It was a bright, sunny morning in California. The Smith’s family was driving down the highway towards L.A. from their previous home in Minnesota. The kids, Isaac and Kaitlin, didn’t mind the move much. Isaac and Kaitlin didn’t know that many people back in Minnesota so, the move didn’t have a huge impact on them. When they arrived at their new home, the kids immediately ran inside to scope out the place and call dibs on which rooms they wanted. The whole family was so excited. Then the parents walked in, Laura and Jacob. As soon as they stepped through the front door of that L.A. home, they both looked at each other and just smiled. They loved their new home.
The first night when the family was in their huge new kitchen is when they started hearing things. But of course, it was a new house, and new noises would sound so it wasn’t a big deal to them. They were sitting in their chairs at each end of the table, and then they heard sounds like footsteps on the floor above them.
“What was that?” Isaac said alarmed.
“It was probably nothing,” Laura replied.
Isaac and Kaitlin were frightened of what was upstairs. Laura and Jacob weren’t too concerned about the noise. They figured it could've just been some of the boxes falling. Little did they know, it wasn’t.
After their first family dinner in their new house, Isaac and Kaitlin sauntered upstairs. They had forgotten about the noise by then as the were distracted by the smell of the spaghetti they had just eaten. As they arrived at the top of the stairs they split their separate ways to their bedrooms and went to sleep.
Step. Step. Step. Isaac woke up. It was like an elephant was walking up the stairs it was so loud. He started to sweat. It was the same sound he had heard earlier. Out of a panicked reaction, Isaac shoved his head under the blanket as if it would keep him safe and texted his sister:
Kaitlin, I think there’s someone in our house walking up the stairs. I’m scared.
When Kaitlin read the message from Isaac, she opened her bedroom door and checked to see if anyone was in their house. She couldn’t find anyone. She went back to Isaac’s room and told him that there was no one in their house and then they both went back to sleep.
The next morning, the Smith’s family finished unpacking. While they were bringing their kitchen necessities in, Jacob looked under the stove and saw a knife. He picked it up and asked the rest of the family if they knew how it got there and none of them did. After that, His first thought was that something strange was going on, and the other half of him thought it was nothing and let it go.
That night, after the kids went to sleep, Jacob asked, Laura, what she thought about the whole ‘knife under the stove situation’.
“Jake, it’s nothing. I’m sure one of us just dropped it and forgot that we did. It’s fine sweetie,” Laura said.
“Ok. It was just weird that it was just sitting there,” Jacob replied.
Then Jacob and Laura went to sleep.
This night, Jacob was the one who woke up to footsteps walking around the house. He woke up Laura and made her listen for them, and they both grabbed the closest object they had to them to defend themselves. Jacob was then positive that someone was in their house and their weapon was the knife under the stove. When they went to search the house, they found no one. So after that, Jacob and Laura went to check on the kids. Kaitlin was fine. Isaac was missing.
Laura and Jacob stood in Isaac’s room in shock. They were in disbelief that on their second night in their home, one of their children could’ve been kidnapped. Laura started crying and then told Jacob to go find him while she stayed with Kaitlin.
Jacob looked all over the house for Isaac. He couldn’t find him anywhere. While Jacob was in the kitchen, he realized the knife that he put on the counter, which was under the stove, was gone. He freaked out. He grabbed his phone and called 911 for a missing person. The next second the front door to their new home opened. That’s when his son walked in, but not alone. Isaac was followed in, with that ‘under the stove’ knife against his neck, by the person who has been walking around their house for the past two days. Who was the guy threatening to kill their one and only son? Little did that guy know that the police were on their way.
Next thing they knew, the police had the guy in handcuffs. After they did some searching, the guy was the house owner from the 1980’s. Throughout the years, he has been killing the families who moved into the house. No one knew where their bodies were and when the police went through their house, they found all of the bodies in the attic.
The Smith’s family had no idea that the families that lived in that house before them went missing, or that they were murdered. So they sewed the people who sold them the house, and the murderer was in jail for many years after that. The knew then to expect the unexpected and to always be cautious. The Smith’s family moved out and continued their lives peacefully.