Purgatorium: Pt 1; By Anthony Escobedo

This story was inspired by the cancellation of P.T.'s Silent Hills. It is also inspired by Coraline and my point of view of mix emotions. Warning there would be a lot of swearing and brutal sentences within this story as this is the first story I ever posted and made on reddit. If you are scared to read this please don't read it but if you like to read this I hope you enjoy this fanmade P.T. story.

1. I used to be happy and cheerful back then it was perfect, but I have no idea how it all went away…? I think to myself a lot, and nothing changed me. My name is Evan Griffith, I am 16 years old, and I am a high-school student. How my life became a mess and how it all started…? I do not know. I guess it sort of happen to young people like me. Like I said, I use to be happy and cheerful, but it was taken away. How on earth have I gotten myself into? I will tell you if you carefully listen to my experience. Growing up, I was a single child, neither had friends by my side during my younger days. I was known as the "Anti-social boy," because of how shy I was to others. During my education of kindergarten, I never talk to others due to my shyness of speaking. Neither others wanted to be my friend and neither wanted to play with me. I was alone…….until I met this girl her name was Lillith Solace. Lillith was quite the popular one because of cute she was her smiles brings sunshine, the way her hair flow with the wind, and how she looked more than just cute. Admittedly to me I do not find her cute, but beautiful it was like I saw an Angel right in my eyes. On the other hand, I was extremely shy to speak to her. Years went by the time I was third grade we had a class together always she always followed me in which I started to know more about her, however the other students got jealous of me being close to her so I sometimes back off away from Lillith. But that year I met some students, I thought they we are nice, but they turned out to be terrible students. They used me by blaming me for their problems as well as getting me in trouble; even so far to backstab me to gain more attention from others and so I was kicked out by them as their so-called friend group. I felt more miserable and heartbroken, I felt worthless until she came into my path, Lillith. Once I told her what happen with the group of my so-called friends Lillith got angry at them in which she threatens them if they hurt more, she will make sure they would face the consequences. This scared the group in which they chicken out away from me and Lillith as they saw the other side of Lillith's facial feature. Honestly when Lillith gets angry it really scares me when she is unhappy. But after that event I got comfortable being near Lillith and so she became my one and only friend. As we grew up together, we until we reach our high-school year we are known as childhood friends.

Sadly, in the year 2020 during the world pandemic of the spring of our eighth-grade year Lillith died. I forgot how she passed away, all I remember was us playing a game on her backyard that night and I suddenly blacked out and when I woke up unexpected to, see Lillith lying dead on the grass. I felt the world crumpled within me losing the only friend I had. That time I wanted to tell her about my feelings between me and her; however, I was afraid of rejection that time. After her death, her parents despised me and most of the other students that found out what happen also did as well which made me unhappy it is like I was back being alone but this time something I did was horribly wrong.

Now the present day the year 2022, I was a sophomore in High-School, my parents argue a lot due to family issues in which I did not like. But during that same year my Aunt Elizabeth was k***ed by my Uncle Thomas. My Aunt was pregnant at the time and not just her that was killed my nephews Carlos and Miley were also killed in which left all of my family members to be shocked about this news because my uncle never had a past problem, and this was an unexpected turn of an event. After my uncle k***ed them he took his own life as well which seems out the blue but still shocks me. At that time, I was dealing with grief and now it became worsen as ever.

School was worse, students kept misjudging me a lot and still make their problems to me which made me feel more miserable than ever, even the worse part the teachers did not help me either. My life felt like hell. After leaving school for the day, I was exhausted and felt tired as always. Once I got home my parents stilled argued at each other as usual with no agreement. I did not want to be part of it, neither wanted to be here at all so I went upstairs to my room and locked it behind me. I slipped my backpack off me and fell to my bed feeling the same sadness all over me. I decided to go to sleep as usual but before doing that I looked up my desk and saw a picture of me and my childhood friend Lillith. I put my pillow under my head and tried to cry but I could not at all no single tear came down. I really miss her so damn much I had so much pain inside me, and I just wanted this whole grief to end. At the moment I fell asleep.

