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Scary Stories for Kids

Where it's always the spooky season

Full of chills, thrills, and spine-tingling spooks.

Micro-terrorers are family-friendly frights for those ages eight and up, and while our stories are for younger years, we are still talking

about things that go bump in the night, and some children may not be able to handle what

others can. Parental consent is recommended. Now, for tonight's Micro Terror.

The Scary Monster in the Yard, written by Lucas Sosa, age six.

One night, there was a terrible storm. It woke me up, but my parents were still asleep.

I had an eerie feeling like someone else was in the house with us.

I went into my parents' room and checked my dad's phone to look at the security cameras outside.

And what I saw was unbelievable.

It stopped me dead in my tracks. I couldn't believe what I was looking unbelievable. It stopped me dead in my tracks.

I couldn't believe what I was looking at.

The doorbell camera showed me a giant figure.

It was covered in hair and had jet black eyes with what looked like blood leaking out.

And it was standing right in front of our front door.

I switched the view to the driveway camera

and realized that all of our cars were gone. All that were there were bloody footprints

that led to a giant house across the street that I had never seen before. As I was trying

to figure out where the house came from, the front door flew open. I jumped and slid

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