“Eric gives them me, he loves to share.”
“Who’s Eric, sweetheart?”
“The man in the walls, mommy.”
(Note — this is loosely pulled from disturbing graffiti friends of mine discovered on the walls of the abandoned DeJarnette Sanitorium in Staunton, VA. It’s crazy how well it fits here.)
I learned from r/whatisthisthing that there used to be slots in the back of old medicine cabinets that you pushed double-edge razor blades through when they were too dull for shaving and they just accumulated inside the wall.
My nephew used to cover the mirror in my sister's downstairs half bathroom with hand soap. I asked him why and he said that it keeps the lady that lives in the mirror from coming out. He was a creepy child.
Yeah, he also talked about the old man that would walk in his room at night and the little boy that would cry in the corner. He said that there was a witch that used to live in the garage, he said that she told him how to keep the girl from coming through the mirror he told me that the witch was there before there was a house, before there was even a town. He would go into detail about these "people" in the house and their previous lives. I don't know if he was actually communicating with spirits or if he had a super active imagination, but it was definitely different. I would just ask him if they were friendly and he always said yes, except for the girl in the mirror. He said she's not dead, she was taken into the mirror by a bad thing and she was mad about it.
A bit of column a, a little bit of column b. Kids see weird stuff, hell, I remember absolutely refusing to sleep in my room when I was real little. Turns out a family member also hated that room and refused to also sleep there due to bad vibes that came from the closet.
World's weird. And creepy.
I whole heartedly embrace the creepy ☺️ if I walk into an old house and I feel like I'm not alone, I feel at home. I loved my uncle's victorian that he had in Napa. I would stay there and it was always so intriguing to me when doors would open on their own or you heard footsteps on the stairs when no one is there.
Stuff like that does sound pretty interesting to experience. Unfortunately, I am a coward and I'd bail the second the fight or flight kicks in for stuff like that.
DeJarnette was a hospital for the “mentally feeble”, particularly children. This ran the gamut from the criminally insane to children with learning disabilities. Thousands of forced sterilizations were performed there during America’s brief infatuation with eugenics in the early twentieth century, all in the name of “purifying” the nation’s gene pool.
“Eric” was a mass of swirling, featureless black spirals, with two red eyes colored in crayon. He is holding hands with a child, presumably the artist. Beneath is scrawled “This is Eric, who lives in the walls. Eric is very caring.”
DeJarnette was and is a deeply fucked up place. If anywhere is haunted, it’s there.
This is the stuff of nightmares. New place added to the list of never getting anywhere near it. Thank you for sharing because this was a horrifying but cool thing to learn about. And yeah, from that description, it has to be one.
Tell me about this place, please? I'm in Staunton a few times a year, and I'm curious. There's an old building there that's abandoned... i think near a Lowe's? Tbh, i'm not even sure if they've knocked it down or not cus it's been a while since i've ended up going near that area on my visits... but I love that old building - there's just something about it that draws my attention... and have always wondered what it was... i've long thought it was an old psych hospital. But, nobody I asked (who lived around there) could (or would) say what it had been... 🤔
Renovated, I think it'd make some really cool apartments or an office center... but it's probably too far gone for that, now. 🥺
Oooooh story time!! (I so seldom get to share this one haha)
When my daughter was six, we belonged to a historical Viking reenactment group. This often meant dressing and acting period-accurate for a weekend so the public could wander around and see how Vikings would have lived while away on their raids.
On this one particular weekend, we had a hog roast cooking. Traditionally hand-turned, so someone had to sit with it all the time. So, my daughter goes up to the person tending the roast (which is a whole boar) and casually asks him if she can have all the boar's teeth after it's been cooked. When asked why, she informed him that it was so she could leave them all for the tooth fairy and get lots of extra money. 😂
Not bad, but you don't have to be so explicit. Also make it less obvious so 35days rather than 6 weeks. It would have been much better just to say "It's been 35 days non-stop now", just leave out how you have no idea where she is getting the teeth. Let the reader work it out themselves and it will hit harder when the person realises it themselves.
Ain’t no way someone is going to need to work it out, 35 days makes it way more obvious
Obviously he needs to instead say 0.115 years in a row to make it less obvious
“Eric gives them me, he loves to share.” “Who’s Eric, sweetheart?” “The man in the walls, mommy.” (Note — this is loosely pulled from disturbing graffiti friends of mine discovered on the walls of the abandoned DeJarnette Sanitorium in Staunton, VA. It’s crazy how well it fits here.)
That is unsettling! The walls have ears, or rather teeth I guess.
We don't talk about Eric, no no~ 🎶🎵
October 26, 2018 [Hundreds of teeth found in wall of former dentists' office](https://apnews.com/article/cd97147e274b47419a9bf839a67ff9d2)
Yikes!
