Monsters from the basement

In horror movies, books and games, the basement is often one of the main locations of concentration of something dark and creepy. This is not surprising, since the basement of an ordinary house is typically a depressing dark place with low ceilings, cobwebs, scary-looking shadows from a lamp or candle, and even raw land and related odors. But it's not just good for scaring off convenient location. The worst thing is that there are real stories of eyewitnesses who have met monsters, ghosts, or something vague but creepy is in the basement.

This collection of stories is a basement living in Japan, a researcher of paranormal creatures Brent Swanson.

Some time ago, Swanson sent a story of a girl named Jenny living in Maine (USA).

When Jenny was 14 years old, she flew with her father in the summer in the home of his grandparents in the basement of this house saw a very unusual creature. According to Jenny, it was a very old house and the basement had a large. It kept a lot of things and products and grandparents are often it was down sturdy stairs leading to the basement from the living room. It is in the living room, Jenny gave the room when she came to visit. A spare room was occupied by her father. And the first night, Jenny heard from the basement door pokropivny frightening, like something with long claws sharpened them on a door or wall. When she told this to dad, he suggested that in the basement got a raccoon or a skunk, or maybe it's just rats. However, the sounds continued to scare Jenny and one day she decided to go to the basement just to check.

"When I opened the door and turned on the light on the stairs in the basement, eerie pokropivny down there stopped. I was a very brave girl and went down. Down light stairs little was covered, I looked carefully at the stone floor, expecting that it's going to run scared of my rat. And something suddenly popped up right in front of me. But it was not a rat, a creature that I could only be compared to Gollum from "the Lord of the rings". It was completely hairless, pale creature, which was moving much hunched over. And when she stared at me, his eyes are heavily sparkled in the light. It looked at me for a few moments and on his face or the face was very creepy grin.

Then it disappeared into the darkness of the basement, I screamed and ran upstairs. I ran into his father's room and waking him, told him about the creature, and then took him to the basement. But it was empty. Interestingly, the second door leading from the basement to the house was ajar, apparently the creature stepped through it. My father of course said I just saw a sleepy raccoon or a cat. But I know what I saw".

Another similar story was posted on Reddit from a girl named Claire. According to Claire, her husband Chris recently bought a "dream home" near a large forest, but he then began to frequently stay on the job and in this house basically most of the day Claire spent alone with his two dogs.

"I was unpacking our things and accidentally opened a box with Christmas decorations. Christmas was still early, but Chris told me to take all the junk in the basement. The basement in this house was just as empty cold room without Windows. I went downstairs, put a box of toys on the floor, and then suddenly saw under the stairs in the wall a small door, like a hatch. At first I thought it was kind of safe, but the door was closed only the external door, the other locks were not. When I examined her, the passage seemed so narrow that a grown man like my husband would not fit there. This thing was like made for a child, but I could get through there if you wish. Near the door I saw the writing on the wall "to Keep closed all the time".

But of course I opened the door. Inside it was dark and nothing is visible. He heard a sound, like clicking or snapping and all. I thought maybe there is hidden some mechanism, but I was afraid to stick my head in. After I closed the door and left the basement."

In the next few days, Claire was faced with strange events in the house. Two dog suddenly started to growl and bark at every shadow in the corners of the house. Especially near the basement door. Claire then she again heard the strange clicking sound coming from the door under the stairs. She called her husband and said that in the basement probably settled rats. Dogs, meanwhile, behaved weirder. The middle of the night they could jump on the bed Claire and begin to lick her face or scratching the floor in the house.

"That morning she of the dogs woke me up, actively velisav my face. I sleepily pushed her away and removed the hairs of its coat. Then it dawned on me that dogs should not be in my bedroom, I locked the door. It turned out that they had scratched the door and went in. And when I went downstairs to the kitchen, he saw that the dog bowl is completely empty. But I in the evening specially to the brim filled their dry food, so the dogs had Breakfast in the morning. Later I called my husband and said I house probably snuck some large animal. I felt scared, but not strong. I thought it was just an old house in the forest and there may be wild beasts.

That same night I woke up to the fact that the yard is lit up by themselves, the lights that are lit up by motion sensor. I went out into the yard and saw something that shocked me to the core.

