Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark

Video Log

Ah.: Shh. You hear it Cy.?

(Pause)

Cy.: No. What am I supposed to be hearing?

Ah.: A sort of knocking, scratching.

Ba.: I swear-

Ah.: Shut the fuck up! (Ba. turns to Ah., shocked) It's a rapping kind of sound.

Ba.: Yeah, I hear it. So what, must be mice or something. Let's go down. Not even the first landing and somebody chickens out.

(Ba. shines floodlamp downwards. Light illuminates approx. 14 stairs)

Ba.: Lets go then

(Clanging of metal as team descends stairwell. Camera is pointed downwards)

Ah.: For the folks who've been underground, this stairway here (Pause) was built several months ago. Seems the admins crapped it out real bad. I mean, no lights. Just lightbulbs. (Camera is passed to Ah., who turn it upwards) And they won't switch on. It's pitch-black in here.

(Team passes a window)

Ah.: Nice touch there. You can see S. Road from here.

Ba.: Yeah. (Ba. shines the floodlamp outside, illuminating a car on the street)

(Continued clanging, jerky camera focuses on Al.)

Ah.: This stairway used to be the prop cupboard. Yeah, stereotype right? I mean, ghost of the mannequin torso and stuff. (Laughs) Anyway, there's supposed to be-

(Al. stops, shines floodlamp downwards)

Al.: Fuck. I saw something.

Ah.: And newbie freaks out.

Al.: Really. There was a light down there. Just a blip.

Al.: OK. I'm getting out of point position.

Ah.: Newbie, stay there.

(Al. resumes walking descending downwards, reluctantly this time)

Ah.: Supposed to be blood coming out of the walls and stuff.

Ba.: And the flying shoe.

Ah.: Hear that Al.? If you see any flying footwear-

(Laughter)

Al.: God, can't see anything in here.

Ah.: You're doing it wrong newbie. You're supposed to switch on the flashlight.

Al.: Ba.'s got the flashlight.

Ba.: Yeah.

(Pause, team stops)

Ba.: Cy., you got my breaklights?

Cy.: No. You were holding them, remember?

Ba.: You got 'em Al.?

Al.: No. How did you get my flashlight anyway? I was holding it just before we went inside.

Ba.: I was holding it. You must've left my breaklights upstairs.

Al.: No, I-

Ah.: OK. So fuck-up. Normal. Let's continue people.

Ba.: Editing this's gonna suck.

(Further descending down steps)

Ah.: Anyway, the other supposed haunting is a guy dubbed 'The Hangman' cause he's supposed to float around with a noose around his neck. Supposed to be the ghost of a worker who killed himself here.