GH5: The Bog Man-(2024)

by Dequincyx

Keegan, his 15-year old friend, Isaac, and Copper meet a 9-year old boy, who believes a monster is after him. When the kid disappears one night and is reported missing to police, Keegan, Isaac and Copper start an investigation of their own and discover that this monster business is real. And they soon learn that not everyone moves out of a house before someone else moves in.

2. GH5 2: Nightmare

The BOG-MAN.

GH5 2: Nightmare.

Everybody dreams...but no one really knows why. Dreams seem to come from our most private thoughts, our deepest hopes, and sometimes even our most horrible fears. But if dreams are so personal, then why do we dream of people in places we've never seen before? What's even stranger...why do some people report having the same dream at exactly the same time? Is it possible that the dream world is an actual place? One that's just as real as the waking world? The abridge original people of Australia believe that the waking world is actually made from the dream time. That what we call reality is literally the stuff that dreams are made of. And if that's true...who's to say which world is dream...and which is reality?

Fiona Phillips from 'So Weird'-(1999)
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Sitting at a desk in 4th grade, i, 14-year old Keegan Lewis, watched as a 9-year old boy, with brown hair and hazel brown eyes, stood before the class, holding up a drawing of a vaguely humanoid being composed of plant-matter in the form of a tree with a long face, glowing red eyes, pointed ears, a long hand-made cape, and three branches on it's forehead. My hair was still long and went down to my neck, but it was now wheat brown instead of light brown.

A female teacher was sitting at her desk in a black rolling-chair on the right side of the class, listening to the boy tell his story.

I could tell just by looking at the scene that it was Show And Tell, and wanting to find out what was going on, i continued to sit at my desk and listen to the 9-year old boy talk.

"It's hard to fend off the dark. Especially what hides within it. I see it sometimes out of the corner of my eye...hear it's footsteps behind me. I feel it every time i turn off the lights. My fear only makes it stronger. I know what it is. It's a monster. And the monster i know...has a name. "The Bog-Man"." The 9-year old boy said.

"The Bog-what?" The female teacher asked.

"The Bog-Man." The 9-year old boy said as he looked at the teacher, followed by refocusing on the class. "He abducts kids and he's after me. If he gets me...then he might come after one of you. So if i come up missing one day for no reason, you'll know that the Bog-Man got me."

A 9-year old girl raised her right hand. She had brown hair that went past her shoulders and stopped at her upper-back and her eyes were brown.

"Yes, Harper?" The teacher asked.

"I think i need to go to the bathroom." Said the 9-year old girl known as Harper.

A 9-year old boy long neck-length brown hair and brown eyes, placed his right hand over his mouth as he started laughing.

"You may be excused." Said the teacher before the girl known as Harper got up from her desk and rushed out of the class-room. "Connor...put your drawing on my desk." She said to the 9-year old boy holding the drawing of the monster.

The 9-year old boy now known as Connor placed his drawing of the Bog-Man on the teacher's desk as the school-bell rang.

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Edmonton, Alberta-Canada

August 17th, (2024)

"No!" I shouted as i jolted awake in bed, shirtless and sweating all over. "Get back, stay away!"

My loud voice also awoke my 9-week old brown-spotted Dalmatian puppy, Copper, who had been sleeping on the floor in his small puppy-basket.

"Keegan, it's me." Said aunt Candace's friend, Layla, as she walked into the bedroom. She was black, had black hair that went past her shoulders and stopped at her upper-back and her eyes were brown.

"What? What are you doing?" I asked, sitting up in my bed.

"Your Dad and aunt said we're gonna be at the Dale house soon, so you should get yourself together." Layla explained.

"(Sighs)." I sighed as i wiped sweat off my forehead with my right arm.

"Are you okay?" Layla asked.

"It was just...it was just a nightmare." I answered.

Layla then turned and left out of the room.

I then laid back down on the bed, realizing where i was. I was in an RV my Dad had rented, not school. I was on a road trip with my family, not in 4th grade. And i was glad about that.

But one question kept nagging at me: Why was i having that dream?

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