In horror films, books and games, the basement is very often one of the main locations for the concentration of something dark and creepy.
This is not surprising, since the basement of an ordinary house is usually an oppressive dark place with a low ceiling, cobwebs, frightening shadows from a lamp or candle, or even damp earth and accompanying smells.
But this is not just a comfortable place to scare. The worst thing is that there are real stories of eyewitnesses who met monsters, ghosts or something vague, but creepy, in the basements.
This collection of basement stories is featured by Japanese paranormal researcher Brent Swanson.
Some time ago, Swanson was sent the story of a girl named Jenny who lives in Maine (USA). When Jenny was 14 years old, she flew with her father in the summer to the house of her grandparents and saw a very unusual creature in the basement of this house.
According to Jenny, it was a very old house and had a large basement. Many things and products were stored in it, and grandparents often descended into it along a strong staircase leading to the basement from the living room.
It was in the living room that Jenny was given a room when she came to visit. The spare room was occupied by her father. And on the very first night Jenny heard frightening scratching from the side of the basement door, as if something with long claws were sharpening them against the door or walls.
When she told her father about this, he suggested that a raccoon or a skunk had climbed into the basement, or maybe it was just rats. However, the sounds continued to scare Jenny and one day she decided to go into the basement and check everything herself.
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Another similar story was posted on Reddit by a girl named Claire.
According to Claire, her husband Chris recently bought a "dream house" next to a large forest, but after that he himself began to often stay at work and in this house, Claire spent most of the day alone with her two dogs.
Over the next few days, Claire encountered strange phenomena in the house. Her two dogs suddenly began to growl and bark at every shadow in the corners of the house. Especially near the basement door.
Then Claire herself again heard that incomprehensible clicking sound coming from the door under the stairs. She called her husband and said that rats probably settled in the basement.
The dogs, meanwhile, behaved more and more strangely. In the middle of the night, they could jump onto Claire's bed and start licking her face or scratching the floor of the house.
The following story was published on the American site "Your Ghost Stories", which accepts reports of paranormal activity directly from eyewitnesses.
It is about a house with a residential basement in which two sisters live.
On the same site "Your Ghost Stories" there is another story about creatures from the basement. It was sent by a woman named Carrie.
The following story was published on the Reddit website and is quite similar to an ordinary horror story, but who will figure out where the truth is, and not fiction.
The following story is sourced from the ThoughtCo forum. An eyewitness described that their home was in a desert area and that when they moved into that house, he immediately began to hear sounds as if someone was walking in the basement.