Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-25141454-20140721025556

Hello, my name is Daniel. Today I will be telling you the story of how my life quickly turned into a living hell. It was the break of dawn, an early Sunday morning, and I was enjoying my life out of high school. I was 20 at the time, and I was just sitting there, on my green couch watching the news. I was watching the news because the next morning I wanted to go on a hike in the forest. I really liked nature at the time, I loathe nature nowadays. The news said that it was going to be sunny tomorrow, and slightly cloudy, so I decided I will go on the hike later that afternoon, because I wake up pretty late.

It was about ten o’clock at night...when I heard it. It was a very high screech in the forest that I was going to hike in tomorrow, this scream...it made me feel...hopeless, like death was approaching, it made me very scared. I switched off my light, I was panicking, it took me about an hour to fall asleep that night.

I woke up later in the afternoon, at two o’clock. I still vividly remember that screech earlier last night, chills went down my spine. I got up and ate some breakfast, then I took a quick shower and watched the news again. It is going to be sunny with a low of sixty degrees and a high of seventy five degrees...perfect weather for hiking. I got on my hiking pants and and a jacket, and then I walked to my door, and opened it, and walked outside.

It took me about twenty minutes to travel to the forest, I was walking through this forest when I heard someone...or something humming. I crept up the small incline in an urge to find the entity that was humming. I made it to the top of the incline, I looked around and there were trees everywhere. I walked a few steps, the high grass under me was moving with a crunchy sound, when all of a sudden...I heard something. The sound of me walking turned into a clomping sort of sound, as if I was walking on wood. I stopped abruptly, curious, I knelt down and felt the ground under me. It was definitely wood. I took out my pocket knife, and cut the grass away swiftly. There I saw it, it was a trap door...this made me very interested, I wanted to do two things at once. I wanted to open it and explore what was under there, but I also want to get the hell out of this forest.

My hand is on the handle of the trap door, I am still thinking whether I should go in or not. I takes me a few minutes, but I open the trap door, and jump down. The first thing that hit me is that it smelt really bad in this...underground room. It was also pitch black, I could not see a thing. All of a sudden...I heard it again...That screech. It was very loud this time, almost as if...it was in a room close by. It sent chills down my spine and I started shaking. I switched on my flashlight...that was the very thing that messed my brain up to this day. As I turned it on, that disgusting smell all around me, turned into what has always been my nightmare, it was horrendous. Nailed to the walls all around me were dozens of mutilated bodies around me...every one of the corpses limbs were bloody and mutilated, some of them were torn apart to the very bone. The worst thing about this horror though...was every single one of these deceased bodies...their eyes were gone. Their eyes have all been removed, well removed to, they weren’t gouged out roughly, it was as if they were cleanly cut out. I motioned by flashlight towards the right side of the room. There was a door.

I walked over to the door, and opened it slowly. The smell got worse. It smelt like many fresh, human. decaying bodies. I still had my flashlight on, I peered down the long hallway in front of me, there was an end further ahead. I walked down the hallway for a few minutes until I reached another door. I opened it slowly, right as I was opening it...my light switched off. I simply shrugged and walked in, the door closed behind me. This is when I started to panic, doors don’t just simply close behind you underground, where there is no wind current. I started to shake, I was getting very nervous that something was watching me. “Who’s there!” I call out. I hear a low growl, which scares me even more. All of a sudden my flashlight flickers back on to full brightness. What was standing in front of me still haunts me in my dreams today. This...thing was disgusting, it was 7 feet tall looking down at me, the scariest thing, was that it had hundreds of eyes all over it’s body and it was completely naked. Then I looked into it’s two blank, white eyes. It smiled. The most hideous smile, yet this smile seemed to foretell my death, as if it was going to brutally murder me right then and there. It started laughing. I ran as fast as I could out of this underground living hell. I climb up and out of the trapdoor at astonishing speed, scared shit-less I run back to my house in half time. I open the door to my house, then I shut it and lock it behind me, and I put things in front of it to. There it is again….more screams coming from in that forest. I stay up until ten o’clock that night then I go to sleep. I wake up in the morning, and remember what happened to my yesterday, and it scares me still today. That was my story, I live my daily life today, and haven’t heard a scream since, but that incident gave me severe anxiety, and I still have nightmares about this event every now and then. I will never live my life the same, that same picture is engraved in my mind, of all of those dead people nailed onto the walls around me in that room. It is about twelve o’clock at night, I get into my bed after watching a couple hours of cartoons. I close my eyes for a minute, thinking about my life, and what I am going to do tomorrow at work. Then I open my eyes, and it’s there...standing above my bed, staring into my eyes. The oddest thing about it, is the smile. 