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The Haunting of Whispering Hollow: Secrets of the Abandoned Village · Shallow Nights: Scary Bedtime Stories

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  Back in high school I took a mysteries and mythology type
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  class or something like that. I don't remember the name of the
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  class. It basically just had to do with
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  real life mysteries and creepy shit.
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  I was into that kind of stuff. I was taking the class with a
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  good friend who I'll call Ben for this story.
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  The teacher of the class took us on a field trip to a nearby
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  abandoned village with an unknown past.
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  The village was built in the early 1900s but seems as though
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  it had been quickly abandoned shortly after it was built.
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  The bus ride there was about 20 minutes.
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  All of us were glued to the bus windows as we pulled up some
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  sketchy looking decrepit Rd. cutting through dense forest.
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  The road eventually led to a clearing.
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  We were there. We stepped out onto the road
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  which had grass growing through the cracks.
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  The grass surrounding was almost knee high.
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  Then there were the buildings. The tall archaic brick buildings
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  with the boarded up windows all gave off such chilling vibes.
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  The teacher lined all twenty of us up, counted heads and then
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  began leading the way. The point of this little field
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  trip was to use the so-called skills we learned in class to
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  see if we could put anything together about why the village
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  may have been abandoned so long ago.
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  Some of the buildings had holes in the walls to serve as
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  entryways. There were even holes in the
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  ground next to some of the buildings, seemingly dug to get
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  into the basements of some of the buildings, which seemed
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  creepy. There was one building, though
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  it stood taller than any of the others.
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  It just intrigued me the most. While the teacher was leading
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  the group towards the village church, Ben and I decided to
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  sneak off on our own to look for anything interesting.
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  When we walked off in the direction of the tallest
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  building, we saw a hole in the grounds.
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  It was dug by the back door of the building which had been
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  sealed off. In the hole was a ladder which
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  led down to the concrete floor below.
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  We both looked at each other and knew we had to do it.
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  Ben climbed down first, then me. Luckily, this was just around
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  the time Apple started putting flashlights on their phones so
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  we had a source of light. It was creepy down there.
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  There were a couple of beer bottles, one graffiti tag on the
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  wall and dusty wooden planks everywhere.
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  There was a wooden stairway which led up to complete
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  darkness. Since all windows and doors had
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  been sealed shut from above. We had already gone as far as to
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  enter the building, so we figured we'd go up the stairs
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  too. I went first and with each step
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  the creakiness of the 100 year old would made me feel as if I
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  was going to fall through each and every step.
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  Ben followed suit. This floor of the building was
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  very tight. It seemed like there were many
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  openings going off into different smaller rooms.
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  It was so dark in there you would never even guess it was
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  daytime. Ben and I were honestly starting
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  to get creeped out in there and agreed to go back outside, but
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  just then there was a noise in one of the tiny rooms, like a
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  big rock hitting the concrete floor.
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  A normal instinct would be to run, but Ben and I froze, locked
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  eyes for a moment, then both tiptoed over to the opening of
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  the room. We shine the lights into the
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  room and ran. We ran back down the stairs and
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  then up the rusty ladder back outside.
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  We caught up to the group out of breath.
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  We didn't say anything though, to avoid getting in trouble.
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  One of our classmates asked us what was wrong.
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  We told him we snuck into one of the buildings and in one of the
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  rooms when we shined the light into it, we saw three guys
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  standing maybe 10 feet away from the doorway facing Ben and I in
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  a weird formation as if they were waiting for us.
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  As we continued following the group, we paid extra attention
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  to the tall building. We entered from the distance and
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  before leaving we saw a person's face at one of the higher level
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  windows that had not been boarded up.
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  We never told the teacher in fear of getting in trouble.
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  We didn't know what to think. Were those just homeless people
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  living in there? Were they gang members and
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  hiding? Ben freaks me out with his
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  theory. He says they were ghosts of the
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  people who once lived in the town.
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  Still, the way the three guys were just hauntingly standing
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  there so calmly staring at us the moment we peeked our heads
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  through that doorway, I still can't get that image out of my
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  head. I may go back to that village
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  one day just to prove Bens idea wrong.