This happened to me about 6 years ago, at my
friend's aunt's cabin. The names in the story
have been changed for privacy reasons.
We had all just graduated high school, and Jess
suggested that we take a one week trip to her
aunt's cabin for some R&R before we had to get to
our summer jobs. So altogether, there was me,
Jess, her boyfriend Kevin, my boyfriend Chuck,
and three other friends, Sherrie, Cory and Lynn.
We were also expecting another crew of about 3
friends to show up and visit for a day or two
before they headed off to Europe.
Jess's aunt dropped off the key on Tuesday and
told us she had not been out there for at least 2
years - not since her husband had died of cancer.
It was their place to go together and she said
she just can't go back without him, and after
this summer the cabin would actually be sold.
We
got to the cabin on Wednesday just a little after
supper.
There were 2 bedrooms and a loft/bedroom.
Immediately when we got inside it was very
obvious that the cabin had not been visited for a
long time, as it was absolutely filthy and a
dusty haze hung in the air - we must have kicked
up the dust when we went in. One strange thing -
there were scratches in the wood floor that
looked like some animal made them with its claws.
We looked around to be sure that a raccoon hadn't
nested in the cabin, and there was none. Nobody
seemed to care about the dirt, after all, we were
here to rough it and let loose.
Jess, Sherrie,
Lynn and I did a little bit of sweeping with an
ancient looking broom we found on the porch, and
used some of the t.p. we brought just to wipe
down the table, chairs, toilet, and other
surfaces we would be using a lot. The guys got to
building a fire in the wood stove so we could
cook up some hot dogs - we were starving.
We finally got all settled in and our bellies
were full of hotdog's and salt and vinegar chips.
Jess was complaining that she did not feel well,
but we all dismissed it as her having eaten too
much too fast. She went to lie down - she and
Kevin had grabbed the first bedroom off the
kitchen, Chuck and I took the second smaller room
right beside it, Sherrie and Lynn took the loft,
and Cory was to sleep on the sofa (poor guy - it
looked like it had been eaten and thrown up on, that
sofa). We spent the rest of the evening just
messing around and getting situated.
At around
11:30 or so we all hit the hay.
I had been asleep for about an hour or so when
I suddenly woke for no reason. I had not been
dreaming, or at least I don't remember, and I lay
there for about 10 minutes before deciding to go
pee. Chuck was snoring hard. I tiptoed out of the
room and proceeded to the closet-like bathroom
directly across from the bedroom. Cory was fast
asleep on the sofa as I passed him - he did not
snore like Chuck but he drooled twice as bad.
I was tending to my business in the bathroom
when I heard someone stirring outside the
bathroom. "I'll just be a minute...who is it?" I
said, thinking someone else needed to use the
can. No answer. Still, I could hear someone
moving just outside the door. "Jess?"
Nothing. "Lynn?" No answer. "Cory?" My voice was
a little shaky now because this "person" was not
answering me. Suddenly I heard a long, dragging
scratch run down the door, like someone had run their
fingernails down the wood. I froze. I did not
want to open the door, even though I was finished
and it was probably Cory playing a prank I
thought. I think I was in the bathroom for almost
20 minutes when I heard this "person" shuffle
away. I still did not want to leave. I was
scared. There was a vent in the bathroom that led
to the outside, only about half a foot in
diameter. Suddenly the metal grate that was
covering it flew off and I looked to see a pale,
white, ghostly arm reach into the bathroom from
outdoors. I screamed and tore out of the bathroom
as fast as fire and immediately I had woken
everyone up.
Chuck was the first to come to my
rescue - I crashed right into him in the kitchen.
Although I was in hysterics I was trying to relay
what I had seen, when we all heard the
scratching - only this time it was on the roof.
Suddenly we heard the most horrible laugh - it
was like a classic witch's cackle but it sounded
so far away and undertoned with a scream. We all
huddled together in fear. Kevin was yelling
repeatedly, "What the f@#% was that?! What the
f@#% was that?!"
Finally the guys decided they were going to be
brave and go out there and ambush whoever was
playing this horrible joke.
We thought maybe it was the
friends we were expecting, only they said they
would not be here till Saturday.
Armed with the
broom, a knife, and a hatchet, the guys burst out
of the cabin and surrounded it. Jess, Sherrie,
Lynn and I remained huddled in the kitchen. There
was silence for about 3 minutes, and then a short
commotion on the roof. The guys returned - their
eyes wide and their faces pale. "What?! What did
you see Kevin?! Kevin?!" Jess demanded. Chuck was
running around moving furniture in front of the
door and windows. "What is going on Chuck?!" I
demanded. Cory was looking in the kitchen for
more knives. He found a bunch and started passing
them out to us all. "Someone tell me what the
hell just happened!" I yelled. Chuck wrapped his
arms around me and everyone was coaxed to sit
down while he started to speak.
When the guys ran outside to catch the
prankster, what they encountered horrified them.
On the roof was a twisted lady. That was the only
way they could describe it. She was naked, pale,
and she was grotesquely deformed - her head was
on backwards; her spine was hunched and twisted;
her arms were bent in an awkward position above
her head, and one leg was longer than the other
but they both appeared to be on backwards as
well. They said she had long, greasy looking
black hair that dragged on the ground, and her
eyes were just 2 black holes with tiny red lights
in them. Her mouth was agape like she was
moaning, only this appeared to be its permanent
state. When she saw them, she scrambled down one
side of the roof, and they heard the bushes
rustle as she darted away into the woods.
We left the cabin the next day, and were sure
to tell our other friends not to bother going out
there, because we weren't there... something
else was.
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