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Our family was sitting down to dinner on Thanksgiving (still waiting for the turkey to cool) when my brother burst in and told us the turkey was alive but his head was cut off! I said ha ha very funny but it's not April Fool's. Suddenly a turkey walked in and it had no head! I screamed andmy parents screamed. We ran outside. The turkey followed us all the way, but I noticed that it was on four feet. It was so weird, I kept running. And then I noticed that the turkey ran at the pace my cat did. I ran, still, and noticed that the wings were at its side. The wings were burnt, too. So the turkey chased us to the corner of the yard and we just stood there, frightened. The turkey jumped up on me and purred. My mom was going to knock it off when I said "Halt!" My mom asked why. I asked her "Don't you see? This is Stormy (our cat)! He must have gotten into the oven, pulled the turkey out, and ate it from the bottom up. She could not get a hole at the top so she came after us so we would help her!" We found out I was right and we sat down to dinner once again, this time dismayed that there would be no turkey. What a wacky Thanksgiving!

Allison, 10, USA

One Thanksgiving we went to Cleveland to visit my dad's family . But then weirdest thing happened on the way there. At a deer crossing there came a flock of wild turkeys. They were gobbling like crazy and my 3-yr-old brother thought they were cool so he rolled down the window. Oh my gosh we were bringing a turkey to dinner and they saw it, came right though the opened window and grabbed the turkey and left and that's the story of the weirdest Thanksgiving.

Vanessa, 10, Ohio

It was Thanksgiving morning when I woke up and I saw ugly little aliens looking at me. I screamed. They said "Yo girl, don't scream. We want you to make us some Thanksgiving dinner. I said ok and got out of the bed. Then I went in the kitchen and got some eggs, old cheese, prunes, apple juice, my old baseball sneakers, and some toilet paper. Then I got the biggest bowl I could find. Then I threw them in without opening the stuff. I said to myself they're aliens so it won't matter. Then I mixed it up and put it on the stove to get warm. Then I gave it to the aliens. They drank it in one gulp. And then they left in their space ship. My mother came out of her room. She yelled at the mess I made. And I was punished.

A.J., 10, New York

As we were all sitting down to Thanksgiving dinner, we heard a strange sound, almost like singing. It was singing!! then someone said look at that corn! Everyone looked at the corn and they were dancing and singing. Dancing and singing corn....everyone was mystified. Then, our turkey just got up and gobbled off the table and started tap dancing. The potatoes started doing impressions. They did Rosie O'Donnell and then Brittney Spears. Just as the cranberry sauce started to rise, my father's voice came screaming out...."Stop all this chaos and get in your places; turkey on the platter and corn in your places. This is Thanksgiving, and I will not stand this messing and fooling around!!" Surprisingly, all the Thanksgiving dinner went back to their places, and turned back to normal old food. "Now we will eat," said my father. And we did..

Sarah, 13, USA

"Mom! What's in the dining room? I thought we were having Thanksgiving food," my brother yelled with a sense of shock in it. I ran in with my mom and we were shocked at what we saw. All the food had turned into gold! We stayed there a few minutes until the doorbell broke the silence. "Oh no! Everyone is here! What are we going to do, serve them gold?," mom asked in desperation. I ran to the door and opened it. It was my aunt and uncle. "We seem to have a bit of a problem," my mom started to explain. Shock showed over everyone's face as we walked into the dining room. We started to talk. We tried to forget about it, but we couldn't, no Thanksgiving dinner? After everyone came we watched all the Thanksgiving marathons on TV Everyone was so bored after 3 hours of TV that someone actually thought of a great idea. Imagine that! A great idea in our family! I was so shocked that I can't even remember who thought it up! The idea was to call up Koo Koo Roo and order a turkey! We have some geniuses in our family! So, in the end, this actually turned out to be a great Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving, everybody!

Kristen, 12, USA

Walking down the street on Thanksgiving day I met a turkey, this wasn't just any turkey. It was cooked! The turkey said "Save me, save me!" "What should I do". I asked. "Keep me away from those crazy people that are trying to stuff me and eat me." he replied panicking. " Okay" I said. We made a run for it and ended up in the woods. We stayed there for a week after Thanksgiving and I was getting hungry! I spied that turkey one morning and tried to fight the urge to baste him! I couldn't help it. I lunged, he ran! I haven't seen that poor turkey since.

