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apocalypticbob ([personal profile] apocalypticbob) wrote2009-11-12 12:01 pm

Writer's Block: If these walls could talk

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I can actually answer this one from experience, in a way. While not the home of my dreams, I rented a house here in Cushing for a while that always felt uneasy to me. I rented it purely because I was desperate and it was in my price range. After moving in, I sank into a deep, deep suicidal depression. My brother came over and almost committed suicide in the kitchen. Smog suffered horrible nightmares. I would resist going home, staying later and later at work. I started drinking, at home, alone, which I don't do and had never done before. I would hear things that weren't there, and I would hear this constant ticking in the wall that was starting to drive me crazy.

One day, a friend and long time Cushing resident dropped me off after I went out with them, and he casually said, "Oh, you live in the Murder House."

I boggled and asked for clarification.

He explained that one of the last murders that happened in Cushing (they don't happen here often) was a man who killed his wife and then himself, in front of their children.

Yeah. I moved out as soon as possible. I've always wondered what might have happened had I stayed there, and I'm pretty sure it would have been something horrible.

When I was a child, we lived in a house in Scotland that was very haunted, but there wasn't the same sense of malice and anger in it...more playful and prankster like.

[identity profile] apocalypticbob.livejournal.com 2009-11-12 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
It was a little Amnityville, and I'm glad I'm not there anymore, that's for certain.

I definitely would be against moving into a house with bloodstains...although if it wasn't dreary, I'd be damn tempted to paint a body shaped white line on the ground and then lacquer over that...but I'm morbid.

[identity profile] naamah-darling.livejournal.com 2009-11-12 10:01 pm (UTC)(link)
*slow blink*

I . . . I can't believe I didn't think of that. That would be so cool. I kinda want to do it anyway, on the tile in my studio.

[identity profile] apocalypticbob.livejournal.com 2009-11-12 10:03 pm (UTC)(link)
If you do, you should put the head right where you sit, so it's like you're crushing their head everytime you sit down.

I may have issues.

[identity profile] naamah-darling.livejournal.com 2009-11-12 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Or put part of them under a bookcase. The possibilities here are endless.

[identity profile] apocalypticbob.livejournal.com 2009-11-12 10:27 pm (UTC)(link)
You could do it in the kitchen and have the fridge on their head.

I'm far too amused by this.

[identity profile] naamah-darling.livejournal.com 2009-11-12 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
On the driveway, with the head under the garage door. But probably only for Halloween, because the neighbors might complain.

[identity profile] bleuberi21.livejournal.com 2009-11-12 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
This almost made me snort water out my nose.