The Laughing Spirit

The Laughing Spirit, the Spirit of Laughs, The Entity who Entertains. These are some of the variation of name’s that the Spirit has taken upon itself from the townsfolk. The Laughing Spirit is a local known spirit that is said to haunt in multiple place’s of a small town community, the most well known location it stalks is an abandoned construction site. Sightings of the Spirit has been recorded for many years, the first sighting being dated back to the mid 1980s. Reasonings of the existence of the Spirit has differed over the years, some say that the spirit is looking for a loved one, other’s say that it is looking for an answer for its death and a few assume that it is there to take revenge against the town. The growing attention of the Spirit has given made the town get visits by people from other towns, large cities and even people from other countries. Of these visits the town has it share of “Hunters” Ghost Hunters to be correct. They walk and surround the town of vans and people with cameras trying to get out every little bit of their thoughts and maybe personal encounters with the Spirit, cameras being shoved near their faces the questions they get range from “What does it look like?”, “How often is it seen?”,  “What was the experience like for you?”.

 “What does it look like?”

Mixed. The appearance of the Spirit has always been mixed, but the most popular appearance of the Spirit was a sighting from a woman back in 2007 after she had her own encounter of the Spirit; She said the spirit was a man about near 30, he had light brown hair, pale face and skin, his hair was all fuzzy and his clothes was blood stained and ripped. The most eye gripping part of the Spirit was his head that danglings from the side of his body, his neck was all ripped up and just hanging off from whatever veins remains, with bones sticking out from the neck region. His most haunting and bone chilling feature beside the neck was his smile, he doesn’t just smile at you when you see him, no, his smile is always there... like it’s stuck.

The woman was seen leaving the town after her encounter, she looked really happy to leave.

 “How often is it seen?”

Running into the Spirit can be lucky or even unlucky for anyone who decided to go looking for him or even just by accident. The Spirit lures in a construction site that was left abandoned since 1982, only that remains there was a half constructed building that was meant to be a small shopping mall, tools and hardware hats, it was left untouched since then from an incident within the area. It is the quietest part of the town.

 “What was the experience like for you”

So few has encountered the Spirit, it was reported that only four people (one including the woman from 2007) had the most notable encounter, while others seemed to have not or even lied about it;

 1985:

Three years after the shut-down of the construction site a boy was playing with his friends in the area, he was the slowest of the group so the boy was separated from his friends and was left behind alone. The boy went everywhere to find his friends, while he was looking for his friends he found a man who was wandering around the site. The boy asked the man for help to look for his friends, the man slowly turned to the child leaving the him frozen in place at the sight of the man. The boy stumbling his words asked the man his question again, the man was laughing lightly while staring at the boy without giving one blink. The man then slowly raised his arm while his eyes are still fixed on him and still laughing, he pointed at an area to his left. The boy looked at the direction the man was pointing and he ran to the pointed location, the man was still looking at him and his laugh can be heard slightly as the boy ran. He ran without stopping, he was the slowest of the group but after that moment he may not be. Luckily the man was right and the boy found his friends - they were also looking for him, the child asked his friends if they have seen the man that he ran into but his friends didn’t. The boy was happy and laughing of relief to be with his friends again.

 1996:

Six days before the New Year a young woman went to the site with a metal detector in search for anything “rare” from the early days before the closing of the site and even before the start of the mall was being planned. She was drinking beer as she looked around the area as well as being loud. She had been wondering around the area for about an hour and she had only found a coin and a bracelet, she was ready to leave until she heard something. The woman was nearly intoxicated but managed to walk towards whatever she had heard. She walked to a part of the abandoned shopping mall and she walked upon a tall man. She dropped her beer and just stood there looking at the man, the man looked at both her dropped beer and metal detector but then his eyes suddenly quickly fixed to the items that the woman had found. The woman was shaken and was at the same time nearly drunk, she looked at the items that she was holding, the man then slowly walked to her as he was chuckling, the woman threw the items at the man and ran away from her as she screamed. She was having a hard time getting away from the man as she couldn’t stand still from all the drinks she had, she can hear a laughter behind her as she falls to her feet, she looked behind her and all she saw was nothing but darkness, the only form of light that was showing from the darkness was his eyes and smile. The woman managed to outrun the man and she happened to run into a police officer, the officer is seeing a woman who looked like the colour of her body was drained out and she was shaking, plus laughing. The police officer gotten a scent of the beer that she has been having, he put her in the back of his car and took her back to the station. The last thing the woman saw was the man eying her as she left the scene and giving a smile as the woman gave him the middle finger.

 2010:

A tourist from the UK visited the town in the wake the rising popularity of the Spirit, he came to the town in hoping to find materials that was never found out before, one of them being having a conversation with the Spirit with the help of a recorder that he bought just for this moment'''. '''The man arrived at the site and noticing a bunch of tire tracks in front of the area. The man decided to visit the place at night and luckily he was the only one there, he grabbed his recorder and flashlight and headed to the site. Nature was taking its action and it was taking the site for itself, the ground was covered with tall grass, the building of the shopping mall was being covered with vines and leaves with a tree that was growing out from within the shopping mall, despite the sudden attention it is still the quietest part of town. The man, struggling across the now nature infested area looks around - shinning his flashlight in different direction, with the still sounds of the wind blowing against the trees - backed up with the cries of crows. As he made his way closer to the shopping mall he heard a faint sound, he stopped in his tracks and looked around - but found nothing, he then continued to look. Then only a couple of seconds later he heard another sound, the sound he was able to make out was a small chuckle. He stood in place and looked around the area - shaken by the sound. Emerging from the darkness he saw bright white lights that looked like eyes and a smile, he then saw a shadowy figure of a man slowly walking towards him, without any second thoughts he immediately ran away from the sight of the man, As he was running he can still hear the sounds of his laughter closing in on him and then away from him. Looking behind him he saw that he was gone, he ran into his car and got out of there, the tourist was trying not to laugh at what he has saw as he made his way out of the area.

To this day there has been less and less sightings of the Spirit - has the popularity frighten the Spirit? Anyone who happens to run into him is told to try not to make him mad and make him happy, as they say - “laughter is the best medicine” especially for the Laughing Spirit.

-Written by Fryz

Authors Note
It's been nearly a year since I've wrote a pasta. This pasta was something that was in the works for a long time, I've been fighting a big writers block... but I beat it. The Pasta may have some bad grammar, Like I said I haven't wrote a pasta in a long time so I maybe rusty at this. After this Pasta will I make another one? Or will I stay hidden for once again a year before writing a pasta? ... Answer is - I hope not. I just don't have the urge to write a Pasta like I did when I first came to this wiki, ever since Eric won CreepyPasta of The Month I kind of had a hard time thinking of ideas for a Pasta. I wrote a pasta back in August - but that went nowhere, I started working on this pasta back in November but like the one in August I just stopped. I maybe losing my groove for making Pasta. So yeah, anyway I hope you enjoyed this Pasta that was nearly three months in the making, and hey... you may have missed something.