Emir's Fictional Stories - Emir Bozkurthanoglu (books to read this summer .txt) 📗

EMIR'S FICTIONAL STORIES by EMIR BOZKURTHANOGLU

1. The Northern Michigan Killer:

Many people have concerns about the crime rate in their town, especially parents, who research their town, read newspapers, watch local news, or go online. Well, here is a story that occurred in Upper Michigan in 1960s:

One night, a couple in Sault Ste. Marie was walking towards their home. But soon, a terrifying scream woke the neighborhood, and one of the neighbors called the police as soon as possible. The police were reported that the couple saw a trail of blood that led to their house. When the police searched the rooms, they indeed found a body stuffed in a washing machine in the bathroom.

6 days later, an elderly woman in Marquette called the police and reported that a man had broke into her house, but ran off when he heard the woman screaming. The police had soon found a body buried deep under the ground near Marquette and once again, the killer was not caught.

Many people left the Great Lakes when they learned about the murders. However, as the number of murders in Upper Michigan was decreasing, people in Lower Michigan were also getting suspicious. Police in Grand Rapids, and Detroit received many calls about break-ins, and more bodies were found in suburbs of these cities.

Luckily, the crime wave in Michigan quickly decreased in mid-1970s, and a person who fits the descriptions of the killer was found dead in Superior, Wisconsin according to a local newspaper near Duluth, Minnesota.

THE END

2. The Attacker in Birmingham:

The following story you’re about to hear was in 1950s in the city of Birmingham, when the Civil Rights Movement was going on across the American South against racial discrimination. However, the story you’re about to hear has nothing to do with segregation:

It was 8:00 AM in Birmingham, Alabama. A merchant walked into his store, when the man walked into a closet to put clothes in the front area, he was attacked and viciously beaten by a masked man.

The victim reported that the attacker was male, strong, and around his 30s, but because of the mask, the victim wasn’t able to identify the race or facial description.

3 weeks later, a man was arrested in Mobile, Alabama for the attack to the owner of the store. But, in the next 5 to 6 weeks, the police of many Alabama and Mississippi cities arrested more people for beatings, as usual, the real criminal was free and he was attacking more and more people.

Finally, the police arrested the real guy in Rochester, New York when a guy of the same description beat another person there. He was sentenced 86 years in prison for 14 attacks and 3 murders. However, he hanged himself 2 years later.

THE END

3. A Giant Alligator on Tampa Bay:

Florida is arguably the state with the most alligators. But, the following one was 16 times the size of an average Florida gator. This monster reptile had caused a great deal of damage on the fishing industry in Tampa-St. Petersburg metro area in 1899 and early 1900s:

A group of people were coming from Savannah, Georgia on a ship. The ship’s next destination was St. Petersburg, Florida. But, 2 hours before the arrival to St. Petersburg, many people saw an extremely large creature and the passengers got frightened. When they arrived in St. Petersburg, the people described the creature to be 300 ft. and weighing between 6400-10000 pounds.

4 months later, a ship with 76 passengers on board left Tampa, Florida for New Orleans, Louisiana. 15 to 30 minutes after leaving Tampa, one of the passengers fell into the bay after “something” shook the ship and the violent tremor made the passenger lose his balance and fall. The passenger was brought back on to the ship, however, the man said that he saw a “gigantic, green creature” and he saw it hitting the ship with its tail.

3 months after that event, in the April of 1900, people in Tampa, Florida saw the monster swimming in random directions on the coast. The giant gator was trying to catch fish and the residents of Tampa who saw it drew an accurate picture of the scene they saw, which terrified many scientists and the residents of Tampa Bay.

In the ending of 1902 and the Christmas of 1903, most people had forgotten about the alligator and nobody reported seeing it ever again in the 20th Century.

THE END

4. Seattle’s Demon Snake:

Snakes always represent the evil or bad luck according to many books, shows, or movies. The media also tells that snakes like hot or humid locations and hate cold. Actually, although it may not be real, there is a very big snake that lives in the Puget Sound area. This snake is believed to be extremely poisonous and is not scared from going into the middle of a city. In fact, this snake was regularly seen by people in Downtown Seattle from 1911 to 1920s:

It all started in Downtown Seattle in February of 1911... Seattle had become one of the largest ports in the Pacific Northwest, but had yet to become the coffee capital of the U.S. A man was walking on a cracked sidewalk of the city and suddenly, he saw a blue “tire” in an unused store. He stayed calm until the horrifying revelation. That “tire” was actually a colossal snake coming towards him. The man ran away from there as fast as he could and he came to a safe area in Downtown.

