Reddit Collection (Fresh-Short #9), DeYtH Banger [best novels to read for beginners TXT] 📗

 by niborc

Huh, neat, my ghost story is relevant. I did floor work with my aunt/uncle in college, and we were cleaning an old church. The caretaker took on us on a small tour, and showed us down in the boiler room, and honestly that shit was creepy. We walked down this old cement staircase into the basement, no handrail, the only light is this halogen way over by the boilers, so you can barely see the steps as you go down.

Then you realize just how huge the boilers are, easily 3 times my height, and built before there was welding so they're riveted together. I mean, if you were to take me to this room blind folded, and ask me where I was, I'd have told you the serial killers den. Anyways, we get to cleaning, and honestly it felt just like any old job initially. However, after we'd been at it a couple hours, strange noises started being made. I thought at first it was just the building settling as the heating system cools down for the the day, but then I realized, the vents were still pumping out warm air. I moved from he main room they wanted refinished, and started working the hallway. I realized a lot of the bangs I had been hearing, were actually coming from the kitchen, the kitchen was locked shut. Sounded like something on wheels was moved in there at one point, also heard something metallic hit the ground in there. We kept working, but also kept hearing noises. The caretaker checked in on us before he went to bed around midnight, and I had to ask, "is the place haunted?" and he just casually says "welll people tell me this place is haunted all the time, but I don't put much stock in it, if it is haunted, when I shut my door behind me at night they let me be. I hear an occasional noise, but again I don't put much stock in it, just building noises most of the time I figure."

For me, that settled it, weird noises coming from the locked kitchen, weird noises coming from the floor above, only ONE person in the building besides my aunt/uncle/myself, and his room was, lengthwise, on the other side of the church. Moreover, he was probably around 70, so you can be pretty damn sure he isn't behind any of the noises.

So we kept cleaning, kept hearing weird noises. I started working upstairs to get the entryway stripped, and that was when things really started getting strange. A general room layout was; the entrance doors were on say the south side of the room, the doors to the chapel were on the left, on the north side was a long hallway that crossed the church lengthwise with stairs going down to the basement on the east side of the hall, and finally on the east side of the entrance room, there were stairs going up, and doors to the bathrooms. I kept hearing one of the doors to the chapel close with a light bang. Now, these are heavy doors, taller and thicker than regular doors, heavy wood, and they had one of those door stopper/slowers that prevents the door from banging. That's what made hearing the door bang so weird, because if you simply opened the door and let it close on its own, it made almost no audible noise. I kept hearing the noise for about 10-15 minutes, until finally it got to me, and I went to the nearest door and opened it (There were 6-8 in total I think).

I poked my head in, and noticed movement on the 2nd floor. I saw smoke or something just kind of drift out of the room, right under the exit sign, at the ceiling height of the exit hallway. The smoke/mist/vapor/whatever moved almost like it was sucked out the room by a draft. Needless to say, I was fairly creeped out by this point. Banging and noises from the locked kitchen, ghosts in the chapel, boiler room that felt like the serial killing room, old ass caretaker that would probably have turned out to be the villain in scooby doo... So I went and told my aunt and uncle, who relayed their weird experiences to me, though they didn't see anything, just lots of noises, and my aunt said she heard kids laughing at one point (maybe it was kids ghosts playing pranks on us?). My uncle was just waiting for the finish to dry downstairs, so my aunt and I went upstairs to vacuum the long hallway/offices, and after that we'd be done. We got the heavy ass equipment up the stairs, and my aunt and I crack some jokes about how the long hall was like something out of the shining. That was when we both heard an insanely loud bang, bomb/explosive loud, at the other end of the hallway. We kind of just stared at each other, a bit horrified, then ended up just doing a very quick dry vacuuming, and heading back downstairs. By this point, it was about 5am, almost 6. My aunt and I took off, and my uncle stayed until the floor finish had dried, a couple hours later.

This has always struck me as kind of an ironic experience. My aunt and uncle who are mormon, were quick to connect the experience to the fact that it was a church. For me however, I'd think a holy place like that wouldn't be able to be haunted. To them, it cemented the idea that religion and ghosts are both real, and connected. To me, it cemented the idea that religion is fake, and gave me hope that some day ghosts could be explained with science. I think it'd be pretty cool if ghosts were somehow connected to dark energy, and dark energy turned out to actually be the overlap of parallel universes energy. Sort of like a universe venn diagram, imagine universes overlap, and the dark energy we can't interact with, is the energy of another universe. Well some of that energy would be in the form of the electromagnetic waves our brains produce. Ghosts might just be the emotionally charged actions of others in a parallel universe, and we see a sort of shadow, or echo, of those actions and emotions. Or maybe it's just the emotionally charged actions that imprint themselves on space time and loop repeatedly, which is what we see...

Dunno, sure is fun to get high as shit and think about though! Cheers to anybody that made it through my wall of text, now grab a dab, or a beer, or a cookie, or whatever makes you happy, and relax.

-edit- speling annd grahmahr iz hahrd

 by BipolarGod

I turned 21 before my friends did, so naturally being an alcoholic I went to bars alone. I was waiting in line one night and an attractive woman who had clearly had too much to drink came up to me and started rubbing on my chest. (I'm was a single man so if an attractive woman wants to rub me I was fine with that) She said how attractive I was and then started saying how much she missed me. (we were strangers.) She started sobbing uncontrollably. By that time her friends had caught up with her and saw her crying just before she turned and ran away from me. One of her friends chased after her and the other walked up to me and said, "Sorry about that. Her boyfriend just died 2 weeks ago in a motorcycle accident." She was looking at me kinda funny but that whole situation was kinda funny. I said no problem and that I was sorry for her loss. She said, "Its weird, can I tell you something?" yes, I replied. "You look exactly like her boyfriend. Like, EXACTLY like her boyfriend. We saw you as soon as she did. We froze and didnt know what to do when she ran up to you. OMG YOU LOOK EXAXCTLY LIKE HIM!" We briefly exchanged plesantries and I went inside for a stiff drink. 3 months later I was hit in a horrific motorcycle crash and nearly died.

 by Bhargavi 

I stayed in a hostel while I was working. I used to work in UK shifts, that’s 2pm to 12 am in India. That day I worked an hour extra and came back to hostel by 2am. I changed and wasn’t feeling sleepy and I had a pillar beside my bed. I was leaning on it and had my earphones and listening to songs when the girl who was sleeping in the bed which is opposite to my bed started to move restlessly. I just thought she was having a bad dream. But she kept moving for another 5 mins.
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I paid little attention and after 5 mins, she got up from her bed slowly, walked to her cabinet, took the Bible in her hands and hugged it. It was then I got concerned and asked her what happened. She told me something was on top of her, she clearly felt something as if some person who is very strong was on top of her was pressing her into the bed and choking her. She was fighting to get up and was moving her hands up and down to signal me to help and was calling my name. I didn’t hear anything at all. I never put earphones in full volume, yet I heard nothing. She said that entity tried to kill her. She couldn’t breathe or see anything. But then collected her remaining will, got up and took bible in her hands. As and when she touched the Bible, whatever that was holding her, immediately left. She felt an instant grip free and body felt light.
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I listened to it, (that time I never ever believed ghosts) and told her that “there’s a scientific explanation to this, her bed was in a corner, she felt breathless and a grip on her body Just coz of lack of adequate amount of oxygen”. She replied, “I also hear baby cries in midnights sometimes” I told her “I come back to hostel in midnights, there’s a garbage bin near by, cats always fight with each other for food and some times their cry sounds similar to a baby, I see that everyday and you don’t have to worry bout it”. She had