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Kennedy's Mansion

Abomination,
stretch your ragged hand towards me,
behind this façade of broken brick,
I can feel your eyes drill through
from the crumbled and broken window.

At midnight,
three stand frozen, facing three ethereal,
amidst a silence that could kill;
oppressed by a fear like an iron curtain,
a will reaches out, that could crush sanity.

Take flight!
Back the way that we had come,
along the quite, pitted road,
that now looks like a fossil in the moonlight,
past the twisted and evil witches tree.

Safety,
we thought we had found as we reached home,
yet no comfort could be found that night;
looking out, a dark shape stood by the church,
what may or may not have been a man, stood watching.

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Option 29: The freakiest/scariest/weirdest thing that ever happened to you.



A true, personal experience that happened to myself and my friends several years ago.

Not far from where we used to live, there is an old derelict mansion just off a single track, secluded road. The mansion used to belong, many years ago to Scottish folk singer (and supposed born-again Christian, which may prove ironic in this story) Callum Kennedy. Due to financial difficulties, the house fell into disrepair and was then gutted in a fire.

Anyway, back to the story, a good few years ago, some friends of mine were exploring the house and found something of interest in one of the ruined rooms...a rather large pentagram on the floor on top of all the flattened and compacted rubble and dust, intricately marked out by small pieces of red/orange and white stone. Telling me of this, and being young and foolhardy, we decided we should go and check it out....in the middle of the night.

Five of us set out, but two of us (including my then and now partner) got such a bad feeling when we got to the end of the road the house was on that they couldn't continue and turned back. Me and two others continued on. As we neared the mansion, the opressive feeling got worse and worse, until we got around the side of the house to where the bay windows to this room were. The room was in complete and utter darkness, but we could feel what was inside the room, and all three of us corroborated this, without talking to each other prior, upon returning back home. What we felt in that room, to the point you could almost see it, was three beings standing in the room. I could even take you to the room now and point to exactly where they stood. Without ever seeing them, we could even describe what they looked like.One of them moved forward towards the window and reached towards us.

That is when we returned back to my friends flat. The night wasn't over though. We were sitting in his flat, still feeling very uncomfortable and the feeling was rising. My partner said "We are being watched". We went to the window and at the church across the road, there was a figure standing next to a tree, watching the flat. There was another one in the grounds of the church.

Not a comfortable night.

Me and one of the friends returned to the mansion and the room the next day and I got a first-hand look at the pentagram, not to mention what looked like sigils and strange writings all over the walls, around the door and window frames. We went back again the next day and the pentagram had been removed, even all the dust and hard packed rubble it had been sitting on had been scowered, in a big circle clean through to the floorboards. The only thing noticable in this circle was in the centre, a hole in the wood, like a bladed instrument, sword or knife had been driven with force, right into the floorboard.

Anyways, that's the story as best I can tell it (there is more and I could go into more detail). Sorry for the long notes.

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  • xxRainbowDawnxx
    May 12, 2008

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    Really creepy, I like it though... I'm not the only one who has had weird and freaky things happen to me then, which is always a good thing to know.