Gabe619
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It stood atop a low hill, two storied and old. It sat there surrounded by a small forest of trees in the center of the town of Haden seemingly almost forgotten as time passed. Originally built in 1795, the mansion had been the jewel in the crown of what, back then, had been a small logging community of around 800 people. Now in current times the town had grown and spread and housed a population of several thousand, but the house remained. From its once graceful and grand demeanour it had fallen into disrepair and no one had lived there since its original owner had died, murdered by his wife one evening when he made the mistake of coming home before her lover had left.
Since that night the house had stood silent, looking out over the town like some dark sentinel, some brooding shadow and it had gone down in local urban myth as haunted, but then all old houses long abandoned are so described it seems. This one though held a secret, an evil, lurking darkness that seeped up from the ground it sat upon. Even as it sat on the hill in its overgrown grounds of trees, bushes and dilapidated outhouses surrounded by a black metal fence and a large double gate leading to its long driveway. its presence pushed out and slowly altered peoples memories. The locals all knew of the house, it was a physical ever present thing they passed on foot or by car every day, but as soon as it was out of sight it seemed to fade from memory as if it hadn't been there at all. And yet it waited, hungered for what it needed the most. Always seemingly in a state of overcast, the sun not touching it even on a cloudless summer day, its dark windows watched and waited, the hunger growing.
Since that night the house had stood silent, looking out over the town like some dark sentinel, some brooding shadow and it had gone down in local urban myth as haunted, but then all old houses long abandoned are so described it seems. This one though held a secret, an evil, lurking darkness that seeped up from the ground it sat upon. Even as it sat on the hill in its overgrown grounds of trees, bushes and dilapidated outhouses surrounded by a black metal fence and a large double gate leading to its long driveway. its presence pushed out and slowly altered peoples memories. The locals all knew of the house, it was a physical ever present thing they passed on foot or by car every day, but as soon as it was out of sight it seemed to fade from memory as if it hadn't been there at all. And yet it waited, hungered for what it needed the most. Always seemingly in a state of overcast, the sun not touching it even on a cloudless summer day, its dark windows watched and waited, the hunger growing.