Scary Stories and Other Things

A Guide to Exploring Abandoned Churches

• If you go alone, don't bring a flashlight. You'll see things you don't want to see.
• Don't bring groups bigger than 12.
• Bring water and snacks, but no wine.
• If you have to sleep there, sleep in the sanctuary, but not on a pew.
• If you try to read the hymnal, the words won't be English anymore.
• The Bibles will be blank until you confess.
• Don't go into the confession booth. The man talking to you is not the priest, and you don't want to know what he really is.
• The cross on the wall changes locations, don't look at it too long.
• If you see someone praying at the altar, don't approach them. If they approach you, don't talk to them. Leave immediately.
• If you hear an organ playing while you're in the basement, know that  your time is running out.
• If it plays while you're in the sanctuary, your time is up.
• Take whatever you want, but if you find that one of your possessions is missing, don't look for it. Let them have. It's not worth your life.
• If you find a rosary, don't put it on. It won't help.
• The water isn't holy anymore. Throwing it on the demons in the shadows won't work.
• Drink the wine if you wish to never leave.
• Don't get separated from your friends.
• If you spend the night, leave at sunrise otherwise you'll enter another plane of reality with no way back.
• If you don't spend the night, leave through the same doors that you came in.
• You might look behind you after leaving and see that the church isn't there anymore. It means that they took what they wanted.
• Never the same abandoned church twice. Even (especially) if you forgot something inside. That's a lure. On your second tour through, they will know enough about you to keep you there.