Bob Myers(Hubert) We just moved in into a house near the countryside. We also bought the farm and paddy field that is just beside our house. I could only see 4 or 5 houses near our new home. My name is Bob Myers, a father, and a husband. I am retired now. We would like to try something different and I hope that I can enjoy my life here in the countryside. My wife agreed to move with me because she would like to enjoy the life in countryside, away from big cities, traffic jams and other disadvantages of living in a city.
It is my first day in running a farm. My family assists me. I am excited in particularly about my family helping me out. It would be a harder job if I did it alone. For the paddy field, I and my wife specially made a handmade scarecrow to scare away birds from eating the crops. It is made from straws and strings. After we finished making the scarecrow, we put it on the middle of the paddy field.
My son is an owner of a private enterprise back in the city and he will be coming this Saturday, inviting his friends to join him in his home coming. We are going to have a party to welcome him. They will be staying here for a week.
Everything is set, cakes, balloons, games and all the things that will make everybody happy and will make them feel exactly at their own house even though they are at the countryside which some people may think that it is boring and worst than having a life in a city. Although there are no malls, coffee shop or other places that is usually the source of their happiness, I would make them feel the Mother Nature.
Something peculiar happened in the night before the home coming of my son. It was exactly 22.59 when I woke up from my sleep. I heard 3 loud knocks on the door. As I just moved in the same week, my first thought is that it could be my new neighbor. I thought, “Why does my neighbor knock on my door at 23.00?” I armed myself with my rifle, preparing for the worst possibility that could happen. I slowly approach the front door of my house.
When I peeked through the door hole, I saw nothing but black. “Who are you?” I screamed. I waited for a few moments and peeked through the hole again, and I saw the same thing that I saw before, black color. I opened the door and found nothing except the bright silvery moonlight that shined across all of my house and especially the front door.
I couldn’t sleep that night. I kept on thinking about who is that mysterious person may be. I also remembered that when I peeked through the door hole, I could see nothing but black but when I opened the door, the moonlight was shining across the house and the front door. “Why I could not see anything but black?” This was the question that kept me awake. I made a speculation that maybe the door hole is dirty. I fell asleep after making that speculation.
The next day I woke up and rushed to the door to check the door hole. Nothing was wrong with it. I could see through the door hole clearly. “Maybe I was sleepy last night.” That was the first thought that come to me. That evening was the day that my son’s home coming. I and my wife went to the bus stop to pick our son up. At 15.30 we went to the bus stop. We arrived at the bus stop at 16.00. I saw my son coming off the bus and he only brought one of his friends, a girl, probably his girlfriend. We chatted on our way home. My son said that his company was really doing well and he is going to marry the girl that he brought with him, his girlfriend. My wife was really happy and she was hoping that we could maybe have our grandchild in the near future. He asked my wife if I had been taking medication for my sickness. “Why do you ask your mother about my medication in this occasion?” I felt a little bit offended. The situation became really awkward. We kept quiet for the rest of the journey.
After arriving at home, we celebrated my son’s home coming by having a party. Everyone was happy. But I couldn’t stop thinking about what happened last night. I went to sleep early. The next day I planned to teach our son in farming. That was my idea and my wife did not really support me. That was the worst day of my life. When we were just about to tell our son that we were going to teach him farming, he felt ashamed because he had to do farming in front of his future wife. He rejected my offer in a rude way. My wife, who at first did not support my idea, also said to me that this was the dumbest idea that I had ever thought of.
I felt really sad. I locked myself in my bedroom while my wife and my son had fun, they didn’t even bother to call me to have dinner with them. My wife went in the bedroom that night. She didn’t asked if I were hungry and just when to sleep. That night I dreamt something really weird.
I dreamt that I woke up one night, unable to sleep; I went outside to get some fresh air. I was standing on my balcony went I saw something strange. There was something moving in the field. The scarecrow that they made just moved away from its spot. I was shocked. I could barely move. And a few seconds later, I heard 3 loud knocks on the door, this time the door of my bedroom!
I was frozen. I couldn’t even walk to the door. And then suddenly I heard my son and his future wife screamed. The scarecrow must have hurt them. I braced myself and asked my wife to stay inside the bedroom. I opened the door and saw blood splashed all on the wall in front of my bedroom. I rushed to my living room to grab my rifle. Just when I was just about to go up to check on my son and his girlfriend, I heard my wife screamed. I broke into my bedroom and saw my wife with a rake stabbed on her throat.
And the cruel killer stood before the body of my wife, its eyes was as black as coal and I could see that he was smiling, as if felt very satisfied in killing all the members of my family. It jumped out of the balcony and when I rushed out the balcony, I could not see any trails from the scarecrow. The scarecrow was not spotted in the field as well.
I woke up felt scared. This nightmare had been haunting me since the day that my son came home or since 10 years ago. My son, his future wife, and my wife had been death for 10 years. Although I believed that the scarecrow was the one who killed all of my family members, the police officers did not. They said that there was no scarecrow made and I am the one who did all of that. I never believe that.
Bob Myers currently at mental hospital serving life imprisonment because of brutally killed his own wife with a rake, his son and his future wife with a rifle 10 years ago.

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