- Our homes are supposed to be a place of peace,
but even in the happiest of places
something sinister can lurk just out of site.
Countless people have discovered this
as they've wandered into the dimly lit places
beneath their floorboards.
If only they knew what was down there
they would have stayed above ground, in the light.
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These are the 10 scariest
don't go into the basement stories.
Number 10 is "Basement Bedroom".
Carrie had recently moved into a new house.
As the basement was tidied and clean,
she fell in love with the idea of turning it into a bedroom.
Almost a hidden place away from the rest of the world
where she could rest easy.
The first six nights there were uneventful,
but the seventh hinted at a dark presence nearby.
Carrie began to hear voices,
but assumed that they were coming
from the roommate upstairs.
Lying in bed the next night,
her blood ran cold as she heard a child's laugh
coming from the darkness all around her.
Persuading herself that it was just her imagination,
she gave the basement one last chance.
Whatever it is that was down there,
at around 4:00 a.m. Carrie awoke with pain in her leg.
Turning the light on, she was horrified at what she saw.
Teeth marks on her skin, and a small red handprint
of a child next to it.
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Number nine is "A Collector".
Many of us hold on to cherished possessions
because of their history.
They link us to meaningful times in our lives.
But in some cases, those cherished possessions
can carry with them frightening implications.
In the case of Kaplan, he was clearing out the home
of an elderly lady, whose husband had recently passed away.
This involved decluttering the place,
and throwing out anything
which the old lady didn't want to keep.
The basement was creepy enough,
piled high with a lifetime of trinkets and boxes.
One box however held Kaplan's interest.
When he lifted it something shook inside,
loose like broken glass.
Curious, Kaplan opened up the box
and found that it was filled
with individual pulled human teeth.
Neither the old lady or the deceased husband were dentists.
So the question is how did they get the teeth?
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Number 8 is "Something's Banging Down There".
Reddit is often used to query situations.
People will ask fellow Redditers
to help them with a problem.
It's a great way to gain insight,
but sometimes all it can do is recommend
that you move out immediately.
One Redditer was told that
when she posted about moving into a new house.
Two weeks later, she headed down into the basement,
only to find several boxes open
and her belongings strewn about.
She then heard a strange banging
coming from the basement at night,
and began to suspect that someone
or something was down there.
Grabbing her pepper spray, she investigated the noise,
only to discover that a door which led outside
was now unlocked, and that more belongings
had been moved around.
Someone had been coming into her basement
looking for something at night.
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Number seven are "Footsteps".
Most accounts which can be labeled
as don't go into the basement stories
imply that as long as you remain above ground,
you'll avoid the danger hiding down there.
However, in one account an anonymous poster
was more worried about what might come up from the basement.
The person was in fourth grade when this happened,
and at night they noticed a sound coming from the basement.
One which sounded increasingly like footsteps.
Eventually these footsteps would slowly ascend
the basement staircase and enter the house,
walking around from room to room,
usually stopping before reaching the poster's bedroom door.
That was until one night when the bedroom door was left open
and the footsteps neared, only to reveal the shadowy figure
of a young child who then returned to the basement.
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Number six is the "Basement Apartment".
In one especially eerie account,
a tenant described an experience in a basement apartment.
The tenant loved the place, even though it was underground,
and found it to be a great location
for keeping their vintage book collection.
But when they returned several times
to find the apartment door had been unlocked,
suspicion grew that an unwelcome guest was nearby.
Then one day the tenant found
that once again the apartment door was open,
but this time something had been left
inside the refrigerator in the kitchen.
It was a vintage book from the 1900s,
and was not a part of their collection.
The tenant contacted the landlady who panicked
because the previous tenant had been extremely creepy,
and might still have a key.
After the locks were finally changed
to the basement apartment, the strange goings on ceased.
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Number five is "The Missing Father".
In Long Island, a longstanding mystery took a strange turn.
One which involved a basement no one would want to enter.
It was November of 2018,
a whole 57 years after a man named George Carroll
had suddenly disappeared.
The case had been unsolved since 1961.
Michael Carroll, George's son,
had heard rumors in his family for years
that his father's body was hidden somewhere in the house.
George had vanished when Michael was just eight months old.
So he finally decided to prove that his father
had not abandoned him.
It was still shocking nonetheless
when Michael dug down 2.44 meters into the house's basement,
and discovered the buried remains of his father.
Michael is on record as saying he thinks he knows
who put the body there,
but has refused to elaborate on those comments.
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Number four are "Moving Walls".
Whenever someone is going to buy a property,
they bring in a property appraiser or surveyor first.
These trained professionals
can identify any potential issues with that property,
which might affect its value.
However, some have seen more than others,
and many have a creepy tale or two.
One appraiser in particular shared his story
about a trip into a basement which made his skin crawl.
As he descended beneath the property,
he was looking for things like water damage
or issues with the pipes, but instead he was horrified
to see the walls pulsating as if alive.
Terrified, on closer inspection
he realized that the moving walls
were the result of countless mice
crawling through the cavities
and gnawing at everything in their path.
A mass of teeth and tails like wriggling worms,
moving as if they were a single, creeping organism.
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Number three is "The Cable Guy".
Surveyors and appraisers aren't the only professionals
who have to explore basements in their jobs.
Cable engineers need to do this too,
and some of them have also encountered basements
you would never go near.
One cable engineer called Dave Corrine,
had an infamous encounter beneath the floorboards
of a house in New Jersey.
As he was drilling holes in the walls to feed cable through,
he suddenly heard a low, guttering growl.
Trembling, he switched his flashlight on
and shone it through the hole.
There, staring back at him from inside the basement,
was a huge, lumbering bear.
Needless to say, Dave dropped his tools
and ran for his life.
Luckily, the bear did not give chase, or had it done so,
it would have been eating cable engineer for dinner.
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Number two are "Sinister Sounds".
Sometimes it's not what you see which is frightening,
but instead what you hear
which can cause your pulse to race.
Back in 2007 in Philadelphia,
a YouTuber by the name of Don Garvey
posted an audio recording of what he claimed
to be a ghostly voice from beyond the grave.
More than that, he claimed that the voice
was demonic in nature, and when you listen to it,
it's hard not to think
that it sounds more demonic than human.
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The back story to this clip
is that it was captured in the basement
of a Philadelphia property,
where the owner's had been hearing eerie noises at night.
After three nights of recording,
and turning up nothing but silence,
they finally caught this tormented sound,
which investigators believe
was made by something unthinkable,
which resides in the darkness of that basement.
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And number one is "Just in Time".
Urban legends about ominous basements are common,
but while most can be traced back
to their original, fictional beginnings,
one particular story has more weight behind it.
In fact, many believe it is 100% real.
The basement encounter involved a 20-something woman
who after recently moving to Boston
finally found a place to stay.
All was well initially, that is until she heard something
moving around in the basement.
Friends and family reassured her
that it was just the old building settling at night.
But when the noises continued, the woman called the police,
and she was glad that she did.
When they investigated the basement,
they found a man hiding down there.
And he was armed with a number of knives.
But the creepiest part of all
is that when the woman saw the man
as he was being taken away, she recognized him
as someone that she had dated once on Tinder.