The terrible story about one young couple

A young couple decided to visit their friends, they lived 300 km from the city. The young couple had driven half of the way, but then their car broke down.

Although the weather was freezing, the car's engine was boiling. They were astonished because the car was new. They had bought this tiny car three months ago.

Our young couple were furious, starving and miserable. They tried to find help, had been looking around and saw a massive farmhouse. The man was absolutely confident that there was somebody at home.


When they came to the farmhouse and knocked on the door, they met a very old women. She let them stay that night. Our couple were exhausted, but very grateful for her kind help.


Alexandra Makarova

My little story !!

Four years ago, in July 2008, during a summer party, the night was really clear and the moonlight magnificient. I was driving to the party with my friends and we had begun to drink so the atmosphere was really crazy.

When we arrived at the party, the girls were absolutely gorgeous so we danced with them. I was dancing like a demon on the dancefloor when I smelt and saw a firework in the street.

Outdoors, I realised that my car had burnt and I became furious. I was looking for the criminal when I saw Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill's ghost.

It was he who had set fire to my car with his pipe earlier in the night. Miserable, I went to call my parents in a farmhouse as my car had broken down but fortunately when I was walking in the street, I saw my car intact and I understood that my visions had been the result of alcohol.

Paul JAUDON

My terrifiing story

When their car broke down, they decided to go and ask for help at the farmhouse.

It was raining heavily. The rusty car stopped in front of the farmhouse. The sun was setting and it was freezing.

In the car, there was a whole family with four children. And the car refused to start.

The father was absolutely furious. Before the departure, he had told his wife to check the car. She hadn't had enough time to do it.

The first thing they saw in front of the farmhouse was an absolutely enormous animal.It wasn't clean, it was  absolutely filthy. Perhaps, it was a pig.

They were amazed, because there was nobody else, and they were not able to speak the language of this country.

Afterwards, they were able to see a shape moving in their direction. It was a quite chubby farmer woman.

They realised that the first shape they had seen, hadn't been a pig but a woman. They were astonished. She said she had seen them and she wanted to give them a hand.

So they were saved … or were they...?

Marie-Christine

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