Ok, to start off, I live in a small town in Illinois.
My husband and I have our own business, a collectibles
store, we have people come in every weekend and play a game
called L.A.R.P. (Live action role playing) in which they
run around in our basement and play vampires. :) The story
I am giving you, is about the basement and back room of our
business.
The building that our business is in, is very old,
I'd say, maybe, turn of the century, to Mid-Nineteen
Hundreds. A drop ceiling has been added to it, but if you
go to the back room, you can see the original ceiling up
way above it. While in this back room, if you are alone,
you can hear crying from above the drop ceiling where it is
dark. It sounds like a woman or small child crying. I don't
have a ladder or I would venture up there to look. When you
first walk in there, you can feel a cold draft above you,
as you walk farther into the room, the cold turns to heat,
then cold again along the edges of the heat. The room is
this way, no matter what the weather is like outside,
summer, winter, rain, doesn't ever change it. Some of our
L.A.R.P.ers, have seen a glow from up there but it's very
faint, like it's just out of site if you are up against the
far wall. At the same time they can hear the crying. There
is also a growl that seems to almost come from the ground
right under the hot spot, it is very faint but if you
listen close you can hear it.
Now keep in mind that these are people who like to
pretend that they are vampires. Most of them are self-
proclaimed pagans,and Wiccans. Most of them are also a part
of an American Medieval Reenactment group called Daggerheir.
They dress in medieval garb, and make medieval weapons out of
foam and hit each other with them. :) They have big
gatherings nation wide from Michigan, to Ohio, to Illinois,
and some as far as Missouri. Most of them like the
paranormal anyway. The basement is a different story.
The basement runs the full length of the building,
and is very dark even with 100 watt light bulbs. There are
air wholes in the far wall by the street, we haven't
figured out what they are for. you can see in from the
outside, but when you are down there it's like the light
from outside won't penetrate. They have made the basement
into four rooms and a hallway using ply-wood.
Other then the darkness I have had some people come up
to me and tell me that, in the back room, closest to the
air wholes they can hear breathing and whispering. It only
happens when they are alone in the room. The room is always
the coldest. It's like when they built the rooms what ever
is in there got pined in or something. The main room has
whispers, but no cold spots, and no heavy breathing ( this
is the room right next to the one I just told you about).
The other two rooms are just really dark. It has also been
mentioned that when we use candles down there we have more
light then when we use light bulbs.
The circuit breaker in the building was so old it had
to be replaced recently, we thought this would fix the
lighting problem in the basement but it didn't. we don't
know what is causing it. No one ever gets really scared or
feels threatened in the basement, but we are very curious
what is going on here. Did we wake something up that has
been dormant for years? It's getting spooky to me at least
but they seem to enjoy it.
One more thing, there is also a sound almost like
a hiss, but not from a snake more of a hiss that a vampire
might give when it bares it's fangs. :) This is also in
the back room above the drop ceiling. Are vampires real?
Contact me here: highland_sinclair@hotmail.com
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