Blog:Night at the RPC Original Draft

Hey guys, so back in May 2020, I made a horror story called "Night at the RPC", which is actually based on a ghost story I made up around the early 2010s. It was based on a building called "RPC" (short for "Religious Program Center"), which is in the area I live in. The ghost story was originally about a janitor who died in the building and haunts the building due to her loving working there. Over the years the story changed, going from her accidentally dying, to her getting murdered and becoming a vengeful spirit roaming the building. The reason I made up that ghost story was because the building it's based on creeped me out at late at night, and someone left a note in one of the rooms that made me think they were dead, which they aren't. Then around spring of this year I was inspired by the Creepypasta called: Trapped at Freddy's, mainly because of Mr. Nightmare's narration of it. So I used the ideas from my ghost story and elements used in Trapped at Freddy's to create this horror story, and it turned out great. However, I had some problems with it, and I re-wrote the story just a couple weeks ago. This is the original draft, so if you want to read the final draft that is the one I will use, just go to this link. Anyways, enjoy the original draft.

Night at the RPC
Written by: NintenDylan64

Chapter 1: The Arrival
It was a Friday night, me and my friend William were bored, so we tried thinking of places we could go that night. I said that we could go bowling, but Will told me he was sick of going bowling. We tried thinking of other places to go, but most of those places we didn't want to go to. Then Will told me we could go to the RPC (short for "Recretional Play Center"), especially since the place can be fun to go to. I was skeptical at first, but seeing as that was our only option, I agreed to go. We walked to my car, and drove down to the RPC, to see what we could do to hang out there. Will seemed happy about going there, but I wasn't. I was always creeped out by this place at night. We went in, and found some party going on in the dining room. The party itself was kinda lame, so we asked one of the employees what else there is to do. He said that we could watch a movie with the people upstairs, or just sit in the old nursery room, or something else. We decided to head upstairs and see if we could watch the movie. Me and Will got bored after watching the movie for 10 minutes, so we decided we'd just head to the nursery. But before I went into the nursery, I swear I saw a woman staring at me in the downstairs hallway. I figured I might be just seeing things or it could've been one of the partygoers, probably drunk. We went into the nursery, and to my surprise, it was largely empty. So we just decided we'd head to the dining room party with all the others. I felt a little hungry and went to the kitchen to get me and Will some food. The main option was pizza, so I decided to grab a couple slices and some drinks from the kitchen. As I walked to the kitchen, something made me stop in my tracks. It was that woman again, she was standing at the hallway yet again. I had dropped my drink out of shock. An employee came over and asked what was wrong, so I pointed to the woman asking why she was in the hallway. He told me that some of the partygoers do that sometimes, and he walked off. I could tell he didn't take me seriously, and figured the employee was just joking around. I turned to see if she was still there. She wasn't in the hallway anymore, meaning she must've left. So I went back to the dining room. Still, I just couldn't get it off my mind, that woman stared at me, and she just stood there in the hallway doing nothing. But the way she stared at me didn't feel friendly, it felt, evil.

Chapter 2: Trapped Inside
Me and Will were getting bored, and some of the other people there were too. I couldn't blame them, since the party was boring as Hell. So we just headed to the nursery, and we hung out there for a while, finding a TV with a game console and games. We hung out in there for a while, and it seemed like things weren't too boring now. At 8:57, a lot of the people were starting to leave, and some of the employees were too. Will said he had to pee, and the downstairs Men's bathroom was locked. I asked an employee if there was another bathroom he could use. He said there was a bathroom upstairs he could use, but we had to hurry since it was time to go. So we went upstairs and Will headed in. I waited for him outside for what felt like 7 minutes, and I was getting very impatient. I was ready to leave, especially since everybody had left, including most of the employees. After another minute, Will finally got out. I was relieved, since now we could go home, and watch a movie or something. But then I heard something, something that sounded like a door locking. We ran downstairs to the front doors and tried pushing them open, seeing as they had push handles on the back, but to no avail. The front doors were locked, from the outside. We tried to open the back doors, but they were locked from the outside too. We then looked out the windows, to see that the last employee drove off. Will was freaking out, and I felt like I would've too. I thought to myself, "What the Hell? I thought that employee remembered we were still here. Why didn't they check to see if we were still here?" I would've tried to call them, but my phone was dead. Will was still panicking, and I calmed him down by telling him we could just find a phone somewhere in here, and call someone to get us out. He felt relieved, and we walked down the hallway where the kitchen was, since there was a phone in there. Everything seemed fine, but then the most creepiest thing happened. All the doors in the building opened on their own, all the phones started ringing, papers flew out into the hallway flying around rapidly, all the lights in the building started flickering rapidly, and a woman's terrifying scream filled the air. Will ran to the nursery, and I followed after him, since that was the only safe place we thought to go to. The whole thing went on for a minute and ten seconds. Then all of a sudden, everything stopped. The woman's scream stopped, the lights stopped flickering, the papers all went back in neatly stacked, the phones quit ringing, and the doors all shut back. Me and Will were scared shitless. I was wondering what had just happened. I thought to myself, "What the Hell was all that, Why did all of that happen, and who did it?" We hid so whoever was there wouldn't see us, and I had a feeling it was the woman who stared at me, I just had a feeling that it was her.

