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31 Scary Story Nights: October 13th “The Blackboard”

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7 years ago

October 13, 2017

Ooooo, it’s Friday the 13th in October, and we have a particularly chilling tale for you tonight! This one is called The Blackboard, and it’s one that’s brand new to me. I only just discovered it while researching for this project. It’s based on a Korean Ghost Story, and it’s really quite terrifying. My hope is that it’ll be new for you too!

Let’s give it a try!

***Writer’s Note: We here at iHorror are big proponents of responsible parenting. Some of the stories in this series may be too much for your little ones. Please read ahead and decide if your kids can handle this story! If not, find another story for tonight or simply come back to see us tomorrow. In other words, don’t blame me for your kids nightmares!***

The Blackboard as retold by Waylon Jordan

There once was a teacher who had a reputation for being particularly strict and cruel in his punishments. He would often force his students to stay after class to study in the library long into the evening when they misbehaved.

In order to ensure that they stayed, each student was given the teacher’s cell phone number and were assigned a number with which to check in. There were 30 students in his class and when they were punished they had to call him at specific times to let him know they were still studying.

Some teachers would have worried that they were simply calling from home or while hanging out with friends, but this teacher’s reputation was so tough not a single student dared try to trick him.

Almost every night he would receive phone calls and he answered with no small amount of sadistic glee.

One evening, as he sat at home waiting for the inevitable phone call, his phone rang with a simple Unknown Caller on the Caller ID. He answered immediately.

“Hello, Teacher…this is number 31.”

Before he could tell the caller he had no student 31, the girl hung up the phone. He sat there staring at the phone unsure of what had just happened. He knew he had no student 31, and the thought that one of his students might be prank calling him made him furious.

He stormed into his classroom the next day determined to root out the prank caller but though he threatened them all, no student came forward to admit to making the phone call. Even the threat of beating each of the students did no good!

He gave them all detention and went home with no sense of accomplishment, settling in to a night of answering the phone as each of his students called to report they were still working. It was almost 9 pm when his phone rang with Unknown Caller and he furiously answered.

“Hello, teacher. This is number 31,” the timid female voice spoke.

“Who is this?” He demanded of the voice, but the line went dead once again.

The teacher spent another day threatening students to no avail, and even going so far as to threaten students who weren’t even in his class, but no matter what he said, no one would come forward.

Defeated, he returned home that evening and did not even flinch when the phone rang with Unknown Caller again. No matter what he did, the calls continued to come in each night. The same timid voice, the same insistence that she was student number 31.

One night, when he asked who was calling yet again and insisted again that he had only 30 students in his class, she finally responded.

“I watch your class everyday, teacher, but you always turn your back to me. I wish I could see your face.”

The teacher was almost heartbroken by that voice, and the next day he changed. He was nice to his class, and stopped his cruel punishments. Still, the phone calls continued even after he changed his phone number.

He soon decided to take a medical leave as the strain became too much. Medical leave turned into permanent retirement.

Several years later, the school was remodeling, and when they tore the blackboard from the teacher’s classroom, they found the skeleton of young girl hidden there…

Well, I don’t know about you, but that creeped me out completely! Thank you for joining us for another scary story night! Don’t forget to join us again tomorrow for another terrifying tale!

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