(My dream)

2) When I woke up, I saw a cockroach on my bed crawling I instantly jumped out of fright to see a bug on my bed. The moment I did that my room door open. I thought it was strange because I remembered I locked my bedroom door. It creaked only a quarter of my doorway. Out of curiosity I got out of my bed went to the door and open it. In my shock I was in someone else's house, but my room was in the house. I called out for my parents but there was no response from either of them. It was strange because I knew I was not alone when I came back from school. I close my room door and start walking the hallway. Walking down the hallway gave me the chills, I've been home alone lots of times, but this hallway gave me the creeps because of how it looked. It was old, abandoned, and somewhat terrifying to walk at. The floor was a bit of a mess with trash everywhere and the house looked like one of those houses build in the early 2000s. There was a window, and the outdoors was dark. As soon as I was about to turn the corner I heard a news report on a radio in which I peeked the right corner to the hallway leading to another hallway this time a door nearby stairs that lead to the 2nd floor; a front door near the drawer where the radio is sitting; and the door that was on front of this long hallway was a doorway leading to a basement. However the radio it sounded familiar, I then realized this was the report of my aunt and uncle. I went towards the direction of the radio when getting close it was old 1980s radio. It looked new and  nearly refurbished. I was right, the radio played the report of my aunt's death that happened 5 months ago this is what it said:

"We regret to report of the murder of a wife and her two children by their husband and father. The father purchase the revolver use in the crime at his local gun store 5 days earlier. This brutal killing took place, while the family was gathered at home on a Saturday evening. The day of the crime to father went to his drawer on his room, retrieve the revolver and shot his wife as she was cleaning up the living after a T.V. Dinner. When his 10-year-old son when to investigate the commotion, the father shot him as well. His 6-year-old daughter had the good sense to hide in the bathroom, but reports suggest he lured out by telling her "It was just a game." The little girl was found shot in the head in point blank range. The mother who was shot in the stomach was pregnant at the time. When police arrived on scene after neighbors called "9-1-1" found the father in his basement repeating a sequence of numbers in a loud voice. They said it was like he was chanting some strange black magic spell. There was another family shot to death in the same day last month and the following day that time a women used a revolver and knife to murder her entire family. In each case the perpetrators were mothers and fathers. Authorities say this brutal of domestic homicide appears to be unrelated, though it can be a larger trend, such as employment, childcare, and other issues facing the average families…"

With its last dialogue the radio ended its report. But once it finished the report of my dead Aunt and my nephews, I notice a picture frame next to the radio and I was in complete shock. It was a wedding photo of my aunt and uncle, but the frame looks old alongside a very dirty old plant. I was just standing there dumb founded, to be honest the more shock I became the more scared that I was in this house. The creepiest part of this hallway must be the ceiling lamp because the way how creaks slowly back and forth like if there was wind in the house; Upstairs was creepier because of how dark it is, I felt I was trapped on this haunted house. I didn't want to stay any longer, so I tried to leave by the front door. However, the door wouldn't barge open no matter how much I tried. The worst part there we're no locks on door so it became impossible for me to leave. I started getting the chills in me again as I look downstairs to the basement where there was another door possibly leading to the basement. As I walk closer with my palms sweating because of what's behind the door, but I wanted to leave as soon as possible. The moment I open the door and entered; I was back where I was the hallway again. My heart stopped, when I saw I was back we're I started. With the door closing behind me, I was still as a statue. I wanted to go back in my bedroom, and I regret entering this doorway, so when I tried to open the door behind me it wouldn't open no matter how much I tried. I had no other option to continue walking the hallway again, so I started moving.

