You check your bag one last time to make sure you have everything you need. Satisfied you have everything, you leave your house and head toward the old house down the street. As you approach, you see a large gathering of people have arrived before you. John is at the center of the group. He notices you approaching.
You look up at the front of the house. The house leans toward you like some monster about to be fed; but that is not the cause of the growing dread in you. Something about the house itself feels wrong. Like it shouldn't exist. You're starting to doubt if going through with the dare is a good idea.
You land with a soft thud on the other side of the fence. Your fingers ache a little from the rusty fence links. You look around the backyard, trying to avoid looking at the house. It does not matter which side of it you're on, the house seems to always lean toward you like a monster about to be fed....
You swallow your fear and enter the house. You close the door behind you and switch on one of the lights you brought with you. Immediately you see another door. You flash your light around the room and see that it is quite small. The floor has a stained rug with a few pairs of old shoes on it. The...
You turn around and run back to your home. You can hear the other kids laughing at your cowardice. You don't stop until you're back home and away from that place. The next day, you hear people talking about how John hasn't been seen since he walked into the house last night. You know John died in that house. You're...
You toss all but one of the shoes into the next room and move the rug to the center of the room. After laying your sleeping bag on the rug, you eat a pair of cupcakes. After checking to make sure the group outside is gone, you prop open the front door with the old shoe you kept. You spend...
You enter into a large living room. The furniture in the room is covered in dust and seems like it has never been used before. Besides a large couch along one of the walls, it seems like there isn't a good place to sleep here. You see two doors along the wall of the door you entered through. Across the...
You wake up. Your legs feel strange. You grab your light and shine on your legs. Immediately, you wish you hadn't. You see a carpet of bugs covering your legs. You start to beat them off, wondering why your legs aren't working. One swipe knocks away a squishy hunk of something that felt like meat. You panic and drop your...
Two skeletons of young children were found on the front lawn of an abandoned property yesterday morning. The dental records show they belong to a pair of children that went missing one week ago. The police are baffled about how the skeletons were stripped clean in less than a week with no signs of tool or chemical use.
Feeling sleepy, you waste no time in getting to sleep. As you close your eyes, you tell yourself not to let the bedbugs bite. You wake up with a jolt. Confused, you look around to see what woke you. Seeing nothing, you lay back down, chuckling about how scared you were. As you close your eyes, you tell yourself that bedbugs don't bite....
You shine your light around the room. From what you can tell, it's a child's bedroom. The walls are covered in painted pictures that are peeling off. Dusty toys are littered everywhere, even on the small bed frame in the far corner of the room by the window.
You enter into a fairly large bedroom. Despite the house having been abandoned for decades, this room is only slightly dusty. Even the large expensive-looking bed not only has a mattress and sheets, but it's even made. You could not have wished for a better place to sleep. You immediately jump onto the bed which collapses from your weight. The...
You walk around a large hole in the floor of the large room. The room is split down the middle by the entrance to the living room and the backdoor exit.
You let out a scream as a massive surge of pain tears you out from the beginnings of sleep. You look toward your legs to see what happened, but you wish you hadn't. Your eyes bulge in fright as you see some blob of luminescent purple slime crawl up your leg. You try to knock it off only for your...
A buzzing stops you from falling completely asleep. You sit up once again, this time whacking your head on something flesh-like. Rubbing your head, you search for light. Finding it, you switch it on to see what you hit. You rub your eyes, thinking you must be asleep. A second look confirms the first. A man-sized praying mantis with a...
You decide that whatever is in the closet can wait until the morning. After opening the window, you replace the toys on the bed frame with your sleeping bag. Before long, you fall into a deep sleep.
The air starts to feel warmer the moment you leave your sleeping bag. After thinking it over for a moment, you pack up your sleeping bag in case you find a better spot to sleep. Once you're done, you wonder if you should look in the closet or leave the room now to go look through the rest of the house....
The moment you crack open the door, a gust of bitter-cold air blinds you. After the air stops blowing, you shine your light into the closet and see a lizard-like ice sculpture looking down at you. The sculpture is easily seven feet tall. As you flash your light around it, you start to pick up on strange details, such as...
You thrash about as you awake from a nightmare. As your breathing and heart slow, you remember where you are. A quick look out the window shows that it is still night out. For some reason, the air feels colder than it did when you went to sleep. The thought of exploring the house more crosses your mind, but you still feel a little tired....
As your eyes shut once more, you feel colder and colder in spite of the thick sleeping bag.
Police are still working on the case of the boy found in a block of ice last week. Though they suspect foul play, no leads on how the boy was frozen in the middle of the summer have been found. The mayor has issued a curfew on all citizens under the age of eighteen to prevent another tragedy.
You take your first step out of the room when you hear the floorboards creak, the only warning you receive before you fall right through them. It seems you fall for hours before you hit the ground; the impact kills you instantly.
You are so captivated by the statue that you don't realize that ice is forming around your legs until it's too late. You panic and try to break free to no avail. The ice quickly climbs up your chest, your neck, and finally your head. Within minutes, you suffocate.
You stretch your arms after awakening from a death-like sleep. You stay in the bed for a few moments to enjoy the wonderful feeling you have, but soon you slip out of the bed and out of the house. You're wondering where you should go when you realize you're hungry. Within a few moments, you're home and ready for breakfast....
The next floor is almost in a worse state than the kitchen was. The rot has made dozens of holes in the ceilings and walls, old car parts are littered on the ground, an old workbench lies in ruins by the stairs, but the worst part of the room is the old car sitting in the center of it. The...
A dull pain in your arm causes you to wake up. It takes a moment for your eyes to adjust to the room's bright light. Once you can see, you realize you're in an empty hospital room. A glance at your arm confirms the two of them are both attached. You sigh in relief as you realize what you just...
You let the backdoor slam as you stomp away from the house, not caring about the overgrown weeds or the house leaning toward you. You barely feel the rusted metal of the backyard fence as you climb over it, only caring about sleeping in your own bed after a long shower.
You're about halfway down the stairs when you see John. His clothes look ragged and his hair is a mess. You open your mouth to ask what happened to him, but he charges at you. You feel a sharp cold pain in your chest. John throws you down the stairs where your blood forms a puddle. You try to stand,...
Your light shines into the dark cabin of the car, but the beam doesn't seem to reach the bottom of the car at all. It's more like you're looking into a bottomless pit. You're thinking about opening the car when the darkness moves. A fang-filled mouth suddenly forms and bites off the arm carrying the light. The pain and sudden...
It has been a week since you left that house and the police still don't know who killed John. They don't even know how his body froze in the middle of summer. You don't know either, but you do know that you were lucky to have left that house before you wound up the same way as John.