Chapter 3: Tons of Terror
Me and Will were debating how all of that happened, and who could've done it. We came up with no real answers, since we didn't know who caused it. Still though, I was wondering how all that just happened, and why did it happen? I figured the building must've been haunted, because things like that don't just happen for no reason. And if this place is haunted, does anyone know about it? We walked outside the room to look around for any clues as to what was going on. Some of the rooms were empty, offices, or storage rooms with nothing helpful inside. We then took a look in one room downstairs, and I was able to find a couple of flashlights, so that was something useful at least. I looked around a little, shining my flashlight on everything, finding nothing interesting. We left that room, and then found a door that looked like it was locked. But it wasn't, it was open. It lead to a laundry room, and we walked in looking inside for something, when we found this random note. It said "Please return all the cleaning supplies now, Evelyn G." I was confused, and I thought to myself, "who is Evelyn G?" I shrugged it off and we walked to the kitchen and tried to look for something. We found some food in the refrigerators, such as Chick Fil-A food. But other than that, nothing. As we left, we looked around in the dining room, and it was kind of dark. Luckily, the brightness of our flashlights helped us look around. As I turned my head, I looked down at the end of the hallway and I saw that woman again. This time however, she had an angry look on her face, and she stared directly at me. My heart started pounding faster just from staring at her. I turned my head, so that I couldn't look at her. I turned my head again, and she disappeared. I thought to myself "Where did she go? And why does she keep stalking us?" Then, a couple chairs were thrown violently across the dining room. We ran upstairs and hid by the balcony. My heart was still beating quite fast and I was shaking, mainly cuz I was freaked out. First the woman staring at me two times, then that whole mess that happened earlier, then the the weird note, and now that woman stared at me yet again. I was becoming more convinced that this place was haunted. I thought to myself, "If this place is haunted though, why do none of the employees know about it?" "And why hasn't something been done about it?" After calming down a bit, we looked through most of the rooms. Some of the rooms were particularly empty, some just had a couple tables and chairs in them, but some looked like they were made for an art class or a Sunday School. Anyways, we looked around some more, before going to the other side of the hallway. I heard one of the telephones ring in one room, and I picked it up. I tried asking who was on the phone, and no one answered. Then I heard the sound of heavy breathing coming from the caller. Then, the caller said something, but it sounded like it was in reverse, so I hung up. I thought to myself, "Who the Hell was that?" "Who would call a place like this at this hour of the night?" "And for what?" Will asked what was wrong, and I told him about what happened on the phone. He was a little creeped out, and said we should just keep looking. We walked into a computer room, and we found an old newspaper hidden in a drawer. We read it, and apparently it said that a janitor had went missing about 21 years ago. Then, on its own, the fax machine sent a fax. It read "DIE". Die? I thought, "Who sent that fax?" And why do they want us to die so badly?" One of the computers also made a horrible noise, which sounded almost paranormal in a way. The lights upstairs started flickering rapidly. So with how scary things got, we ran back downstairs. Things got quite scary up there, but what I wanted to know was, who is responsible for it? And why are they doing this?

