Welcome to Paranormal Night Shift, your one-stop destination for spine-chilling tales and mysterious encounters in the dark. In today’s episode, we have a bone-chilling story sent in by Tommy from Boston, Massachusetts, titled “The Escape Room.”
Tommy, recently single and ready to mingle, reluctantly agrees to a double date set up by his brother and his girlfriend. The plan is to do something unusual to break the ice, and after scouring Groupon, Tommy stumbles upon Jack’s House of Horrors, an escape room. With Halloween just around the corner, it seems like the perfect choice, and the price is right. Little did they know, this night would become a nightmare.
Upon arrival, the first ominous sign is the house’s remote location and eerie appearance. They knock on the door, and a man who looks straight out of a horror movie greets them. The house reeks of sweat and sulfur, setting an unsettling atmosphere from the start.
As they enter the escape room, they’re met with a damp, dark, and musty environment. The walls are covered in plastic, and fake blood is splattered everywhere. The objective is to solve a murder mystery within an hour. However, things take a sinister turn when the steel door slams shut behind them, and the lights go out.
Tommy and his companions soon realize that this escape room is unlike any other. The fake props turn out to be disturbingly real, with actual blood, dead rats, and a putrid stench that fills the room. Panic sets in when Tommy cuts his hand on broken glass, pleading for an exit, but the voice over the speaker remains cold and unresponsive.
As they investigate further, the horrifying truth becomes apparent – this is not a game; it’s a sick and twisted reality. They come across severed body parts, and Jack’s eerie laughter echoes through the speakers. Suddenly, the lights go out, and Tommy feels a presence in the room with them. Panic intensifies as they hear the screams of their companions, assaulted by an unseen assailant.
In the darkness and chaos, Tommy fights back, striking blindly at the figure in the room. Then, everything goes black as he’s hit from behind. It’s the last thing he remembers.
Tommy awakens in his own bed, drenched in sweat, convinced it was all a terrifying dream. But reality creeps back in when his brother calls, suggesting they go to an escape room that evening with Katie. Strangely, Tommy declines the offer, still shaken by his nightmare.
Weeks pass, and Tommy and Katie’s relationship blossoms. However, Tommy stumbles upon a news article about a sinister escape room in Boston where people were being trapped and harmed. He can’t help but wonder if his dream was a warning, a premonition, or something paranormal protecting them from a nightmarish fate.
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This is one of the scariest
haunted house attractions I’ve
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ever been.
Welcome to Paranormal night
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shift, your home for all things
that go bump in the dark and
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your fan stories told here.
Today’s story comes from Tommy
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in Boston, MA and it’s called
the Escape Room.
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I had just gotten out of a long
relationship and was newly
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single.
My brother and his girlfriend
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kept trying to hook me up with
all of her friends, but nothing
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ever worked out till Katie.
Katie was a friend of my
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brother’s girlfriend’s and we
decided that we were all going
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to go on a double date.
I hated the idea, but it was
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going to be fun.
My brother and his girlfriend
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decided that we should do
something fun and unusual,
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something to really kind of
break the ice.
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I looked on Groupon to see what
I could find and there was
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nothing.
Cool bowling laser tag.
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It all seemed really lame.
But then I saw something for
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Jack’s House of Horrors and
escape Room, with it being close
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to Halloween and spooky season,
and it was only going to be 20
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bucks for all of us to go.
It.
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It seemed like it was going to
be too good to be true.
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But you know, I wanted to do
something exciting.
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I was new into this dating
world, and this would at least
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give us something to talk about.
I booked it and I got the
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address and we all headed there
that night.
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The first warning was that it
was a residential address.
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It was out in the middle of the
boonies.
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Nobody ever goes down that way,
but that was what the address
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was.
We pull up to this old house.
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Man, this this thing looks
really creepy.
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Are you sure this is the right
place?
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My brother said.
Is the address that’s here on
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the thing.
