- [Dad] (chuckles) What are you doing, Ernie?
- Making this go up to his head.
- [Dad] Oh, cool.
What is that a story of?
- A giant snake, wanna hear it?
- [Dad] Yeah, tell me about it.
- Okay, so these are pictures of old people who once lived--
wanna hear the prologue?
- [Dad] Yeah, tell me the prologue.
- So.
There were three people.
They, um, or first you wanna hear the shivers?
- [Dad] Tell me the shivers.
- Three people went on a picnic one day.
One day they lost their way.
The first person said, got worried.
"We must find our way.
"We do not want to meet the old dark ghost."
"Who's that?" Said the other person.
"A terrible creature.
"He comes out at night
"and eats little human children for supper."
But then,
they said to wait,
so I waited.
And two eyes appeared.
The old dark ghost.
He said, "I have eaten too many frog--
"I have eaten too many human children."
He put out a jump rope.
"When I jump rope ten times,
"Then I'll get hungry and I'll eat you."
But first, he had to jump rope.
So the little boy jumped, jumped, and held the rope out.
The ghost jumped and jumped and jumped
until I had to save my life,
so I tried,
I went around the tree.
The ghost shouted, "No!"
And I found my parents already had a picnic,
in the early spring.
That was the prologue.
- [Dad] Great!
- Wanna hear a real ghost story?
- [Dad] Yeah.
- Chapter one.
The Three People Get Lost.
- [Dad] Okay.
- So, there are three people.
They went for a picnic.
But then, then she thought of a ghost.
Old dark ghost.
Who said he wanted to eat a little frog.
But, he was too much stronger.
And he said, "I will eat something even tastier."
The old dark ghost said.
So I saved my life, and I ran home.
And had another picnic.
That was the story.
Now do you wanna hear the story of the giant snake?
- [Dad] Sure.
- And the vampire?
- [Dad] Sure.
- Once, wanna hear the prologue?
- [Dad] Sure.
- Five campers napping in the light had a dream.
They dreamed that they were eated by mysterious ghosts.
From outer space.
Ghosts with horns and swords and scarves and hats
and gloves and hooks and eye patches and gold tooths
and peg legs.
They dreamed even the captain of the ghosts would come.
A horny beast with 500 armies.
- [Dad] A horny beast.
- The horns were made from silk and metal feathers.
- [Dad] Silk and metal feathers.
- Yeah.
His body was made from mud and animal fur,
feathers, and all kinds of vine plants.
And his hands were made from metal.
His horns glimmered in the dark light.
And he had no legs.
He had two bony gloves.
And he was--
And he had a helmet that held the horns.
And then, he was the king of the ghosts.
He had 5,000 ghost armies.
- [Dad] Wow.
- He lived and his pet is a giant snake.
The people screamed
but one boy captured the creature
and tied him to his rope.
But the ghost is even stronger than metal.
And the king was dead
because he just thought about his parents,
and he told the ghost, and the ghost vanished.
- [Dad] Oh.
- And into thin air.
The ghost roared with laughter
until he was banished from his own kingdom.
That was the prologue.
Chapter-- Do you wanna skip a little?
- [Dad] Sure.
- Chapter ten. The Ghost.
When the boy got out of his truck,
he landed in the ghost kingdom.
A ghost was sleeping.
It was the chief ghost.
He was snoring on a thick mat.
Made from feathers.
- [Dad] (chuckles) Everything is made from feathers.
- Because he has a feather kingdom.
- [Dad] Oh, I see.
- And he rests every day eating bones
made from scrap paper.
And he would always snore loudly.
But one day, he took off his horn and his helmet
to reveal a bony covered thick face.
Who he sleeped night and day, snoring.
Til one gloomy day.
When the boy looked, he was wearing the sheet.
It was stuck to him.
He reached out,
revealing a black, black hand.
And another.
With two black, black, black teeth.
Lots of black teeth.
And he had any--
And he was snoring like a hazel.
- [Dad] Like a hazel?
- Yeah.
And he was, he smelled like stinky fish and gum wrappers.
- [Dad] Eww.
- And he snored and he snored
until he was too tired.
But out of the nowhere,
the boy saw one gray tail from the ghost.
The ghost saw him and he screeched, "Aaaaaaaaugh!"
The boy screamed.
He locked the door.
The ghost came and went right through the door.
He called all of his guards.
The guards raced after the boy.
But they accidentally stepped on their checker pieces.
And they slipped.
The chief was mad.
He started running,
but the boy accidentally tripped the chief over.
And they put their checker pieces
and little spikes of hedgehog skin.
The chief stepped on the hedgehogs,
but he was too late.
The chief had fell over.
- [Dad] Is that the end?
- Yeah.
- [Dad] That's a good story.
Good job.
- Which part did you like?
- [Dad] I liked the part where
everything was made of feathers.
- I like the part when the boy caught the ghost chief.
- [Dad] Yeah, that was pretty good.
- What's Mommy's favorite?
- [Dad] I think Mommy's favorite is the whole thing.
That's a good story, dude.
- Yeah, wanna hear it again?
- Fist bump, fist bump.
- Wanna hear on chapter three?
It's when he almost gets the ghost.
- [Dad] Sure, just a second.
I'm gonna pause this.