Scary Story

Oh no! The lights went out! Honey can you light a candle?

哎呀！灯灭了！亲爱的，你能点根蜡烛吗？

Sure. What do we do now?

当然。现在我们做什么？

Well, we can just talk, you know, like we used to. Hmm... I know! I'll tell you a scary story! It happened to me and my dad when I was a teenager... (fade out - fade in new scene) I was living with my father at the time, when he received a phone call.

嗯，我们可以聊聊天，就像以前那样。嗯……我知道了！我给你讲个恐怖故事！是我十几岁时和我爸经历的事……（淡出——淡入新场景）那时我和我爸住在一起，他接到了一个电话。

So we arrived at this old house on the outskirts of our town. There was almost no one around and the house had an eerie look to it. Once inside the house, we walked to her room and I was surprised to find my dad’s great aunt in a wheelchair, yelling at someone, but we were alone in the room.

于是我们到了镇郊的一栋老房子。四周几乎没人，房子看起来很阴森。走进房子后，我们去了她的房间，我惊讶地发现我爸的姑姥姥坐在轮椅上，对着什么人喊叫，但房间里只有我们。

That night, we slept in one of the 12 rooms of that big old mansion. The trees outside seemed to come alive and their shadows formed ghoulish shapes on my bed. All of a sudden, we heard screaming.

那晚，我们睡在那栋大旧宅的十二个房间之一。外面的树仿佛活了过来，树影在我床上形成鬼怪的形状。突然，我们听到了尖叫声。

And as we approached her, she was lying on the floor, with her hands and feet open like the Vitruvian Man, breathing heavily with bloody marks and scratches on her arms, legs and face. Remember how I mentioned that she was in a wheel chair? My aunt had been paralyzed from the neck down for just over a year. After this incident, strange things would happen in the house and my aunt would yell and scream, according to her, warding off the evil that had come to get her. As the days passed, she became very weak and eventually was unable to talk. My dad had to work during the day, so I was left to care for her. When she lost her voice and laid on her death bed, I would hear her breathe, in and out.

我们走近时，她躺在地上，手脚张开像维特鲁威人，呼吸急促，胳膊、腿和脸上都有血痕和抓痕。还记得我说过她坐轮椅吗？我姑姥姥脖子以下瘫痪已经一年多了。这件事之后，房子里开始发生怪事，姑姥姥会大喊大叫，据她说是在驱赶来找她的邪恶。日子一天天过去，她变得非常虚弱，最后说不出话了。爸爸白天要上班，所以由我照顾她。当她失声躺在床上等死时，我能听到她的呼吸，一进一出。

Until finally one day, she breathed in... and never exhaled. That night, I felt relieved that it was finally over, but it wasn’t.

直到有一天，她吸了一口气……再也没有呼出来。那晚，我松了口气，觉得终于结束了，但并没有。

I was so terrified of what I was hearing, that I didn’t sleep all night. The following morning, I went to the bathroom, expecting to find a mess and everything torn up, but I found everything exactly as it was before. The movers came that same day and as we were cleaning out her drawers and personal items, we found strange notebooks with names and amounts of money written next to them. We found pictures with people’s faces sewn with black or red string. And you want to know what the strangest thing was? There was a small doll, filled with dead ants, with a strand of hair tied around it’s waist, and on the doll’s face, there was a picture of me with the numbers: ”311009”. You know what date it is today? October 31st, 2009....

我吓得整晚不敢睡。第二天早上，我去洗手间，以为会看到一片狼藉，东西都被撕碎了，但发现一切和之前一模一样。搬家工人那天来了，我们在清理她的抽屉和私人物品时，发现了奇怪的笔记本，上面写着名字和金额。还找到了一些照片，上面的人脸被黑线或红线缝着。你想知道最奇怪的是什么吗？有一个小玩偶，里面装满了死蚂蚁，腰上缠着一缕头发，玩偶脸上贴着我的照片，上面写着数字'311009'。你知道今天是什么日子吗？2009年10月31日……