How easily creeped out are you?

moondrake posted some pics said
20

Feeling storytellerish tonight. TL? DR. So with the witchy winds of the changing weather last night about midnight came a banging from the empty house next door. It sounded just like a door banging open and shut in the wind. Now, in my neighborhood next door means practically within arm’s reach. This house is only about 20 feet from mine, my property line ends about 18" from my house. The driveway of this house adjoins it, with their carport falling just a few inches from my roofline. My bed is on that wall, the window above my bed looked out on their driveway till I filled it with a stained glass scene.

This house has been empty for more than three years. They’ve given up on selling it, no one on our street knows how to reach the owners, it just sits there slowing falling further into disrepair. In the light of day I opened their driveway gate which I normally make sure stays closed and went to investigate.

Sure enough, just as I feared, the banging sound was the basement door. Just about the creepiest fucking door you’ve ever seen. You have to be standing in the driveway under the carport to see it, out of sight of anyone not standing right in front. If something Bad should happen to you while you stood looking at that door you would be quite Alone. As you can see, vertiginous stairs lead into an unknown darkness. During the brief period when there was a real estate agent’s sign on the house, I made an appointment and had a look. I asked about the basement and she shuddered and said she didn’t have a key, didn’t want one. No key needed now, the darkness is open for business.

enter image description here
enter image description here

I’m not going down there. The fact that, since I’ve lived here, the last three people who lived in that house died there is enough for me. The first of them died falling down those very stairs pictured above. But even if I didn’t believe in ghosts (and this is literally a situation of something going bump in the night), two years ago a group of squatters moved in there and had to be rousted by the cops. No telling who or what awaits in that cold, dark space.

So I guess tomorrow I’m going to have to contact the City and ask them to have the structure secured. Sell it as a hazard for the neighborhood kids, which it totally is. At least those not perceptive enough to steer clear of dark and lonely places that have already taken a life.