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5 min readIn late February, a 27-year-old HVAC technician bought a one-story house at a county auction in Western Kentucky for less than the price of a new truck. It had been empty for five years, the previous owner dead, the family fought over it, taxes piled up. Grey siding, sagging porch, waste-high weeds, one cracked window covered with yellowed newspaper. He walked through it twice during the day and felt nothing but the sour closed-up smell of a house nobody had lived in. The only thing he did not inspect was the crawl space. The access panel in the back utility room was covered with a sheet of plywood nailed shut with big framing nails. Someone had written "Do not open" on it in black marker. He didn't open it that day. He told himself he needed a mask, better lighting, maybe another person there.
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:22) **The Auction House** - A 27-year-old HVAC worker buys a cheap Kentucky house at a county auction, convinced he's found a fixer-upper deal.
- 2 (04:30) **First Weekend Alone** - He begins cleaning the house alone, making progress until he notices the crawl space panel again.
- 3 (06:35) **The Cough Under the Floor** - While cleaning alone at night, he hears a human cough coming from underneath the house.
- 4 (10:30) **Opening the Crawl Space** - He brings his construction buddy Ryan to help open the crawl space, downplaying the cough.
- 5 (13:50) **The Voice from Underneath** - After calling the police, the man under the house speaks, warning them to "close it."
- 6 (18:15) **The Discovery** - Police find a sophisticated living space and disturbing evidence in the crawl space.
- 7 (20:30) **The Second Tunnel** - Police discover a second, smaller tunnel leading out of the crawl space, changing the tone of the investigation.
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Show Notes
Disturbing Abandoned House Horror Stories
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Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:00:18 Story 1
00:29:12 Story 2
Music by:
►'Decoherence' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au
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