Chapter 86: A Haunted House Story
Anne felt miserable.
Since entering the news center, whether in terms of quantity or quality, Yi Annie has probably experienced mysterious events that normal people cannot experience in their lifetime.
At first, Yi Annie still wanted to use these mysterious events as a mysterious version of the report, but after learning about the horror and weirdness in them, she felt that there were some things that ordinary people should not know.
At this moment, Anne understood the mood of the previous editor, Steven. He obviously knew a lot more about the mysterious events than Yi Annie, but in the end, he turned the most "serious" mysterious events into scientific and reduced them to exhortation articles that few people liked to read.
She wanted to change the status quo of the mysterious version at first, but she didn't expect that she would eventually back down, and the only thing that could laugh at fifty steps and a hundred steps was to tell the mysterious stories of the past that really happened.
Lamenting the staff of the manor who had left with the albatross, Anne put away her thoughts and began to write the next edition of the report.
In the mysterious edition contributions that have been accumulated by the news center for decades, there are actually many real mysterious events.
In addition to a few stories with a long history in the previous report, there are also stories that readers have contributed to them that they have experienced or hearsay.
Most of the old houses in the center of Xia City in Nou Province were rebuilt after the big bang, but there are still some houses that were not destroyed in the big bang, and some old houses whose main buildings are still strong still exist in all corners of Xia City after some restoration.
Today, some houses in the center of Xia City are still built in 18XX, and sometimes you can see houses from the 18th century (17XX) with a sign of a provincial historic building in the province of Norwegian, which cannot be restored under the regulations for the protection of historic buildings, but are still used for rent.
These houses were not destroyed in the explosion, because of the solid construction standards of the construction workers at the time, but in fact, it was also because some of the old houses were inhabited by mysterious creatures, so that the houses were protected in the explosion.
On the other hand, some houses in Norwegian Province are obviously new houses, but there are frequent accidents, is this a man-made disaster caused by construction workers and maintenance personnel, or a natural disaster under a mysterious event?
Readers probably know that last week (Anne Yi wrote this story when she needed to consider the timing of the article's release, and by the time the article was published next Wednesday, the boiler explosion was indeed last week's. There is no doubt that the author was one of the victims of the explosion of the boiler in the basement of the rental house. In the report of the press center, insurance companies and intermediary companies are passing the buck for this incident, but for a house that is only 20 years old and the boiler was only maintained 10 months ago, could the explosion be caused by a mysterious incident?
Most of the haunted house stories received by the editorial department are stories about strange sounds in old mansions, windless doors and other stories, and this issue, the mysterious edition will select some stories that happened in the houses of Summer City from decades of records and show them to readers. These carefully selected stories take an uncommon supernatural direction, and it depends on the reader's own thoughts as to whether the stories are true or not.
The first.
The house that Julia rented while studying in Summertown was built in 187X and is part of the landlord's family legacy. The landlady lived on the first floor, and Julia and one of her classmates rented the second floor of the house. The two-storey house is a separate space, but the basement and attic can be shared as a storage area.
The second floor where Julia lives has three staircases, one connecting the main entrance to the attic, which is the main corridor of the old house; One connects the backyard to the basement; There was also a small stairwell in Julia's room, and a staircase leading to the attic, the existence of which was so strange that even the landlord could not explain its existence, but in any case, the question of removing it was never raised.
The staircase in Julia's room was normally blocked by a few loose planks, and the space left in the stairwell was used by her as a storage room and closet.
The second floor of the house is very well lit, the sun shines in the dining room in the morning, moves to the two bedrooms of Julia and her classmates at noon, and basks in the living room in the afternoon, the whole house feels warm.
The only problem is that Julia has two dogs, Teddy, who seem to be a little scared of certain areas of the house. The two teddies were afraid to go up to the attic, Julia and her roommates tried to carry the dogs into the attic, and as soon as they put them down, they ran down the stairs, and the basement was the same place where the two dogs could run wildly.
In winter, there is a lot of snow on the streets, and when Julia walks her dog every day, the two dogs will leave a bubble of yellow urine on the white snow, which is very obvious. Therefore, the landlord proposes to let Julia take the dog down from the backyard for a walk, so that the pee in the yard will at least not be too obstructive to passers-by passing by the door of the house.
The basement is connected to the staircase to the backyard, and the dogs have a fear of the basement, as well as the staircase that leads to the basement. Julia tried to take the dogs downstairs from that side, but the dogs wouldn't move. Pulling the dog up the stairs with a little force, they fell down on their stomachs and refused to take the stairs. In the end, I had to walk the dogs, ignoring the struggles of the dogs, and carried them down the stairs in the backyard.
Julia and her roommates were upset by this, after all, the washing machines were stored in the basement, and they often had to go down.
Both have watched horror movies and know that animals are particularly sensitive to certain things. In North American haunted house movies, the pets in the family are basically the first to die by the hands of ghosts. If the owner ignores the strange behavior of their pets, it can lead to serious consequences.
In order to keep herself and the dogs safe, Julia and her roommate went downstairs to the landlord and told them what had happened to the two dogs during their stay.
The landlord was blunt about their problems, I don't know if it was because he hadn't watched a haunted house horror movie or if he was really not afraid at all, so he directly told the two tenants that nearly ten people had died in this house, all of whom were her ancestors, and she believed that there might be supernatural events in the house, but her ancestors would never harm anyone.
In this case, Julia and her roommates are a little relieved.
In fact, Julia likes to sit and read in the attic, which is very quiet and smells of pine after the sun has passed. Except for the two dogs who didn't like to go to the attic, nothing else happened.
Winter turns to spring, the snow melts, and the dogs finally don't need to continue peeing in the backyard. As for going down the stairs from the front door, the dogs really didn't have any problems at all.
One night, however, around two or three o'clock in the morning, the sound of metal grinding could be heard in the stairwell of Julia's room.
First, there was the "creaking" sound, like the sound of an unclosed iron window being blown on a windy day, and the rust trying to hinder the movement of the window, but still moving with difficulty under the force of the wind. Then there is the "ping-pong bang", which is like the sound of metal falling to the ground very densely.
The sounds combined felt like someone walking up and down the small stairwell with heavy steps, chains dragged between shackles.
The terrible sound frightened Julia into the bed, and she looked at the two dogs sleeping in the kennel next to the bed, they did not react to this, and snuggled up to each other as if nothing had happened. The two dogs continued to snore slightly as the chains moved.
The sound sounded for a short time, and it stopped after ten minutes.
In Julia's imagination, the man with heavy steps walked back and forth in the small stairwell like a trapped beast, and finally entered the attic, closed the partitions in front of the attic, and sank into the darkness of the attic.
Then, on the second and third nights, the sound would ring for more than ten minutes every night.
Julia told her roommate what had happened, and at that point in the wee hours of the morning, the roommate was frightened when the chain sounded on time, but at night, neither of them dared to open the door of the stairwell to check, and neither of the two teddies was upset.
Julia recorded the night's sound for the landlord, who asked someone to check what was going on at night, but when the inspectors who came to "test their courage" opened the door to the stairwell of Julia's room in the early hours of the morning, there was nothing inside, but the sound of chains was still there.
In desperation, the landlord gave Julia a partial rent reduction, and Julia ended up sleeping in the living room every night, and when the lease expired, Julia and her roommates immediately moved out of the house.
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