This time it was different, when walking the corner of the hallway the door leading to the basement was now closed this time, at that point I didn't know where to go. I was scared as a shy rabbit, and I walk to the middle of the hallway looking me including my surroundings. I then looked down as I saw a roach crawling on the floor. I hate bugs honestly, and when I was about to stomp on it the door that was next to the corner hallway where I started walking started to bang. I honestly jumped out of fright because the bang came out of nowhere and I was afraid what was behind that door. It only banged 10 times, as I looked at the door more the basement door then opened by itself. With the basement door open that was the only accessible way to leave that's what I believe at first. Once I went to the basement door and open it again, I was again back to the terrifying hallway. Like I did was once again walk towards the basement door because that's the only door that was on only accessible; However, once I turn the corner of the hallway where the corner door was it violently banged three times which did frighten me only this time, I heard a woman crying in the other side of the door. Of course, I didn't want to open it because of what terrors we're inside so I tried my best by sneaking and tip toeing towards the basement door. Once again as I open the door of the basement, I was back again…… I had enough of this, so I started running towards the basement but the moment I was about to reach it the basement doorway closed by itself right in my face. As I hit my head on the door while reach it, I was on the floor holding my head as I hit the door on impact. I was about inspect the door when I heard the door creak behind me. I turned back in confusion; I noticed the corner door was only a crack open. I got up and walked towards the corner door once I got closer and closer cockroaches crawled out of the doorway and I swear I heard a baby cry in that room it was so loud it felt there was an actual baby in that room. Right as I was about to look closely to the crack open door, suddenly out of nowhere inside the room a person that looked ghostly dead grab the door handle and shut the door on my face. I immediately gasp in fear as fell to the ground of what I just saw. "Was that a woman!?!" I thought to myself. While thinking of what just happen, I heard basement door open as I turned to it while my heart was racing. Like always I went for the basement door and kept thinking of that ghostly person that I just saw yet I am feeling even more scared that I not alone in this hellish home.

3) The more my heart beats the more scared I was, I was also shivering upon opening the basement door, I swear to God I really felt I'm not alone in here. By the time I re-entered the same hallway I heard weeping from a woman, it was creepier because that sobbing was from the fourth time I step back on this hallway but this I hear more loudly then outside that corner doorway. As I walked quietly as I can and was about to enter the corner hallway, I peeked from the corner wall to see what was in the hallway with me boy I was not prepared to see who it was. To my horror I saw a woman standing in the middle of the hallway that was next to the front door; the counter with the radio; and the basement door. It was horrifying to see the woman; it mostly looks like an undead corpse like a type of zombie but still a bit of human. I was so scared I couldn't take my eyes of it the way how looks was more terrifying than ever, it worn a white dress with blood stains on it I mean on her stomach and bottom of her body; It had no eyes but black pupils; It mostly look dead that all I got to say it was horrifying; but the most scary part was its smile it looked like it was force to smile while being dead. It almost looked like my aunt that died 5 months ago and boy this woman features were my aunt well my dead aunt. I hid myself on the corner hallway to stay out of sight on then suddenly all the lights from the hall shut off. I mean all of them. I had no light to see where I was going so, I was then prepared to try to go around my dead aunt and so I followed the weeps of my aunt. Once I got closer her crying became louder and louder it was scary to hear that I am beginning to be closer. Hearing the sobbing the ceiling lamp was very unpleasant to hear I felt that I was going to die by her. As my heart beats faster while I hold my breath and closing my eyes I was prepared for my afterlife of death until all the lights from the hallway turn back on. When I noticed I was standing on the position where my dead aunt supposed to be, I looked around and notice she was gone in a blink of an eye all there was left we're roaches crawling on the walls. I sighed in relief and went towards the basement door. Yet again back to that terrifying hallway I finally realized I was going through a loop cycle, and thought to myself when will this cycle end? While walking down the hallway, I noticed the lights became dimmer at the point it will be darker any moment. Once I turn the corner, I noticed the corner door was now open. I then noticed something flashing light on ground once I went closer, I realized it was a flashlight. As soon as I picked up the flashlight the door close behind me. I tried so hard to open even smashing the door with my arm, but it wouldn't barge. I then catch my breath after trying so hard to then pointed the flashlight onto the room to know where I was. It turns out this corner doorway was a bathroom. This whole time the corner doorway was the bathroom this whole time and that moment I didn't realized. Despite being still locked in bathroom and standing on complete darkness with the only source of light in my hand, but to be honest the bathroom must be the most disturbing experience and place to be because it was dirty everywhere I mean really dirty. Roaches everywhere on the walls; bloodstains everywhere including the rub where there is still water but bloodstains inside the tub; and mostly the inside of the sink must be the most terrible thing I ever saw in my life. Inside was a corpse unborn baby with only a mouth and you can see his heartbeat beating on his chest. It was mostly disturbing because it had no skin, no eyes, no fingers or toes, and it was just a bloody mess. The moment I saw this, I suddenly hear the doorway where I always entered back to hallway creaked open alongside with footsteps walking the hall.

