Wednesday, February 01, 2023

Everyone Has A Story, Here's One of Mine

 

I've been thinking of writing an autobiography or memoir but it just never comes together for me but I figured if I write one story at a time and post it on my blog maybe once a month, I can do that. Maybe one day I'll pull all the stories together and put them in a book but for now I'll just share some stories with you about my childhood. Some of the stories will be happy, some sad and some horrific because that was my childhood. But they will all be real, things that actually happened. If it seems like something that people enjoy reading maybe I'll keep it going. These stories will not be in any kind of order, I'll just write them as they come to me. 


Our House In Enumclaw, Washington 1977

 I'm gonna tell you a true story about this house we lived in for a year in Washington State and why it still gives me the creeps. 

Back in 1977 when I was 7 years old we moved into a huge house in Washington State. We moved there because my mom had a bunch of family there and she wanted to spend some time with them. We still had our house back in California and my parents planned on moving back after a while. I loved the house we moved into because it had so many rooms and places to play hide and seek with my brother. One day my brother and I were playing in the huge basement where the washer and dryer was and noticed a door in the back of the basement. It was locked but it had one of those big keyholes below the door knob and we were able to look into the room. We saw hospital beds with bloody sheets, medical cabinets with medical instruments and old medicine bottles in that room. 

We ran upstairs to tell our parents but at first they didn't believe us. So my mom came down and had a look through the keyhole and ran back upstairs to get my dad who was able to get the door open easily. We all went into the room and my dad was shocked, my mom was scared and then they saw the long, dark tunnel that led from that room to somewhere. There were light switches on the wall and my mom turned it on and that long tunnel lit up with dim lights. 

They turned the lights off and ushered us out of the room, shut the door and made us go upstairs. My dad called the owner of the house who we were renting from and was yelling at him.  I later found out that the house we were renting used to be the mortuary and funeral home for the old folks home that was right behind us a little ways down the street. The tunnel led back to the basement of the old folks home and when one of the residents passed away they used the tunnel to transport the body over to the funeral home (my house). 

To make matters worse, the house had a caretaker that had keys and he would come and go especially from the basement where the lawn care stuff was kept. The basement had a door that led outside and he would come in and out through there. My mom would be heading down to the basement where the washer and dryer was to do laundry not expecting anyone to be there and he would be down there. The first few times he scared her and my dad almost beat the hell out of him when he heard my mom screaming. But he quickly told them who he was. Dude was lucky, because my dad was not a nice guy.

The owner never did clean up that room and my brother and I used to go peek inside the room through the keyhole all the time until we moved back to California. 

My brother keeps telling me that I should write a book about our lives. Instead I'll just share these crazy stories. 

Links to the past stories. 

54 comments:

  1. Eeeuw. Just reading about that has freaked me out.
    I look forward (I think) to more of your stories.

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    1. lol I hope some of my stories aren't too much for you all.

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  2. The person renting it to you should've cleaned up that room! And that the caretaker could come and go is just wrong. I would not stay for long in that house.
    And you should write a horror story around that room.

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  3. That is completely creepy! How gross to rent it to people and not get rid of that crap in the basement. People are so lazy.

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    1. I guess they thought since the room was locked that they could just leave it.

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  4. That does sound creepy. A house ripe for paranormal activity.

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    1. Now as an adult, there's no way I would have stayed there after finding that.

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  5. EEEEEEKKKKKK! Dang, that would keep me in creepville too. However... go premise for a story. 😁

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    1. Thank you. I might take that and run with it one of these days.

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  6. You were a child then, but if you decide to write about it as an adult, perhaps you should find out more about that. Was it a legal funeral house, known to the authorities? How long has it be going on? Who lived in the house before your family? and so on...

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    1. The houses have since been torn down so there's no info for me to find now.

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  7. Well if this, your first story, had me scared shizless and on the edge of my seat, I can't imagine what the other stories will be like.

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  8. What a great story. All it needed was a ghost. I love old homes with all their rooms. So much fun to explore. Or it is until you find some craziness.

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    1. Thank you. It's definitely one of the craziest stories I have about my childhood.

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  9. Wow this is the stuff of
    movies Mary!

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    1. Thank you. That's why I decided to write it out. Maybe one day I'll be able to put all of these stories together in a book.

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  10. WOW! Not only is this creepy, if there were still chemicals and stuff hanging around, it would be dangerous!

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  11. OMG a mortuary! And in the trailer i posted today they are worried they won't be able to sell their house after a friend died in it, imagine trying to sell a house which was a mortuary!

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    1. lol Maybe that's why the house was torn down years later.

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  12. That is quite a story, Mary. Your Dad should've smacked him at least once.

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  13. That is quite a crazy story

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  14. That is quite the story and you are an excellent writer, go for it.

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  15. Now that is creepy. I would read your book...lol

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    1. Lol Thank you. That is a great compliment.

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  16. Oh man, that would sure give one the heebie jeebies. Probably your parents more than a couple curious kids, but still. And, yeah, going down to find a strange guy there, that would be an uproar.

    Great story, Mary!

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    1. Thank you. I'm glad everyone liked this one.

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  17. Euew euw so creepy!!! I could not have fallen asleep knowing that

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    1. I was just a kid and thought it was cool. lol

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  18. I am glad you decided to write it out. Creepy, but I did enjoy reading about it.
    Hugs and blessings, Mary!

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  19. Oh my lord, Mary... that is just meant to be the setting for some creepy Netflix series!

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  20. Okay, this is such a cool story. I kind of wish that I had lived in a house with a secret tunnel.

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    1. The secret tunnel was kinda cool.

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  21. Omg, Mary! That's crazy! Why wouldn't they clean it up before renting it out? I do love old houses, though, and I guess with the passing of time people die so I wouldn't be surprised to find people died in an old house. Old houses are neat with character and unseen nooks and crannies. With that said, a previous mortuary is something else altogether. Which still you could see, but the fact they never cleaned things up is just over the top. I'm sorry your dad wasn't a nice guy. I hope he was nice to you, Mary.

    Thanks for sharing more of your personal story. I'm eager to hear more! :)

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    1. I don't know, it was a long time ago. Things were different. lol

      My dad was not nice to my brother and I. I planned on writing some stories about that in the future as well since it seems like everyone is enjoying the stories.

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  22. I would not be pleased to find someone in my laundry room. I probably would have moved out that day. The mortuary though I probably would have though cool LOL

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    1. lol I would enjoy that now as an adult.

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  23. Wow! At that age I would have been creeped out and begging parents to move.

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    1. I wonder about my childhood self that that didn't creep me out at all. lol

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  24. That's so creepy! Hard to believe they actually rented out the house like that.

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    1. I know. I guess they thought that since the room was locked it was fine.

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  25. The thing that gave me pause was that there were bloody sheets in there...and a guy that came and go as he pleased when you were living there 😱. Great input for a story though...LOL.

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    1. Thank you. I'm glad you all seem to like reading the stories so far.

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  26. That was super crazy! 😮

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