[Music] there's this abandoned mansion in toronto that came up in a group shot among my friends we saw pictures of it through a mutual friend who had recently gone to explore there it looked immaculate based on the pictures and we were intrigued to go check it out it was 10 miles north from us so the drive wasn't bad the mansion sat on a big open grass plain with pine trees and other foliage surrounding the perimeter of the property acting as a natural fence or just a wall of privacy from the outside my friends will call
chad and brad for this story followed close behind me as i led the way up the large gravel driveway towards the front of the unfinished house by the looks of it construction on the structure had been abandoned when it was near completion as the outside foundation seemed to be finished our mutual friend who found out about the police had told us that he hopped through a back window that was left unlocked so that's what we looked for the unlocked window turned out to be in the kitchen right over the counter so one at a time
we squeezed through the window crawling out to the counter and then down to the ground first impressions in the kitchen almost immaculate minus a few of the cabinet doors sprawled out on the floor as if they had yet to be installed and just things like sheetrock boards laying around but everything seemed new and it was a shame the construction was abandoned the three of us kind of went our own directions in the house i went towards the living room which again was almost pristine it was a huge room that transitioned into the dining room and
then from there a wide hallway with at least 10 different doors my friends were already checking out some of the rooms in this hallway i peeped into each room and realized most of them were bedrooms at the end of the hall was a three-door garage the last door in the hall before the garage was the basement i called to brad and chad that i was checking out the basement i got an acknowledgement from at least one of them the basement had this bizarre spiral staircase so when i got to the bottom i couldn't even see
the door at the top there were no windows down there so besides my flashlight it was pitch black it was a completely unfinished basement pieces of drywall everywhere unfinished wood foundation where walls should be but the basement was huge like there were multiple sections down there it was big enough to fit a basketball court and more then i came across this back room with a few storage containers i was here to explore after all so i curiously started lifting the lids off the containers the first two seem to contain building tools and supplies like wood
planks but then i heard something from one of the other containers it was like something caused the container to make a bump sound could it be an animal was it just hearing things i went to the container and noticed the lid was not sealed on this one as it wasn't sitting perfectly snug on the top as i bent over to try and lift the lid it lifted without me touching it and i heard a whispering noise i fell backwards on my hands as this happened and while i was on the ground i saw a smiling
woman looking at me the only thing lifting the container up was her head she looked at me laughed and said peekaboo and she left some more i ran to the top of the stairs but the basement door was now locked i banged on it for my friends to open it up they were apparently messing with me i heard creaks on the spiral staircase below me i couldn't see her yet but i could hear her laughing getting closer and she was mumbling incomprehensible things i screamed at the top of my lungs to please help me and
chad finally opened the door i ran out and looked back for half a second greeted by this ghostly skinny figure of this pale woman looking up at me almost at the top step i slammed the door shut and locked it chad saw the woman too and we bolted for the front door we didn't care about leaving it open the three of us got to the edge of the property to talk after an hour of just sitting in my car thinking and talking i agreed to go back inside and unlock the basement door as scary as
what i witnessed was i didn't want to be responsible for someone dying down there but when we got back inside the basement door was wide open i promise you we locked that door so it made no sense we once again bolted back outside towards the car and drove home to never return to that mansion again [Music] when i was a very young kid we lived in an upper middle class neighborhood lots of space between each house all the houses on our street were very nice but there was one abnormally large house it was closer to
a mansion it sat right across the street from us my bedroom window could look across to the windows of the mansion since our street was incredibly low traffic our parents let us play soccer in the street so my two friends brian and zeke were playing soccer one sunny day it was usually just the three of us so we had this kind of free-for-all version of soccer that we made up eventually the ball was kicked onto the property of the mansion so i ran over to get it when i picked up the ball i looked at
all the windows to see if the house owner was possibly witnessing me on his property but at one of the top windows was a young boy who looked to be about our age i hurried off the property and back to my friends i asked them if they had ever seen the kid who lives in that mansion they hadn't the second time i looked back at the window the boy was no longer there it wasn't for a while after that probably a month then i was in my room playing nintendo and for whatever reason i got
up to get something and i looked out my window across to the mansion and i saw that boy at the window again he was surely looking at me all the way from across the street it kind of creeped me out i walked away from the window to ignore it why hadn't i ever seen that kid outside before come to think of it why hadn't i ever really seen the owners of that house i asked my parents about the boy across the street they said they were pretty sure there was no boy in that house so
the next time brian zeke and i were playing in the street we were thinking of potential fourth players to have a real game i had an idea i ran to the front door of that mansion and rang the bell a 50-something-year-old woman answered i asked if her son wanted to play soccer with us she looked at me puzzled and said what son i replied the boy who was always at the upstairs window i can't describe the look on her face besides shock and fear she asked me what the boy looked like and after my best
description a tear rolled down her cheek she put her hands over her mouth she brought me upstairs to the room where i kept seeing the boy it was a boy's bedroom she showed me a picture of a kid and asked me if this was the boy i was seeing and i said yes she told me that was her eight-year-old son charlie who died 10 years ago that woman living there had been alone ever since she lost her son and husband she believed what i said because i nor my parents would have ever had any way
