Enter... if you dare!

[uberreiniger]

Someone in the silenthill community posted this today. It's some nice, Halloween reading that some of you might enjoy. It might scare you. It scared me. Yes, I know, I'm a wuss.

http://www.dionaea-house.com

I give the author serious props for believability and storycraft. But if you look closely, there are a few ways this elaborate hoax just doesn't hold up.

1) The series of text messages from September 21st. Anybody who has ever sent a text message knows how much of a pain in the ass even the simplest ones are to type and send. No idiot, upon coming out of a room and seeing that the big, creepy metal door has opened by itself is going to stand there and waste two minutes typing THE DOOR IS OPEN! He would run the hell out of there, then type it once he was safely outside again. It's like that scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail: "If he were dying he wouldn't bother to carve 'AAARGGHHH!' He would've just said it!" And if he really did stand there and type it, well, he deserved to be eaten by the monster.

2) The fake LJ at the end was a nice touch. Reminded me of the hapless teenage victim from the begining of The Ring. But come on. Clearly a fruad. Seriously, a sixteen year-old girl who starts up an LJ yet lists no friends, no interests, and disables comments on all her entries? Bigfoot, the Mothman, and flying saucers I can believe in, but that just WOULD NOT happen!

3) I applaud the nationwide chain of person-eating houses on the creative method they have devised by which to gather food. However, seeing as how they apparently have to first lure potential victims out with spam email and cryptic mailings, THEN drag them all over the country on a wild goose chase before they have even a decent chance of nabbing a meal, I have to say it's sure not very efficient. If they can spit out bones and car keys at will as bait for other potential suckers, why not people's wallets? Don't waste time dragging people to your second floor from halfway across the country with all these tricks and ruses, just leave a trail of one-hundreds leading in your front door and up the stairs! The person-eating houses are smart, but they're not very wise.

But all in all, it's still a damn good spooky story. Hope everyone who reads it gets a nice thrill.

Comments

[mellifera.livejournal.com]

I think I'll wait until tomorrow...

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Killjoy. But I love ya anyway ;)

[mellifera.livejournal.com]

Hey, with CN showing previews of The Grudge every five minutes, I'm spooked enough as it is. I do have to try and sleep at some point.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

So if I called you and just made a creepy meowing noise and hung up that would probably be a bad idea, right?

[mellifera.livejournal.com]

YES

[cygny.livejournal.com]

OK, that was indeed creepy. Good thing I have till this evening to forget about it :D And good thing I don't live in the US, we don't have all those spooky houses here ;)

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

You don't have any of those spooky houses... that you know of! They're very tricksy, those person-eating houses....

[cygny.livejournal.com]

Oh right, go on and spoil my carefree environment. Now if I see strange houses which seem to be looking at me, I'll freak out...

But not really, I'd be happy to actually see there are supernatural things out there with my own eyes. I want to believe in it, but I'm realistic enough to say that nothing which happened to me on any occasion (remember that post in which I talked about strange noises?) was probably more than a figment of my imagination :P

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Would you believe what I saw with my eyes? (Or felt with my body and heard with my ears, as the case happened to be.) The entity who haunted the closed-down steelworks I used to guard at had very convincing ways of making its reality known, especially if you questioned it out loud.

Interestingly enough, my first night inside the building where it dwelled, my coworker pointed my attention to a large steel door at the top of the building, high above the smelting vats. A door, which he swore up and down, had never been open before...

[mellifera.livejournal.com]

Okay .... I need to just stay away from this thread altogether =P

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

It's not as scary as it starts out being. Actually, toward the end, the entity seemed to have developed something of a sense of humor.

[donkeyjon.livejournal.com]

Did you ever get that story written up? I'd really love to hear about what happened to you there.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

I have it written out somewhere. I may dig it out and post it on LJ, in keeping with the season.

Hey, is Bonny Jon Miles behind my mutiny on the Salty Hooker? I don't think you ever said.

[donkeyjon.livejournal.com]

I've been so busy lately I've basically cut off communication with anyone I don't see on a daily basis. I haven't talked to my pen pals in Japan for over a month, I haven't sent anything to my friend in England for his Birthday which was a week ago, I'm essentially too busy to live.

So I haven't had the time necessary to craft a Salty Hooker post. Hopefully I'll be able to do so soon.

[stitchedsutures.livejournal.com]

awww.. i had the copy of it all written out and saved on my computer.. until i had to restart the entire operating system and lost ALL my saved emails. that one, letters from brian since the very beginning. it sucked. I'd ask Skynock or Kate if they have it, since i know that's how i met Sknynock and i think she was reading too or adding her own ghost story.

[stitchedsutures.livejournal.com]

but.. but.. the Tyree-in-Haunted-Steelworks is an awesome story!! You should hear it, but i'm sure he's eager to tell if he hasnt already, being the awesome storyteller that he is:) There are tons of weird, haunted places in MO. especially out in the country where i lived. lots of old unmarked civil war graves and restless spirits.

i think i encoutered one on a country state road just an hour and a half past dawn when driving back to FL from KC two Julys ago.. crazy.

[mellifera.livejournal.com]

Oh I defintely want to read the story. I was just a bit too spooked last night.

[mr-dark.livejournal.com]

That's completely f'in swank.

Can't wait to see if they take it further.

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Totally. I think I'll be checking this site every day for quite a while.

[batchix.livejournal.com]

I like the thing in the cave story better. It was spookier. This one didn't really grab my attention. :/ The cave story I was so engrossed in that I sucked my coworkers into it too. http://www.holyshiite.com/caver/

[stitchedsutures.livejournal.com]

okay, so i read the cave story.. and no one updated it at the end? its pretty creepy. i was all curious to know more or to see more pictures.

sounds as if it might be fiction, but creepy, realistic fiction that i like to believe nontheless.. hehe. and i'm the last person who would argue with evil spirits lurking around in various places. i wanna go explore now.

[mellifera.livejournal.com]

Where is page 11? *cries*

[dayglowdave.livejournal.com]

it isn't very well written... good fan fic though

[dayglowdave.livejournal.com]

ilovebees.com was better

[mellifera.livejournal.com]

That's a strange website. What's it all about?

[lunaninja.livejournal.com]

it's called alternate reality gaming, pretty cool stuff if you really want to get caught up in the games. Basially you solve a mystery of some sort, and the game masters (puppet masters) have things like clues on websites you have to find and figure out, you'll get emails, and phone calls, and faxes, and all sorts of different stuff, I really want to start playing one

[dayglowdave.livejournal.com]

Apparently, it is an interactive game where the "A.I." has taken over a woman's websiter and her grand daughter is trying to help her find out why. Anyway clues are dropped when the Artificial Intelligence actually calls pay phones around the country. Dates and times are given so that you can go to the pre designated place and answer the phone when it rings. That's about all I know.

[mellifera.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_Apiary

[donkeyjon.livejournal.com]

By the way, your choice of music is impeccable. Soul Coughing is my current favorite band, and Ruby Vroom is my current favorite album. :)