age 10 I breathe in the cold, shallow air. The
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kind you find only on foggy days in the very
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depths of the darkest forest. The kind of place I
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am hiding in right now. It lurks in that kind
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of dark forest, ready to pounce on anything and everything
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it can. So, there I lay, innocently hiding under a
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hollow tree root, only taking deep, slow breaths of freezing
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shallow air in case it hears me. No one knows
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what this creature, this thing, is. Not even me, who's
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being hunted by it. But we call it the chasing figure.
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It stalks these types of forests, waiting for its prey
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to come wandering in. First it watches and follows you.
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Then it scares you by snapping gigantic branches or logs
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that no human being could ever do, even with a chainsaw,
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so you know someone or something is following you. watching you,
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and imagining you being devoured in their gruesome hands just
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how the piece.
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Of wood was.
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After that, you will have gone from walking to a sprint,
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a scramble to the end of the forest from just
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knowing that something is watching you. That's what happened to me.
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I am one of the lucky few who were not
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caught and eaten. I can still hear it tracing around
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the tree I hide in, crunching and crushing and scratching
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and stomping ruthlessly around the tree. It is frustrated. It
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knows I'm hiding there, but it's too big to squeeze
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through and grab me. So here I sit, curled up
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in an empty ball of fear. I know it can
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sense fear, and I tried holding it back, but I
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just can't fight this overwhelming sense of pure dread. The
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type that stands the hair up on the back of
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your neck. The type that makes you feel like you
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are a tiny thing that means absolutely nothing compared to
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your fears. The type where you just know how badly
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this could and will end. My mind races through how
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badly this could end, but as I do, I sense
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it getting closer until all I feel is its ice-cold
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breath on my back. It smells like death. Sorrow and despair,
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all the things I'm feeling right now in these very moments.
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Then I feel a shivering, thin, bony, freezing hand reach
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out and grab my shirt. It pulls and tugs on
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it as hard as it can until I'm being choked
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with my own shirt and being pressed up against the massive,
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rough tree roots. I say goodbye to my life. As
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I kiss it goodbye, I know I will be eaten alive,
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smelling the decay of its rotting mouth.
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Goodbye.
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Thank you all for being such dedicated micro-terrorist listeners. Next week,
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we have our final listener terror episode of the year,
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featuring a single terrifying story.
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In the meantime.
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Be sure to head on over to Microterrors.com to check
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next week!
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This has been a special Listener Terrors episode, with stories
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sent in by you, our Microterror listeners. Thank you for
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listening to MicroTerrors. Join us each Saturday for another scary story.
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your friends. I hope you'll join us again soon for MicroTerrors,
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scary stories for kids.