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Yellow Journal

"You're joking right? This can't be real..." As the man stood in the middle of the busy subway station he watched over and over again with each passing train as a line of students one by one-stepped off of the platform and in front of the moving train. The splat was never the same sound, different kids, different sizes, different trains.

Splat.

And so the man looked around at all of the families and couples that were completely oblivious to the horrific scene that was happening before them. As he turned to leave the station he slipped on a newspaper dropping his things. He began picking up the contents of his bag when the title of the very newspaper he had slipped on caught his eye "5 year Anniversary of the Gates Academy murders: How a trusted teacher betrayed her students." while he read through the title someone offered him his yellow journal that he had yet to pick up. Grateful he put the newspaper down and smiled at the person as he took ahold of the other end of the journal.

"Thank you..." he said trailing off as he tried to pull the journal way but the person handing it to him had a tight grip on it. He looked up and jumped back immediately frightened as he saw the battered body of the teacher standing before him. She leaned forward and with a soft voice said "No one will believe you." As quickly as she had appeared she disappeared along with the children and the sounds that went

Splat

And the man didn't need another reason to stay on the dirty ground of that tainted subway station. So he left as quickly as possible leaving the journal behind, a few weeks later he was found in his apartment dead after posting about the incident. Some believe since she touched the journal it was now linked to the spirit world, and so the story goes : if you see a yellow journal on the subway platform don't touch it and don't tell anyone, or she will find you.