Aunt's Horror House

Mason Pov's

May 1, 2022, 12:22 midnight...

I was home alone when everything happened.

I live in a small 2-story house located in the middle of the woods, an hour and a half walk down the road between the woods and the city of Aberdeen, South Dakota, USA.

The house was inherited from an aunt on my mother's side who passed away a couple of months ago, and I was just waiting to turn 18 to move into it.

I had been working since I was 16 years old as a creator of content on social networks and a video game streamer. I was one of the best, and I was doing very well because weekly I could earn between $1,000 and 1,500 dollars. Then, when I barely reached the age of majority, I spoke with my parents, and I decided to comply with my aunt's last wish, which was that I go live in that house and that for nothing in the world, I would want to sell it because the house would always be like a treasure to her from the first moment she acquired it, and she wanted me to treat the house just as she did in life: like a treasure.

The idea of moving to the outskirts of the city did not bother me at all it seemed great to me to do it because it would help me a lot with my concentration at work, it would change my environment, and since I was a child, I was always a lover of life in the rural area of a city, because, when I went on vacation from high school and middle school, I begged my mother to let me go stay at my aunt's house, and she ended up accepting after so much insistence, and my aunt ended up receiving me because even though she lived alone, and was 56 years old when she died due to lung cancer; my aunt always enjoyed the company of her nephews, even though I was the only one who cared to visit her.

We were 3 nephews in the family: my cousin Adele, my cousin Alberto, and I, but neither Adele nor Alberto liked to go to stay at my aunt's house, they always left with the excuse that they either didn't have time or simply didn't like to go because the only night they stayed to sleep, they say that the next day they ran out of there to never stay again.

I never believed them when they told me that, at night, after midnight, both inside and outside the house, strange things began to happen, and by strange things, they meant that they always scared them.

Adele told me one of the most terrifying stories of hers that happened to her when she had to be left completely alone because she did not want to accompany my aunt to go shopping at the supermarket. Adele was sitting in the dining room outside the house, which was located there because it was the place where my aunts and my mother sat to talk while having tea when the family gathered at my aunt's house.

According to Adele, it was 9:00 at night; she was early, unlike the other things that had happened to her, being after midnight. She was talking to her best friend by phone when she finally got a signal, and she sat down there at the table to talk, when suddenly, in one of the bushes that surrounded the house, she saw how it began to move by itself, to shake from one side to the other, just as it would do when there was an animal or a person inside.

Adele thought that perhaps it was a rabbit or a squirrel looking for food, or simply hanging around, and she didn't care, as she continued talking to her friend as if nothing was happening, but soon, from inside the bush, a hand pale and white, she peered outside, standing on the ground as if whatever was coming out of the bush was going to crawl out, and precisely, Adele froze, and quickly hung up the call with her friend to get up in a hurry to get inside of the house that, luckily, she had decided to leave with the door open, and she no longer had to see that thing that came out of the bush that terrified her so much.

When the three of us met one night in a pizzeria to celebrate Adele's birthday, she told this story to Alberto and me. We listened very carefully while we didn't stop eating our pizza; however, she stopped at that moment. As she spoke about the hand, her body shuddered, and she closed her eyes as if she could avoid bringing to mind the vision of that horrible memory for her.

After her, it was Alberto's turn. He confessed that he had also stayed alone at our aunt's house because she still saw her friends from high school who lived in the city, and once a month they always met for a Saturday night at the house of one of them to spend a pleasant time with each other. Alberto did not want to go because he knew that he was not invited to that meeting anyway and he did not want to bother the idea of his presence there. My aunt left home at 6:00 in the afternoon that day, and Alberto had been playing video games on his computer until 3:30 in the morning when everything happened to him.

Alberto had just finished playing a round of the same game that I was playing as a pro, except that he was at an intermediate player level and still didn't earn money from streaming as I did, but that night, he didn't anymore.

He played by connecting online to chat with a friend while they were playing. After his game, Alberto got hungry; my aunt had not returned home, and she had left a message for Alberto that she was going to stay the night at her friend's house because the reunion was so much fun and she didn't want to drive away so late on the road alone.