We knock on the door and this
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guy opens the door.
He looked like Norman Bates,
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clean cut, but dirty and
dishevelled all at the same
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time.
The house smelt like sweat and
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sulphur.
Welcome to Jack’s House of
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horrors, he said.
You’ve got an hour in the escape
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room.
You got to figure out the crime
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scene.
The whole thing seemed really
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cheesy, but I was trying to
impress this girl.
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We go in there and the room is
just damp and dark and musty
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smelling.
There’s plastic on the walls and
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fake blood everywhere.
The the story was that there was
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a crime scene and a murder had
taken place and we had to figure
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out who did it.
The big steel door slammed
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behind us and the lights go off.
Jack’s voice came over the the
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speaker.
All right, you have an hour.
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I hope you can figure it out.
This is so lame and a horrible
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idea.
I know I have no chance with
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Katie now, but that’s when weird
stuff started to happen.
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Like the blood it was It was
warm.
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Fake blood’s not supposed to be
warm and supposed to be like
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corn starchy.
It was warm, like it was fresh.
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There was a such a horrible
smell.
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It makes me gag thinking about
it.
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There were shards of glass
everywhere.
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I actually cut my hand on one of
them as we were searching.
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Hey man, I cut my hand like you
got to you got to open the door.
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You still have 45 minutes.
The voice said loud over the
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speaker.
No, like, seriously, I’m hurt.
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I don’t want to do this anymore.
Like, I I think I might even
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need stitches.
This is this is bad.
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But he never opened the door.
Now I’m kind of freaking out.
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This guy’s really playing into
this thing, man.
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Like, he’s really into this.
But my hands messed up.
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But I think I’ll be OK.
Let’s just let’s just figure
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this out, OK?
Let’s just let’s just figure
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this out.
The more we investigated, the
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more the props were real.
Those really were dead rats on
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the floor.
There really were blood
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everywhere.
It was all real.
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This.
This wasn’t a game.
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This was this guy’s sick,
twisted, demented way of of
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admitting that he did something.
Hey, man, let us out.
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We don’t want to play anymore.
Hey, dude, this isn’t funny.
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You got to get us out of here.
We came across severed body
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parts and hair, his laughing
coming over the speakers.
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And then the lights went out.
I could feel his breath on my
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back.
He had.
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He had entered the room.
He was in here with us, but we
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couldn’t see anything.
Man.
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Get away from us.
Creepy.
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This is weird.
Dude.
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Get away.
I could hear Katie and my
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brother’s girlfriend screaming
as he grabbed at them, pawling
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at them, touching them.
Me and my brother, we couldn’t
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see anything.
It was so dark.
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It was so crowded and cluttered.
We we we couldn’t see anything.
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We couldn’t help them.
My arms were spread out.
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I grabbed a hold of a body,
yelling to make sure it wasn’t
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somebody I knew, asking if it
was my brother.
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Nobody would answer.
I swung upon the body over and
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over again, striking it
viciously, as hard as I could.
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It went black.
Something, something had hit me
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in the back of the head.
That’s the last thing I
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remember.
I woke up in my own bed,
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sweating, panting, fever dream.
It was all just a dream.
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My brother had called me that
morning.
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Hey man, what do you want to do
tonight with these girls?
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I want to introduce you to
Katie.
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We were thinking about doing an
escape room.
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Is that something you’d be
interested in?
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It had all been a dream.
My brother brought up an idea
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that we should go to an escape
room.
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Jack’s House of horrors.
I don’t know if it was a
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premonition.
I don’t know if it was nerves,
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but of course I said no.
Katie and I have been dating now
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for a couple weeks.
Things are going well.
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Never go to an escape room with
her.
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I later found out from a news
article about an escape room out
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in Boston to where a guy was
trapping people in there and
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hurting them.
I don’t know if it was some sort
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of guardian Angel making sure
that this didn’t happen to us,
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but I know it’s paranormal and I
can’t explain my dream.