~Winning Scary Story 2003~

By Stevenlee3000

There is a lake back where I'm from in Illinois called Lake Thunder. On a bright warm sunny afternoon me and a buddy were fishing from an inflatable boat in the middle of it (yes we were kids). We were joking and having a good old time drinking soda and fishing when my buddy hooked the boat. The hole was not serious but it was enough for our little raft to take on water to our ankles. The water in the boat turned over the can of worms so it was very messy with worms and dirt all over the boat. We thought it was funny. At that point in time we had the bright idea of turning the boat over in the middle of the lake so that the worms and dirt would fall out. It was a hoot... we dumped our trash on a nearby shore then paddled back to the middle of the lake where we proceeded to flipped over our raft..being sure to secure our poles in ways only a 13 year old can think of.

Me and my friend sat happily laughing in the middle of Lake Thunder on a capsized raft allowing the worms and to sink to the bottom of the lake when my buddy became early silent. Then out of the silence he cried out "OH MY GOD"! In the confusion I asked him what was wrong and he then continued to say that he had just lost grip of my fishing pole and that is was falling. The laughing stopped, and without hesitation I submerged myself and began to swim desperately towards the bottom to retrieve the brand new gill tracker 2000 I had saved up for. I kicked and paddled furiously downward with complete disregard to anything other then retrieving the prized pole. I have always been a good swimmer and that time was no exception. I was sinking quickly after the pole when the water turned from clear to a murky brown. The murky water became darker as I sank deeper. The water turned black with deepness.

In the dark depths of the water, completely blind, I felt a long slippery trunk like "thing" of a creature pass over my leg. I turned around in a panic, near out of breath, and tried to swim up in the dark waters when I realized I couldn't tell which way was up. In pure panic I swam in the only direction I could. Swimming in utter panic of suffocation I felt something licking and wrapping around my bare feet. I kicked and thrashed to get it away from me as I struggled to find the surface.

Finally the black turned into a beautiful murky brown. And the brown turned into clear water and I broke the surface. With my my first gasp of air I cried out a shriek of help. 100 feet away floated the derelict raft. The raft slowly came to me.
100% true
Stevenlee3000