The people were all shocked after they heard the story and everyone in the Seattle area was scared. But it wasn’t the only report of this demon snake. However, the next one was in Tacoma, where a local woman reported a big, blue snake in her house.

Over 120 reports had come from the state of Washington in 9 years. The demon snake was hard to not believe since hundreds of people confirmed seeing it. The rain of sightings finally had ended in Washington in 1924. But, another snake sighting came in 1927, when an elderly man reported a giant, bluish snake feeding on roosters in Eureka, California. Suggesting that cities and towns along the Pacific coast may never be safe from Seattle’s demon snake.

THE END

5. The Colossal Mesa:

I had just passed Mile Marker 1, 5280 feet west of the California-Nevada border… I passed the border, and I was on my way for a business meeting in the City of Angels. When I just passed Riverside, I must’ve gone on the wrong curve, pulling me out of the path to L.A. I went north towards Bakersfield.
I turned around in Bakersfield, and I was on my way to L.A. again. Back in Riverside County, somewhere near Corona, I saw a large hollow tunnel. Without thinking, I went straight for the tunnel. The tunnel was extremely steep and I knew I had to go back. I checked my watch, which I had left in the car, and it brought me a chill that gave me goose bumps. I was going to be 50 minutes late!
Since I knew that it was too late, I begged my boss to give me a second chance and let me come to the next meeting which was 2 days later. My sweat drops of fear started to dry and I drove through the tunnel. The car stopped halfway, because I wasted too much gasoline, and I had to literally push the car to the end of the tunnel.
When I saw the light that blinded my eyes in the tunnel, I got out with my eyes closed. I could see the flat lands and plains that the Southwestern U.S. is famous for and so was the mountain, which made me realize that this was definitely not a mountain, but a gigantic mesa dressed with the shrubs and vegetations of California as the calm winds blew through.
Amazingly, I learned a day later that these trees and plants hid the mesa too well, well enough that nobody ever came here before. I figured that since I was the first here, I had to be given the honor of naming it. I quickly thought up a name for it, and I named it “The Colossal Mesa!”.
I thought that I would never have a mountain or a mesa, since the humanity has discovered almost everything in the World for the last thousands of years.
But I had realized, there was way more out there.

THE END

7. “WE JUST MOVED IN”

Madison Villagegreen was a sophomore attending a prestigious high school in
Spartanburg, South Carolina. Many of his friends called him a “blindingly bright light bulb” due to his very high I.Q. and his eidetic memory. As usual, Villagegreen sat on the small sofa next to the window, waiting for his father’s silver town car to show up. As soon as, the car entered the garage, he sprang outside to greet his dad. At dinner, Mr. Villagegreen announced that his boss had promoted him and wanted him to work as the co-chairman of a sister-company, which was located in the financial district of Chicago, Illinois.
Mr. Villagegreen continued, “My boss said that I’ll have a higher income and a
company car. Also, the entire family will have better insurance and better doctors. I’ve already been looking at houses in Chicagoland today. I found a great one in Naperville, Illinois. It’s inexpensive and the rooms are much larger.” Naperville is a Chicago suburb located 750 miles northwest of Upstate South Carolina. Madison wasn’t very sad to change schools and leave his friends. He was not a fragile person and wasn’t heavily affected by moving.
On Saturday, the beginning of Spring Break, Mr. Villagegreen rented a storage
truck and at 10:00 AM, the family was done with packing and everyone in the house got in the car. All arrangements had been done by Mr. and Mrs. Villagegreen during the week before. The first stop was Knoxville, Tennessee, where the family ate lunch. The second stop was outside Lexington, Kentucky, where Mr. Villagegreen purchased several small drums of gasoline for the rest of the road and the family ate dinner. The last planned stop for the family was at Downtown Indianapolis, Indiana, where Mr. and Mrs. Villagegreen had let Madison, Camille, and Roger visit sites in and around the Indiana State Capitol.
The exhausted family fled the car as Mr. Villagegreen parked next to a luxurious
and sophisticated-looking home in the northwestern quadrant of the suburban city of Naperville. It took the family several hours until everything was out of the storage truck. The next day, Mr. Villagegreen went to his new office in the famous Chicago Loop. Mrs. Villagegreen cooked pancakes for everyone except Mr. Villagegreen, who had already eaten and left. Mrs. Villagegreen told Madison, “Enjoy the break while you can, Mads. On the last day, I’m taking you and your siblings to Bartholomew High School. I’ve read that they have some of the best advanced placement courses in the nation.”
Madison replied, “Sure, but, how come I always have to go to a school with some
special courses and whatnot? I mean, this is why I’m always the target of pranksters and I always get picked on.”
His mother said, “Well, don’t they get caught and get sent to detention, they’ll
soon understand that they can’t afford to