No Probes....
When I was a child I grew up in a very small town.This town was a God-fearing town.As most youth are,my friends and I always searched for a clubhouse.We tried the tree-house,didn't work.One stormy summer light Lightning felled a mighty Oak tree.As it breathed it's last breath,it formed somewhat of a bridge across a narrow part of the river that ran it's course thru my town.
My friends and I crossed this "bridge".On the other side the upper-most branches of said trees formed what we saw as a cave.So we dragged some stray lumber down there and went to work.We trimmed the lesser branches of of the tree exposing the main arteries.To these we attached the lumber.Making sure to fit the roof with a breather-hole for a fire.We stripped the earth bare inside of our "fort",using towels and rugs stolen from our homes to sit on and cover the floor.
Many the night we spent in that tree-fort...drinking,sex,joking,weed smoking...you know all the things kids do when we are young...I was 12 btw.Even with all the effort the 6 of us put forth to that Hovel,it was still not what we were loking for.Drunken one night,we stumbled our way up the river back to the road.Walking up the road we noticed a strange building which closely resembled a schoolhouse,It was is the form,if you can imagine this in your mind,of something right out of one of the pilgrim paintings you saw flipping thru books as a child.White slats adorning its extremities.Yellow-brown windows almost suggesting shadows behind them in the moonlight.What appeared to us to be a cellar entrance directly below the rather large staircase that lead to the primary doorway.
All this was contained behind a Six foot Chain-link Fence.I assume,now having an adult mind,that this was to prevent entry..or perhaps at least to make it less of an issue.As a youth it was barely even noticed.We all decided to explore this structure,havung abandoned the fort we work so hard at it seemed a likely replacement.We of course entered thru the main door.Inside it truly did resemble a schoolhouse of old.Chalkboards,a couple old tables which seemed to be at one time to be used as desks.There were 2 rooms....in the back was a staircase leading to the lower level.
We all fooled around in the two main rooms...except for one of us.My girlfriend of the time decided to go down to the lower level.We were not stupid children like populates this world now.We had lights with us.She had her own.I was not with her but when she came back upstairs she claimed she only made it down the stairs half-way.Saying that the entire room seemed to "hum" and was so very cold.Of course the other females,numbering two,were terrified.The males...my friend Chuck,and a friend I had since kindergarten,Jamie...were curious.
It took a good 10 min to convince the other girls to come with us.My Melissa was not scared at all.The darker parts of life always excited her.I guess that is part of why I liked her.We all went down stairs.The room was very cold.i don't think "hum" was the right way to describe the sound in there.If you could apply Bass to the scratching on a Chalkboard that would be more like what the sound made.Ear-curdling,but oddly soothing in it's baratone depth.
The bottom floor was one room.All dirt with brick walls.Small windows chased the ceiling,two and three at a time.The light we brought was enough to tell the room was barren.Directly to the right of the stairs that lead down from the upper level was another eight or nine step staircase that lead downward.It was no easy task to get everyone down there.None the less,youthfull as we were,we went down.At it's end there was a small room,same brick walls.At a closer look...the bottom layers of brick were made of what looked like dirt.Still in the from of bricks though.The floor,still dirt,was miss-colored.It looked like sand was layed on top of the dirt.Sand of two colors,the whiter,almost gray,sand being mainly used.A Red closely Burgundy sand being present,but in alot lesser amount than than the lighter.
Upon entering the roommy ears began to ring.I can remember the sound so clarly in my head.I closed my eyes to the sounds.I can recall the sounds of a blunt object hitting something soft.Screams,I can hear Melissa's screams so clear in my head.I tripped over one of the last stairs that lead to the lower room.Catching myself with my hands the ground was wet.As my eyes opened and the light bounced around the room I saw it.
Jamie's corpse.
None of us nknow what really happened.We discussed it quite a bit after that night.The night we buried him in that basement room.Being so young,none of us knew how to handle any of this.Melissa left me shortly after.She never looked at me the same after that night.We never spoke again.
Shortly after I moved away from that town.I have debated going back.All my friends are gone.Melissa, from what I know died In a car accident.Jamie's poor Mother never found out what happened to her son,and sadly,I never did either.
Next......
Truth:)