• Kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    My ex-partner and I lived in their grandfather’s house for a little while after he passed away. There were places we were not allowed like one storage room and the attic. We would often hear a radio come on in the attic and go off at various times and the occasional loud thump, and most weird was almost like sobbing, but we assumed it must be the old radio plugged in up there. Also every now and then his dad would “need to get into the attic” for no reason. The only access was on the outside of the roof through a trap door that was padlocked. My ex’s birth certificate had an discrepancy on it that he had 3 siblings even though he only had 2. His mom said they just made a mistake, but he was 90% sure that his hidden sibling was living in that attic. I used to think it was a running joke, but looking back I think he was at least a little serious and I don’t put it past his parents. They were completely insane and I’m glad he hasn’t had contact with them in years (we’re still friends). So roaches, def, roaches. Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk.

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      11 months ago

      If you are not simple inventing a story for whatever reason you have, you should warn the cops…

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        Understandable because this is the Internet, but I do not drink enough to be a successful fiction author. I’ve just had a very interesting life. I would certainly do that if the house was still standing. They tore it down about ten years ago. This was 19 years ago and like I said I thought it was just an old clock radio with the alarm that would wake you up to radio the old man may have plugged in up there. He was pretty senile before he went. He kept his mail in the freezer. He had a tendency to purchase repeat items he didn’t need like three of the same retro stereo or 20 cans of coffee each week. My ex and I had spent a couple weeks homeless so I wasn’t super tuned in and I thought he was messing with me. We never really had enough evidence to prove anybody actually lived up there. I mean the place was infested with rats and mice so that could have accounted for the noises and I figured they were just slowly taking the valuables out of the place. We didn’t stick around for more than a couple of weeks before his crazy mom ran us off. I just wrote it off as the overactive imagination of two people who were struggling and under a lot of pressure.

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        Yeah they were kinda like some “Nothing but Trouble” kind of people if you know the movie. I’m glad he got away from them.