Therefore, Alberto had been completely alone at my aunt's house, but at the end of the game, he got hungry, and at about 8:00 at night, he ordered a pizza box that arrived half an hour later. Late, and since he had two portions left over, he decided to go to the kitchen to serve them and eat in the dining room.

However, when he got to the kitchen, he found the unpleasant surprise that one of the cabinets on the top of the kitchen was opening and closing of its own accord as if an invisible person was there just to do it.

Alberto from a very young age had been very scared of paranormal things, he did not like horror movies, nor horror stories under the light of a campfire, nothing, and when this happened to him, it made me want to never set foot in my aunt's house again.

Although, well, today was the exception, because I had managed to get my cousins to come and sleep with me to celebrate that the house was mine, no, they didn't hold any grudges against me for having been the sole heir to the property, in fact For them it was the best thing that could have happened to them because that way they wouldn't have to come and get inside it.

Two days ago, I called each of them to let them know that I was going to move to my aunt's house. At first, they were not surprised, because they knew that I loved that house and that no matter how much they told me about their terrifying anecdotes about when they came to sleep, that did not help to convince me not to come to live here, they thought about it for a few minutes when we spoke on the call, and then, finally, they decided to accept just because I convinced them that there would be food ordered at home, and tequila to celebrate.

Now, I have arrived at my house, I came in my truck that had overturned in the tail, in the overturned, came the mattress of my bed, clean, without sheets that covered it, came my nightstand, my Toad de Mario lamp Bross, my red gamer chair too, the truth is that I didn't know how my father and I managed to pack those things in the dump truck so I didn't need to hire a moving service, but It worked, at least I was able to bring what was necessary to support spending a night alone in my new house.

Because when you move to a new home that you may not know, or perhaps you barely know, it was always going to be difficult to get used to the first 2 or maybe 3 nights in it.

No more with my computer, I was going to get to spend the best nights of my life in my new home.

I finished fixing my room around midnight, it took me a long time because I had to see myself in the afternoon to clean everything, because my parents and I had come last weekend to take all my belongings. aunt to a thrift store that gave us very good money for her things, except for a few that I decided to keep, like the dining room table, the living room set, and the dining room outside the house home.

Otherwise, everything else, even her clothes, had gone to the thrift store.

I had to sweep the floor and mop it because the dust had taken over the floor of my room and the whole house, and it took me a long time to have managed to clean it all, and then, the best part came, organizing the mattress of my bed in the corner of the floor so that it would be attached to the wall, place the desk so that it would be attached to a place where there was an electrical outlet nearby, and right in front of it, there was a window that I could leave open to let in fresh air and light.

On one side of the mattress, I placed the nightstand along with my lamp.

When I looked at the time on my cell phone, I realized that it was 9:30 at night, but luckily there were always restaurants in the city that worked 24 hours a day, and among them was my favorite pizzeria, and just when I was for calling to ask for the address, Alberto called me to let me know that he was on his way to my house, he told me that he would pick up Adele at her house, and then, I took advantage of the fact that he called me to ask him to come to buy the house pizza, and he accepted, and hung up the call.

Soon, the first night in my new house would start to be a complete wave of terror, because it turns out that when I hung up the call, I put the cell phone in the pocket of my gray sweatshirt, and I was ready to leave my room to take the mop with me. and the broom to the toilet patio, and that's when I lived the worst experience of my entire life.

Well, when I approached the patio, I turned on the light to be able to see it well because it was a very dark room. After all, it was small, the walls were not painted, they were in black work, and inside it, there is only a laundry room, a dryer with a washing machine, and a space to hang clothes.

The worst experience of my entire life occurred the moment I got ready to wash the mop, I turned on the key to the sink, and that's when it all began; First, there were light pokes that made me think that a child was walking nearby, but they were not those of an adult, because these pokes were soft, they were pokes that came and went as if someone was playing with me and I couldn't see them to know who it is.

The knocking stopped, and I was able to continue with my cleaning task, but while I was washing the mop, I was in complete silence, now, no knocking was heard, but more like laughter, and I didn't distinguish them as if they had been laughs of an adult, because they were very sharp laughs, and laughs that seemed to be like those of a girl running close to me.

My skin shuddered, and I swallowed, my hair stood on end, and then I felt that my whole body had been paralyzed, just as if I had been cemented to the ground and I could never get out of my grip again over there.

