Are you afraid of the dark?

One night after school had let out for the day, two young teenagers decided to explore a cave not too far from their neighborhood. They brought flashlights knowing that the sun would set soon and its pitch black past the first turn in this cave. The cave was damp and eerie. It had a smell that neither boy could recognize.
The boys were joking around clicking the flashlight off to intensify the moment in the dark. One of the boys was running his hand against the cave wall to sort of guide his path in the dark. After a while of walking back into the cave, the boy started to feel a slimy texture against the wall of the cave. He ruled this out figuring it’s a cave and these things are probably common and they continued. Several yards later the same boy was running his hand against the wall of the cave again when he felt what appeared to be a face. Frantically he shouted to his friend who instantly turned around and started running out of the cave.
Through all of the commotion the boy turned to follow his friend and dropped his flashlight in the process. Knowing it was too dark to look for it and his friend was already ahead of him he decided to run out of the cave in the dark. With every second building fear he knows he is getting close to his exit. Right before exiting the pitch-black area of the cave he slammed right into what resembled a large man. It was pitch black still and he could not see the figure.
Both boys made it out and met up in a near by alley to recount what had just occurred. They decided this was too big of an issue to just let go so they informed their parents of their discovery. Both boys’ parents were skeptical about the story but they could see the fright in both faces. They decided to tell the authorities about what had happened and after a long lecture on how caves like that are dangerous; they decided to set up a search crew to look through the cave.
The next morning, local police and firefighters gathered to start the search. Using high-powered 1000-watt flashlights nothing was hidden in the cave. They estimated ¾ mile back they found dismantled body parts attached to the inner-walls of the cave. After further investigation it was found that the limbs belonged to a series of recent missing girls in the county.
In conversation with the parents, who were shook up, the police stated that the man that their son ran into could very well have been the killer. He also explained that this information should be withheld from the boys because it could damage them. It was too late; both boys were standing in the background crowd and over-heard the conversation between their parents and the authorities.
Both boys now reside in a local psych-ward where they suffer night terrors and horrible flashbacks of the night. The killer was never found…


MVP