Not all Halloween stories scare children !

Here are two children's halloween stories that won't disturb your sleep.

Yeti
A Sherpa boy named Ang Chiki lived near the mountains of Nepal. His uncle led people on hikes through the icy Himalaya Mountains. Ang was on his first expedition.
Ang slipped and rolled down the snowy mountainside. He was not hurt, but the group was now far ahead of him.
Ang found the group's tracks in the snow. He followed them, hoping to catch up before nightfall.
Ahead of him, Ang saw fresh tracks that crossed the trail. These footprints were large and wide.
Ang put his boot in one. The tracks were deep. They held his feet well. Ang stretched his legs to step in them, one by one.
The footprints led him up the mountain towards the peak. With every long step, Ang was getting closer to the group.
But these huge tracks ended before the peak. They stopped at the opening of an icy cave. It was dark inside.
Ang looked into the cave. It smelled awful!
“Hello!” he called.
From inside the cave, something grunted and growled. Ang stepped back in fright. His face became as pale and cold as the icy cliffs around him. Ang turned around and ran.
The people of Nepal tell stories about wild creatures in the mountains. The Sherpa call them Yeti, which means “snowman.” Some people know the Yeti as the “Abominable Snowman.”
Some people have seen a Yeti walk standing up, like a person would. Some say they run on four legs like animals do.
They are very fast, even on ice. No one has ever seen a Yeti standing still. Their light-colored hair helps them hide in the snowy mountains.
Many hikers say they have seen these savage snowmen in the mountains of Nepal, Tibet, China, and Russia. They find Yeti tracks in the snow.
One mountain climber took a picture of a footprint in 1951. The track was large. The creature that made it was heavy. It had big toes like a person. It walked through the snow with bare feet.
In 1986, another mountain climber claimed to see a Yeti. He came within thirty feet of the creature.
Scientists have searched caves and rocks in the Himalaya Mountains. They found clumps of rough white hairs. They found the bones of a hand trapped in ice for hundreds of years. Was it a prehistoric human hand, or a modern Yeti hand? Tests on the bones did not answer these questions.
A Yeti has never been caught on film. The Sherpa people say the Yeti are too swift. No one will ever catch them, not even with a camera.
One Sherpa guide has said the Yeti are not real. They are only in the scary stories people tell their children.
The Yeti are said to live high in the mountains. Tracks are found in places people rarely go.
Some researchers compare stories of the Yeti with stories about Bigfoot. But Yeti are smaller, and they have white hair. The researchers say the Yeti could be the cold-weather cousin of Bigfoot.
Scientists study about new places all the time. In jungles and oceans where people never go, living species of bugs, birds, plants, and fish are just waiting to be found.
What if scientists studied the rough, icy mountaintops in Nepal? What would they discover?

The Loch Ness Monster
Loch Ness is a deep lake in Scotland. The lake is so dark, it is very hard to see anything underwater. But one girl saw something that she will never forget.
In 1960, Alice Logan visited Loch Ness for a day of sailing with her parents.
She had heard stories about a sea monster that lived in the lake. It had a long neck and even had a nickname. People called the creature “Nessie.” They said it lived deep below the surface of the lake.
“Alice, why don't you put away those binoculars and play?” her father asked.
“I am going to get proof that Nessie is real,” she explained.
Alice looked down into the water. She thought she saw something move. She leaned over the edge of the boat and fell into the cold water.
For a few seconds, she was underwater. It was dark, but she could see a shape right in front of her. It was a swimming beast, with a long neck and a tiny head. It had to be Nessie!
Just then, Alice's life preserver lifted her back to the surface. She rubbed the water from her eyes and searched the murky water again. But the strange creature was gone.
Stories about the Loch Ness Monster go back hundreds of years. The ancient Scottish people who lived near the lake told tales about the creature.
In 1933, more than ninety people said they saw the Loch Ness Monster. Many stories appeared in newspapers all over the world.
Altogether, more than four thousand people have reported that they saw something unusual in the waters of Loch Ness. The stories are hard to prove because it is so hard to search in the dark lake.
Loch Ness is a long, narrow lake. It is almost like a wide river, but it is also very deep. Diving is difficult in the lake because it is so dark. The water is full of tiny floating pieces of brown coal.
Scientists have to use machines to search the mysterious waters. Not even the most expensive cameras, submarines, and other devices could find Nessie. The rocky bottom of the deep lake makes it easy for a clever sea beast to hide.
Some scientists took photographs in the lake. The photos show an animal that is almost as big as a school bus. The beast has a wide body, fins, a skinny neck, and a tail.
The photographs are real, but many of them are cloudy or unclear. There is still no proof that Nessie exists.
Even though so many people have seen and even photographed the Loch Ness Monster, there are still many questions about the creature. Is there only one monster? Does Nessie have a family? If it really exists, where did it come from? What kind of creature is Nessie?
Scientists have many ideas. Some think Nessie could be a strange type of giant eel. Maybe it is a type of whale or seal that no one has ever seen before.
Another theory is that Nessie is a relative of a prehistoric fish called the plesiosaur. Scientists always thought the last plesiosaur died millions of years ago. But maybe Nessie's relatives have lived in the lake for all these years.
Scientists think there might be a lot of mysterious creatures living in deep lakes all around the world. People have seen strange sea monsters in New York, Canada, and Russia. Could these be Nessie's relatives?
Will anyone ever be able to prove that the Loch Ness Monster exists? If the creature exists, it knows how to hide well. It has been hiding from people for hundreds of years.
It is possible that Nessie and all of her relatives have lived in Loch Ness for millions of years. Will Nessie or one of her family members ever reveal themselves to us?