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True Scary Story

There is Something in the Basement

True Scary Story

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4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Shaun's family may have unlocked a paranormal presence inside their property coming from the basement that wants to make itself known. As you'll soon find out, things only get worse from there.

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0:00.0

Sean's family may have unlocked the paranormal presence inside their property coming from the basement and wants to make itself known.

0:22.0

As you'll soon find out, things only get worse from there.

0:28.0

My name is Edwin.

0:31.0

Here's a true scary story.

0:43.0

When I was about nine years old, my mom got remarried and my step-dad and my mother decided to go and buy a new house.

0:52.0

And they got this really good deal in the fixer-upper farmhouse that was right on the edge of a small town in Pennsylvania.

0:59.0

And it was like a lot of land. There was a huge garage that was being rented out and had a bunch of vintage cars in it, which was really cool.

1:06.0

And the house was like a three-bedroom, two-bathroom, just really nice, large, farmhouse that just kind of needed some work.

1:14.0

There wasn't a whole lot initially that seemed weird about it.

1:19.0

You know, I was just excited to finally have my own room because I had been sharing a room with my baby brother up until then.

1:25.0

But when you entered the house, you came in through the kitchen and then to your right, you had the living room and there was this very old-looking, like, solid wood door that led to the basement.

1:38.0

And, like, just from the first day, I had this weird inkling of, like, yeah, I'm not going down there.

1:43.0

My mother decided that the best place to put me was the one bedroom that was on the first floor that happened to be right on the same wall as the basement door.

1:53.0

I tried not to let it bother me. I just kind of tried to get used to the whole living situation.

1:58.0

We had this really nice maple tree outside that had a tire swing and it was a really nice place.

2:05.0

And then things started kind of getting weird after about the first week of being there.

2:12.0

I personally hadn't gone into the basement. Only my stepfather had gone into the basement to use it for storage.

2:19.0

And there was one point where he needed help getting some stuff down there. My mom had back problems, so it kind of landed on me to help with that kind of stuff.

2:27.0

So I was bringing some boxes down into the basement with him.

2:31.0

And the first thing that hit me when I went down there was just this really weird, like, sour smell that came from the basement.

2:39.0

And I guess I figured, oh, that's probably normal because you're underground. And maybe it's just smell of mold or something.

2:46.0

But it was just, like, really overwhelming. And it made it very hard to kind of even focus on what else was going on down there.

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