The Basement: Scary stairs at grand pa’s mystical house
We had a horrendous experience in my grandpa's traditional and vague house with a complex map.
Every
summer vacation, we all used to visit the grand house of our maternal
grandparents. They pour their affections on our all siblings. My parents always
used to arrange favorite items to enjoy the vacations and leave with elated
feelings.
My grandparents’ house was designed with lots of spiral stairs, hidden doors, a huge entry and back gate. There was an iron door fitted with antique locks. In grandpa’s mansion, there was a big sperate secret hall above the kitchen and store. My grandparents used that hall to keep all ancient, unused items, furniture, rejected and traditional attires, some outdated electrical items such as fans, drilling machines, switches, and beauty gadgets also.
In
that mystic villa, some horrifying elements were there in the rooms and was built
in zigzag shape above the ground floor and exactly on the top of the grand
living room with a long L shaped corridor near to the front garden of the
house. My grandmother's big private room2 was with a dressing section behind
the living room ornamented with conventional and goddess paintings. All the
rooms had stairs with openings at top. But one stair that really horrified me
was built adjacent to my grandma’s room and it was opened down to the basement
in spiral shape. The last step of this stairs touched the floor with a dark den
like tiny room and had an upside opening to the room in the first floor but not
open to the sky. This stair could be used from my grand ma’s room and from the
first floor also. Other stairs were all open to the sky above the first floor.
There were also four bedrooms on ground floor near to side entry of house made
for my mother’s siblings. Major terrifying aspect of the house was the
basement which could be connected via stairs from all rooms nestled in the
ground floor separately but no one was allowed to go down in the basement without
the permission of grandpa. That was the mystic and dreaded map of the
house but it used to allure us in every vacation.
When
I was just eight years old, my mother was invited to attend one important
traditional ceremony in grandpa’s house. We all jumped with joy to visit our
maternal house and spent fun hours over there. We started our journey at
midnight and arrived at grandpa's house at around 8 AM in the morning. My
grandma was very affectionate. She hugged us and welcomed us warmly with a
great smile. We all settled over therein few minutes. On celebration day,
ladies were busy in preparations for rituals and gents were managing outside
arrangements to lead the function with full ecstasy and excitement. My all
siblings were playing outdoor games and enjoying together with novel thrilled
activities to spend good time. Since grandpa’s house had numerous mysterious
spaces and hideouts that had created terror in our innocent mind, therefore we were
alert to face any dreadful situation in the store room.
10
minutes had passed and Kim began her mission to find siblings one by one. In
her quest, she suddenly heard a ferocious sound of a female resembling a baby
birth from the basement. She got frightened and ran away to the front side
garden and found the hideout of first sibling, Anna under a lemon tree in the
front garden. Now Kim and Anna both started their mission to
find other members of the group. They were slowly entering through the side entrance
of the front corridor of the house. Both were stunned when they heard a cry of
newborn babies from basement near the side door. They screamed and just turned
towards the front corridor and found another member of Suzan hiding
under the staircase near the side room. She also joined with Kim and
Anna but they all were scared as communication was not allowed with other
members as per game rule and they had to continue the game to shield others
from unknown ghostly threats. They decided to enter the living room where
family members were gossiping. They silently walked towards the living room and
looked into the room. All the elders were enjoying and explaining their
exciting moment of celebration. Kim, Anna and Suzan entered
the living room and were inquired about other children from their elders. They
replied, probably they have gone to sleep. Kim, Anna and Suzan quietly
moved to grandma’s bedroom where they found another member Joky
hiding behind the wall-to-wall moving mirror from where the backyard can be
accessed. All four were now walked towards the spiral staircase adjacent to
grandma’s room. It was a challenging and ghostly game for kids because the
mirror showed the breaking pieces of glass particles displaying head cross
sections of newborns. May be the dreaded scenario was illusion. The scene was
horrific and all kids rushed to staircase adjacent to room. Once they reached
the downstairs, all the kids saw the door of the basement. They really got
scared now because an interesting game is turning to horrific events. Only two
children were left.
Kim, Anna, Suzan and Joky were slowly
going down to the basement stairs to search the remaining partners of the game.
Basement was full of huge antique and old-style items. Suddenly, Kim had
an illusion that several newborns were hanging on the roof fan. She fainted,
experiencing a scary scene in the basement. Anna, Suzan and Joky found Zelia behind
the steel cage kept in the basement. All rushed to Kim to make her conscious.
After awakening, she said that she heard the sorrowful cry of large number of
new born babies. Though, her statements were not logical but for a moment,
basement was surrounded with fearful dense fog and ghostly items. Kim,
Anna, Suzan, Joky and Zelia started their mission to find the last
member of the game. All have decided to come out from the basement. As they
started, a painful sound came from the right corner of the basement where old
paintings were kept. All ran to check whether Trancy was
there. And they found Trancy in a wounded condition. Ghost
camp was over. All the children were in the basement and planning to exit
from the bitter scenario. They came for the first time to the basement where
all the stairs of the house end in a spiral pattern. These were built in a
scary shape to horrify the thieves if they attempt to enter in the house. While
searching the exit gate. Kimi, who was heading the game, Ghost camp, suddenly
was shocked to see one big square black patch of heavy iron on the
joint of two spiral stairs. When she tried to lift a patch like iron
structure, it suddenly slid and the horrific scene of several babies’
skeletons on the deep land bed terrorized kids. All the children screamed.
And elderly family members rushed to the basement as
they heard the cries of their kids. They were also shocked
to look at the scenario and called the cops.
All
the elders were scolding the kids but at the same time, they were alerted and
sensed some paranormal entity planned that event to inform the ill happening
over there in the past.
Ending with horrific scene:
Cops investigated the crime spot and after unfathomable research, they informed the house owner that it was about 200 years old human skeletons. All babies were females and it was assumed that a message was tried to convey to protect females for human survival.
Horror
once again knocked on the minds of all family members.
The
end
Important note: Above story is original creation of writer. It is a work of fiction. Any resemblance is just a coincidence. Writer is not responsible for any disagreement.
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