Charlotte, 13, Michigan

After celebrating 14 Thanksgivings I never for got about my 10th Thanksgiving. My dad went out to pick up my grandparents. My mom asked my brother and I to get a few things from the grocery shop a few blocks away. She asked for a turkey, 10 potatoes, 2 onions, a broccoli, 500 grams of cooked hams, 10 tomatoes, lettuces, cabbages and 2 garlic. I didn't know what was wrong with my brother and I on that day; we seemed to forget things very quickly. Maybe Thanksgivings was around the corner and we were excited.

The first problem occurred when we took the wrong turn the shop. After buying we headed for home. On the way home I felt that we would get some scolding from someone. Unfortunately, we lost our way back and it took us half an hour to get home. We couldn't blame anyone cause' we were new at that town. (Just moved there about a week) When we reached home, my mom screamed at us for buying the wrong things. She asked for a turkey, 10 potatoes, 2 onions, a broccoli, 500 grams of cooked hams, 10 tomatoes, lettuces, cabbages and 2 garlic. But we bought her a chicken, 2 potatoes, 10 onions, 10 broccoli, a slice of cooked hams, a tomato, 2 lettuces, 2 cabbages and a garlic. Everything was surely not right on that day.

Then my mom sent us back to the shop to change the groceries. This time, we were smarter. We drew a map from our house to the shop and wrote down the things my mom needed. And when we got back, everything was correct. A turkey, 10 potatoes, 2 onions, a broccoli, 500 grams of cooked hams, 10 tomatoes, a lettuce, a cabbage and 2 garlic. Lucky, there were no special guests for that Thanksgivings. If not I wonder if my mom could get it on time or not?

Alexandra.w, 14, Malaysia

My crazy Thanksgiving dinner would be pterodactyl as the main course, crocodile-egg soup, sharks tail, and to drink would be water from the fountain of youth. Oh, and I almost forgot: Lizard scales baked in dino-egg broth. And all this used to be a normal, regular Thanksgiving dinner until it was changed into something humans would have eaten a billion years ago. And the creatures that did it are (drum roll please)................ zooplankton! They were thought to be primitive, be they have faster-than-light travel underwater! And their computers are WAY better than human computers. And, unfortunately, they want to take over the galaxy. This is just their first step. They thought: "Hey, Homo sapiens get together at Thanksgiving dinner, right? What better place to show our might?" And then they changed Thanksgiving dinners everywhere to the stuff above. I don't want to know what they are going to do to the rest of the galaxy........

Bryn C.,11, NY

Feel creative? Make up the craziest, weirdest Thanksgiving dinner ever and tell what mixed it up!, Then Enjoy Last Year's Submissions!

Last Year's Stories!

One day I was sitting on my sofa and watching "Total Request Live" and Nsync, my all time favorite band, was on and they popped out of the television! Then I started freaking out. They just sat down next to me on the couch. My mom and sister started freaking out. Justin Timberlake asked what we were having for Thanksgiving dinner and we told him that we were eating at our grandma's house. They thought that was awesome. I ran over to my grandma's house and I told Nsync I would be back. Then I told grandma to make the best meal ever. She asked why and I told her Nsync popped out of the television and they were eating with us. Nsync asked my mom if they could stay a night or two and surely enough they stayed.My grandma came over to my house and said that dinner was ready. My family, Nsync, and I went over. For dinner we had Turkey, Cranberry sauce, corn, mashed potatoes, and for dessert we had the best apple pie in the world. We stayed and visited for a while. Then we went home and they stayed for a night. The next day they woke me up and told me goodbye. I gave all of them a hug and a kiss on the cheek. I hope this really happens but I know it will never.

