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True Scary Story

The Thing From the Dark Corner Downstairs

True Scary Story

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4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 March 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Alexa's family never wanted to step down to the dark corner of the basement. She may have discovered who, or what, was down there.

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0:00.0

Have you ever felt something strange about the place we live in?

0:10.0

As a child, our storyteller and her family moved into a house where she witnessed a few things.

0:18.0

People who weren't there were worthy.

0:27.0

My name is Edward and here is Alexa's true scary story.

0:36.0

I moved from a three-family house to a one-family house in a town called Medford in Massachusetts.

0:53.0

It's about ten minutes north of Boston.

1:02.0

And it was built, I would honestly say, probably 1900, if not even a little bit earlier than that.

1:10.0

And it was a really large house.

1:12.0

There were three bedrooms in a full bathroom upstairs, a study, a large living room and dining room.

1:18.0

But when we moved in needed a lot of work.

1:21.0

The upstairs we couldn't live in and so that was the first thing my father started to redo.

1:27.0

So there was always like plaster over the stairs, but you always had to walk past the stairs in order to get to my bedroom, my father's bedroom, the bathroom.

1:36.0

So it was always like a creepy spot for us.

1:42.0

But I was probably about four at the time.

1:46.0

So we're talking very early 90s, probably 92.

1:50.0

And I didn't know anything about spirits or the paranormal at the time.

1:55.0

I just was a little kid playing, running around on the youngest of four.

1:59.0

So I didn't have many kids to play with because they were all older off doing their own thing.

2:05.0

And I remember I was walking to our bedroom and this was in the afternoon.

2:10.0

I'd probably say three or two or three in the afternoon.

2:19.0

And I looked up the stairs and the tarp happened to be down.

2:23.0

So I couldn't see the stairs clearly.

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