84: 3 Stories That Prove You Shouldn't Go In Your Basement

Heart Starts Pounding: Horrors, Hauntings and Mysteries

True Crime, Fiction, Drama, History

4.8 • 3.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Basements are not just eerie, sometimes they hold secrets we may not want to know. Today, we're looking at 3 stories of people who experienced absolute terror in their basements.

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0:29.6	ads. Our first story today actually comes from one of you. So this was in a letter I received here at the Rogue detecting Society headquarters from a listener named Ryan.
0:40.0	He writes, when I was growing up, the house I lived in was one of the oldest in the area in northeast
0:46.4	Pennsylvania where I lived.
0:48.0	I had extremely bad allergies as a kid, so when I was 12, my parents redid the basement to be my room. It was much easier to keep it clean down there and dust free and it was huge so I was good with it.
1:00.7	About a year after I moved down there though, I started hearing knocks and bangs. I just
1:08.0	chalked it up to basement noises like the water heater or settling pipes.
1:13.0	In the basement there was this huge and heavy door against the back wall.
1:18.0	It was a mixture of wood and steel and it looked old,
1:22.0	like it was part of the house when it was originally built.
1:24.8	I noticed that the knocking and banging was mostly coming from the other side of this
1:29.8	door. It was so heavy that when I was 13 or 14 I couldn't budget at all and plus it had an old iron sliding lock two wood blocks in front of it and one of those skeleton key locks keeping it closed, so I never really knew what was on the other side.
1:47.4	By my 14th birthday, the knocking had been going on for years.
1:52.0	I almost couldn't hear it anymore. But one morning, I woke to
1:56.7	find my room freezing and musty. I looked over to the wall and to my horror the door was open even with all of those
2:07.2	locks the door had somehow opened after that night the door would open nightly always when I was asleep I'd get up
2:16.0	closed the door and then the next morning I would find it opened again after a month of
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