Descriptive Essay: Lake Noises

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Lake Noises BOOM, CRASH, CLANK!! I was sleeping at the lake and outside my camper, I heard some very unexpected noise. I couldn’t decide whether it was an animal, stranger, storm, or one of my family members making theses noises outside. It was around three in the morning so by that time there was no partiers up that late and no fishermen up that early! I really had no idea what was happening, I just hid under my blanket thinking, “what is outside my camper?”. The sounds started to calm down so I was just about sleeping again when sure enough, the noises were back louder than before! I was just laying in my bed, freaking out, wondering why nobody else was hearing these noises. Once I realized that I have had enough I jumped out of bed, grabbed my blanket and walked into the kitchen. Only tip-toeing so if there was a robber they wouldn’t hear me. When I got into the kitchen the lights were all off and nobody else was awake so then I began to get more scared and sprinted back to the bedroom. I once again was laying in bed and shivering, just scared for my life! I was thinking of many conclusions for why I was hearing these noises. Eventually after hours of being awake, I fell back asleep. I woke up around 8:30, wondering why I was so tired. Then, I …show more content…
After the deck was all picked up and clean, I went back into the camper. I walked in and the rest of my family was sitting there eating breakfast. I asked them if they knew what was happening last night and they said they had no idea what was happening either! So my family and I were brainstorming for reasons why we were hearing the noises and why our deck was a disaster. We came up with many conclusions but none of them were very convincing. I would say the top reason why would be a very destructive sleep walker or a very large, dangerous and hungry animal. My dad and I hopped onto the golf cart and drove up to the dumpster to throw all of the garbage from the

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