The Backrooms

Level 25 - Suburbs

           I start walking away from the supermarket and onto a road, I follow the bright lit street lights down to a bus stop, I look around on it and see missing people posters.

" How many were there here before me?" I whisper, I keep following the road some more, I hear a twig break behind me, I turn around and see nothing there, I look back and start walking away from the bus stop. I start seeing houses appear and end up in a neighborhood, I look around and see many houses, I wander around trying to see if anyone was inside or around but it was pitch black in most of the houses. I walk into the road and start walking down the street, following the street lights, it goes quiet, not a single sound, it's ominously unsettling, and all I can hear are the sounds of me walking. I thought I heard something behind me and thought I saw something hide among behind a house, I started running through the neighborhood and saw that nothing was chasing me.

" Man my anxiety is getting to me," I say, I start walking again, the street eventually ends and I start walking near a gas station, the lights flicker and buzz on the gas station, it gives me PTSD and flashbacks to the complex, my anxiety starts rising up and my heart starts beating faster. I walk up to the gas station and look inside, I open the door and walk in, there wasn't much, just some aisles with snacks and a running slushie machine, and a few fridges with drinks and ice cream, I step out of the gas station and start going back onto the road. I look around and see plenty of trees and fencing and street lights. I see a few signs here and there, giving me weird street names and road signs.

" I already know I'm not back home, no way that could happen so easily, with the unsettlement I can tell I'm not, but it looks real though, I just with it was real," I whisper to myself, I start walking back into a neighborhood, and go down a brightly lit path with big houses crammed together, the houses looked nostalgic, like I have seen them before but I haven't, I walk through the brightly lit road and down the strange street, it starts getting darker and I walk back onto a neighborhood street, I look around, a slight ambiance of wind comes back and the wind starts blowing, I have a sense that I was being watched go down my back, I turn around and feel like I saw a dehumanized black figure hide behind a car. I stop for a moment and look at the car, I turn back around and start walking, I turn to a block and see the suburban streets become filled with red light, different colored houses filled the space of the street, the street lights were still white but there was this ominous strange red glow beaming on the houses and the road. The dark night sky had more glowing stars above the street,

" Hello!" a person yells out in a house,

" Wait... oh my god, there's another person down here..." I say,

" Hello! Can anybody hear me!" they shout out,

" Hello!?" I shout back, I hear random mumbling and what sounds to be subtle cries, I walk down the neighborhood to see which house the yelling is coming from.

" Hello, is anybody there!?" I shout,

" Hello!" they shout in return,

" I hear you! I'm coming to find you!" I shout, I see a house with an open door, I walk up to it and step up on the stairs to the small front deck, I step inside the house,

" Woah, what are these doing here?" I say, I look around the small living room with blue walls and a tannish carpet, road turn signs pointed out of the carpet and were scattered across the room, I walk down a hallway,

" Hello! Can anybody hear me!" they shout,

" Hm that sounded almost exactly like what they said earlier," I whisper, I walk down the strange turned hallway and see many pieces of cardboard, a pair of shoes, and a blue chair in the middle of the room.

" Hello!" They shout out, I hear the random mumbling again, I walk down the room and see a long foggy hallway and figure somewhat distant in the hall, the hall looked like it was from the complex. The mumbling stops and I take a closer look at the figure, I zoom my camera in on it,

" Wait a minute... that's not... that's not a person, THAT IS NOT A FUCKING PERSON!" I shout, the howler starts running towards me, I start running out of the room and down the hall into the small living room and out the door, I hear it's roars echo out throughout the house and the street, I run down the street, trying to get away from the redness of the street, the howler shouts out a bellowing howl, I look back at the house and see that the entity hasn't gotten out of the house yet. I listen closely and hear other entities and howler in different houses,

" Yay more friends, exactly what I need right now," I sarcastically say, I start getting out of the redness of the street and into some darker roads and streets with normal white lights coming off of the street lights, I look back and start seeing the entities rush out of the houses and around the street, entities like smilers, howlers, aranea membri's and others. I run down the street and under a bridge, I look back and start seeing the entities get closer, I look back and hear the mixtures of the howls and roars the entities make behind me, I start running down different blocks to try to confuse the entities but it doesn't really work. I end up going back into another street with the red lighting, I look back and see the different entities catching up, I look back in front of me and I clip through the ground while standing on a manhole cover.

" Woah!" I shout out, I look around the void and see a large upcoming road tunnel and lights.