Tales Of The Darkside

It is a Compilation of shorter stories I will add to them from time to time the first is Entitled Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home

I am Steve and this is a record of my experiences April 5th 1967 I was 17 

my family and I had just purchased an Imperial style 1860s style home.

The first thing I remember when walking into the mansion was overwhelmed it was fairly normal as it was the biggest Place id ever seen in my life the living room to me looked as big as our entire home we had left behind.  The very first think Id seen as we walked in was a large red flower patterned rug right in the middle of the large room I looked to the left I saw the largest fire place I ever seen as we walked toward the back of the room the stairs Ascended into the second floor and off to the right the next room the kitchen and dinning area another fire place.

That night we all slept in the living room as our stuff would not be here till the following day after the excitement of the new home had passed you really started to get a feel for this house.  An Eerie sort of feel shot through you as the age of the house hits you.  Over 200 yrs this house has sat on this lot you begin to think of the history things this house has seen who lived hear was this place always a house what sort of things went on hear it was about 9:00 PM when we decided to turn in for the night I had looked over at the clock 11:00 PM.

It was just then when out the corner of my eye I saw a shadow of what appeared to be a person shoot out from the fire place and I followed it to a door in the upper right of the of the room.  Knowing it's a new home I wrote it off as a figment of my Imagination next thing I remember the sun was peeking through the windows about 7am we decided to take a ride into town and meet the locals visit some of the stores and just get a feel for our new town also our things wouldn't arrive till later around 11am we were getting hungry so we decided to eat at the local Dinner ware we were welcomed to Collin wood TN.

We arrived back home around 1pm as the moving van had just arrived 

I noticed as the movers approached the door the seem very nervous they when the driver entered the home he sort of rubbed his arms almost like when you are cold 

I remember it was strange as it was 80 degrees that day a record high for that 

time of the year what the driver said next will remain in my mind for ever he said I have been in many homes but this one gives me a bad vibe it just feels unnatural

not scare you but I feel many have lost their lives in this house.

The rest of the day was spent moving in our furniture and decorating it was starting to feel like home we would spend one more night in the living room as our bedroom furniture would arrive the next day my bedroom was on the second floor at the end of the hall id only been up their once before it was to pick my room. I Recall having an Eerie feeling of course I told my self new house probably my imagination that night we went to sleep around  11pm this is when I really began to fell un easy around 3am that night I woke up seemingly in a trance whether I was still groggy I cannot say what was strange was I remember waking up but then I sort of blacked out what snapped me out was a scream that sounded like a woman.  I looked around disoriented till I took a moment I was in the attic I run down the stairs mom looks up at me Honey what happened I told mom what I had just been witness to she looks right in my eyes and says son you must have had a bad dream I said if it was a dream how did I end up in the attic 

maybe you were sleep walking son I used to have to put bells on you're door or you would end up in you're Papa's and My room when you were 4 years old.

I accepted that story but I could tell mom was scared the rest of that night 

went by with out incident but deep down I knew something was not right with this house little did I know just how right I was.  The next day I ventured out into the neighborhood now Collin wood is a very small town with a population of approximately 999 people so you can probably imagine the nearest house probably a mile away but what is unique about this place is their are clusters.

their maybe 5 houses in a cluster then you go about 2 and a half 3 miles and you have another cluster so as I went to meet the people in the neighbor's I noticed several odd rock Piles at the time I thought it was strange but at 17 you really don't know to you they are just rock piles the neighbors seemed friendly but at the same time nervous.  The next week we were just settling in not much happened that week Saturday mom was breaking ground for a garden when she dug up some bones she freaked she didn't know what to do so she called the police they come out and collected the bones they contacted an anthropologist

it was really after that the Activity began to pick up a week later the results from the tests came back it was then our worst fears were realized the bones came back positive for human remains their was actually some one buried on our property.  It was may 13th we were just turning in for bed and I will never forget that night about 11pm mother and I were just shutting of the TV and I remember we both just stopped in are tracks we looked at each other we just new after father passed away from cancer when I was about 8 and back then Cancer was the big D about 90% of those stricken with Cancer did not survive it was the new plague everyone has herd of the black plague the red death what not but you need to know in the 60s no one knew what cancer was their was no treatment if you had cancer you might as well be on death row.

