How I Convinced Someone There Was an Alligator in my Basement

Well, I did warn you that this story was coming (Hide and Seek in the basement....recall?) so here it is.

Basically:  One of my brother's friends always wanted to hang out in our basement, but we didn't want to because there wasn't anything fun to do down there anyway.  So, I told him we can't because the alligator lives down there and it will eat you.  Mind you, this was when I was 14 and he was 12, so there was still some childlike naivety there.  In the end, he believed me and didn't go down in the basement....

Wow.  That story sucked.  Let me try again.

ALLIGATOR STORY 2.0


It was a dark, stormy afternoon, and I was home alone with my brother and his friend.  We were bored, of course, due to the lack of being able to go outside into the expansive wilderness near my house.  So, we tried to make up games, but, being young chillens, we didn't like cards or board games.


My brother's friend suggested we do something in the basement, since there was nothing fun to do upstairs.

"The basement?" I said incredulously, "The basement?!?"

"Yeah," He replied, "Let's do something in the basement."

"We don't go in the basement," I said, turning my head dramatically away, "Not since....It happened."

It was a dark and stormy afternoon, much like this fateful day, about four-hundred years ago.  Some European settlers were trying to draw out the native tribes and they were chasing one of the tribe's magical leaders.  When the leader was cornered, in the exact spot that this house was built, he cast a spell.  Suddenly, hundreds of alligators crawled from the earth, attacking the settlers and forcing them to flee the area.  On the way out, one settler shot one last bullet from his musket, striking the magical leader.  He fell to the ground and died.  They say his body transformed into one of the alligators he conjured up, and the gator stayed there, for all eternity...

Even today, the alligator remains in our basement, ready to attack any unsuspecting folks....

DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNN!!!!

Now that was an epic story, amirite?