You are renting a room in someone’s house as you transition to living in a new city. The owner tells you that the basement is completely off limits. You start hearing noises coming from the basement at night. After several days, curiosity overcomes you and you sneak downstairs to see what is going on. Explain what you find and what you do next Write in any genre that you wish. Tag @sandflea68.

More money or your life?

Sometime ago now I rented an apartment. The landlord a strange man said “Never go down into the basement”.

I never did even though I heard noises, bangs and movement.

But one night I was watching a tv show of paranormal tales and I suddenly got the urge to disobey what I´d been told so adamantly not to do.

So I took a torch from the kitchen cupboard and a knife from the draw. Taking a deep reassuring breathe I turned the knob on the basement door. Quietly I opened it as gently as I could, but with an old squeak it gave my stealth away.

I pointed my torch to the stairs and began to make my way down them, as I did I saw

another pair of feet in front of me.

Jumping, letting out a squeal, I ran back up the few stairs closing the door behind me.

The door then opened slowly, I froze and stared.

A small hand gripped the side of the door then a woman came out timidly.

Looking at one another, torches in hand we both said “Oh my God you scared me”.

The woman then asked “Do you live up here?” and I replied “Yes”.

I asked “Do you live in the basement?”

To which she answered “Yes I´ve been renting it for a while now”.

“Oh Jesus I thought you was some sort of axe murderer or a ghost” I explained.

Laughing she said “And I thought you was too!”

We sat and had a cup of tea, seems we´d been neighbours for quite a while and that night we´d also been watching the same tv show.

The basement was not a dark, damp and scary place, it was actually a very modern well lit gorgeous place, far nicer than mine…the lady named Emily was paying a $160 less a month for it than I was my own dreary apartment.

Our landlord had either been playing a joke on us all this time or he just did not want us to meet in case we compared rents!

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