Kylie, 11, Ohio

MaryEllen Kane loved turkeys. She had the biggest collection of turkeys in the whole wide world. She even sounded just like a turkey when she gobbled, and clucked around and showed everybody her turkey impression. Tomorrow was Thanksgiving, and she felt a little guilty about eating a turkey because she loved them so much. MaryEllen got sleepy so she put on her pajamas, brushed her teeth, and slipped into bed. That night MaryEllen awoke at 2AM. When she opened her eyes she realized she was in an oven being cooked. "Help!" she screamed, feeling the heat of the oven on her body. She knew she was being cooked. MaryEllen tried to move, but her body looked just like a turkey's, and she was stuffed! MaryEllen fainted. When she came to, MaryEllen thought all of this turkey business was just a dream. She then heard her mother say, "Boy, I'm hungry! Let's eat!" MaryEllen looked up and saw a huge knife coming at her, then she fainted again. "HELP MOMMY!" MaryEllen screamed, darting up in bed. She sighed, and realized that all of this was a nightmare. MaryEllen looked down at her body and was a turkey! "AHHHH!" she screamed, seeing that she was reliving her nightmare, and was sweating in an oven.

Alexi, 11, California

Here I was, sitting at the long, polished dining room table of my aunt's dining room. It was the 25th of November in the year 1998. I was at my aunt's house for the Thanksgiving holidays. Sitting beside me was my cousin on my left, and my cousin's half-brother on my right. My relatives from all over the state were sitting around the table, chatting about this and that while my aunt and my great-aunt were in the roomy, airy kitchen gabbing away while they fixed the Thanksgiving dinner. My 13-year old boy cousin was poking my little brother with the end of a wax turkey feather candle which smelled like spices, and Tommy, my cousin's 17-year old half-brother, was trying to act mature by talking to my uncle about manufacturing. I was just sitting at the table between them, listening to the Backstreet Boys on my portable CD player. All of a sudden, my aunt and great-aunt yelled: "Okay, here comes the greatest Thanksgiving dinner that you have ever seen!" in unison. They then came out of the kitchen into the dining room with the rich smell of turkey on them.

My aunt Vivian was carrying a large black pot with a ceramic forest green lid, and my great-aunt Marie was carrying two smaller ceramic pots, each cranberry red with black lids. "There is a lot more, but this is the main course," Aunt Vivian cried cheerily. My aunts set the pots down in the center of the table, and continued into the kitchen to load their arms with more food. "Whatever it is, it smells so good!" I yelled, taking off my headphones and turning off the CD player. Both of my aunts came in and out of the kitchen about 6 times, bringing four or five small black ceramic pots each time and placing them on the table. At last, they both sat down at the table. "Okay, I'll take all of the lids off of the pots and serve. It's my turn this time," Tommy said eagerly.(He loves to eat.)Tommy eagerly took his chair to the end of the table, and stood up at his place. He chose the smallest pot to uncover first. He took off the lid very slowly, and peeked inside, not letting anyone else see. He stood up straight with a confused look on his face. "It's oatmeal, Vivian. Why is there OATMEAL in the pot? We NEVER eat oatmeal!" Aunt Vivian smiled warmly and said: "Tommy, please open the other pots. No need to get upset, I just wanted to have something different this year." Tommy shrugged, and then opened the second pot. "It's a pot full of something really, really gooey. It smells...minty. Eeeeew! It's toothpaste! Aquafresh toothpaste!" Tommy yelled, disgusted. My mother bent over the pot from across the table. She arose with a look of disgust on her face. Aunt Vivian and Aunt Marie just smiled. "Open the rest of the pots, dear." One by one, Tommy opened the pots, and each time he arose with a look of confusion and disgust on his face. What he found was: Unwrapped, sticky, watery bubble gum, strips of wet cloth, wood, paint, feathers, nails, a hammer, melted plastic, moldy Popsicle sticks, and glue. "What in the?" Tommy asked. Aunt Vivian started laughing. "Honey, that isn't our dinner! Oh no! I was just thinking that before we have our REAL dinner that we could have a 'build your own turkey' contest. You can use the supplies in there to make a turkey. Whoever wins can serve the real dinner." Everyone laughed at this, and started building a turkey. I won the contest, so I served the real dinner to Backstreet Boys music playing in the background. We had turkey, gravy stuffing, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce and lots more, plus five different kinds of cakes and pies. Wow, that was the craziest, but coolest, Thanksgiving ever!

