Are You Healthy?
Imagine this you are walking through a hospital in the middle of the night on a dark and stormy day the lightning lighting up the sky and the thunder being the only noise that night. As you walk down this abandon hallway that once was filled with many people like; doctors, nurses, and patients with get-well balloons and flowers. For a hospital it was a pleasant experience during the day but at night it was dark scary and somewhat a evil feeling kind of like something bad happen there. In the corner of your eye you see a shadow so you snap your head around to see what it is but there was nothing there so you keep walking to find a way out of the long dark hallway which would have been really easy in the daylight. You heard children giggling followed by a spine tingling scream, instead of find out where it came from you took off running through the hallway not knowing where you are going. You looked to your right and saw a door that was not there before you decided to take go through it discovering that the door lead to the stairs. You ran down two flights of stairs then you felt an unusually cold chill then you heard a few kids voices saying “come out, come out, wherever you are.” These voices didn’t sound like regular children they sound a little demonic. Then right in front of you appeared five kids dressed like they are from the 1820’s and looked around the age of eight, but in the middle of them there stood a clown with a malicious smile smiling at you. That felling you got from reading this story, your heart racing, maybe your breathing quickened that is actually good for your health.

Scary stories and or movies are good for your health because it burns calories. “Researches at the university of west minster in the united kingdom discovered that watching ninety minutes of a scary movie can burn up to one hundred and three teen calories – the equivalent to a bar of chocolate”(Khatchatourian). This happens because of an adrenaline-rush from the movies and or stories can also lower your appetite and kills calories. The top five movies to do so are “The Shinning”, made in the 1980’s produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick burns up to one hundred and eighty four calories. “Jaws” (1975) written by Steven Spielberg is second with one hundred and sixty one calories. Third is 1973’s “The Exorcist” written by William Peter Blatty. Fourth is “Alien” made in 1979 by Dan O’brien
with one hundred and fifty two calories. And in fifth place there is “Saw” made in 2004 written by Leigh Whannel with one hundred and thirty three calories. The scarier the movie the more calories are burned due to the increase heart rate and the faster breathing.

Scary movies are healthy for you because they burn calories. So next time instead of going to the gym maybe you should have a movie marathon.