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"Something Strange about Mr. Lockett"

There was always something strangely curious about Mr. Lockett.
A neighbor who lived 3 houses down
next to an old relic of a camper on my street.
He, as the story goes used to have a wife and four kids
and the camper housed a brother-in-law, and his teenaged
girlfriend that is at least until...

Until that day when everything we ever knew changed.
Mr. Lockett had went  out hunting with his brother-in-law,
and his cute lil' hottie of girlfriend, Kayla. Problem is seven
hours later, Mr. Lockett returned minus the other two, but he did
have a huge container with obvious signs of something red
all over it.

It was later discovered after the two
had been missing for awhile that the red was blood.
Supposedly of a six point buck he had killed earlier that day.
A story he had explained to the local sheriff after they began
to investigate the two missing, that his in-law and girlfriend
had hooked up with couple before they got to the woods
and he hadn't seen nor heard from them since.
Once everything seemed checked out they left him alone.

Then several months later, on Halloween to be exact,
I noticed Mr. Lockett in his yard, hanging up
the strangest decor I had ever seen.
It appeared to be  real skeletons! Not those paper cardboard cut outs
and stranger than that, it wasn't together, it was in pieces!
 He hung up hands of different sizes, the skulls were various sizes
and so too were the legs. In the far corner of the yard
I noticed that huge container with the lid open,
but the very strangest and creepiest thing of all?
Mr. Lockett was going about his decorating blissfully unaware,
and completely out of character from what I knew of him,
HE WAS SINGING!!

The songs were nothing like anything I ever heard,
but they seemed in another language , and he was trance like...
I felt a horrible chill come over me, but I had to make my
presence known and work up
my nerve to ask him, exactly what was going on,
I mean I had children in this neighborhood and I wasn't
gonna put up with any craziness
going down around here. Just as I started to utter a word,
I gazed back over the scene to take it all in,
When I frozen in utter shock...

After recounting the parts I saw I realized I counted about nine legs
More than six arms, and at least five skulls!

I shuddered and it hit me like a sled hammer to the head,
I hadn't heard nor seen a sign of ANY one else
 in the Lockett home since that fateful hunting day.

It was at that very moment, I knew...
oh yeah I knew something about Mr. Lockett was Scary Strange...!



BOO!! lol Happy Halloween folks!
lol
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