The Paranormals: A Haunting House

The Paranormals: A Haunting House


(Episode #101)

By: Roderick Sloan
 


Teaser

FADE IN
Int. Paranormals’ kitchen night
Trooper a Belgium traverne is fast asleep on his pillow lying on
his back with his tongue sticking out.

SFX: (Snoring)

CUT TO CLOSE UP ON CEILING- A ghostly white shape starts to
materialize through the ceiling.

WIDE ON Trooper and Ghostly White Shape in front of him-
Trooper lays snoring away until he opens one eye and sees the
form in front of him.

EXT. Paranormal house night
Trooper lets out a howl of fright at the sight of the figure
in front of him.

TROOPER
Hoooooooowwwwwwllllll.
FADE OUT

END TEASER
























ACT ONE
FADE IN-

INT. Paranormal kitchen night
KEN PARANORMAL an average looking man and head of the Paranormal
house hold walks in to the kitchen and switches the light on
followed by his wife TINA who like her husband is an average
looking woman. Their sixteen year old son JASON walks
in followed by his fourteen year old sister TRACEY and their nine
year old brother BRYAN who wears large glasses that look too big
for his face and is followed by his pet pig OINKS.
All are in nighttime garb.

WIDE ON THE PARANOROMALS

KEN
What is all the howling about down here?

CLOSE UP ON- Trooper’s pillow who is missing from his bed.

TRACEY (O.S.)
Where’s Trooper?

TINA
Oh I’m sure he’s in here somewhere.

JASON (O.S.)
Here he is.

CUT TO- Trooper shivering under the dinner table like Scooby Doo.

WIDE ON- Paranormals as they all walk to the table to inspect
Trooper.

JASON
He looks like he’s seen a ghost.

TRACEY
Maybe that’s the reason he howled.

KEN
Come on guys that silly Trooper probably just had a bad dream.

BRYAN
But boy wouldn’t be cool if Trooper had seen a ghost.


TINA
Okay everyone that’s enough let’s leave the ghosts and goblins
for breakfast.

The kids start walking out of the kitchen to go back to bed
except for Tracey.

TRACEY
What about Trooper are we just going to leave him under the table
frightened like that?

TINA
No he’ll sleep in our room tonight. Come on Trooper.

ANGLE ON KITCHEN- Trooper walks out from underneath the table
and walks out with Tina and Ken who switches the light off before
exiting the kitchen. The ghostly shape reappears after the family
has left.

FADE IN-
INT. Paranormal kitchen morning
Tina is standing in front of the kitchen counter stirring pancake
batter while Trooper shivers at her feet still shook up from his
scare last night.

Close up on Trooper shivering
Move up to Tina

Tina
Trooper honestly you are acting like a frightened little puppy.

SFX: (Wail)

Tina turns around in surprise at the sound.

Close up on bowl as it starts to float above Tina.

Close up on Tina as the pancake batter is poured onto her and
the bowl dropped on her head.

Tina
What in the world?

Tina pulls the bowl off of her head.

SFX: (Click)

Tina turns around to see the refrigerator opens up by itself.

Close up on refrigerator as a tomato comes flying out.
Tina is starting to be hit by eggs, tomatoes, and other contents
of the refrigerator.

Trooper
Yipe!

Trooper runs and hides under the rug as Tina is pummeled by food.

CUT TO-
INT. Bathroom
Close up on shower head running
Pull back on Tracey in a bath robe holding her hand underneath the
water to make sure it’s at the right temperature.

SFX: (Wail)

Tracey turns around in surprise at the sound.

Tracey
Is someone there?

Close up on Tracey’s feet standing on the rug when it is pulled out
from underneath of her by someone unseen.


Tracey
Whoa!

Tracey falls backwards into the shower and an invisible force
closes the door.

INT. Shower
Tracey stands up with the water running and tries to push the
shower door open but it won’t budge, she tries to turn the shower
off and discovers the handle won’t turn.
Tracey is hit on the head with a shower brush.

Tracey
Ow.

A bar of soap is stuck into her mouth and a bottle of shampoo
Floats above and squeezes itself onto her head and the brush
starts scrubbing it on her. Tracey spits the soap out of her mouth.

Tracey
Help! Help!

