Ghost Stories - Smee, The Stranger in the Mist

SMEE
by Alfred McClelland Burrage

Genre: horror

Setting: big house on Christmas Eve

Tone: scary, spooky and sometimes dramatic


Ghost: The ghost of someone who died in an accident during a game.


Main idea
A special Christmas Eve game of hide-and-seek, called Smee, has suddenly too many players.

Rules of the game SMEE
Everybody is given a sheet of paper. All the sheets except one are blank. On the last sheet of paper is written “Smee”. Nobody knows who “Smee” is except “Smee” himself - or herself. You turn out the lights, and “Smee” goes quietly out of the room and hides. After a time the others go off to search for “Smee” - but of course they don´t know who they are looking for. When one player meets another he challenges him by saying, “Smee”. The other players answer “Smee”, and they continue searching. But, the real “Smee” doesn´t answer when someone challenges. The second player stays quietly beside him. Later, they will be discovered by the third player. He will challenge, and receive no answer, so he will join to the first two. This goes until the last player join to others, but he has to pay a forfeit - because he was the last to find “Smee”.