of knowing about her son she didn't tell me or my parents what happened to her husband or son as sad as this all was it was still horrifying there was one other time i saw the boy i was in my room months later and i looked out my window to the woman's mansion across the street there he was again at the upstairs window i could tell he was looking at me i shut my blind with force and tried to forget about it it still sends shivers up my spine when i think back on it [Music]
i was once hired to house it for a friend of the family friend who was going away for a week in this case i should call it mansion sid because the family was absolutely loaded and the mansion sat on the rich side of town in front of a huge lake i was 21 and it just seemed like a cool job to have for a week the family's one rule was to throw no parties and no more than two guests at any time which even that i thought was generous of them the father's name was benjamin
and that's the only name you'll need to know ben left me a list of things to keep track of every night which included feeding the two cats and two parrots watering the plants among other things that really won't contribute to the story the house was a half hour from home so instead of just driving there and back every day i opted to just sleep in one of the guest bedrooms which they offered to me after all the first day there i got there very late so it was a short one that got me kind of
warmed up for what to expect the week ahead of me after doing the insignificant amount of morning chores i hopped in the pool they had in the backyard the pool literally overlooked a gorgeous tranquil lake and even with the thought of getting to enjoy this unbelievable house for a week i was still incredibly jealous as i was in the pool i noticed through the giant floor-to-ceiling windows to the living room somebody walking inside i jumped out from the pool freaking out i ran to grab the towel and dry myself for a second before storming inside
yelling excuse me i didn't see anyone in the living room so i entered the kitchen and there was a fairly large hispanic woman who looked to be about 35 to 40. she was just standing there as if waiting for me i asked her who she was and why she was here while trying to keep myself composed and confident she said in a thick accent that she was the maid who came every day to clean the floors and stuff she introduced herself as eliza i instantly felt a sense of relief and introduced myself as mike the
guy who was house-sitting for the week she spoke in as little words as possible i don't think her english was too good but she basically said she was going to clean the floors in the kitchen and living room now i said that was completely fine and let her do her thing i asked her how she got in the house and she said she had her own copy of the key so that was that i went back out to the pool for a little longer to let her do her thing when i got out from the
pool i dried up and took a shower after my shower i fed the animals again the parrots were easier than the cats surprisingly i didn't see the maid again but i didn't really want to get in her way and have awkward small talk with someone who could barely speak english anyway i had a couple friends over that night because everyone was eager to see the place but i respected their rules of only two guests at a time i gave them the best tour i could then we kind of just chilled in the game room they
had played some air hockey and pool table and drank a little bit when i told my friends about the cleaning lady scaring the hell out of me they both found it insanely suspicious like why wouldn't ben have told me about the cleaning lady they brought up a good point so i shot ben a text asking about the cleaning lady he didn't answer right away and i didn't want to call my friends wanted to sleep over but i didn't want to push it i had no idea if they had cameras in the house or not so
they left and quickly after i started getting myself ready to lay down in bed at some point i got a text back from ben apologizing for taking so long and then asking what cleaning lady with two question marks and an exclamation point i typed back eliza the hispanic woman who came by and claimed she was the cleaning lady that's when ben called me with a concerned voice he got more details from me after telling me there was no cleaning lady that was the whole reason they hired me i felt like i had been taken for
a fool but more importantly i was terrified that i may not have been in that house alone at that very moment then told me that just tied in a bedroom and that he'd call the police for me so we hung up and i waited in the room for the police to arrive i had ben on facetime when the police arrived so he could also talk to them we all looked through the house together from top to bottom and we didn't see anyone i told ben the lady said she had a spare key but he said
he was confident that that was a lie because they never made any spare keys he was confident she simply snuck in when i was in the pool or outside in general after we were sure there was no one in the house the police left but they made sure i locked all the doors and windows before they did so i spoke with ben a little longer who was very comforting and asked i just hold down the fort and call the police if anything else should happen we hung up and i went to bed i locked the
door of course i left the air conditioner off so i could hear any potential noises from outside of the room as i lay awake subconsciously waiting for a noise i heard one from under the bed it sounded like a squeak on the wood floor i hopped out of the bed and looked under it there were two people hiding underneath one was the lady from earlier eliza the other was some man probably 10 years older than her with his hand over her mouth they both locked eyes with me i screamed and i ran for the door
the moment that it took me to unlock the door and then open and shut it was more than i was comfortable with as i did i heard them crawling out from the bed i ran outside to my car without my shoes and drove down the street when i called the police and then i called ben again i waited for police cars to pass and then i followed them we once again searched the whole house and found no one this time i didn't stick around for the night ben told me to go home and stay safe
the family booked a flight back home the next day cutting their vacation short the intruders were never identified all that can be speculated is they walked in through the front door while i was in the pool because i didn't lock the door and that they somehow knew the family would be gone no further info is known you