CUT TO-
INT. Jason’s Room

Jason has just finished making his bed and is smoothing out the
sheets.

Jason
There nice and neat.

SFX: (Wail)

Jason
What was that?

Jason turns around to see where the sound came from.

Pan view on Jason as his bed cover floats up behind him and wraps
itself around him.

Jason
Hey what’s going on here?

Jason struggles to break free just as his bed sheets begin to wrap
around him and his pillows are thrown at him.

CUT TO-
INT. Bryan’s room
Bryan is pulling his shirt on and putting his glasses on.
Oinks walks up to Bryan carrying his ball in his mouth wanting
to play fetch.

Bryan
Sorry Oinks well play after breakfast.

SFX: (Wail)

Bryan and Oinks both look around the room in surprise.
Bryan looks at Oinks.

Bryan
Did you hear that?

Just then Bryan is given a wedgie by an unseen attacker and his
underwear is pulled over his head knocking his glasses off. Bryan
runs around panicking.

Bryan
What’s going on? What’s going on?

While Bryan is running around his shirt drawer opens up by itself
and one of his shirts floats out. Oinks sees the shirt float out
and starts oinking in fear.

Close up on Oinks as the shirt is stuck on him, then a pair of
pants, and finally Bryan’s glasses.

CUT TO
INT. Hallway
Ken is walking out his room and into the hallway.

Tracey (o.s.)
Help! Help!

Ken hears Tracey call for help and rushes to the bathroom.

INT. Bathroom
Ken burst through the door and sees Tracey’s silhouette in the
Shower struggling to get the door open.

Close up on shower.

Ken pulls the shower door open causing Tracey to fall out.
Ken helps Tracey up to see if she is ok.

Pan view on Ken and Tracey.

Ken
Tracey honey are you ok?
Tracey is covered in soap and shampoo and her hair is ruffled
from the brush scrubbing her head.

Tracey
(Belch)


Tracey opens her mouth to answer her dad and bubbles come out of
her mouth.

SFX: (Crash) O.S.

Ken and Tracey both rush out of the bathroom when they hear a crash
come from Jason’s room.

INT. Jason’s room
Ken and Tracey burst through the door and find Jason jumping up
and down in a cocoon of blankets and sheets.

Pan View on Jason jumping up and down wrapped up in blankets.

Ken grabs Jason and tears the blankets off to help him out.

Ken
Jason what in the world is going on here?
Jason is about to answer when they all hear another sound coming
from Bryan’s room.

SFX: (Crash) O.S.

Ken, Tracey, and Jason, run to Bryan’s room.

Cut To
Ken, Tracey, and Jason bursting into Bryan’s room.

They see Bryan running around with his underwear over his head
and Oinks running around dressed like Bryan.

Bryan
Help I can’t see, I can’t see.

Ken
Bryan will you hold still so I can help you.

Bryan stops in front of his dad and Ken pulls Bryan’s underwear off
his head.

Close up on Bryan after Ken pulls his underwear off his head.


Bryan
I still can’t see everything’s fuzzy.

Tracey
Bryan here.

Tracey hands Bryan his glasses.

Tina (o.s.)
What’s all the commotion about?

Ken, Jason, Tracey, and Bryan all look out Bryan’s door and see
Tina covered in tomatoes, whipped cream, cheese, and eggs.

Ken
What the heck is going on?

Tina/Jason/Tracey/Bryan
The house is haunted!

FADE OUT

END ACT ONE



FADE IN.
ACT TWO

INT. Dining room kitchen
The Paranormals are all sitting around the dinner table eating
Dinner. Tina, Jason, Tracey, and Bryan are trying to convince to
Ken who after seeing his family attacked by unseen attackers is not
convinced the house is haunted.

Tina
For crying out loud Ken you saw what happened
to all of us this morning. What more proof do
you need?

Jason
Yeah, and what about everything else
that happened to us throughout the day
dad?

Ken
Like what?

Jason
Like what happened to me.
Flashback:
Jason vacuuming the back of his parents’ car when the
vacuum stops working. Jason takes a look at the tube
then his head is sucked in.

Cut back to Jason.

Jason
It took me two hours to get my head out.

Ken
Oh that doesn’t prove anything.

Tracey
Oh yeah what about what happened to me?

