Thursday, March 31, 2005

Haunted Mansion

I was walking with some friends on a dark, cloudy day. We came upon an abandoned house (which is a pretty common theme in my dreams by now) and decided to explore. This house was once quite fancy, but it had begun to fall into disrepair from years of neglect. Somehow we actually entered the house through a big hole in the roof... I think we were able to get there from some large beams that stuck out from a nearby overpass bridge.

As we entered through the roof of this giant house, I found myself in a dark closet. I pretended that I was scared and that something had grabbed me, causing the people with me to freak out - until they realized I was joking. This lightened the mood for those that were scared, and one of the girls even decided that she would go into the dark house through this same method. However, her entry didn't go as planned. She jumped down into the closet, while I had just sort of hung down inside by my hands to look around, and she immediately crashed through the floor and down into the levels below. We were all scared for her, but were also scared to go down into the pitch black room that was below that closet.

Instead of falling into darkness like our friend, we climbed down and entered the house through a door that was left open. There was enough light in this bottom level that we could get around, and finally found this big, creepy closet that was alive with evil energy. We could hear our friend screaming from inside, and one of my other friends quickly ran over towards the closet and stepped inside. Within a second, a giant fog filled the closet and the room, a horrible noise came from within the house, and then an unseen force grabbed him and pulled him into the darkness. The speed at which he was snatched away would have killed him, if nothing else.

Once our friend was pulled into the closet, the house began to rumble and fog began filling all the rooms. We could tell that the house was filled with anger, and we knew that we needed to leave. We started running for the door that would lead us back out into the open, but the whole time we could feel this darkness chasing us - getting closer and closer. We made it out into the front courtyard of this mansion, but the evil wasn't done. The fountains out front, which were not working when we entered... suddenly they were shooting water into the sky... bursting and splashing in a frantic manner... we kept running...

We finally made it to the edge of the property, and when we crossed the fence - the fountains stopped, the rumbling ended, the fog vanished, and the clouds gave way to sunlight. We lost our two friends, but once we left the property of this haunted mansion - it decided to let the rest of us go.