Sinister House
Short Story : Sinister House
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark ( Horror Story)
By Prabir Rai Chaudhuri . All Copyright Reserved 2018
Sinister House… I wanted to go live in a new place to change jobs and
toxic relationships. I had been in that city all my life, it was time to get to
know new places. I always wanted to get to know Querétaro, so I bought a ticket
to that place without a return ticket. First I stayed in a hotel to look for a
house to rent.
I thought that since it was not such a big city the rent would be
lower, but most of the houses or apartments were beyond my budget.
Later that day I continued looking for a place to live that would be
close to my new job.
I was in a coffee shop with the newspaper when I found an ad for a
house. It was located in an area that made it easy to get to work on foot, and
it was spacious and had a very affordable price.
In fact, I reread the ad several times because I thought I had misread
it. I had been reading ads for houses for rent for several days, and the cost
of the houses fluctuates around the same price. I didn't think twice, I left my
coffee unfinished and headed to the place, I wanted to see the house first
before calling the owner.
Querétaro is a very small city compared to the one I come from, so in a
few minutes I was in front of the house that appeared in the ad. Indeed, the
house was just as it had been described in the newspaper, it even had space for
a garden and garage. I didn't wait any longer and called the tenant.
He immediately answered my call, and we agreed on a time.
I was happy because I could now move into that place, everything had
fallen into place perfectly.
The landlady invited me to her residence to make the necessary
arrangements and give me the keys to my new home.
When I arrived at the tenant's house, she was already waiting for me
with a cup of coffee and bread. She was very kind and treated me with great
familiarity. We talked for several hours until I told her it was time to leave.
She invited me to stay for lunch, which I refused.
I left that house with a strange feeling, since I had never seen that
woman in my life and she behaved with me as if she had known me for a long
time.
Without thinking twice, I gathered my belongings from the hotel and
went to settle into what would be my home for a while.
As I put the key in the lock, I heard noises as if someone lived
inside. I opened the door abruptly as if by doing so I could catch the
intruders. There was no one inside the house. My surprise was great when I
realized that the house was furnished, it had all the furniture necessary for a
comfortable stay.
This struck me as odd, since in the contract I signed with the owner of
the place, she never mentioned that the house was furnished. Now that was a
real surprise. Happy with this encounter, I went upstairs to see what else was
in this house.
At the top, immediately upon entering from the stairs, there was a
large painting with the figure of a man who apparently belonged to the army,
since he was wearing his military uniform adorned with various insignia, and in
his right arm he was holding his cap.
I stood there for a while staring at the painting. What did all this
mean? Why did the owner of the house trust me so much without knowing me? I
didn't get an answer to my questions. I think I didn't take it seriously
enough, and I continued exploring the entire house.
Exhausted, I lay down on the bed in the room that has a window
overlooking the street.
I lay down, and I started to feel very relaxed, and I fell asleep for a
while, strangely enough I started dreaming no matter that it was in the
afternoon.
In that dream a young and pretty woman invited me to walk with her. He
extended his arm to take my hand so we could walk together in a square in the
center of a city that I didn't know, in the background you could see a church
whose architecture dated back to ancient times. Bells began to ring and
interrupted my sleep.
For a long time I sat on the edge of the bed trying to understand the
reason for my dream, and the reason for arriving at that house in an
extraordinary way.
I heard someone knocking on the door and I went downstairs immediately.
A lady with big eyes and a warm smile was waiting for me outside. When
she saw me, she wiped her smile away and looked at me in surprise.
A little recovered from the impression I made on her, she told me that
she welcomed me to the neighborhood and that she was glad to finally see people
in this house.
I asked her how long she had been unemployed, and she said it had been
several years. I wanted to ask her more questions, but she immediately walked
away without saying anything else.
I didn't understand why the house had been vacant for so long, since
the rent was so low and it was in good condition. I shrugged my shoulders and
began to arrange my belongings in the master bedroom.
At night I was in the kitchen preparing food when I clearly heard a
voice coming from one of the rooms.
I left everything and ran upstairs, entered the children's room and
found nothing, but I was absolutely sure that I had heard children screaming. I
left the room without understanding what had happened. When I was about to go
to bed and turn off the light, I heard voices again in the lower part of the
house. I went down with a lamp, and found nothing, for a moment I wanted to
think that the voices came from the street. I went out into the garden to see
what was happening and saw nothing, the street was deserted.
As I re-entered the house, I could clearly see a child running through
the living room and going inside. I thought it was the neighbors playing a joke
on me for being my first night there.
I ran into the yard, as I thought that was the place where they could
get in. I didn't find anyone. Screams and wailing could now be heard from the
upper part of the house. I thought I was going crazy for not understanding the
series of events that were happening inside.
I went out into the garden facing the street to smoke a cigarette. I
had stopped smoking for a long time and now it was urgent to smoke one again.
My neighbor came out to ask me if everything was okay. Without answering, I
just nodded. She was not satisfied and approached me. She told me that it was
better for me to leave that house and look for another place to live, and she
told me that it was not safe there.
This time I didn't want to remain in doubt, and asked her to explain to
me what she knew about what was happening inside the house. She looked at me
fearfully and shook her head. Again I told him to do it out of compassion. I
explained that I was new to this place, and came from another state.
She agreed to tell me what was happening, so she invited me to her home
to have tea, she told me that it was preferable to talk there. This was next
door.
He told me that a young couple with three children lived in that house.
The husband was a soldier who was away for long periods due to work, his wife
was left to take care of the two girls and a little boy.
Her name was Claudia, and she told me that she started going to her
children's school to teach ethics and catechism to the children, and she helped
the parish priest. The priest and the woman became very close, so much so that
she fell in love with him. Faced with this situation, the woman named Claudia
was willing to leave her husband and go live with him.
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This did not happen because the priest decided to end the relationship
he had with Claudia. She did not accept the breakup and tried to get back with
him. As the days went by, she began to exhibit strange behavior. By this time
she and her husband Alfredo were separated and in the process of divorce.
One day she was distraught because her love affair with the priest was
not successful. It is believed that she felt that the children were a nuisance,
and that is why she killed them. Before that fateful day, she claimed to have
dialogues with angels and demons.
One night, she killed each of her children with a kitchen knife. The
youngest child, Alfredo, was found on the stairs in a pool of blood. The girls,
Claudia and Ana Belén, were found upstairs in the house. In the end, Claudia
left one of her daughters dead on the bed and lay down next to her.
I couldn't believe what the old woman was telling me.
She also told me that she was very surprised when she saw me because my
resemblance to the priest is incredible.
The old lady offered me her house to sleep that night with the order
that I leave that place as soon as possible. I did not want to do so and
decided to stay in what was Claudia Mijangos's house.
To this day, I still live in that house, and I won't deny that it's terrifying to live in it, because every night something happens, noises , apparitions, objects that change places, I don't know if I can bear this situation any longer.
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