Flashback:
Tracey is painting on a canvas when all of the sudden
Two of her paint tubes float up and she notices them
hanging in midair.

Tracey
Huh?

The tubes squirt red and yellow paint out at her.
Cut back to Tracey.

Ken
There’s a logical explanation for that.

Close up on Tracey as she quirks up an eyebrow.

Tracey
Like what daddy?

Bryan
And what about when my truck chased me?

Flashback:
Bryan is playing with his remote control truck making
it go around in a circle when it stops. Bryan moves the
the controls to try and make it move when all of the
sudden the truck moves and faces Bryan. Bryan runs
away screaming as the truck chases him.

Bryan
Aaaaahhhh!

Cut back to Bryan.

Ken
Maybe the truck is defective.

Bryan
Tell that to the truck.

Bryan holds up the truck wrecked from Bryan having to smash it to
keep it from chasing him.

Tina
Let’s not forget about what happened while I was watering
the lawn.

Flashback:
Close up on Tina watering the lawn when the hose all of
the suddenly stops. Tina looks into the hose then water
sprays out at her.

Cut back to Tina.

Ken
Ha, Ha, Ha.

Ken stops when he sees the stern look Tina is giving him.

Bryan
What happened to Trooper and Oinks was really scary.

Close up on Trooper and Oinks sitting in the corner both nodding in
agreement.

Flashback:
Pan View on Trooper and Oinks.

Trooper is chewing on a squeaky cat toy and Oinks is play
with a rope toy.

Trooper’s cat comes to life and growls at him
Making Trooper drop the toy and run away from it.
Oink’s rope wraps itself around his snout.

Cut back to Trooper and Oinks.


Ken
Ok, ok I admit a few scary things happened today
but that doesn’t mean we need to go jumping to
conclusions here.


Jason
Conclusions? Dad for crying out loud my bed sheets
attacked me this morning.

Tracey
Yeah Dad we all think the house is haunted.

Pan View on Ken as he stands up with his hands sticking out.

Ken
Whoa, whoa lets calm down now. Listen
after dinner why doesn’t everyone go to
a movie.

Tina
What about you dear?

Ken
I’ll stay here and prove to you all there are no ghosts in
this house.

Tracey
Oh I don’t know if we should leave you
here by yourself after everything that’s
happened today.
Ken
Honey I assure I will be fine and I won’t
be by myself I’ll have Trooper and Oinks with
me.

Trooper and Oinks both get frightened look at each other with
Frightened looks on their faces and beg Tina, Jason, Tracey,
and Bryan not to leave them alone.

Ken
Now you all go have a good time and when you get back
you’ll see our house isn’t haunted at all.

FADE IN
INT. Living room
Trooper and Oinks are scratching the door trying to run away
terrified of what may happen while everyone is gone.
Ken walks in the living room and sees Trooper and Oinks scratching
at the door.

Ken
Come on you two you’re both being babies.

Close up on Trooper and Oinks as they look at Ken with frightened
expressions.

Ken
Let’s turn the T.V. on and see if we can find a movie.

Ken walks over to the couch, sits down, and is joined by Trooper
and Oinks. Ken turns the T.V. on and starts flipping through the
channels.

SFX: (Click)

Game Show Hosts (o.s.)
That is correct you are our one million dollar winner.

SFX:(Click)

Baseball Announcer
It’s a home run.

SFX: (Click)

SFX: (Click)

Movie Announcer
And now back to “The Monster That Ate Seattle”.

Ken
Oh this is a good one.

Trooper/Oinks
(Whine)

Ken
Oh come on you two it’s only a movie.

Close up on the T.V. as the movie shows a man and woman driving in
a car.

Jane
Hurry John we must get to Seattle before
the monster.

John
Don’t worry Jane will be there before-
Oh no on the road it’s the monster!

A giant monster appears on the screen shone by the car’s
headlights.

Pan View on Ken, Trooper, and Oinks when the monster sticks it’s
head out of the T.V.
SFX: (Roar)

Ken, Trooper, and Oinks are blown over backwards on the couch.

Ken
Run for it boys!

Ken, Trooper, and Oinks run for the door, Ken grabs the knob and
starts pulling but the door won’t budge. Trooper and Oinks
scratch at the door.