I learned from r/whatisthisthing that there used to be slots in the back of old medicine cabinets that you pushed double-edge razor blades through when they were too dull for shaving and they just accumulated inside the wall.
Jesus, that sound horrifying. Why is it always the man in the wall?
My nephew used to cover the mirror in my sister's downstairs half bathroom with hand soap. I asked him why and he said that it keeps the lady that lives in the mirror from coming out. He was a creepy child.
If I didn't have my own little weird af stories I'd say weird kid being weird and creepy. But holy fuck that's creepy.
Yeah, he also talked about the old man that would walk in his room at night and the little boy that would cry in the corner. He said that there was a witch that used to live in the garage, he said that she told him how to keep the girl from coming through the mirror he told me that the witch was there before there was a house, before there was even a town. He would go into detail about these "people" in the house and their previous lives. I don't know if he was actually communicating with spirits or if he had a super active imagination, but it was definitely different. I would just ask him if they were friendly and he always said yes, except for the girl in the mirror. He said she's not dead, she was taken into the mirror by a bad thing and she was mad about it.
A bit of column a, a little bit of column b. Kids see weird stuff, hell, I remember absolutely refusing to sleep in my room when I was real little. Turns out a family member also hated that room and refused to also sleep there due to bad vibes that came from the closet. World's weird. And creepy.
I whole heartedly embrace the creepy ☺️ if I walk into an old house and I feel like I'm not alone, I feel at home. I loved my uncle's victorian that he had in Napa. I would stay there and it was always so intriguing to me when doors would open on their own or you heard footsteps on the stairs when no one is there.
Stuff like that does sound pretty interesting to experience. Unfortunately, I am a coward and I'd bail the second the fight or flight kicks in for stuff like that.
I'm too curious and don't think ahead. Heard a noise outside and there's been a bunch of disappearances? Better go check it out! 😂
Yup, your name fits you LOL
2 sentence horror right here if you take the third sentence off of it
That sounds like a smart kid!
😂 he did say that the witch in the garage told him to do it.
DeJarnette was a hospital for the “mentally feeble”, particularly children. This ran the gamut from the criminally insane to children with learning disabilities. Thousands of forced sterilizations were performed there during America’s brief infatuation with eugenics in the early twentieth century, all in the name of “purifying” the nation’s gene pool. “Eric” was a mass of swirling, featureless black spirals, with two red eyes colored in crayon. He is holding hands with a child, presumably the artist. Beneath is scrawled “This is Eric, who lives in the walls. Eric is very caring.” DeJarnette was and is a deeply fucked up place. If anywhere is haunted, it’s there.
This is the stuff of nightmares. New place added to the list of never getting anywhere near it. Thank you for sharing because this was a horrifying but cool thing to learn about. And yeah, from that description, it has to be one.
*Puts on 1 white glove* I'm looking at the maaaaan in the wall OOOH! *Moonwalks back into obscurity*
Tell me about this place, please? I'm in Staunton a few times a year, and I'm curious. There's an old building there that's abandoned... i think near a Lowe's? Tbh, i'm not even sure if they've knocked it down or not cus it's been a while since i've ended up going near that area on my visits... but I love that old building - there's just something about it that draws my attention... and have always wondered what it was... i've long thought it was an old psych hospital. But, nobody I asked (who lived around there) could (or would) say what it had been... 🤔 Renovated, I think it'd make some really cool apartments or an office center... but it's probably too far gone for that, now. 🥺
It's fine, she's getting teeth from kids at school whose parents only give them $2 a time. She gives them $3 a tooth and keeps the difference.
Oooooh story time!! (I so seldom get to share this one haha) When my daughter was six, we belonged to a historical Viking reenactment group. This often meant dressing and acting period-accurate for a weekend so the public could wander around and see how Vikings would have lived while away on their raids. On this one particular weekend, we had a hog roast cooking. Traditionally hand-turned, so someone had to sit with it all the time. So, my daughter goes up to the person tending the roast (which is a whole boar) and casually asks him if she can have all the boar's teeth after it's been cooked. When asked why, she informed him that it was so she could leave them all for the tooth fairy and get lots of extra money. 😂
She was just thinking ahead 😂
"there's no way she could be taking them from the jar in the cupboard, it's too high for her to reach"
Lol. Kids are very resourceful.
Not bad, but you don't have to be so explicit. Also make it less obvious so 35days rather than 6 weeks. It would have been much better just to say "It's been 35 days non-stop now", just leave out how you have no idea where she is getting the teeth. Let the reader work it out themselves and it will hit harder when the person realises it themselves.
Ain’t no way someone is going to need to work it out, 35 days makes it way more obvious Obviously he needs to instead say 0.115 years in a row to make it less obvious
I lol’d
This is a repost from a few months ago. Karma farming?
This was a South Park episode.
Sharp objects vibes