Next to the bowl for the birds was a creature similar to a very thin tall man, hunched it drank water from the bath. His limbs were thin as sticks, and the skin was black as pitch. When it straightened, it was like a black, bony shadow. And then I was able to see its terrible face. But it was not a person, it was a leather-covered skull with sunken eye sockets and grey eyes. His mouth was terrible and full of small teeth. His expression was contorted, as if it was smiling or crooked. At the sight of this horror, I was already decided that it attacked me. But no, it just retreated somewhere ago and disappeared. I think I heard the rustle of the leaves, so it looks like went into the forest.

Along with dogs, scared and trembling, I locked myself in the bathroom and cried hysterically until dawn. In the morning I called my husband and told him everything. He said that he would come to me at lunch. Until that time, I decided to do and continued analysis of things. And when I took the junk box in the basement, he saw that the small door under the stairs was ajar. Inside it was quiet, that is, whatever it was, it ran away".

The following story was published on the American website "Your Ghost Stories", which receives messages about paranormal phenomena directly from eyewitnesses. It is about building with a residential basement, which is home to two sisters.

"Our bedroom is in the basement. Rather on predpochla. That is, if you go down the stairs, the first will be our bedroom, and if you go down even lower, there will be a basement. In the basement we have including a large freezer drawer for products. And once we went there for waffles. When we went to the basement, the sister began to behave strangely and said, "Let's get back to the top."

When we went to the kitchen to my mother, my sister sat and cried. Mom and I asked her what happened and she told me that when we went to the basement and walked past our bedroom, she saw in the doorway a pale human figure. According to her it was a figure of small stature unusual peach color. She didn't see her no clothes, no face, no genitals. It was like a doll, but her head was hair, and they were white and pointed, about as they like to portray Japanese cartoons.

At the same time, according to my sister, it was definitely not a doll or a mannequin, as it moved slowly towards us, standing on the stairs. It was then that my sister asked me to hurry. We never knew what she saw in that time. We lived in this house for about 3-4 years after that and everything was fine. Mom finally decided that maybe broke into his house the robber, but we scared him".

On the same site, "Your Ghost Stories" is another story about creatures from the basement. It came from a woman named Carrie.

"About a month ago, I and my roommates moved into this relatively new house. The basement we had quite clean and without things, but after about a week after moving I began to hear voices coming out. When I thought it was my neighbors, I walked to them and of course they were all asleep and said that none of them were down in the basement at night. And last night I heard a child laughing and it was so close, like in my bedroom. I jumped up, checked the TV and everything. All was quiet. Finally I barely slept, but some hours later woke up from the pain in his leg. It blushed a trace as if from the bite. Only then I remembered that when we moved into this house, we painted the basement walls on which there are paintings of the former tenants, and I'm sure there was a picture of a pentagram and the numbers 666".

The following story was published on Reddit and quite a similar to a conventional horror story, but who will understand where is truth, not fiction.

"As a child my mother repeatedly asked me not to go down to the basement, but there are often sounds as if there lives a puppy. And I really wanted to see the puppy, so one day I opened the door and cautiously walked down. I did not find the puppy and then the mom saw me, grabbed my arm, pulled up and too hard to scream. I cried and mom again strictly said not to go to the basement and then gave me a cookie. So I took a cookie and never asked my mother why in the basement there is a puppy, but got the boy barking like a puppy and he has no arms or legs".

The following story obtained from the forum website ThoughtCo. An eyewitness described that their home is in the desert and that when they moved into this house, immediately began to hear sounds, like someone walking in the basement.

"One day I came one and it was a hot day, so we decided to go down to the cool basement and hang out there. On the stairs to the basement I immediately noticed the big old poster the Beatles "Yellow submarine" and he slightly glanced to the left, I casually noted in my head this part and corrected the poster by hand.

When we were in the basement, I saw that there on the wall hangs a bunch of different posters, pieces 15, and they were all equally skewed to the left as the poster Balls. Then it was even weirder, there was a room door which was ajar, and there was a smooth Golden light of the lamp. To turn it off, I had on all fours to climb to the socket. I decided that my mom was doing something and then called her and asked but she said that was not in the basement for a few weeks. Then I was not myself, I slowly turned around and saw on the dirty floor tracks. Distorted, but human footprints, and oddly confused.

These marks were not there when we entered. Me and my friend immediately looked at each other and felt the horror. I slammed the door of the room, and then we ran not only from the basement and from the house. I still can't forget this feeling, but I climbed on the floor on all fours, and I think that it (the creature) all the time looked at me as I climbed".

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