Mangled Footprints in the Basement

A Redditor who has named themselves something less-than-appropriate for younger viewers recounted a bizarre incident that occurred in their house, which was built on an area that was once an open prairie in which Native American artifacts have been found ‘*laying around*’. He had moved into it as a young teenager with his mother after his parents had divorced. At first, this ‘*seemed great*’ seeing as the house was spacious and cozy, but strange happenings became more and more common - seemingly becoming more frequent the more he noticed them.

## The Incident

He would frequently hear footsteps coming from downstairs when he was brushing his teeth in the evening, and although he would assume it was his mother, there would never be anyone down there when he checked. These sorts of anomalous footsteps became very common sounds in his house, ‘*especially at night*’. Eventually he realised that his house was haunted.

One day, he and one of his good friends had just come out from sunbathing and decided to retreat to his mother’s house seeing as she was away on a business trip and so they thought that they would have the house to themselves. They would be wrong, in the most paranormal way possible.

They walked inside and went straight for the basement, where it was cooler than the rest of the house. The witness noticed that the ‘*Yellow Submarine*’ poster that was hanging at the bottom of the stairwell had been tilted slightly to the left. He ignored it at the time, fixing it and walking into the main room of the basement. There were pictures and posters hanging everywhere in the basement, and so the witness and his friend were ‘*instantly*’ spooked when they saw that they had all been tilted to the left. The uncanny nature of the situation didn’t cease, however - seeing as the storage room (which was basically a dirt-floored room that was roughly 4ft off the ground) had its door cracked open. The witness walked over and saw ‘*a golden glow emanating out*’.

Located about 10ft away from the storage room’s door was a pull chord light, and it was turned on. So, wanting to get rid of the eerie glow, the witness crawled into the storage room on his hands and knees to turn off the light. After doing this, they called their mother in the hope that ‘*all of this had a natural explanation*’ - but it turned out that she hadn’t been down in the basement ‘*for weeks before she left on her trip*’. A shiver scuttled down his spine as he looked back into the storage room, only to be confronted by a footprint in the dirt.

This footprint was ‘*the most distorted and mangled footprint*’ he had ever seen, and the witness froze in fear. His friend had much the same reaction, and they wordlessly looked at each other with ‘*a sickening, gut wrenching feeling*’ before he slammed the storage space door shut and they both ran out of the house as fast as they possibly could.

The witness will never forget that footprint, and the thought that they had crawled into that storage space to turn off the light gives him shivers to this day.

## Source

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/60qr2n/reddit\_regardless\_of\_your\_opinion\_of\_the\_occult/df8j7dq/