Ken
Don’t worry boys will get out of here.

Close up on the mail slot as it changers into a mouth and grows
teeth.
Close up on Ken as eyes appear on the door.
Ken lets go of the door when he sees the door has come to life.

SFX: (Roar)

Ken
Through the garage!

Ken, Trooper, and Oinks, run off screen to the kitchen.
Cut to the kitchen.
Close up on the sink cupboard as it opens by itself and a bottle of
dish soap floats out and squirts a huge puddle of soap onto the
floor.

Pan View as Ken, Trooper, and Oinks run onto screen and all three
run on the puddle of soap trying not to fall.

Close up on faucet as it extends out and wraps around Ken like a
snake and sprays water out at him.
Pan View on Trooper as his tail is pulled and he is sent sliding across the floor and (o.s.) into the living room.

SFX: (crash)

Pan View on Oinks as an apple comes out of nowhere and is put into his mouth and a frying comes flying down and scoops him up. The frying pan floats Oinks towards the oven.
Pan View on the oven as it slowly opens and flames arise inside it.
Close up on Oink’s eyes as they widen in fear.

Cut To Ext. Paranormal house (night)
Camera Angle on the house as Tina, Jason, Tracey, and Jason pull up in the driveway in Tina’s car.
Close up on Tina and Jason in the front seat.


Tina
Well that was a nice idea of your
father’s to go to the movies.

Jason
Yeah, we didn’t worry about the house being
haunted the whole time we were there.

Tracey
You don’t think anything happened while we
were gone do you?

Tina
Nah I’m sure your father was fine the whole-

Tina, Jason, Tracey, and Bryan look towards the window and see Ken
being sprayed by the faucet.

Close up on Tina as she panics.

Tina
KEN!

Tina runs to the door followed by Jason, Tracey, and Bryan and tries to open the door but it won’t open.

Jason
The back door!

Tina, Jason, Tracey, and Bryan run off screen to run around the back.

Cut to the kitchen with Ken tied in the faucet being sprayed by the water till Tracey, Jason, Tracey, and Bryan bursts in through the back door.

Tina
Hold on Ken!

Tina runs to the sink and turns the water off. Ken’s whole head is soaking wet and he sputters after the faucet is turned off.

Jason
Here dad I’ll help you of this.

Jason walks to his father and spins him around to untie him from the faucet. Ken is dizzy after his son spun him around and he falls onto the floor.

Trooper (o.s.)
(Whine)

Trooper crawls on his stomach into the kitchen.

Tracey (o.s.)
Trooper, are you alright?

Tracey kneels down onto the floor to check him over.

Pan View on Bryan as he looks left and right.

Bryan
Where’s Oinks?

Jason
Trying looking up.

Jason points up to the ceiling fan and there is Oinks holding on for dear life while the fan spins.

Bryan
Oinks let go.

Bryan sticks his hands out to catch Oinks and he drops down on top of Bryan.

Oinks
(Squeal)


Bryan
Oof!

Ken (o.s.)
Umm Honey, kids.

Everyone in the kitchen looks down at Ken.
Close up on Ken lying on the floor.

Ken
I take back what I said about the house not being haunted.

FADE OUT

END ACT TWO.













ACT THREE

Int. Living room (night)
The Paranormals are all seated in the living room talking about what they should do about their house being haunted.

Ken
Alright everybody we have to figure
out how to get rid of the ghosts haunting
our house.

Camera Angle on Jason and Bryan.

Jason
Bryan and I have come up with an idea.

Ken
Well let’s hear it.

Jason
We think it would be a good idea
if we moved out of the house and
let the ghosts have it.

Ken, Tina, and Tracey look at Jason and Bryan with board looks telling them their family doesn’t like the idea.

Tina
We can’t run away from
this boys, this is our
home.

Close up on Bryan.

Bryan
Well then, how about I
build a ghost blaster ray?

Tracey leans into view.

Tracey
I think mom and dad would like
an idea that doesn’t involve
blasting the house Einstein.

Tina
We do need to think of
Something.

Tracey rubs her chin for a second thinking and then comes up with an idea.

Tracey
Hey I’ve got it.

Jason
Got what?

Tracey
A way to get rid
of the ghosts.

Camera Angle on Ken and Tina.

