Haunted House? is a post in the This House of Dreams blog, written by Samantha Wells.
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Haunted House?[]
I’m back and I’m okay. Well, not okay, but alive. They kept me in the hospital overnight for observation. And then I spent a couple days at my parents’ house.
On the night of my previous post (sorry if it frightened anyone) I had trouble going to bed, I was on my laptop, listening to music. The TV was on in the living room, I wasn’t really watching it, but I was mildly amused by the fact that the episode in the crappy horror show that was on was about a girl who buys a haunted house and gets into trouble. It was a rerun of the Twilight Zone or something. It got ridiculous when the corny narrator started saying things like: “She thought she had bought an ordinary house in an ordinary town, but nothing could be more out of the ordinary than this house…”. I actually laughed out aloud and walked to the living room to see. It was like someone was playing a practical joke on me. But then I immediately saw the men outside my window, dark shadowy silhouettes, and the power went out and it was dark and I could hear a window breaking in another room. I ran back to the kitchen where my laptop was, I grabbed it, rushed into the closet, shutting the door behind me. I sat on the floor and dialed 911. I could hear sounds of them breaking in, and insane shouts and laughter. I’ve never been so scared in my life. I could hear them getting closer. I stopped talking to the phone so they wouldn’t hear me. I wrote the blog post, I don’t know what I was thinking. Then they were behind the door, and I got up, trying to keep it closed. It flew open violently and I fell and hit my head. The last thing I saw in the glow of the laptop was the shoebox. It was sitting on the shelf. There was no way I could not have seen it before if it had been there since it went missing. Then all went black. I woke up in the hospital with a mild concussion. The police said that there were no signs of disturbance or break-in, other than what they themselves caused when they came in to check and found me. I don’t know what to think. I’ve been very stressed at work, but I'm not going crazy and I didn't just imagine it all. It really happened.
One thing is certain: this is my house, and I won’t be frightened away by ghosts or shadows. This is my house and I will fight for it if that’s what it takes. So there.
I just checked. The shoebox is there on the shelf in the closet. There is stuff inside that wasn’t there before.
| This House of Dreams posts | |
|---|---|
| February 22 | Introduction |
| February 23 | Tour of the House |
| March 02 | First Night in the House |
| March 05 | Toys in the Attic |
| March 11 | Shoebox Photos |
| March 14 | Shoebox Dream |
| March 25 | Under the House • Shoebox Poems |
| April 09 | Poem 1 • Poem 2 • Poem 3 • Poem 4 • Poem 5 • Poem 6 • Poem 7 • Poem 8 • Poem 9 • Poem 10 • Poem 11 • Poem 12 |
| May 30 | Shoebox Dream 2 |
| June 04 | No Light, No Light |
| June 05 | Untitled post |
| June 13 | Haunted House? |
| July 22 | Houseguests |
| July 23 | Inside the Shoebox |
| July 26 | More Shoebox Poems • Poem 13 • Poem 14 • Poem 15 • Poem 16 • Poem 17 • Poem 18 • The Title Page |
| July 29 | Diving Deep |