Name: Oscar rodriguez cruz Number:

Course: Professor:
Effective presetation whokshop Armando Montes
Module: Activity:
3 act 13
Date:
Bibliography:

A corpse in bed

A group of friends had decided to go to [...] to spend a few days. They

checked into the hotel and went up to their room to leave their luggage, but
noticed a peculiar smell, as if they had forgotten to take out the trash or had
not flushed the toilet. However, everything seemed to be in order, so they left
and did not return until late in the evening.

The smell had gotten noticeably worse throughout the day and was now
almost unbearable, so they called maintenance to locate the source. The
person they were sent looked under the beds, inside the closets, even sniffed
the drains and vents, but could not find the source of the odor. In the end,
they cleaned the room with generous amounts of perfumed products, set
the ventilation to maximum and wished the group of friends a good night.
The stench was, for the moment, masked, and as they were exhausted, they
went to bed. One of them hid her purse under the mattress, as she was
accustomed to doing in hotels.

They all slept until well into the morning: large rays of sunlight were already
entering the room, making it extremely warm. The stench was still present and
more potent than ever. One of the women, by now quite irritated, called the
housekeeping department again to complain. She then called the hotel
manager to complain some more. A small army of management and
maintenance staff showed up shortly, and once again, they rummaged
around to no avail. However, they all agreed that the smell was unbearable,
so management offered to move the friends to a different room.

They gathered their things to go down to the lobby, but when the lady who
had hidden the purse rummaged under the mattress, she touched
something that looked suspiciously like a human hand. They removed the
mattress from on top of the bed and there, in a gap between the springs of
the box spring, was a dead man. It was evident that he had been murdered
in the room and the murderer had hidden him between the mattress and the
box spring. He had cut out a part of the springs of the bed base so that the
body would not form a bulge in the bed.

[From Tened miedo... Mucho miedo. The book of urban legends of terror, by
Jan Harold Brunvand].

8. The bony hand

A seven-year-old girl had stayed with her grandmother in her small

apartment because her parents had gone to the movies. Everything was
normal, they had dinner and laughed for a while chatting together. At ten
o'clock at night, the grandmother started to do some sewing, and the little
girl started to watch TV, but suddenly the grandmother felt incredibly thirsty,
and asked her granddaughter if she could bring her a glass of water.

-It's dark," said the girl.

-Don't be afraid, follow the corridor, there's a switch right next to the
bathroom door.

The girl made up her mind, and when she entered the corridor she could not
see anything because it was so dark, so she went up to a wall and blindly felt
and groped around in search of a switch. As she continued walking and
reached the door frame of the bathroom, she stopped and continued
groping, and suddenly she noticed how a bony hand tried to drag her into
the darkness of the bathroom. The girl managed to pull away and went
crying to her grandmother. Since then, the girl has been in psychological
treatment. What happened, if there were only the two of them in the house
and the grandmother was in the living room sewing?

[From the Scary Stories for Camps section of the oral popular culture website
Anecdonet].

9. Who turned off the psychophonies?

What I am about to relate is absolutely true and relatively recent, it
happened to me about six months ago. I am very curious about the world of
spiritualism, psychophonies and others, but at the same time it scares me.

A classmate gave me a CD with some psychophonies recorded on it. My

brother suggested that I take a laptop with me to listen to the CD while he
took a shower, and so we did. Before listening to the first psychophony, a
voice introduced the CD and made a warning: "Never listen to it in the dark".
At that point, to scare my brother, I turned off the light in the bathroom and
he shouted, "Turn on the light!". When I turned it on, the record was no longer
playing. Someone had hit the stop button. It wasn't me, I'm sure of that
because I had my finger on the light switch, and neither was my brother, he
was inside the bathtub and more than two meters away from the laptop.
Who turned off the psychophonies? I don't know, and I'm not sure I want to
know.