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Remember back in April when those storms passed through, and I noted that my basement was flooded? Do you also recall that I said it wasn't more than a couple of
inches or so? Yah, that was lie. I could literally enter the water after a couple of steps (keep in mind that the staircase to the basement is about twenty steps). The rest of what I said was true, but instead of a dry area around the locked door, the water was being forced away by an invisible barrier. Needless to say I was pretty freaked out when it all disappeared overnight.

Then, about halfway through May, I discovered where it went. I was cleaning out a closet on the second floor (another thing I'll have to tell you about), and I fell through the back wall into... well... an ocean. Somehow, I'd fallen downwards from the second floor to the attic, an attic larger and deeper than a football stadium filled to bursting with saltwater. Then the noise started; a deep rumbling bellow. The only light in the attic came from sunbeams that had worked their way through
the cracks in the roof, but it was enough to see the the shadow twisting in the depths below me. I swam as fast as I could for an isle of furniture floating near one of the roof struts.

I almost didn't make it. I could hear wood being smashed to pieces, but I didn't dare look behind me until I was up on the strut. Whatever the thing was, it was big, and it was ugly. If you were to mix a bear and a dolphin into a single creature, run over the result repeatedly, and let the carcass bloat in a boiling sun for a week, you'd have a pretty good idea what it looked like. I didn't wait for it to try and make another pass, because I had punched a hole in the roof and made my escape.
therewillbenowarning
If I'd shared this story with you a month or two ago, I would have tried to explain it away. I would have theorized, conjectured, and out and out lied to fit this event in the rational, logical world that I once belonged to. I would have failed. Have I gone off the deep end? Maybe, but I'm going to see this madness through to the end. I'm going to find answers, even if they make less sense than the questions I asked to find them.