1 Chapter 1: The beginning

Hi I'm Jack and I'm 17, and I'm about to go on a vacation to this creepy house in the woods with my family and some friends. Its apparently haunted by a family that was never able to escape its Walls, but that's only a story... right?. We all finally packed all of our bags and began loading our van, since there's so many of us. there's my three sisters Mary who was 15, Mary's twin Carey and Lila who just turned 17, my Mom and Dad my two brothers Lee who was 8 and Chris who was 10 and my two best friends Alan and Jimmy and my two cousins Andy who was 19 and Christy who just turned 25, and my Aunt Cherry, there's a lot of people. Every one has to do three people to a room, but it's not a very small cabin so it should be fine. After five hours in the van we arrive at the old cabin, it's no different from the photos, which creeped me out even more. The living room was small and empty the only furniture was a couch, a fireplace and a large creepy grandfather clock which was covered in cobwebs. The kitchen wasn't irregular except the dark, crimson red counter tops, which creeped me out a lot. A little later after unloading the car, me, Alan and jimmy went to go settle into our room, it was a small, basic room with a bunk bed and a table with a small old chair. We got settled and decided to look around the rest of the house, what we first found was the dining room which had a huge Portrait of a creepy family who's eye seemed to follow you through the room. Next up was "study" it was semi normal for a creepy study old desk, old bookcase, creepy armor, wait creepy armor I did a full double take at the the corner of the room and sure enough there was a creepy stand of knight amor there, I quickly left the room. The rest of the house was just bedrooms, or so I thought. That night as I was settling into bed I heard creeks above me coming from the attic, I didn't think much of it the first night, I tell myself it was raccoons and fall asleep. The next morning everyone is talking about the attic creaks, I tell them it's probably just raccoons, everyone agrees and we go back to our day. The afternoon came and the heat started to kick in, but the lake that we had planned on swimming in was strange and smelled odd. So we did what any three bored teenagers would do... we went exploring in the woods and of course we got lost. It felt like we were wondering around forever, we were gone for maybe three hours. We got back around dinner time just to see the sunset on the lake. Something felt off, I couldn't quite put my finger on it but I felt that something wasn't quite right. We all walked in to see an empty house with nobody in it, we were puzzled, where did everyone go? We searched for at least 20 minutes and only found a random Ring, which didn't belong to anyone in my family….