HALLOWEEN STORY
SNAKES, ANYONE?
Next time you have that feeling of butterflies in your stomach, think about this
story. Yeter Yildirim, a 15-year-old Turkish girl, had suffered from stomach pains for
over five years. They were a constant torment to the girl. She had gone from a happy
girl with lots of friends to a lonesome girl who suffered sever headaches and stomach
pain. Her family was hunted by suspicious villagers in their little farming community.
Eventually, Yeter's family moved 80 miles away because they were being persecuted by the town. As
her symptoms worsened, her family finally took her to a hospital.
The doctors x-rayed her and went to talk to her parents. They matter-of-factly stated that there would
be no problem removing the snakes from the young girls stomach. "What snakes??" asked her shocked
parents.
The x-rays showed three snakes living in the girl's stomach, water snakes that she had apparently swallowed as eggs while drinking from a stream. They hatched and lived there for 5 years before being discovered as the cause of her sickness. They were slightly thicker than a string and about a foot long. She was fine after they were removed.
Daily Star June 28, 1979
PICK A STORY STARTER BELOW AND WRITE A STORY:
1. It was a dark and stormy night when....
2. My friends and I were trick or treating and knocked on the door....
3. Meow! The black cat was scared....
4. The silliest Halloween ever started when....
5. The white sheets with black eyes peering through holes of the costume gave no clue as to who the
kid was...
6. Running down the street with candy flying, I saw....
7. I was counting all my candy when all of a sudden...
8. A yellow glow was coming from the jack-o-lantern, only...
9. Whirling winds on this cold October evening send chills down my spine...
10. They claim the house was haunted, but it looked okay to me, so....
11. My friends and I like to go trick-or-treating because...
12. I had the most fun on the Halloween when I....
13. My mom and dad like to....
14. A Halloween party is fun to plan...first you...
15. You won't believe this story, but it is true...
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