Upon hearing this the corpse baby started to cry. I immediately froze in place because now whatever it was out there possibly my dead aunt will find me here and kill. The footsteps we're getting closer and closer until it approached the bathroom door. I then slumped down the floor while facing the door because it was it for me, and knew my life was going to end. I tried to cry but no tear came down at all, the only thing I felt is shocked and fear which is what only had in me. I watched as the doorknob twist to my dead aunt may have access to enter. I close my eyes tightly prepare for the afterlife, but to my surprised when it tries to get entry the door didn't open. It tried again but it still didn't open. All a sudden it became silent for 5 seconds until it violently tried to open the door while shrieking loudly, I crawled in my back to the bathroom wall away from the door when it tries to violently open it 5 times. It later gave up and continue walking until it vanished from thin air. The corpse baby stilled cried until the bathroom door finally open. The moment the door opened I ran out of that terrible bathroom with the corpse baby and went to the basement door with the flashlight on my hand. I still return to the hallway again, catching my breath after my experience what I just heard and saw. This time the hallway was a lot dimmer to the point it is getting darker. Thank God I found a flashlight on the way…… While walking towards the hallway I heard the news report of the death of my aunt again, but this time not just that I heard whimpering and sobbing behind me.

4) I knew who it was behind me, but I don't dare to look back. If I do, I'll be eaten alive or have my soul way. Hearing the whimpers behind me of my dead aunt, I was still as a rock due to fear all over my body and soul. I was just paralyzed with fear whenever I feel the breathing behind my head and neck, send shivers down my spine. With fear inside me, I carried on walking down my aunt and uncle's old abandoned suburban house hallway. The walls were dirty filled entirely with bloodstains, family photos started to be in damage. It’s like the house was actually left abandoned from years now. Turning the corner of the hallway. I heard the radio's news again, but this time something was off, even though it's repeating the same dialogue, of my dead aunt and my nephews. I swear I heard it say something else. My dead aunt is still behind me waiting for me to turn around, but my attention was on the radio. I finally went where the radio is usually. While listening, it did say something else. Hears what it said:
(Same Dialogue but different)

"We regret to report of the murder of a wife and her two children by their husband and father. The father purchases the revolver use in the crime at his local gun store 5 days earlier. This brutal killing took place, while the family was gathered at home on a Saturday evening…….Don't touch that dial now where just getting started!…. retrieve the revolver and shot his wife as she was cleaning up the living after a T.V. Dinner……Your soul is mine!….. Son when to investigate the commotion, the father shot him as well. His 6-year-old daughter had the good sense to hide in the bathroom, but reports suggest he lured out by telling her "It was just a game." The little girl was found shot in the head in point blank range. The mother who was shot in the stomach……..2-0-4-1-8-3……on scene after neighbors called "9-1-1" found the father in his basement repeating a sequence of numbers same day last month and in the following day…. Look behind you!…….I SAID LOOK BEHIND YOU!…..

I couldn't take it hearing the radio, I then ran towards the basement door. While running I heard its last dialogue "chanting some strange black magic spell." I felt that moment the radio was actually talking to me to look behind. That moment I realized it was not a normal radio. It was a demonic radio trying to get me killed.

Back to the hallway, I heard the radio's dialogue again. I kept running towards the basement door while covering my ears to not hear it, but I can still hear it said "Look Behind YOU!…" The basement door was closed again. I shivered with the flashlight in my land as I look down the counter and radio. Then something caught my eye of my aunt's wedding photo. In the frame her eyes we're black and my uncle Thomas seems to be crying in the photo. While looking through the photo the basement door opened once again. I went for it. While going down the basement door I saw some writing on top of the doorway it was a sentence that said: "FORGIVE ME ELIZABETH THERE'S A DEMON INSIDE ME…." Creepy as all hell I open the basement door again and I was back once more to the creepy hallway like always I heard the baby cry again. While walking I was only 20 inches from the basement door just then a glass fell from the balcony and the damage was everywhere on the floor near the front door. I looked up at the balcony and saw my dead aunt looking down on me in the balcony with that creepy smile. I breathe so hard out of fear that my heart was beating like crazy. I just couldn't take my eyes off of her. She finally spoke, "What's the matter sweety…?….." She spoke quietly and softly "…Afraid of me?" She then ran towards the stairs, and I immediately started running. While starting to run the hallway was now a long endless towards the basement. I looked back of me and saw she was crawling fast in a demonic spider way. This urged me to not stop running. I felt her heels clanking close behind me, but I manage to get to the basement door and close the door on her face.

