👻🎬Miedocuentista: a fully local AI that turns your photos into haunted stories, film scripts and novels📜🪶

Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Ghost in the Machine Submission 👻🌼

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine

Miedocuentista ("fear-teller") is a spooky storytelling machine that runs entirely on my laptop. You feed it images one at a time and it writes the story frame by frame: a short film script, a film story, or a novel with one chapter per image.

How it works in one breath: a small vision model looks at each image and lists what it sees (objects, setting, mood), I can correct that list and add my own twists, and a small language model writes the next scene while a rolling "story memory" keeps the plot, characters and open threads alive between scenes. After the final image, I run a Final AI Story Editor that reads the whole story, looks for plot holes and timeline problems, and rewrites every scene so they connect, trying to keep the storyline intact.

How I interpret the theme. The ghost in this machine isn't hiding inside the model. It is what the machine sees in your photographs (every frame is treated as a haunted scene) and what it remembers between scenes: the story memory literally haunts each new scene with everything that came before. It has a Halloween interface, a horror default, and a Día de los Muertos tone for warmer, remembrance-style stories.

What inspired it. It started from one of the challenge's own ideas, a ghost story generator. My first version was simple: one photo in, one ghost story out, using a small vision model and a small language model on my laptop. But one photo only gives you one scene, and stories, films and novels are made of many frames. So I extended it into a frame-by-frame studio where every new image continues the story. I also wanted to build the front end of a future AI video workflow: storyboard images go in, a structured script comes out (visuals, sound, dialogue, transitions) that other open-source tools could later turn into video. And I wanted all of it to run on my own machine, so my photos and stories never leave it.

Why a pipeline, not just a toy. The script format separates VISUAL, SOUND, dialogue and TRANSITION on purpose, and every scene is stored as structured JSON. My longer-term goal is to feed this into open-source image/video and text-to-speech workflows (storyboard in, script out, shots next). That hand-off is not built yet; today it produces the script, story or novel and exports.txt /.md.

Screenshots, in the order of the workflow:

A fully local, open-source AI story studio that turns a sequence of images into a short story, a film script or a novel, one frame at a time.

Miedo (fear) + cuentista (storyteller): the fear-teller. Built for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge, Week 4: Ghost in the Machine.

Everything runs on your own computer through Ollama. No cloud, no API key, no cost, and your images never leave your machine.