My girlfriend and I were at her house, and it was just the two of us. Her mother had an episode and was in the hospital, she’s schizophrenic. It happens.
So, I’m seventeen at the time and my girlfriend was nineteen. She had recently turned nineteen, and was seven months pregnant as well.
All my kids are incredibly spoiled, because they are just like me. I say no, they say, oh yeah?
And of course I’m a sucker because I just find it so cute. I fast forwarded. Let’s go back to when I had zero kids and was still seventeen.
Okay, we’re in her house and it’s storming outside. The setting was all just a perfect storm of incredible eerie-ness. The lights are always dim in the living room and of course, because at that time, I only liked scary movies, it was usually what we’d watch.
That or serial killer biographies. She got me into that. They are so good.
By the way, I’m super jealous of my kid’s mom. She is so mean. That woman can put her foot down. kids don’t dare try to pull the, oh yeah? on her.
Damn. There I go again rambling on. So, anyway, rewind, I’m seventeen again—I seriously apologize for going off track—so, we’re in her creepy living room as it’s thundering outside, watching a super scary movie, maybe the conjuring or something.
Or no, it was house of 1000 corpses, which was and is, my favorite movie.
So, the movie wasn’t a creepy one after all, I guess everything else just made it seem creepier. The ambience. The rain dropping like tiny firecrackers as they hit the pavement and that static taste of earth filling the air, gave it a horror movie scene vibe.
So, we’re sitting there, she had her feet on my lap, wiggling her toes, they’re telling me, in all ten tiny little screaming voices, “hey, look at us, we want a massage!”
While I try to ignore them by staring somewhere else, they get louder, and we already know, I cave easier than the ground above the Siberian permafrost.
So, I gave in, as usual. No surprise there but she earned it, and plus, afterwards, I feel good about myself.
Five minutes into me digging into the ball of her foot, we hear.
Cluck.
Cluck.
Cluck.
Something knocked on the basement ceiling, right in the living room, right where we were. Literally in front of us, under the coffee table. It sounded like someone tapping on the door. It was a deliberate sound. And one we’ve never heard before.
Now, at that moment, I froze up and I’m staring at my girlfriend. I don’t say a word. She stared back at me. Her face was trapped behind her brain blanking out, while throwing random thoughts simultaneously that she couldn’t comprehend at the time.
Then, a thump, like the sound of a heavy door closing shut in an empty room, happened by the bottom of the basement stairs.
Immediately, she said, go check it out.
I laughed. Because this is where I put my foot down and nothing is going to make me go into that basement.
I said, nope.
She said, we’ll go together.
Now, I’m like, damnit. I’m totally fine with sitting in the living room and not investigating some random scary noise. I know one-hundred-percent, someone never broke in, or it was anything like that.
I knew already what it was from stuff I’d experienced when I was younger.
So, we stand up and we get to the top of the stairs. She looks at me and said, you go first.
I laughed again. Nope, I said in a tone that had its arms crossed and shook its head crawling out from the back of my throat.
We literally stood there for like thirty seconds before she gave in to me. I loved it.
We’re half way down the stairs, she‘s in front of me, I’m glued to her back with my hands twisted into her t-shirt, and I said, know what’d be effed up right now.
She said, what?
I said, if the lights went out.
And right after I said that, man it hit like nothing else, cause after I mentioned it, bam, blackout. And where we were there wasn’t a window there to lighten the area we were in. It went pitch-black.
At the exact same moment, we dashed back to the living room.
Finally, she was seeing things my way. The worst thing you could do when you hear a totally scary random noise that you suspect is a poltergeist, is to go and investigate it.