Based on a true story (dont read further if you dont want to know the end!). Or "true" insofar as it was told to me by a tour guide and involves the supernatural. A subject on which I would call myself agnostic-ish. So take that however you want. But it has stuck in my head for several decades.
There are a series of rooms under Edinburgh, Scotland. A city which I have been to many times owing to Scottish family history. Not catacombs exactly. More like a series of passages and storerooms built over the centuries as people expanded the central hill that old Edinburgh was built on. Well eventually people just started living, and dying down there. Sick, old, down on their luck, no where else to go. Ghost stories abound, as you might imagine.
Eventually they were all closed off. Ownership was, I guess kind of up in the air. Sorta like one family had the key and they did tours whenever they felt like it. (I think they have since formalized the whole thing, if you ever go.)
Anyway so one family member gets the idea to do a ceremony down there. Either to bless the rooms or ask permission from the spirits or maybe just to do something creepy, I can't remember. He starts a ceremony and something comes that is very not good. So he draws a circle around himself for protection. Whatever light he had brought had gone out. This is deep in rock/stone/800 year old concrete, so it ain't like there's much light that gets in. Or rather, none. Anyway, he hears this thing scratching around the circle trying to get at him. So for hours he prays and does spells to protect himself. It doesn't get him but it doesn't go away.
So eventually he decides the only way is to guess where the door is, wait until the thing is on the other side of him from the door, and run for it! Which, supposedly, he did. Not the most spectrally spectacular ending, I'll admit. But sometimes ya gotta work with what you're given.
I was in that room so, watch out, something might have attached it self to me. 😉
Yikes! That person had some balls… or ballocks I guess. Just run for it? Bonkers.
I’ve heard about the tunnels and stuff under Edinburgh. It must be an amazing place to visit. There are so many cool things that have happened there over its history.
Nine mirror guards fray
Obsidian membranes chained
In sandy decay
Geese that’s creepy🫣 I love it!
Papa says the wards
Will keep us safe. But why can't
we let Mama in?
Oh 👀This sounds like a good story!
Salt flour chalk or blood
In secret lines drawn by heart
Make darkness pass by
Nothing’s getting through your door🖤 Well done!
Evil eye
Hangs by my door
Ancestors stand guard.
Yes!! Ancestors are always there for you 🖤
Kinda breaking the fourth wall here....
Your prompt is more than…
…five syllables. I protest!
I'm gone. Poof! Magic…
But… it’s seven syllables!!😂
5 is my limit.
Noted🫡😜
Circle surrounds me
Things with teeth and hate outside
Spirits please relent!
This is such creepy imagery! I want to know what happens🫣
Based on a true story (dont read further if you dont want to know the end!). Or "true" insofar as it was told to me by a tour guide and involves the supernatural. A subject on which I would call myself agnostic-ish. So take that however you want. But it has stuck in my head for several decades.
There are a series of rooms under Edinburgh, Scotland. A city which I have been to many times owing to Scottish family history. Not catacombs exactly. More like a series of passages and storerooms built over the centuries as people expanded the central hill that old Edinburgh was built on. Well eventually people just started living, and dying down there. Sick, old, down on their luck, no where else to go. Ghost stories abound, as you might imagine.
Eventually they were all closed off. Ownership was, I guess kind of up in the air. Sorta like one family had the key and they did tours whenever they felt like it. (I think they have since formalized the whole thing, if you ever go.)
Anyway so one family member gets the idea to do a ceremony down there. Either to bless the rooms or ask permission from the spirits or maybe just to do something creepy, I can't remember. He starts a ceremony and something comes that is very not good. So he draws a circle around himself for protection. Whatever light he had brought had gone out. This is deep in rock/stone/800 year old concrete, so it ain't like there's much light that gets in. Or rather, none. Anyway, he hears this thing scratching around the circle trying to get at him. So for hours he prays and does spells to protect himself. It doesn't get him but it doesn't go away.
So eventually he decides the only way is to guess where the door is, wait until the thing is on the other side of him from the door, and run for it! Which, supposedly, he did. Not the most spectrally spectacular ending, I'll admit. But sometimes ya gotta work with what you're given.
I was in that room so, watch out, something might have attached it self to me. 😉
Yikes! That person had some balls… or ballocks I guess. Just run for it? Bonkers.
I’ve heard about the tunnels and stuff under Edinburgh. It must be an amazing place to visit. There are so many cool things that have happened there over its history.
I am shining shield
Fending off all harm that comes
Hold me firm with love