Bury the Head in Sand

written by

Miles Brown

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EXT. GARDEN -DAY
Two boys are playing outside in their garden. One is digging
in the ground and seems to find something, they come over to
the camera to show it.
CUT TO:

INT. LIVING ROOM -DAY

The same clip in black and white on a tv as the shot slowing
moves to show a group of teens sitting watching the TV as one
plays with a similar looking stone object to what the boy
had.
ABBY
See I told you I had seen it before
MADELINE
That doesn't make finding a
deformed rock in a charity shop any
cooler idiot
ABBY
Well I'm going to research tonight
and prove you wrong, this is
something cool
A shadow is seen passing the window, Danny turns to look just
as it disappears before turning back towards his friends
clearly thinking it was nothing. Humming can be heard.
CUT TO:

INT. DOORWAY - CONTINUOUS

Slow steps like knocking are heard as the teens approach
talking loudly about if the rock is cool or not. No one seems
to have heard the knocks but Danny who ignores them.
DANNY
Well it was nice seeing this
amazing discovery but my dad's car
is outside and I gotta...
Knocking is faintly heard
ABBY
Ok ok we'll stop, have a nice night
maybe go to sleep for once though
you look more nervous then usual
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Danny laughs it off as he looks around

DANNY
Yeah just thought I heard something
The girls clearly don't believe him. As the shot shows the
sky
CUT TO:

EXT. HOUSE - NIGHT

A wolf howling can be heard in the background.
MATCH CUT TO: LIGHT WHERE MOON WAS

INT. ABBY'S ROOM - CONTINUOUS

The head is seen on a side table as it suddenly gets pulled
away by an invisible force. It hits a wall which disturbs
Abby from where she is using a computer a a desk.
ABBY
(Sleepily)
Hello.... is anyone there?
Abby gets up to walk around and when her back is to the
window a small rock/pebble is thrown at it making her turn
around quickly and look out the window. Nothing is there just
darkness.

ABBY (CONT'D)
Strange
She sits down

OVERHEAD SHOT OF ABBY GOING TO SLEEP ON DESK

FADE TO BLACK.

INT. HALLWAY - CONTINUOUS

Alarm sounds as Abby hops whilst putting her shoe on as she
is trying to message at the same time grabbing the head and
putting it in her bag
MATCH CUT TO: TREE
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EXT. WOODS - CONTINUOUS

Abby walks up to the other two teens and sits pulling sweets
out of her bag to share with the others
ABBY
I did the research
MADELINE
Oh hurrah
The other two ignore her as Abby pulls out her computer to
show them
ABBY (V.O.)
Ok so
FADE TO: PUPPET SHOW
In 1971, the Robson family, who
lived in Hexham, England, were
driven away from their house due to
some strange occurrences. These
occurrences were reported to have
begun for them only after they
discovered two stone heads in their
garden.
Images like a puppet show appear of the two heads
ABBY (V.O.) (CONT'D)
One of those heads was called, “the
boy” due to the masculine shape of
the skull, whereas the other was
named “the girl” due to the
presence of female features and
long hair.
The heads stop moving as they are placed on a table
ABBY (V.O.) (CONT'D)
Perhaps the most horrifying
occurrence in the early days was
witnessed by one of the family
children. The front door to the
family home opened itself as they
passed, and outside was a
terrifying half-sheep, half-human
creature. A neighbour also saw the
creature outside the front door,
but by the time the family
responded to the child’s screams,
it had disappeared.
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A puppet hand pushes a door open as a child's face that looks

like the scream painting appears hand pointing at the door.
Footsteps and legs running.
ABBY (V.O.) (CONT'D)
The discovery of these stones
didn’t just bring curiosity but
also a sign of terror. The Robson
family started experiencing
paranormal activities around the
house. The heads were once seen
moving by unseen hands, and the
bottles around the house were
thrown across the rooms. These
activities were not limited to the
Robson family, as the kids in their
house found the stones, but also
linked to the neighbour's house.
Two houses are shown as crashes sound and people run past the
windows.
ABBY (V.O.) (CONT'D)
After the discovery was made and
the news reached the journalists
and newspapers, specialists in
neolithic art came to study the
Hexham heads. Even the experts were
facing difficulties in dating these
stone heads. They were examined
thoroughly multiple times, but the
results were always different from
the last report.
The heads on a white table surrounded by lots of small
equipment with a microscope going back and forth in front of
it.
ABBY (V.O.) (CONT'D)
The heads were generally thought to
be linked back to the Celtic
tradition. Dr Anne Ross, an expert
on such art, took on the job of
researching and analysing the
Hexham heads.
A woman sitting at her desk thinking with the heads in front
of her
ABBY (V.O.) (CONT'D)
But in taking on the heads she also
exposed herself to the curse.
(MORE)
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ABBY (V.O.) (CONT'D)
Later she would outline in her
reports that she saw a half-wolf,
half-man figure walking around
upstairs in her house.

A wolf head outline appears in the window behind her.

ABBY (V.O.)
Soon, it became clear to all who
lived there that these Hexham
stones had some supernatural
influence on them. The stones were
removed from the house, and the
hauntings stopped.
Someone taking the heads through a door and it closing with a
bang.
MATCH CUT TO: TREE

EXT. WOODS - AFTERNOON

THE TEENS STILL SITTING AS THE CAMERA GOES AROUND THEM

ABBY
However, nobody could have foreseen
what happened next. A man named
Desmond Craige came forward who
claimed that he had made the
stones. He said that in 1956, while
he was living in the house that the
Robson family occupied later, he
made three of these stones for her
daughter to play with.

IT SWITCHES TO A SHOT CLOSER TO ALL THE TEENS

Movement can be seen behind the trees making Danny look over
only to see nothing.
ABBY (CONT'D)
Several researchers have spent
their time with the Hexham heads
over several years. Finally, the
heads fell into the possession of
Southampton University and were
then passed onto a psychic in the
year 1978.
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POV FROM THE MONSTER STALKING THEM

Heavy breathing and a heart beat can be heard quietly
ABBY (CONT'D)
After that, the stones were
presumed lost, as there is no
present record of the location or
guardian of those stone heads.
MADELINE
Epic
DANNY
No not epic what if we get cursed
MADELINE
None of that's real obviously
ABBY
Hey you don't know that
MADELINE
Yeah because somethings going to
appear out of the woods and haunt
us sure
DANNY
What if that does happen better
safe then sorry right?
The teens continue to talk but it can't be heard over the
sounds of breathing and a rapidly speeding up heart beat.
A hand touches Madeline's shoulder as a loud scream is heard.