John Perterson: A Short Story

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On a wet spring evening, in the year 1920, a man named John Perterson stepped out of the miller's house early in the morning. He was still in his pajamas and was going to start the mill for electricity. He walked through the wet ground with his slippers, he opened the door to the Dynamo room. You could hear the water dripping from his slippers, he turned on the power like he does every day. But what John Perterson didn’t know was that his damp slippers was caught in one of the wires. That was how everyone woke up that morning by a man's screams, so when they checked the dynamo room for the noise, charred slippers. John Perterson was never seen again.
A spring day in the year 2013 a fifth grade class was going to Lidtke mill for a field trip.
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Then the guide led them out the door and they began walking to the mill. The tour was interesting, but not all of the kids listened, especially Sid,Billy, and Bob. They talked and Billy reminded Sid that there were ghosts at the mill. Sid again said yeah right, and at that exact moment Bob jumped out from behind the door, and Sid jumped back screaming. Then the boys walked into the Dynamo room.
The tour guide told them all facts about the Dynamo room, and then she decided to tell them a ghost story. One day a man named John Perterson walked through the door a turned on the generator, he was electrocuted and the only part that remained was his feet which remain on the floor to this day.
It all happened in a flash, all the doors slammed shut, curtains covered all the mirrors, and it was pitch dark. Then the generator turned on. There was a dim light next to the generator, the light kept getting brighter until it made a human like figure on top of John Perterson’s shoes. A shrill noise filled the air, it kept getting lower and lower, until it made the soft scream of “help me!” Then electricity started shooting out of his fingers, and children’s screams filled the air. The mill started and loud noises filled the air. Then suddenly it all stopped, the owner of the mill went to check out what happened. He found dozens of charred feet stuck to the floor, and a boy near death. The fifth grade class was never seen

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