text: Now you may be asking how I got into this situation, well it all started when I went with my friend to an abandoned mental facility. It was a nice breezy normal January night, and I was at my friend's house. We were sitting on the couch watching TV when I had an idea, what if we were to go explore the old mental hospital that's not too far away? So I casually said “Hey, Johnny, why don't we go and do something interesting and go explore the old Wynner Mental Facility?” He had a questionable look on his face but he eventually responded back with “I don't see why not, we don't got anything going on” So we packed a few supplies like a flashlight and a spare jacket just in case and then we left a note on the kitchen table telling his mom that we went out for a bit and we’ll be back in a couple of hours, and then we were off. We grabbed our bikes and headed out to the mental facility and on our ride there we saw a small black car just sitting around the corner of Johnny’s block and we just shrugged it off and continued on our way. When we finally got there we put our bikes somewhere out of sight but easily accessible in case we needed to make a quick escape, then we grab a flashlight and head inside being careful as well as cautious. At first, there was just rubble and trash everywhere but when we went deeper inside we found some rooms that were locked and some areas that were not destroyed or graffitied. Then we found a basement and it had to have perfect timing because that's when we heard a loud bang from the entrance and without thinking we ran into the basement and hid behind a few big boxes and then we heard a heavy footfall. I was sitting on the cold hard floor of the basement behind some tall boxes, trying not to make a noise as I was listening for movement and auditory cues as to who the people were chasing us. We assumed it was the guy in the black car because it seemed to be the only rational thing. And so while we were sitting there Johnny accidentally kicked an old beer can and it seemed to bring the guys attention to the basement. We heard what sounded like a pipe drag across the ground as one of them walked from the stairs to the basement level. Neither of us dared to make a move or sound during those moments until we heard a voice say “I know your down here, come out now and no one will get hurt” Johnny looked over at me and I can see the terror in his eyes as the guy walked right past him and to the backroom. Johnny then despite me telling him not to, ran for the entrance of the basement. As you would expect the guy heard this and chased after him and I didn’t know what to do and so without thinking I just grabbed an old beer bottle and ran towards the staircase that leads out of the basement and saw Johnny pinned against a wall and the guy had a pocket knife pulled out and it looked like he was about to cut him and so I yelled out “Hey! Put him down!” Then I hit the back of the bottle against the wall and it shattered into a million pieces but it left enough for me to use as a weapon in case I needed to. He just looked at me and laughed, then dropped him and walked towards me. I didn’t expect it to work and so I just stood there scared and not knowing what to do until I heard a loud bang similar to the one we heard earlier and the guy fell to the floor unconscious. Then I heard a voice say “That was a close one, good thing I got here when I did” It was the guy from the black car, he followed us here and conveniently helped us out. He then told us how he has been watching us for a couple of days and said how he lives close to Johnny and happened to see us go towards this place and know how there are bad people who go here during these hours and so he knew that we might get in trouble. He was a good guy overall. He gave us a water bottle and some chocolate chip cookies his wife made just the other night which were delicious by the way, and he offered to drive us home and we accepted and when we got in the car we started to get uncontrollably drowsy and I could barely keep my eyes open but during the time that I could I saw that we passed Johnny's block and kept going and during those last seconds before I fell asleep I looked at the guy and he was smiling devilishly and simply said “Shhh” Then me and Johnny fell asleep and we knew we weren't going home anytime soon.