So when dad passed away I know it sounds Macabre but all we had was each other so it did in a way bond us together so when we looked at each other that night we just knew we both had herd scratching like something was just Clawing we new it was not a mouse or a cat it was a much deeper sound it did not sound normal we did not see anything so naturally we shrugged it off and went to bed about 3am

we were awakened we had herd a howling then an Eerie Silence.... then the house started shaking like a tornado had just blown by shaking rattling then silence then all the lights in the house began to blink on and of 2 minutes it felt like 2hrs 

then nothing we did not go back to sleep that night.

Dreams

The next night I had a horrible Nightmare in this Nightmare I saw our house it was different in this nightmare I walk into the front door onto a purple Carpet I see Chairs off to the right and off to the left I see my self in the front row Right most seat.  Their are people in the other seats no one I know I hear talking I cant make out what is being said then suddenly silence at this time the door opens 2 men are carrying a large wooden box at this time everyone in the room bows their heads as the set the box on the large table in the front of the room I see it appears to be an old style coffin.  I notice their is a man in what looks like an old style suite he stands over the coffin everyone raises their heads back up the man begins to speak the people bow their heads once again the rise and begin to exit the house I notice the men pick up the coffin and proceed into the basement I follow and as the basement door opens I am startled the basement is filled with coffins. I black out the next thing I see Really shook me up I saw the two men put one of the bodies into the fire place next thing I remember mom is standing over me the sun is out and I am all sweaty.

About one week later I had another Nightmare I was walking in the house 

their is a foul odor the first thing I hear is arguing very loud arguing the first thing I see lots of blood like someone was stabbed their in the middle of the living room was a body it appeared to be a female I ascend the steps I am drawn toward the bedroom in the back I look out the window there is a body lying on the ground in a puddle of blood as I leave the room I hear a voice sounds something like blah blah and attic I could not make out the first two words but I hear attic very clearly. so naturally I look in the attic and right above me their is what seems to be 

a teenage male Hanging from the Rafters my heart sank.  Again I am awakened by my mom we just looked at each other like what the hell is going on in this house.

Lastly and this is the scariest dream of all it was close to Halloween it was cool and honestly the fog was very thick in fact when you looked out the windows it was like looking into a white haze that night i had decided to turn in  about 12am my head no more then hit the pillow I was out.  I then saw my self on a lot that looked like ours the house was gone I begin hearing chanting it was a language Id never herd before the first thing I see can only be seen as Long Houses I think their were six long Houses shaped like I can only describe it as a star like pattern all facing in a circle in the center of this circle their was a fire.

Dancing around it were figures they appeared to be people with strange outfits on and chanting of to the Left two more Long houses except they were different then the other six they sort of stood out . Their Dancing around the fire chanting 

then out of nowhere their was marching and what looked like a couple hundred men dressed in soldier uniforms the ones dancing scaterd I saw other's come out of the long house's their may have been 50 or so strangley dressed figures scatter into the forest then gun shots and arrows flying then nothing I could then see quite clearly only what I could describe as a slaughter bodies every were soldiers Indians It sort of flashed then I blacked out.  The next scene I see Is to this day the most disturbing image I have seen Out of the darkness I see a hairy human first the feat then the torso the arms then the head it is a wolfs head fiery red eyes goat horns then I start to run full speed just running the creature getting closer closer no matter how fast I run the creature get's closer I can feel its hot breath on my neck then I can only remember mom running into my room she is like son son wake up sweat beads runing down my neck wake up startled I awoke.

Mom just looked at me and said we have got to get out of this house I agree 

and so we put the house up for sale.

Reviews

[Mik Zeal]

Look I'm not trying to insult you, but here's some constructive criticism. The spelling and grammar was pretty bad. That really explains itself, but if you want to make it better you might want to pay attention to what point of view you're trying to make the story. I see that you have it in first person past tense, but I found that you kept throwing words in that were present tense. And you should really read; reading is the best practice, especially for grammar and spelling. You cannot become a writer if you don't have time to read. I would love the chance to proof read this. So that's really all my advice: read more and pay attention to what tense you are speaking.

[Adri Moolman]

this is really scary! very good :)