Aberdeezy

If I was going to write a scary screenplay based on a true story, it would set it in Aberdeen, WA. It would be about a young woman who travels from the big city to Aberdeen for her white collar job. The movie would play "Come as You Are" by Nirvana* on repeat. She would stay at the only marginally acceptable hotel in town, the Ghosthouse. The hotel is termed as such because it is rumored to be haunted by victims of serial killer Billy Gohl.

In the evenings after work she would either eat at Subway or the restaurant named after the infamous killer. Out of boredom, she would go to see a movie at the South Shore Mall. She would drive past the empty parking lots and boarded up fronts of Sears and JC Penny to the theatre. The movie theatre would be the only business operating out of the mall, with the exception of Dairy Queen. She would be the only person in the 50-seat theatre until halfway through the previews, when three other people arrive.

Now, the movie would be BASED on a true story, but the story actually isn’t true. So at the end, the movie theatre people would kill the heroine, and then she would haunt the hotel by singing Nirvana up and down the hallways and inexplicably turning the TVs on and off.

*Kurt Cobain was from Aberdeen.