TALES OF THE BOOGIEMAN ©
Call It Karma ©
SYNOPSIS
Sam Summers happens upon the scene of a bizarre car accident; a car in the middle of nowhere has been turned up on its end and smashed against a boulder. The sheriff on the scene gives a bizarre account of what has happened to the car and its passengers, but somehow his story doesn’t all seem to add up. That is when Sam discovers that the sheriff is no sheriff after all, but rather in fact the Boogieman in disguise.
OUTLINE
(8 pages)
Pg1
Sam Summers stops upon the scene of a bizarre accident, at dusk, on an otherwise deserted highway where a car has been turned up on one end and wrecked against the side of a boulder and a couple lay sprawled out on the side of the road. The Boogieman, dressed as a sheriff, appears to be the officer on scene.
Pg2 – Pg3
Sam questions the sheriff (Boogieman) about the accident. Warned by the Boogieman to keep his distance Sam doesn’t get a good look at him. Yet the Boogieman begins to spin a tale about what has happened to the couple sprawled out on the side of the road. It was there own fault, he said, if they only weren’t being so reckless. Flashback begins with the couple’s car speeding along a backcountry road. (Two stories are going to be told now until the last page. The truth will be depicted by drawings and dialogue of the plot to follow. The Boogieman’s lie will be depicted by captions, which will essentially convey how the couple was being reckless, which are left for the writer to complete.)
Troy and his girlfriend Donna are returning home from a weekend in Vegas. Donna wants Troy to slow down, but Troy won’t. He says if they are late getting back their respective spouses will know they are having an affair together. Troy seems to hit a canine crossing the road in their path.
Pg4 – Pg5
Donna thinks Troy has hit a dog and wants to stop to help it. Troy says it was just a mange coyote and he won’t stop. Upon first glance the animal is laying in the middle of the road, upon a second look it is gone, so the two figure it must of run off. So begins what becomes the couple’s fateful journey because it wasn’t a dog that Troy almost hit after all, but the Boogieman up to his tricks.
As the couple continues on their way the dog reappears along the side of the road again and again as if haunting them. At first Donna wants to stop, but Troy refuses continuing on their trek. It isn’t long though that the appearance of the dog is starting to unnerve them.
Pg6 – Pg7
Finally, not the dog, but what appeared to be an old man stands on the side of the road waving to Donna and Troy to stop. Yet so freaked out by this time by what has been occurring they do not dare stop and continue on their way. When the old man appears again Troy just steps on the gas, but this time as the couple drive past the man he throws a pipe in front of the car, which lodges into the front axel of the moving car.
The car flips up into the air and smashes against a boulder. Troy and Donna are able to extricate themselves from the wreck only to come face to face with their attacker, the Boogieman. Donna faints from fright at the sight of the Boogieman and Troy, who stumbles away in an attempt to save himself from the creature, is soon caught and while defending himself he has his arm mauled before having his throat torn out.
Pg8
Returning to the Present the Boogieman ends his yarn. Yep it was the couple’s own fault that they paid the ultimate price. But, to Sam, the facts don’t match the scene. The couple’s wounds are inconsistent with the accident and the sheriff’s vehicle is nowhere to be seen. Upon a closer look at the sheriff it is clear he is not really quite human after all, but the Boogieman instead. Not only that Sam would seem to be his next intended victim (or is warned that he should be getting home before the sun finally sets).
End.