There'll be parties for hosting, marshmallows for toasting, and caroling out in the snow, there'll be scary ghost

on.

Well, hello again, children.

It's Santa with another edition of Spooky Santa, where I tell you spooky tales around the holidays.

Today I have three more very creepy stories.

Twelve-year-old Vivi, she said to me a creepy true story that actually happened to her. It's called She's

Going to Be Mad. Author Boyd Reynolds brings us a holiday horror called Finders Keepers. But first,

I'm going to tell you about a demonic little dwarf in Belgium called Black Peter. And remember, if you want to write a scary story

for me, you can email it to me at Letters at Spooky Santa.com. I love scary stories from children.

Now, bolt your doors, locked your windows, turn off your lights, pour a mug of hot cocoa, it's magic, you know.

And come with Spooky Santa for another holiday chiller.

Oh, ho, ho.

Many people have never heard of Black Peter or Zorté Piet.

He is a demonic dwarf from Belgium and the Netherlands, and he appears every Christmas as an

evil helper for me. Now for the Dutch and the Belgians, they

know me as St. Nicholas. And according to legend, I triumphed over this devilish

dwarf in a fight and made him my slave. That's not true. I would never enslave anyone.

But that is the story.

Black Peter, he lives in a coal mine in Spain, and his skin is black because of the soot

and the coal dust from the mine.

His hair is singed by the fire from all the chimneys that he has to climb down.

He spends the year spying on the children of Belgium

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