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LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
Okay, I'll tell this story again. Been a while.
About 20 years or so ago, and yes, it was a time before everybody had camera phones, my best friend called me up. He worked graveyard shift in those days as a security officer, and his company was in the habit of giving him boring posts, so we would hang out while he was at work and play hide and seek. So I didn't think anything of it when he asked if I wanted to hang out at his latest security site.
This one was different, though. Turns out, he wanted some company because the place was really creepy. It was a construction site for a new church, but there was a house that had been there for 20 years or so. I guess the former owner died in the house, and they thought they would give the land to the church.
I still maintain that somebody should have gone in there with some scientific instruments, because the things that happened in there, at least some of them we're observable and repeatable. My friend took a freshly charged maglite off the charger right in front of me. I don't know if you guys are familiar with the maglite brand, but they are very reliable flashlights. This one, however, flickered and died as my friend led me upstairs to the second floor. It did not resume functionality until we were back on the main floor of the house. No explanation why.
The house itself was pretty creepy, and I suspect and investigation might have determined that the former owner was a murderer. There were suspicious brown stains on some of the walls, and there was a laundry chute that begin somewhere in the attic and opened up onto the concrete floor of the basement. The weirdest part was where the second floor balcony had once been. That had already been torn out by the previous owner before he died, and sure enough, there were funny brown stains on the concrete below where the balcony had been.
My friend would not show me the attic. He said it was off limits, because the floors were rotting and there was a danger of falling through. That basement, though. I swear to this day somebody was in it, watching us.
Anyway, after the tour and some weird possibly house settling noises, we were relaxing in the main room playing Magic: The Gathering, what about 3:00 a.m. (why is it always 3:00 a.m.?) a bunch of dead insects on a table started flying around.
No shit. I had looked pretty close at the damn things, to be honest, and they were all lying there on their backs with their legs curled in the classic dead bug pose. I personally swatted a mosquito into the wall, as hard as I could, then ground my hand against the wall to make sure it was squished beyond recognition. When I pulled my hand away, the mosquito flew off like nothing was wrong.
Anybody got a good explanation for that one?
About 20 years or so ago, and yes, it was a time before everybody had camera phones, my best friend called me up. He worked graveyard shift in those days as a security officer, and his company was in the habit of giving him boring posts, so we would hang out while he was at work and play hide and seek. So I didn't think anything of it when he asked if I wanted to hang out at his latest security site.
This one was different, though. Turns out, he wanted some company because the place was really creepy. It was a construction site for a new church, but there was a house that had been there for 20 years or so. I guess the former owner died in the house, and they thought they would give the land to the church.
I still maintain that somebody should have gone in there with some scientific instruments, because the things that happened in there, at least some of them we're observable and repeatable. My friend took a freshly charged maglite off the charger right in front of me. I don't know if you guys are familiar with the maglite brand, but they are very reliable flashlights. This one, however, flickered and died as my friend led me upstairs to the second floor. It did not resume functionality until we were back on the main floor of the house. No explanation why.
The house itself was pretty creepy, and I suspect and investigation might have determined that the former owner was a murderer. There were suspicious brown stains on some of the walls, and there was a laundry chute that begin somewhere in the attic and opened up onto the concrete floor of the basement. The weirdest part was where the second floor balcony had once been. That had already been torn out by the previous owner before he died, and sure enough, there were funny brown stains on the concrete below where the balcony had been.
My friend would not show me the attic. He said it was off limits, because the floors were rotting and there was a danger of falling through. That basement, though. I swear to this day somebody was in it, watching us.
Anyway, after the tour and some weird possibly house settling noises, we were relaxing in the main room playing Magic: The Gathering, what about 3:00 a.m. (why is it always 3:00 a.m.?) a bunch of dead insects on a table started flying around.
No shit. I had looked pretty close at the damn things, to be honest, and they were all lying there on their backs with their legs curled in the classic dead bug pose. I personally swatted a mosquito into the wall, as hard as I could, then ground my hand against the wall to make sure it was squished beyond recognition. When I pulled my hand away, the mosquito flew off like nothing was wrong.
Anybody got a good explanation for that one?
Ihatetheworld · 26-30, M
@LordShadowfire the zombie bugs are beyond my understanding
LordShadowfire · 46-50, M
@Ihatetheworld I think the ghost of the former owner manipulated their physical bodies to make them look like they were alive. I don't think he liked the idea of a church being built on his house, and he was trying to be as scary as possible to prevent it. I also don't think he succeeded.
Ihatetheworld · 26-30, M
@LordShadowfire I certainly does sound like a creepy experience thank you so much for taking the time to type all that