Basement Buddy
When I was 6-7 I had a friend who lived around the block. She had a few brothers and lived in a bigger old and kinda creepy house. We were not allowed in the house when her mother wasn’t home, which I found odd as a kid (but makes total sense that you don’t let 6 year old play unattended in your home).
My memory is that one day we were in the basement of the house, which was unfinished with concrete floors in the main areas and some off rooms that had dirt floors. We were getting paint brushes (the big house kind) which we used to play paint the patio with water.
In my memory I went into one of the off rooms with the dirt floor, in the corner of the room was a small raised area (that if it was outside would look like a flower bed) and in there was a human skeleton. And not like a Halloween decoration, but like an actual skeleton, in the dirt.
I am 40 now and this has always stuck with me. Was there really a body in their basement? If so, whose was it? you have no idea how much I would LOVE to go back down there and at least look in that room.
Just to see if the room even exists, if the raised area full of dirt is actually part of the room. The family still lives in the home. I am still FB friends with them. So much of me wants to just write and be like “so, mind if I search your basement?”
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