HORROR DIARY: CreepyPasta

CreepyPasta #2: WHAT WAS LEFT BEHIND (Part 1)

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Rebecca Harding (10/31/17)

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Last summer, myself and my friend Jason (name changed for obvious reasons) broke all the rules.

Let me explain to be clear; this wasn't a cross with the law, breaking the road rules or anything that would have pissed off our parents or gotten us kicked out of college.

No, this was another subterranean law, that of the Paranormal.

I'll try to explain as best I can how this all came about, what happened to us and what I hope you take from this.

It started at summer break when we'd been searching the forums for stories of local haunted houses to do some urban exploring.

We'd done this a couple of times already, although the places were occasionally a creep-fest, it was just us freaking ourselves out and nothing really happened. So when we came upon a post of a User, of whose name I will not mention, talking about their research about this rural property two to three hours out of this jurisdiction, our interest peaked.

The User said that they'd started their search by looking into properties that had remained vacant after their last owners/tenants had dispossessed the land through various means: death, abandonment, you get the picture. They would investigate the history of the property, visit the site and take pictures for reference.

There were various links to a separate blog including a range of pictures of dilapidated houses overgrown in plants being taken back by nature or just falling down upon themselves. These images were beautiful and terrifying. Some of the stories just sad, others chilling.

Especially the specific one mentioned above.

The information he'd posted was from the town register and spoke of a small family (let's call them the Gallagher's) who'd owned the lot but disappeared shortly after Mr. Gallagher lost his job.

Even though they had what was a small farm to help ends meet and feed themselves, the family's bad luck continued to an extent that they became poverty-stricken. This was compound by Mr. Gallagher, a proud man, who refused to accept the help of his neighbors.

His wife, however wasn't so proud and accepted what she could to feed their young daughter. Though this seemed to have been further exchanged for bruises and a black eye or two as it was documented he husband had a temper, and was prone to violence.

Characteristic of the economy at the time there were many people out of work, and soon to further his misfortunes, vagrants started passing through the township looking to earn a living.
Co-incidentally, shortly thereafter these travelers begun to go missing, never quite finishing in the area or never quite making it onto the next town.

Suspicion grew of the culprit and when authorities came to question Mr. Gallagher they found mystery and death.

Mrs. Gallagher was found bound and drowned in a water tank. Their daughter was found with her hands severed.

Her hands were missing.

They found the house torn up; the furniture upturned and blood splatted on the walls.

Something large had been cooked in the fireplace, but only fragments of what they presumed bones was left.

The speculation was that their man of interest had been abducting and murdering the vagrants as they also found some of their belongings in the house.