John is awoken by a hard scratching sound from the basement again. “Every night for a week straight, I swear this sound will drive me mad. It’s time to finally man up like Dad would say and ghost down there.” John speaks quietly under his breath as if psyching himself up, but trying to not wake his still sleeping wife.

John blindly grabs the oil lantern and matches on the side table and leaves th...

Trish said, “I’m going first”, as she took the torch from Ted’s hand. The light switch did not work. “What’s wrong with all of you? It’s just a cat or mouse down there making that noise”, she said in a sarcastic manner as she started toward the basement.

The three other teens followed hesitantly behind Trish. Trish walked slowly down each creaky step.

“Let’s just leave whatever it is alone. Le...

She crept down the stairwell, the faint sputtering of her torch echoed beside her. With each step her weariness grew, the cramped and musty basement was illuminated by a feeble yellow light. She halted at the last step and stretched her arm along whatever she couldn’t make out of the muddled room. The floorboard creaked with the faint scuttling of rats under old furniture, the dust enough to give ...

At 3:33am, Sam was listening to a thunderous round of appalause. For the third night in a row, claps, cheers, and whistles erupted from the dark basement and lasted for exactly one minute. When the clock read 3:34am, the world was completely silent again.

The first night that it happened, Sam thought she was dreaming. A loud, sudden noise startled her awake and shocked her into consciousnesses. S...

It’s been a few years since we moved here, and everyday since at exactly 10pm we’ve been hearing some noises from the locked basement, to get into some context of our situation, me and my roommates moved to Colorado for a beautiful opportunity in our life but it fell through shortly after we moved here, seems a lot of things have been. When we first moved here we were told not to go into the basem...

Deep inside the basement, the main character smelled a mixture of rotten meat and decaying potatoes. He was confused, he doubt his family store meat since they’re all vegans. He explored deeper inside the basement and closer to where the noise came from. Suddenly he felt he step on something soft and squishy , he look at the floor it’s a mice. In front of him was a large amount of mice on the floo...

Sitting on my front porch, in the night air I heard this sound. As I stand up I pick up my torch as I start heading to the sound I hear. The unknown is scary but as i creap closer and closer to the sound it seems to pause. I stop and think should I continue down to the creepy, dark, musty basement of mine where the sound is coming from. I head down the steps first them right after me my girlfriend...

The lights are out, and the banging and crashing in the basement is getting louder. I can’t avoid it anymore. I have to go down there.

The flashlight gives halos of light around the periphery of my path; it’s old and giving out. Just like my vision. Just like my heart.

I slowly make my way down the stairs. This is asinine. I’m an old man. I can’t do anything about what I’d find. I need to call t...

Olga decided to explore the house to find the source of the noise. Tick-tock, tick-tock, she first thought it was a clock, but there were no clock in the house, especially not in the basement, from where the noise seemed to come from. She got down the stairs and remembered the bulb burned out just a few days ago, so she grabbed a torch, the one she used to go to camp with and started to walk towar...

Holding a torch in front of them, Julia and her friends vicky and noor decide to explore the basement to find out what was making that noise. After the first attempt Julia and her friends were hesitant to go down the stairs but they did manage to get down a bit but not all the way down the stairs. They went back upstairs, it was pitch black. The lights had went off after flickering for a while. Ho...