Tina
What is it dear?

Pan view on The Paranormals as they lean in to listen to Tracey’s idea.

Tracey
All we have to do
is have a séance to
talk to the ghosts.

Tracey’s family look at her like she’s crazy.

Ken
That doesn’t sound like
a really good idea honey.

Tina
Your father’s right dear
we don’t know what may happen.

An umbrella is all of the sudden thrown pass Ken and Tina and is stuck in the wall like a dart.

SFX: (Thud)

Tina
Let’s do it.

Ken
Good idea.

Everyone looks over at the umbrella when they hear it pop open.

FADE IN.
Int. Kitchen (night)
The lights are off, the only light is coming from candles burning in the middle of the table centered around a crystal ball. Tracey is seated at the table dressed like a fortune teller with her family sitting around the table and Trooper and Oinks sitting on the floor.

Tracey
Everyone join hands.

Close up Tina as she joins hands with Ken and Bryan. Bryan joins hands with Trooper and Jason, Jason joins hands with Tracey, and Oinks joins hands with Tracey and Trooper, and Ken joins hands with Trooper.

Pan View of The Paranormals seated around the table.

Tracey
Now close your eyes and I will try
to summon the spirit world.

Jason
Try? But you said you could do this.

Tracey
It’s my first time so relax geez.
Okay here we go. Ghosts we are trying
to contact you please make yourselves known.

The Paranormals all remain silent and seated waiting for something to happen. Bryan opens one eye and looks around.

Bryan
Nothing’s happening.

Tracey opens one eye to look over at him.

Tracey
It will just give it time.

SFX: (bump, bump,)

Tracey, Tina, Ken, Bryan, Trooper, and Oinks open their eyes and stand up from the table when they see it moving up and down.

Tracey
I did it the ghosts are making contact with us.

SFX:(bump, bump,)

Everyone looks over to where Jason is sitting and they see him snickering moving the table up and down.

Jason
(snicker)
Pan View on Ken, Tina, and Tracey.

Ken/Tina/Tracey
Jason!

Jason
Sorry I couldn’t help myself.

Tina
Jason this is serious.

Everybody sits back down in their previous seats.

Tracey
Okay let’s try this again.

The Paranormals join hands as Tracey restarts the séance.

Tracey
Ghosts we are trying to make contact with you.

Everything remains silent as Tracey tries again.

Tracey
Ghosts we are-
A female ghosts with brown hair tied in a bun sticks her face into Tracey’s.

Ghosts Wife
Ok, Ok, we heard you the first time.
We’re dead not deaf.

The Paranormals open their eyes all at the same time and they all go wide when they see floating in the middle of the table in front of them a ghost family. The ghost dad looks like a dad out from a 50’s sitcom wearing a business suit and tie, the mother looks like a 50’s style woman with her hair in a bun wearing a yellow shirt and white apron, their children are a boy wearing a striped shirt and ball cap, and a girl wearing a pink dress with blonde hair with a big pink bow.

Tina
Who… who are you?

Dad Ghosts
(sigh)
We’re the Booleys. I’m George this is my wife
Helen.

George put his hands on Helen as she greets The Paranormals.

Helen
Hi.
George bends down, places his hand on his son and daughter as he introduces them.

George
And these are our kids Willy and Louise.

Close up on George as he closes his eyes and looks down as if he looks ashamed.

George
We were trying to scare you out of your
house so we could live in it.

Pan view on The Paranormals as they all look in surprise and asks questions to The Booleys.

Ken
Scare us out of our house. Why?

Close up on Helen and George.

Helen
I’ll explain it dear. It was a few weeks ago.

The screen becomes wavy as Helen begins to flash back.

Flash back:

Int. Booley Living Room
The Booley’s are shown in the living room of what appears to be an old haunted house. George is sitting in an armchair reading the paper, Helen is knitting, Willy is playing on the floor with a toy car, and Louise is playing with a doll and doll house.

Helen
We were a happy ghosts family living in our
haunted house.

Camera Angle on George and Helen.

SFX: (beep, beep,)

George and Helen’s eyes get wide in surprise at the beeping sound.

Pan View on Willy and Louise as George and Helen and pick them up off the floor and the camera follow them up to George and Helen holding their kids.

