Thursday 1 December 2011

Acorn the Squirell

Alright, this is a post. But wait...

Okay, here I explain. My school computer and all the stuff on it was scheduled to be moved to another school. This is a story I was working on there, and this was the only place I could move it. so hgere it is:

Acorn the Squirrel and the Nut Stealer





Acorn was a squirrel who lived in the park. One day, he was just hopping along, when suddenly his friend Scratchy ran up. “Acorn, a human is stealing our nuts!” he said. “A human stealing nuts?” exclaimed Acorn, “why would he do that? They don’t eat nuts.” Scratchy caught up at last. “You know humans,” he said, “they eat anything and everything. They even make their own food. That’s why they don’t hibernate.” Acorn was off again. “We worked really hard to collect those nuts,” he complained, “but don’t worry, I’ll get them back!” Acorn ran up to the Big Oak at the middle of the park. The human was just taking the last of their hard-earned nuts and walking off. Acorn followed him over big roads, past loud cars, under huge skateboards, around mean raccoons, past crow nests and finally to a giant metal tree. The human went inside. Acorn followed, sniffing at the stolen nuts. The human went through a door. Acorn started beating at the door. The one next to him opened. Thinking they might both lead to the same place, he went through the door. It closed behind him. But he was stuck in a small room with nowhere to go. What now? Suddenly, the room started going up! He looked out the window. To his surprise, he could see the whole city! Even the Big Oak and the park where he lived looked small from up here. Finally, the room stopped rising, and he burst out, expecting to find a giant stash of nuts. Instead, he found a long hallway, with many doors on the side. Where had the human gone? Then, he heard footsteps and smelled nuts. The human! He ran towards the noise. It was coming from a vent in the wall. He tried to climb through it. But the vent was full of wind! He got blown right back into the hallway. Suddenly, a human walked by. He was sweeping a noisy machine over the floor. Then, he dropped one of his keys, and the machine sucked it up. He pressed another button, and the key flew out. Acorn then got a very sneaky idea. He climbed up onto the man’s head, and bit his nose! The man ran off. Acorn pressed the same button, and the hall was full of dust and stuff. He jumped into the vent and pulled the machine to the opening. He got shot up a floor and fell into an identical hallway. Where were his nuts? Then, a door closed, and he got a scent of the nuts. He squeezed under the door and into a human kitchen. “Honey,” he heard the human say, “I got the chestnuts for Thanksgiving dinner.” Acorn gasped. So they were going to eat the nuts after all!! He ran up onto the counter while the humans weren’t looking, stuffed the nuts into his mouth and ran off. “The nuts are gone!!” yelled the human! Acorn jumped out a window. But then, he looked down. Half a mile of falling space looked back. And he feeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll all the way to the Big Oak!!! Fortunately, he landed in the leaves and grabbed a branch before he hit the ground. He opened his mouth to cheer. But where were the nuts? Suddenly, they started falling out of the sky. He had screamed and the nuts had fallen out of his mouth! They fell into the Big Oak around the stunned squirrels. Then, they all started cheering. “Hooray for Acorn!!” they yelled. Acorn stood up to take a bow. And fell out of the tree.

THE END!!!

Monday 14 November 2011

Raiders of the Lost Ark, for real

I have, for a long time, been a fan of Indiana Jones. Especially Raiders of the Lost Ark. Now, for a recap. What lost ark? Some who haven't seen the movie think it might mean Noah's Ark. I certainly did before watching the movie! In reality, it refers to the Lost Ark, the most incredible artifact in history. No one knows what exactly lies inside, or the current location of the ark, or even if it exists! But it has some whopping supernatural powers if it is real. The Nazis that stole the ark in Indiana Jones figured that out the hard way. And so, here is the tale of the Ark of the Covenant.


 The Dawn of the Ark

According to the legends, thousands of years ago, the ark was created. I myself don't know the details well, so excuse any crude facts in this post. Apparently, the prophet Moses was leading people out of Egypt to escape slavery. He stopped at Mt. Sinai and climbed it. The mountain was wreathed in lightning. Later, he came back down with the Ten Commandments and smashed them. The smashed bits and the second set of commandments were placed in the ark, which was later placed in a temple in Israel. But something else might have been in the ark, because when it was stolen by the enemies of Israel, they all succumbed to a mysterious famine. Was it thanks to the ark? Maybe. The ark caused many other strange occurences. What they were, I embarrassingly can't recall.

But why the title lost ark? Well, soon after the Israelites recovered it, it vanished from the Second Temple!


The Vanishing Ark

Nobody knows exactly where it went. Some say it was shipped to the city of Tanis in Egypt, like in Raiders of the Lost Ark. Others say it ended up in Tanzania. A few say it is buried in a cavern in Arabia. A few even say the ark was an alien supercomputer, and the aliens flew down a UFO and beamed it up, then took it back to the planet Vulcan. I know, those conspiracy theories are just plain bizzare. But what happened to the ark, then? Who knows. Of course, maybe we don't want to find out. Indiana Jones just barely escaped the awe-inspiring supernatural powers of the ark. Something inside of it is deadly and powerful beyond imagination. Maybe we don't really want to cross it....

Of course, Indiana Jones is just a movie, right? Um, right?

I sure hope so, because I have an aversion to getting incinerated by supernatural powers beyond human imagination!!!              




  

Welcome to the wierd!

Thank you so much for coming! I'm Matt, your tour guide into this blog. Chasing the Past and Beyond is about the mysteries behind everything, the supernatural around us, mysterious creatures like the Mokele-Mbembe or the Sasquatch, and all kinds of cool stuff like that. Okay, sometimes I deviate from such topics, like maybe listing my favorite Primeval episodes or some of the latest news on the endangered One-Horned Indian Rhino or something like that, but wierdness is the main theme of the day. And so, without further ado, afoot or afoul, you may explore the depths of the completely wacky and unknown. Have fun, and don't get eaten by slime monsters!