St Eubrie: The house in the woods. (514 hits)
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Submitted by ilikesteak (View user info) at 2006-08-17 21:45:04 EDT
Paul Thomas was a man tired of the hassle and stress of living around people. He hated the rumors, the lying, the local scandals. In 1964 he got started building a hunting cabin in Redcrown Woods, on the few acres he had inherited, as a place to go and relax, to get away from it all once in a while.
It started as a week or two every year, then, as he retired and his wife and only son died, he started to lose his ties to the town, and started go to the cabin more often. It got to the point where he was only going home to pay his bills and buy some necessities.
In 1983 he bought a reloader and stockpiled whatever he thought was necessary that
he couldn't get on his own. He brought everything over to his cabin over the course of a month. He paid the last of his bills and had his mail stopped. He sold his house, and arranged for an accountant and a to pay his taxes yearly with the money from his house and pension fund. He had also decided that in case of any emergency, he'd keep a trunk of money in the cabin.
He was always afraid of what could happen if someone knew about the money he had hidden there. Over a few years he had gotten paranoid. He decided that he had to do something.. He decided to defend the place as best he could from those who would take his money, even though nobody knew he had it. He put up the keep out signs. He built a maze. He had dug deep pits and had the mandatory sharpened poles at the bottom. There were rope nets that you see in movies. Rocks tied to the boughs of trees . He had hundreds of bear traps around the house. He even went to the extent of placing landmines. There are many more hidden that are still unknown. He did this to protect his property. He had a map of all this on the mantle that he knew by heart.
He died in 1994. It was in his will that anyone in the town who could get to the trunk with the money in it, could keep it. He had said it had been the death of him trying to protect it, and that they would also be the new owners of the property. All they had to do was bring it back into the town hall. This was read at the town meeting.
Within a year, thirty five people died trying to get to the money. They were kids who wanted to use the place to have sex, businessmen, those looking for a way out of debt, the greedy, and those who found themselves upon hard times. The common factor is none of them made it back out. More died in the following year. After a little while, rumors had begun to spread that he was still alive, and was defending the place, killing all who entered. After a time, people had given up on trying to get the money, and the place had become a local legend, and became a ghost story parents would tell their kids.
It's 2006. Michael James is ten years old. He and a small group of friends were challenged to go into the house for the night. He is about fifty feet into the property, and the furthest is almost halfway through the maze. Mike was the first to fall victim of the house, by falling into the pit, and his screams had alerted and panicked his friends. They had decided to run for the town as their best way to escape. They lasted three minutes and sixteen seconds after the first scream.
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Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2007-07-31 16:39:24 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I too could have gone for more but this was entertaining. Actually I would have stuck around for a lot more.
Submitted by Crystle (user info) at 2006-11-02 17:26:21 EST (#)
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Submitted by GnarlsBarkley (user info) at 2006-08-18 22:49:19 EDT (#)
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Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2006-08-18 21:02:19 EDT (#)
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Submitted by recall (user info) at 2006-08-18 14:44:06 EDT (#)
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Bueno!
Submitted by HighVoltage900 (user info) at 2006-08-17 22:55:00 EDT (#)
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Short and sweet. Well done.
Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2006-08-17 22:35:19 EDT (#)
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Submitted by ilikesteak (user info) at 2006-08-17 22:32:44 EDT (#)
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Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2006-08-17 22:16:32 (#)
Ranking: 2
Needs more rape.
Also needs to be longer. Felt like you cut it off to soon because you got tired of writing.
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I cut it off for a number of reasons. Mostly because I said I'd post by 10:00 today, and I started at 9:30.
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2006-08-17 22:16:32 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Needs more rape.
Also needs to be longer. Felt like you cut it off to soon because you got tired of writing.
Submitted by DirtyDoubleEntendre (user info) at 2006-08-17 22:09:16 EDT (#)
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I didn't know that this was still going on.
Submitted by Jeanneee (user info) at 2006-08-17 22:00:15 EDT (#)
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