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New House

As a disclaimer, this is all recent events and we still don’t know what is going on. I don’t want our real identities to get tied to this and so will have to be a little vague with some details.

We moved into a new hơ̷̡̮͌̂̈́͠͝use recently and strange things started happening.

We really don’t even know what were dealing with…

It started getting into the electronics or something…

Lights at first but it seemed to infect… or possess the phones when we started photographing it. At first it was tempting to keep messing with, out of curiosity. We thought it would be fun…

I am afraid that whatever it is will spread further the more we talk about it, but at this point, oh well… The world is falling to shit anyways. Well, if you are worried about it, I guess you should stop reading just in case. We sort of figured may as well see where this goes. It is a very conflicted situation, and I don’t blame anyone reading this to turn away. Before you forget about this forever, hopefully forget about this, please send good thoughts and prayers for us that we have survived this.

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My First Blog Post

Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde.

This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so stay tuned for more. Subscribe below to get notified when I post new updates.

Healing

This is Eric again, just writing to report that the rat bite is healing well.

Rat Bite

This is Eric using the account: Today is my birthday. It started off first thing this morning hearing an awful screeching. I was spooked for moment until I realized it was just a rat. The former residents had left one of those sticky mouse traps in a part of the attic I hadn’t seen yet. I hate those things. If you’re going to kill something just do it fast with a honest kill trap. I felt bad for the little rat so I attempted prying him off the trap with wedge… it was a bad idea. Not only will he still die from whatever poison they put in those, the bastard bit me as a thanks!

We cleaned up the wound good and I’ll keep an eye on it. Go figure though, on my birthday, and in the year of the rat. While I was in the attic I noticed a manila envelope tucked into one of the rafters. I’m sort of hesitant to look into it considering all of the other stuff we are already dealing with.

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