An hour and a half later, I hear the horn of Alberto's car sound outside my house, and when I look out of my bedroom window, I can see that it was like that, Alberto and Adele had arrived home, he was finally gone alone, and I wouldn't have to worry about being all alone all night after what happened to me in the laundry room.

I didn't want to tell them anything about what happened because I was sure that if I did, they would immediately ask me to do two things, the first was to pack my things again to leave there, and the second was to sell my aunt's house that had been conceived by inheritance.

However, I did not want to do it, the idea of just thinking that things were happening in this house that were completely out of reality did not enter my head.

"Hey guys" I say to Adele and Albert when they've gotten out of my cousin's car.

"Hey you, we've got the pizza, and enough to last us all night and stay up all night if we want to" Adele says with a smile on her face as she speaks.

I returned her smile.

"That sounds great, I haven't stayed up for a long time" I tell them.

"If you do, when you're in a game with me" Alberto says as he approaches the back of the car to get his and Adele's backpacks out of the trunk.

"Staying up until 1:00 in the morning playing is not my concept of staying up, I mean staying up until dawn, tell me did you have a drink to drink and get drunk?" I tell them while I receive from Adele the 3 pizza boxes that she was carrying with her in her hands.

"Yes, Alberto bought a bottle of vodka, and I bought a bottle of Bourbon" says Adele.

"Perfect, go ahead, come in, you're at home" I tell them.

I let Adele go in first because when I left the door of the house open, Alberto follows her step, but before I can continue with them and enjoy our family evening, something outside interrupted me and made me turn to look at what was in the woods in front of my house.

The bushes were moving, shaking just as they did when there was an animal inside them wanting to come out of hiding, however, before I could decide to ignore what was happening outside and go inside the house, that's when I saw what I had to see.

To my misfortune, from inside the bush, what Adele had described to us in her horror story had come out that time the three of us had met again, because I could see a humanoid figure, with pale skin that I could almost say was greyish, with black eyes, a thin mouth, and teeth protruding from it, it had emerged from the interior of the bush, it walked on all fours, but it did not do it as if it were a dog, no, rather, as if its body were was twisting, disfiguring.

Well, her hands had opened more than normal, like her legs, but the worst thing was her look, and the strange sound that she emitted as if she were complaining of the pain with roars that a hurt animal could do.

I was paralyzed, frozen, I was in shock, I was afraid, very afraid, that creature, or rather, that demon, was getting too close to me, we were not very far from each other, we were only 50 meters from each other. distance.

But then, Adele's voice calling me to let me know that dinner was served saved me because when the creature heard it, it immediately reversed, and hid again under the green leaves of the bush.

By then, I was able to feel my body again, and I took advantage of that moment to turn around and go into the house.

When I went home, I left the door securely closed, and I was grateful that it was only made of wood and did not have a single window in the middle where I could peek out and that people peeked into the interior of the house from outside, well, if that thing appeared before me again, I was not going to be able to see it and I would be calmer than I am now, I feel my heart pounding, I wanted to scream in fear, but I had to steel myself if I didn't want to sleep tonight alone in my home for scaring my cousins by telling them what just happened.

"Are you OK? Why are you so pale and agitated when a moment ago you were just like that?" Alberto asks as soon as he sees me enter the dining room where he and Adele were sitting and waiting for me to have dinner together.

"I'm fine, don't worry" I lied to them.

I had always been very good at lying, my parents had never noticed it, nor in my school days my teachers had been very good at catching one of my lies, my lies saved me many times, and now they were doing it, because being Honestly, since I saw what I saw, I didn't want to sleep alone in my new house, or at least for tonight because I think that this is just something temporary that won't happen every day.

I go over to the dining room, but the only thing I can see that Adele has served is the liquor, and I remember then that I had been the one who had received the pizza boxes, and I put them on the table.

But when Alberto opens the first box of pizza, and Adele begins to distribute the plates to serve us; the three of us realized that the terror was just beginning for that night.

Well, when I put my slice of pepperoni pizza on my plate, the three of us were silent, the house was also silent, and then, it was only a couple of seconds before we could hear, the same noise that I heard when I saw that creature come out of the bush.