Alex, 11, USA

On THANKSGIVING my mom and I went to the market to buy food to celebrate Thanksgiving. I wasn't feeling good that day so told my mom I want to walk home by myself. She told me to go and I went home. It was dinner and my mom made turkey with gravy and mashed potatoes. She also made some other food like rice and noodles. took a piece of each. When the foods arrived on my plate they turned into something different. The turkey came alive and was talking to me. The gravy turned into lava and the mashed potatoes turned into snow. The most disgusting thing is that the rice turned into bugs and the noodles turned into worms! I let out a scream and my mom said "Wwwhhhaatt's wwrroonng honey." I looked up and saw that my mom had turned into a turkey. My whole family had turned into turkeys. I jumped out of my chair and ran outside. They were chasing me. I ran and ran until I tripped and fell down then I woke up. I found out I was only dreaming.

Christine, 12, California

The weirdest Thanksgiving ever was last year, when we had the luau! Everyone in my family came (except for Aunt Marie, who never comes). They were all dressed up in hula costumes, even my grandmas! We had a limbo contest and the winner got a pair of sunglasses (really cool ones, with star and horses, my favorite animal). The winner was my cousin, Rhonda. She got the really cool sunglasses and she didn't share. After a while, we had the feast. We ate corn, mashed potatoes, turkey, and much more. After dinner, we did the hula and watched the Thanksgiving Macy's Parade. We had a lot of fun last Thanksgiving. I hope we have much fun this year as we had last year!

Joy, 10, USA

My wacky, crazy, Thanksgiving dinner was a JUNKFOOD MANIA!!! The turkey was pure chocolate. It was a dark brown color, but so delicious!!! The sweet potatoes were actually made from the candy corn companies and tasted just like it! The mashed potatoes were actually just marshmallows all mixed together. The results of my JUNKFOOD MANIA were an ache in everyone's stomach, but then one person said, "What are we having next year?", and licked their lips!!!

Emily, 12, Illinois

At Thanksgiving, our family forgot to buy a turkey. My mother was eyeing my hamster creepily, so I stepped in and took action by announcing that our next door neighbors had bought a turkey farm. As the parental units went next door, I hid Ham the Hamster and locked the door. I'm thankful . . . that Ham survived Thanksgiving!

Mina 14, U.S.A

Sue sat at the head of the table. She always did. Her parents secretly planned special things like that so she felt special to be an only child. Sue didn't really mind being an only child but it was nice to be made a fuss of. She'd seen enough of her friend brothers and sisters to know that they could be very annoying and she was better off with out one.

Anyway, the family had started eating. Suddenly, an eerie wail was heard from under the floor boards. Sue dad suspected that it was just the plumbing and he would have a look at it later.

A while later, when the family were on their puddings, two figures stood in the doorway. Sue let out a strangled scream, but the ghosts just stood there.

"Why aren't you dressed up, all spooky? One ghost asked.

"Where are your lanterns?" Pondered the other.

"What are you talking about?" Sue asked the ghosts" It's Thanksgiving, not Halloween for goodness-sake!"

"Not again," Ghost1 groaned.

"We were late for Halloween last year as well." Ghost 2 added with dismay.

"I suppose you could moan and groan here, if you like Sue's mum suggested.

"But it's not the same," Ghost1 looked almost annoyed, but more disappointed than anything else.

"Oh well, "Ghost2 said, "There's always next year."

"Why don't you stay, we have some turkey left." Sue asked.

"A very kind offer,"Ghost2 smiled. "But we really must go."

"Good bye, Happy Thanksgiving." The two ghosts said, before vanishing. Sue and her parents stared at each other for a moment.

"So, turkey sandwiches for tomorrow?" Sue's dad asked.

Jennifer S, 11, Scotland

It all began at noon on Thanksgiving Day when we all we to Nana's to have a nice Thanksgiving dinner. We all sat down to eat, the turkey was roasted and all of the sudden it got up and ran away. We all started running after it. But we couldn't catch the turkey. '' There's no way we can catch that turkey, '' said Mom.'' Oh sure we can'', said great Pop-pa '' Let's eat" said Pawpa and then Uncle Rick said ''Shut-up Dad, we ain't even got the the turkey yet" " My legs hurt, can I set down?" I ask ''Oh sure but you're going to have to run sooner or later" said Dad. Nana told us all just to calm down, then she ask me to look behind me and there came Mr. Huge Scary Turkey Man pulling this gigantic wagon full of food, things like pizza, watermelon, cold mush, stuffed crab, mustard, grapes and salt water to drink. That's been the weirdest Thanksgiving ever with Mr. Turkey.

Elizabeth N