As the legend is told, a young couple living in a large
house, had gone out to a dinner party one evening. The couple had left
their babysitter in charge of their two children at the house. With the
children already in bed, she decided to go into th living room and watch
some television for a while. As she was about to get comfortable on the
couch, the phone rang. As she picked up the reciever, all she heard was a
man laughing menicingly, and a voice that said " I'm upstairs with the
children, you'd better come up. Thinking it was a prank phone call or
someone just trying to scare her, she slammed the receiver down and turned
up the television. A few minutes later the phone rang again. As she picked
it up, she could her the unmistakable laughter coming over the phone line.
She then heard the man say, once again, " I'm upstairs with the children,
you'd better come up. Getting very frightened and worried, she hung the
phone up. Not knowing what to do, the babysitter calls the operator. The
operator tells her that they would notify the police and, should he decided
to call again, to keep him talking in order to give the police time to
trace the call. Only a few minutes after she finished talking with the
operator, the phone rang again. It was the voice again. After he said, "I'm
upstairs with the children, you'd better come up," she tried to stall him
by askin why he was doing this to her. However, he must have guessed what
she was trying to do and he hung up the phone on her. Only seconds later
the phone rang again. This time it was the operator, who said, "Get out of
the house right now, we traced the call and its coming from the upstairs
phone. The man is in the house with you.". The baby-sitter dropped the
phone and, at the same time, heard someone runnin down the stairs. She fled
from the house and ran straight into the arms of the police. The police
burst into the house and found a man brandishing a large butcher's knife.
The man had broken in through one of the windows upstairs. He murdered both
of the children while they slept, and was just about to do the same to the
babysitter when the police arrived
