text: Since I was a kid I’ve always liked mysteries, I’ve always watched horror films and those old programs that talked about the sci-fi occurrences, recently me including my friends: Sam, Laura, Ben, Ashley and Connor were attempting to explore abandoned buildings and places on which have already spent so much time on yet haven’t found a single interesting thing, we wanted to give up. Suddenly we noticed that our radio has caught a strange signal, we had a look at it, it was a woman, a woman who was asking for help although she seemed terrified, her voice sounded shaken and it was an obvious hint that something horrible had happened. Most of us have already decided on going but not Connor, he was against the idea and I as well as Ashley agreed with him but curiosity took over us. “If you really don’t want to go then you can just stay here and wait for us, coward!” exclaimed Sam, Laura was the nice girl no wonder she stood up for us saying “It’s only natural that some people wouldn’t want to go and that shouldn’t be any of your business Sam!”, Sam seemed more annoyed that ever. However we collected things we thought we would need such as flashlight and food as well as drinks, sleeping bags and some change of clothes if needed. Connor decided to come with us after all which was a big relief since he was good with locations, later evening we decided that next morning at about 5:30 we’re getting ready to find out where the signal was coming from. It was the next day, we got ready and took everything we collected the day before. Ben took the radio with him to find out the location of the signal, it seemed to lead into a huge forest I have never heard of, we walked, walked and walked it felt like it an eternity, eventually we could see something that looked like a roof of a mansion peeking from the top of the trees and signal seemed to led there, some of us started to get freaked out but there was no way we could go back after all that effort. The moment we could see the mansion clearly we could it was abandoned, it had two huge door in the front and supposedly 3 floors as well as a small shack by it we couldn’t quite tell the structure yet as the trees covered it some way or another. Walking to the shack the signal got stronger and stronger, as we entered it we noticed loads of pictures of people we didn’t know. Unexpectedly Ashley shouted “Oh my god, it can’t be,” she was intercepted by Ben “what is it? It seems like a bad idea I think we should go back.” “It’s the missing people that police couldn’t find after years of searching!” Ashley shouted, her voice was shaken in fear. “Wait, there is recording on the table, we could use the laptop I’ve got with me to play it”. In the recordings there was a woman, she told us not to go inside the mansion no matter what, she told us not to try and find or rescue her. It made us want to do the exact opposite, it was stupid, for sure it was but we’ve come a long way so we are going to continue it. Approaching the door we realised it was tightly locked with chains. Sam tried to look for another way, we decided to go through the bushes and it seems we have found a way, but it was gross and disgusting, there were horse legs covering so we were forced to crawl underneath it, Ashley was so sick she threw up. None of us knew what to do. My stomach turned. Disturbing. That’s what it was and I’m sure all of us have felt the same way, but we continued. We slowly climbed the ladder down, it seemed to be the basement. Half way flooded and cold. A strangle feeling made us shiver to our spines. We slowly moved through all the water. Everything seemed so...”old” said Ashley. Sam was in front of us, strangely he hasn’t said a thing recently, he was probably stuck in his own thoughts, like all of us were. A corpse from up to the head down to the torso suddenly emerged from the waters all of us screamed. Terrified we had to continue, but I couldn’t forget it, it was bloodied yet seemed old, we didn’t know what to think or do. The waters seemed to get deeper up to about our necks and the ceiling was low down. Claustrophobic. Emotionally drained we continued until we found an exit. Climbing up the ladder we noticed the woman from the recording. The woman was was locked behind bars, she was bloodied and her clothes were ragged. We approached quietly. “Hey!,” exclaimed Sam “it’s you isn’t it, the woman from the recording!”. The woman seemed incredibly confused “recording?,” she said “oh no, no, no”, “what?” all of us synced. “You cannot be here!” She exclaimed “it wasn’t me it was the man, no a monster, he lured you here!”. The silhouette that somewhat had resembled a man emerged from the shadow of the dark. Looking at him in dim light, however, you could see he was not a man. If you squinted, you could see it, but looking at him now you could see he was not. Far, far from it. He grabbed Sam and slashed his head off with an he and he dropped breathless, blood gushing from his neck. I wanted to cry. The monster looked us opened the bars grabbed the woman and with a rough voice, told us “follow me.” he grinned like a psycho “you should meet the others, we could be a family” we wanted to run away, we regretted it, regretted everything. Eventually we reached the room that somewhat appeared to be a dinner room, there were other human like creatures, they made us sit around the table. The old woman, no the monster slowly stumbled to the dinner table with something she called “soup”, there was no way it was that, as it was filled with cockroaches and it was a gross, dirty colour. “eat, eat it, EAT IT” the monster shouted. We knew we had to, we didn’t know what they would do if we didn’t, after one spoon of it we drop to the floor, I see Ben gurgle, his eyes went back. My eyes open slowly, I see the man dragging me, they close again. I wake up chained to a bed. The old woman next to me, “you finally woke up, the girl wants to talk to you” as the old woman leaves I see the other woman that was locked up approach me.” They weren’t like this,” she whispered “they used to be a normal family until they were infected, a small girl, she infected them” “what happened to others?” I said. She takes out a key out of her pocket and says “I don’t know, but we can’t save them we have to get out.” My heart drops and I feel emotionally destroyed. She moves a wardrobe out of the way and there seem to be a small way, we squeeze trough it, can cockroaches crawling around us. We walk through a corridor “close” she whispers. Suddenly she screams and shouts in agony, she stops and stands emotionless, grabs the closest knife to her and starts attaching me, I try to protect myself using my hands I grab the knife and my hands bleed. She stabs me once. Stops again and screams as she smashes her head against the wall “get out, get out of my head!”. I faint. I wake up already outside the mansion. Barely understanding anything I ran and ran and ran until I reach the city I reach the police and try to contact the hospital on everything I’ve known that happened, they take for one off those psychos, but still decide to investigate. 5 years later I haven’t heard anything about it. It’s surprising how I survived. I live peacefully in my apartment, someone knocks on my door, I open it and realise “the woman” I say shaken , it’s woman that stabbed me and the crazy man I faint again and can’t remember anything. I wake up in the abandoned mansion , next to me lies the corpse of Ashley and say to myself crying “what do I do now...