It was a dark and stormy night and I was sitting at home working on a crossword puzzle that my friend had created for the local newspaper. My friend had always been into puzzles and had recently landed a job creating clues for the papers crossword section.

As I was working through the puzzle I noticed something strange. The clues seemed to be pointing to a specific location in town - and abandoned warehouse in the outskirts of the city. At first I thought it was just a coincidence but as I continued to work through the puzzle the clues became more and more specific.

I called my friend to ask if he had been trying to send me a message through the crossword but he brushed it off as a coincidence. However I couldn’t shake the feeling that something was off.

The next day I decided to investigate the warehouse. As I approached the building I could feel my heart racing with fear. The rain had stopped but the clouds still hung low in the sky casting an eerie glow over the abandoned building.

I cautiously made my way inside and what I found was beyond terrifying. The walls were covered in strange symbols and marking and there were eerie whispers coming from the darkness. It was then I realized that my friend had been trying to warn me about this place - a place where unspeakable horrors had taken place.

I quickly led true building but the experience left me shaken to my core. I later learned that the warehouse had been used as a site for occult rituals and sacrifices and that my friend had stumbled upon this horrifying truth while working on the crossword puzzle.

From that day on I couldn’t help but wonder other dark secrets lay behind the seemingly innocent clues of the crossword. And I couldn’t shake the feeling that there were forces at work in our town that were far beyond human comprehension.