Truth or Dare
by Zahraa Yassine

Title: Truth or Dare
Characters: - major: Josh
-         Minor: James, Sara, Tiffany, and I
Setting:- time: during spring vacation
-         Place: haunted house
Problem: the ghost setting different questions and forcing my friends and me to accomplish them in order to survive
Major events:
- picking the place to spend our spring vacation
- witnessing the death of our first friend who didn’t continue the dare
-having another friend lost after leaving the house
-finding a way to cope with the dares
-surviving after the death of three friends
Conclusion: the death of friends and knowing that the myth of the haunted house is real.


        “Superstitions is the poetry of life.” This quote interprets superstitions as a source of interest, curiosity, and eagerness, where it’s the spice of life. Every culture has its unique superstitious beliefs and even to this day in modern society it is still widely spread and given importance. However, nothing can be more terrifying and blood-curdling than witnessing the death of three friends all because of a ridiculous game of truth or dare.

       It was just like any other regular day in Eastwood high when the principal announced the start of our spring vacation after months full of stress and pressure because of our mid-term exams. My friends and I decided to plan a get away to release some anxiety and have an enjoyable time. Josh, who’s a member in our crew suggested going on an adventure to a nearby city to spend the night  in a haunted house, where legend says that it witnessed the death of all, it’s visitors who don’t play the game of truth or dare the way that the spirit haunting this house asks them to. Our group split into two people who were willing to take the risk and people who were highly superstitious that were too horrified to go. We decide to settle it down by voting, I was personally never interested in such moronic beliefs, so I decided to take the chance and vote yes though I had a bad feeling about it, my friend Josh and Sara agreed while tiffany and James didn’t, but we had to go since most of us agreed.
      Weirdly it was Friday the 13th on the day we arrived, as we went in we realized ancient furniture, cracked walls, and indigent electricity. We went upstairs to put down our stuff as we hear Josh screaming “Come see this, come see this”. We rushed downstairs as we saw blood splattered all over the ground saying welcome, we all thought it was some type of prank so we didn’t pay too much attention. We started playing the game truth or dare, the questions were simple requests with no harm since we wrote them. My friend Sara went first and picked dare, it said to put her arm on the stove for 10 minutes, we all started wondering who would write this and of course, we wouldn’t let her do it so she picked another one, all of a sudden our phones rang at the same time with a message from an anonymous person saying “You have 3 minutes”. Sara was extremely petrified as she packs her stuff and leaves the house, an entire electric pole falls on her and electrifies her to death on the porch. We immediately took her to the hospital, but unfortunately, she passed away.

      After that incidence, we promised ourselves to never visit that house again. We thought it was over here but unfortunately, it wasn’t. We were calling Josh to go to Sara’s funeral, but he wasn’t responding, so James went to check in on him as he saw a paper with a dare saying “You have 5 minutes to cut of all you’re finger” and Josh who was strangled by a rope tied on the lamp with waterfalls of blood flowing down. Josh seems like he didn’t finish the dare… It was James, Tiffany, and I left so we agreed to go back to the house in order to settle this once in for all. We searched in libraries for books to assist us through what we were facing and it says to outsmart the ghost. The truth for Tiffany was to admit her drug addiction which no one knew about until that dare, she refused to do it, as we saw an arrow breaking through her neck. Another one was gone. I got the dare to put acid all over me, so I thought by putting some starch over it so it would lose it’s intensity. James survived after getting a truth that he answered. Though I survived the death of my friends left my heartbroken.

      Eventually, not all superstitions are authentic but some definitely are. It’s something that will grow day by day as our society develops no matter what. After all, superstitions are most likely to keep on triggering curiosity and interest amusing society by its mysterious existence. As once stated, “Superstitions are a part of the culture,  and the rising of a passionate mind.”


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