Once upon a time, in a town blanketed by an eternal October haze, there lived a scarecrow named Ol’ Patch. Every Halloween, the children would whip up frightful rumours about Patch, saying he came to life under the full moon’s glow.
One Halloween night, a daring boy named Oliver, decided to unravel the mystery. As the full moon emerged, so did Patch’s pumpkin head, sprouting legs and arms! Oliver gasped as Patch leapt from his perch and began his eerie dance, while all the pumpkins around him joined in.
Just as Oliver’s courage began to dissolve into the crisp air, Patch spotted him. However, instead of chasing him, as all the spine-tingling stories had claimed he would, Ol’ Patch invited him to dance. Oliver found himself swaying alongside the enchanted scarecrow and his inanimate companions, lost in a frenzy of fantastic moonlit merrymaking.
As dawn approached, Patch thanked Oliver, his pumpkin head returning to its silent vigil atop the straw body. When Oliver shared his experience, no one believed him. And so, the legend of Ol’ Patch, the haunted scarecrow, lived on – not as a tale of terror but as an unappreciated miracle, visible only to those brave enough to venture out under the bewitching Halloween moon.