Once I escaped, I slumped down and started to sit front of the door on the floor dropping my light next to me, I catch my breath like if I was drowning on water, but soon I fell on my off the door because the door banged violently. It then stopped after 5 bangs. My heart was racing fast in fear, and I'm glad I made it to the basement door. Before getting up, I felt a wet substance between my hands and fingers. I picked up my flashlight and pointed to the substance I just touch. It was blood. I became horrified to see this, because by the time I pointed up my flashlight there was bloodstains everywhere the walls, the counters, window, and in the ceiling but it’s dried up already. I got up and moved forward still. While walking I heard a child cry in suffering which made me creeped out of my mind. I really felt disgusted stepping on pools and pools of blood. By the time I turned the corner I saw where the blood came from. Instead of the ceiling lamp creaking it was now a hanging freezer with blood stains creaking. By the time seeing the horrible freezer containing what possibly be the child's cry in suffering, the radio out of nowhere started to talk. But while speaking I heard a deep voice talking in the background after the dialogues were said. "After After killing killing his his family family the the father father hanged hanged himself himself with with a a garden garden hose hose they they had had in in the the garage garage…" I went directly to the basement door upon hearing the news report. I'm back to the hallway again there was a lot of crying and wailing from the baby along with a giggle. Everywhere was dark and blood red lights. The walls were now covered in sentence written in marker that said: "Hello"…..; "Help me…please"…; "He's watching…."; and "I can hear him calling me in hell…" I had enough, I wanted to make up, but I couldn't. The dream was forcing me to keep going. I went like always to basement door. But this time it was became different. I heard the radio, but it wasn't the news again thank God. Instead, it sounded like someone chanting with an old 60s melody song. I walk to the radio and honestly, I didn't understand what it was saying. But I believe the language was Spanish. It had a peaceful melody while speaking this is what it said:

"Cierro los ojos……Deja que tus odios escuchen……En la radio escuchas mi vez……¿puedes escuchar mi voz….? Vamos a celgir….Mi voz que dice el futuro o su atormentado…? Bueno…. ¿Que eliges? Usted puede elegir… ¿Tu vida es tu futuro?…Sabio como eres.., es posible que ya hayas descubierto que el drama de radio de hace ciento veintidos anos……era cierto…Ellos estan aqui en nuestra tierra y monitorean y ven todos……No confie en nadie, No confie en la policia que ya esta controlado….por ellos…. Asi que bienvenidos a nuestro mundo…pronto se abriran las puertas a una nueva dimension……2-0-4-1-8-3…..2-0-4-1-8-3……"

When the radio was finish speaking, I went to the basement and entered the endless hallway like when my dead aunt chase me before. But the walls we're phantom but filled with memories from peoples grieves, and death. I heard screams all around, I hold my ears. It was so loud it felt like my ears were about to pop open and bleed. This went from walking to running it felt endless until I don't hear anything no more. I can hear myself speak and gasp. After 15 minutes of the endless hallway, I made it to the door and open it. But this time all the lights were on, and I can hear the ceiling lamp creak once again. I sighed in relief turn off my flashlight and started walking to the hallway. I then heard the front door clicked like it was now opened. It was finally open, and I can leave, I was so relief it was finally over; however, before I can reach the front door a deep voice started speaking the numbers again, but this time repeating the number sequence. "2-0-4-1-8-3…"……"2-0-4-1-8-3…"…."2-0-4-1-8-3…"… As it was saying this, I heard the baby cry again. I looked everywhere to know where it was coming from. I hold my ears look around everywhere of my surroundings. I felt dizzy and sick, I then started to hallucinate. While blinking my eyes I notice my dead aunt next to the front door. Then it started walking to me. I was still hallucinating and when she got closer, she smiled at me and then…. jumped on me with a shriek.