I work in construction, specifically with a company that focuses on purchasing, refurbishing, and then reselling old buildings.

I thought I was expected that I'd eventually come across some messed up things.

I mean, everyone's heard the stories, bodies stashing the walls, crazed, stabby squatters,

hidden murder dungeons, cult stuff, all sorts of disturbing things.

I had long accepted it as simply a reality of the business I had chosen as my trade.

As such, I wasn't particularly surprised when a couple of weeks ago my expectations became a reality.

Though I definitely

unconventional.

unconventional.

The building in which said discovery, was an abandoned suburban home.

Single story with a basement.

The neighborhood was nice enough, not the sort that had a lot of unoccupied buildings. For whatever reason, this particular home had simply been left vacant.

Bit odd, but not particularly uncommon.

I'd heard rumors from a coworker that the company had bought the place for pennies on the dollar.

Something about the terrible crime happening there a decade or two ago.

I didn't exactly look into it.

It wasn't really an uncommon sort of story when it came to properties

the company purchased. Certainly wasn't the first or even the second house with the

checkered past that I had worked on myself. One of my coworkers and I were the first two into the building, the only two that were sent out at first.

We were there to do some preliminary inspections, assess damages, and may maybe do a bit of light cleaning.

Standard stuff.

As far as several decade old abandoned buildings went, this place was rather run-of-the-mill

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