Helen
One day our house was condemned and
torn down and we were made homeless.

Pan View on the Booleys as a wrecking ball comes crashing through the living room and back again in front of the camera.
FADE IN.
The Booleys floating above the ground in the rain.

Jason (o.s.)
Homeless ghosts?

Tina (o.s.)
Jason shhh.

The Booleys are flying through the walls into a house. A scream is heard.


SFX: (SCREAM)

The Booleys fly out of the house and into the next house. Another scream is heard.

SFX:(SCREAM)

Helen
We flew to house to house trying to find a new home.

The Booleys fly pass the Welcome to Naturalville sign at night.


Helen
Then we came to Naturalville and we thought we could find
a home here.

George
We saw your house and it looked like a nice place to live.

The Booleys are shown from behind looking at The Paranormals house.
They are now shown from the front looking at eachother.

Helen
We knew if we went inside you’d chase us away so we decided
to try something we never thought of and scare you out of the
house so it would be ours.

The screen becomes wavy again as it fades back to the Paranormals and the Booleys in the kitchen.

Helen
And that’s the whole story.

The Paranormals look at eachother feeling sorry for the Booley family.



Tina
We feel really sorry for you. We do, but we can’t just give
you our house.

George
We know so it looks like we’ll just be on our way again.

Camera Angle on Jason and Tracey.

Jason
Well so long- OW!

Tracey punches Jason in the arm.

Tracey
Jason we can’t just let them leave with no place to go.

Ken steps into view.

Ken
Your sister is right son.

Cut To the living room camera angle on the Booleys floating towards the door.


Ken(o.s.)
Wait, wait I think I can help you.

The Booleys stop and turn towards Ken.
Camera follows the Booleys gaze towards Ken standing in the doorway to the kitchen.

Tracey
Ken, what are you talking about?

Ken
I think I know just the place these ghosts can haunt.

FADE IN on an old looking house that looks like it’s been abandoned for years. Camera moves towards the Paranormals and Booleys standing out in front of the house.

Ken
This old house has been abandoned for years because
people believe it’s haunted and it sounds just right
for a ghost family like you.

Close up on The Booleys.



Helen
You mean we can live right here without having
to scare anyone out?

Ken
Yep, you get to live in Naturalville and you have
a new house to haunt.

George and Helen look at each other and then down at Will and Louise. George reaches off screen and the camera follows to show him shaking Ken’s hand.

Ken
Paranormal I don’t know how we can thank you for this.

Tina
Just promise us you won’t haunt our house anymore.

Helen
Oh, don’t worry we won’t do that anymore.

Close up on The Paranomrals as they smile with relief.

Tracey
That’s good news.

Pan View on The Paranormals and The Booleys as the Helen, George, Louise, Willy, and Louise fly pass The Pararnormals, turn around to wave goody bye, and then materialize into their new house.
Pan View on The Paranormals.

Tina
Well am I glad that is all over.

Jason
So am I.

Bryan
I’m tired.

Tracey
Let’s go home.

FADE IN on Tracey in her pajamas getting into bed.

Tina (o.s.)
Tracey.

Tracey looks towards her mom standing in her doorway.
Pan View on Tina walking into Tracey’s room towards Tracey.

Camera Angle as Tina kneels down to Tracey’s level she is on her bed.

Tina
That was a smart idea of your to have that séance.

Tracey
Thanks Mom I’m glad you think so. Who knew it would
have led to helping the ghosts find a place they could
live.

Tina gives Tracey a kiss on the cheek.

Tina
Good night dear.

Tracey
Good nigh Mom.

Tina leaves the room.

Close up on Tracey.

Tracey
Boy am I beat.

Tracey reaches off screen to her lamp and pulls the switch to turn it off. Tracey goes to sleep but then hears a sound that sounds like a ghost.

SFX: (woooooo)

Tracey turns her lamp back on and looks to her left side.
Close up on a ghost that appears to be a sheet with a light coming from it.

Ghost
(woooo)

Tracey’s arm reaches on screen and pulls the sheet off the ghost revealing it to be Bryan holding a flash light making ghost sounds.

Tracey
Bryan.

Bryan opens his eyes realizing he’s been found out.

Bryan
Heh, Heh. Boo.

FADE OUT.

THE END