THE BABYSITTER
A young couple living in a large isolated
house had gone out to a dinner party one
evening and left the baby-sitter in charge
of their two children. The children had
been put to bed and the baby-sitter was
watching the television when the phone
rang.
She
answered
but all
she
heard
was a
man
laughing
hysterically
and then
a voice
saying,
"I'm
upstairs with the children, you'd better
come up." Thinking it was "one of those
phone calls" or a practical joke she
slammed down the receiver and turned the
television sound up. A short time later the
phone rang again and, as she picked it up,
the unmistakable hysterical laughter came
down the line and the voice once again
said "I'm upstairs with the children, you'd
better come up."
Getting rather frightened she called the
operator and was advised they would
notify the police and, should he phone
again, could she keep him talking in order
to give them time to trace the call and
have him arrested. Minutes after she
replaced the receiver the phone rang
again and, when the voice said, "I'm
upstairs with the children, you'd better
come up," she tried to keep him talking.
However, he must have guessed what she
was trying to do and he put the phone
down.
Only seconds later the phone rang again,
this time it was the operator who said, "Get
out of the house straight away, the man is
on the extension." The baby-sitter put
down the phone and just then heard
someone coming down the stairs. She fled
from the house and ran straight into the
arms of the police. They burst into the
house and found a man brandishing a
large butcher's knife. He had entered the
house through an upstairs window,
murdered both the children and was just
about to do the same to the poor
baby-sitter.
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