Scary Santa Claus

I was in school that time. It had started becoming a trend to have statues of Santa Claus at the Christmas. Generally in society complexes they would keep a statue of Santa Claus on the day of Christmas till New Year eve. After the year would begin the Santa Claus would be burnt to ashes. This this trend had been newly started around that time. Along with this trend a new rumour started floating around. It was about scary Santa Claus. At some places it was called The Evil Santa Claus.

According to this rumor the Santa Claus watches everyone from the Christmas is till new years eve. He carefully observes the behaviour of each and every person. If the behaviour is good the Santa Claus would peacefully depart. But Santa Claus notices bad behavior, he comes to life. He chases the person who had behaved atrociously. He torments such person. This is how the legend of Evil Santa Claus or scary Santa Claus was born.

I heard about the evil Santa Claus for the first time from my cousin who was just a couple of years elder to me. He had called me to tell me about the legend of the Santa Claus. He told me to be on my best behaviour till Santa Claus is around. When he was telling me about this Legend I could hear the terror in his voice. He was frightened of what the outcome would be on the new years eve. He insisted that children were his Prime targets but also mentioned that he may also chase grown ups.

Later in the school I had would similar stories from my classmates. They were frightened as well. Since I had been hearing the same stories again and again from different people I started believing that they must be true. Everyone was warning each other about the Santa Claus and the scary outcome if he finds us misbehaving. Everybody made a promise to be on the best behaviour during the last week of the Year.

Initially I was not scared but as the stories started spreading and everybody kept warning about the evil Santa Claus I too got frightened. Whenever I would pass the Statue of Santa Claus placed in my society Complex I would look at it. Sometimes I would feel as if the Santa Claus is staring back at me. Sometimes I would feel that his eyes where glowing. Sometimes his eyes would appear red. Of course none of it was real but at that age everything used to appear mysterious.

The Legend of Evil Santa Claus continued that year and the even the year after that. But the year later the story did not sound scary at all. Maybe the one year in between has made us rational thinkers. That year made us question everything we hear. Or simply we can say we had grown up it. Hence the story did not sound believable at all. The terror of the Evil Santa claus was on decline. Eventually it faded.

However even today I hear some people scaring their children with the phenomenon of Evil Santa Claus. That makes me believe that urban legends sometimes exist only made up to scare the children and to make them behave there best.