Chapter 4: The Disturbing Backstory
As we ran downstairs, we ran through the lobby and down the other hallway. We went into a room and shut the door. The room we went into was a surveillance office. I found it quite strange that a place like this would need night security, especially since it seems unlikely that someone would steal something from here. I also found it strange since the night guard never showed up, but I figured that they're taking the night off or forgot. At least we were safe now. I looked inside the room, and some of the things in the room looked like they were from the early to mid-90s. There was an old camcorder, the security monitor looked kind of old, and there were some VHS tapes in some of the drawers as well as some old CDs. So we looked through the cameras on the monitor. Most of the place was empty, but then we saw that woman I saw when we got here. I pointed out to Will that I had seen her a couple times since we've been here. Will then said he found something, it was an old journal. It was written in by Evelyn G, that person who left that note. The entries she had written were from 21 years ago, some of them talking about her job there, one saying something about night shift. We were both intrigued, since it was an interesting find. Will put the journal back in the drawer. I looked out the window of the door, trying to see if that woman was coming for us. No one was out there. As I sat down on the couch, I started to feel tired. I was worried, what if that woman kills us? But I was more concerned with what has been happening. I was wondering why all this paranormal crap has been happening, and who was responsible for it? Then it hit me, it must be that woman who's behind all of this. I was still having trouble staying awake, which is strange because when you're in one of these situations, your body would be wide awake, you'd be in panic mode, with your reflexes shaking. I kept fighting the urge to fall asleep, and Will kept looking through the cameras. Then everything went dark. I woke up about 3 hours later to the sound of the lamp near me buzzing. I had been asleep since 9:48, and Will was still wide awake. We were still in that god forsaken building. I was glad that me and Will were still alive, but I was wondering why nothing has been happening, and how we were still alive. It was strange, since there was lots of paranormal crap going on 3 hours ago, so why didn't any happen while I was asleep? Will then said he just found something interesting. It was some security footage from 1993, 21 years ago. The footage was recorded at night, and it showed the same woman we've been seeing. In the footage, she was mostly just cleaning, obviously meaning she was a janitor. She seemed happy to be cleaning. Then, a camera outside showed a strange man walking into the building. Another camera showed the woman upstairs. Then the woman walked off to another room. The man had gone upstairs, and hid in the shadows. Then, the footage showed the man killed the woman, stabbing her very brutally, and he took her body downstairs. Another camera showed the man ran out of the building. Then the footage went to static and just ended. The clues had finally come together. The newspaper, the journal, the journal entry about the nightshift, the woman we've been seeing, and this footage. Now it hit us, the woman who went missing all that time ago and was never found, was Evelyn G. She had been murdered, and the killer got away. We felt horrified knowing that truth, and knowing the murderer got away. We also realized we have been trapped in the building with the vengeful spirit of Evelyn G., and we could be her victims now.

Chapter 5: The Escape
Me and Will were now trying to find an escape, since we knew we'd be dead if we stayed here. We ran through a door to another room, and it was dark in there. Because of the darkness, we accidentally slipped in a liquid while trying to run. Whatever liquid it was, it felt goopy. The pain from falling was unbearable, but we were able to get up a little. As we got off the floor and walked into the lobby, I looked at my hand and almost screamed. The light in the hall showed me what the substance we slipped in was, it was blood. I told Will, and he looked at his hand and almost screamed. We knew we had to get out of there, so we walked back to the surveillance office, and the dining room camera showed us there was an exit there. We were relieved, because we could finally get the Hell out of there. We walked outside in the hallway and things looked good, but then the power went out. Me and Will tried best not to be scared, and turned on our flashlights. We looked behind us and saw Evelyn G's face in the dark. She looked pale, with a hideous smile. We ran as fast as we could to the exit in the dining room, with Evelyn G chasing us. We got there, but we couldn't see and tried pushing to see if we could get the door open. Evelyn G. was getting closer, and we were freaking out. I thought we were gonna be killed. I then remembered the flashlight, and shined it on the door. I was able to see the door handle, and I pulled it open. Me and Will ran out and shut the door immediately. Evelyn G. didn't follow us, and pounded on the window of the door. We ran to my car as fast we could, and drove home.

Epilogue
We went to the police the next day, and told them about what happened that night. We then told them about Evelyn G's murder. They said they had no idea this had happened, and they'd look into it. They investigated the building, finding only the newspaper, but no blood. The police contacted the owners of the RPC, who said they had no idea about the murder of Evelyn G. That one employee also apologized for leaving us locked in by accident. The employees and the owners said they couldn't find much and that they were going to have to find an expert to help solve this problem. We haven't gone back to the RPC since that night. I would never have figured that the RPC has such a dark, disturbing past. The terrors we faced that night, will never be forgotten. And Evelyn G. will probably keep haunting the RPC, waiting for her next, unlucky victim.