uhaesthetics wrote this extremely spooky story with an ending that made me have to look over my shoulder to see if I was safe!

Lacy sat in her room staring up at the ceiling. Her cat jumped repeatedly over her legs. She grabbed her phone off the floor and texted her friend.

'Bored.' She sent. The text was even boring. Her garage door opened. Lacy immediately sprung up from the ground and ran to her kitchen. Her mother had a box of pizza from the local shop in her hands and wore a smile.

"Lacy, can you get the plastic cups from the basement?" Her mother asked. That word made her shudder. Students would warn others to not go down into the basement. They only thought it led to the gates of hell.

Lacy hesitated but nodded seconds later. That 'rumor' was just false. Nothing actually ever happened or so people think. She opened the door and walked down the wooden steps. Cold air instantly hit her bare arms and legs and she shivered. Goosebumps were everywhere.

She found the light switch and turned it on. She shook as if something had passed through her. Pretending it didn't happen, She searched through the cabinets to find the cups. As she opened one a rat ran out causing Lacy to scream.

"Lacy?" Her mother called out, "Are you okay?"

"Yes mom...I'm fine." She looked away and tingled slightly in disgust. She saw something weird out of the corner of her eye. She turned around and walked towards the window. A figure (who seemed to be holding a shovel) was outside her window digging something.

She ran up the stairs immediately to tell her mom. She grabbed on the latch. She began to panic as if wouldn't budge.

Thoughts crossed her brain, Was she stuck there? Who was that man? She looked outside again. The man had disappeared.

Someone had tapped her shoulder. She turned around to see an older man smiling back at her holding a knife.

That hole was for her.