#house ghosts

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Home Alone Gothic

  • You lock all the doors day or night. You tell yourself and others it’s so no person can break in, but you know you’re protecting yourself from something much worse.
  • The house ghost watches you from the top of the stairs, disappearing when you look in it’s direction.
  • It’s eerily quiet.
  • You thought you shut the basement door, but it’s always open when you walk by again.
  • What is that sound?
  • Your dog stares down the hallway and whines at nothing.
  • You know there’s something.
  • You go down to the basement to get something. There’s a being at the end of the hall. You are paralyzed. Its eyes stare into your soul as it approaches you. When it gets close it disappears.
  • You feel different and go back upstairs without grabbing your item.
  • You don’t even bother shutting the basement door.
  • There’s blood on the kitchen counter. You ignore it.
  • Suddenly it’s dark out. How long were you in the basement?
  • You close the curtains and blinds, knowing they don’t stop anything that truly wants to see inside.
  • The front door isn’t locked anymore.
  • Your favorite show goes to commercial, so you go to the kitchen to grab a drink. You come back to the TV playing static. The channel hasn’t changed. You sit and watch anyway.
  • The being from the basement has replaced the house ghost’s spot at the top of the stairs. It doesn’t let you go.
  • There’s a knock on the door. You realize every door was knocked on at the same time.
  • You haven’t seen your dog in a few hours, but you hear it whining from a location you can’t get to.
  • Your family member gets back home, they look different from when they left. An entirely new face.
  • They shut the basement door.
  • The dog greets them, tail wagging.
  • The TV plays the news.
  • The kitchen counter is blood free.
  • “Why are the curtains closed?”
  • They open them. Sunlight pours in.
  • It’s the middle of the day.
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