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.

A GUIDE FOR EXPLORING HAUNTED ASYLUMS

•Leave all your belonging outside the door

• If you take anything in you won’t ever get it back

• Don’t force open any locked doors, they’re locked for a reason

• Bring string to help you find your way out, or you’ll never be able to leave

• If you see children try to ignore them, they’re not human

• Watch for the janitor and make sure he never sees you, if he sees you he’ll hunt you after you leave

• Stay out of the morgue, you’ll be stuck in a work other than your own

• Never sleep in the building, you may never wake up from your slumber

• If you see residual patients leave them alone, and don’t ever try to help them leave

• Before you leave check all your pockets, they will leave things in there

• Don’t visit the building more than twice a month, and never in the same week

• When you go home keep your lights on the rest of the night, they attack in the dark