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It was the fall of 2016. My first semester at college, and my first time living away from home. Me and my best friend Tommy moved into a dorm room on campus together, and life was great. We stayed up way too late every night eating microwavable food, playing video games, and partying with the other students on our floor.
Halloween landed on a Monday that year, but that didn’t stop us from throwing a wild rager. it wasn’t a typical party, everyone on the floor was in on it. Some people even decorated their rooms to be all spooky. You couldn’t walk five feet without running into a cooler full of beers or a bottle of gin. Parties like this were not allowed, but we knew we could get away with it on Halloween.
I remember walking down the hallway with Tommy, going in and out of all our friends’ rooms. One room had Monster Mash blasting while they were playing drinking games, another was lit with a black light as they attempted to hotbox the room with vape clouds. Whenever we had enough of one room we just hopped over to the next one. It was like the college kids version of trick or treating.
After a few games of beer pong and way too many shots, I ended up crashing on somebody’s bean bag. I don’t know who’s room I was in, but they had a cheesy horror movie playing on the TV and I got sucked into it. Eventually, I snapped back to reality when somebody kicked the bean bag.
“There you are!”
It was Sydney, the girl I sat next to in photography. She lived a few levels up, and I invited her to the party earlier in the day. Though nothing had been said out loud yet, It was obvious that she had a thing for me. To be honest, I liked her too. I’ll never forget how she looked that night, dirty blonde hair tied back in a ponytail, black framed glasses, a t-shirt with a purple witch riding a broomstick, and a light gray denim jacket unbuttoned.
“You showed up!” I was still laying down, bent backwards and looking at her upside down.
“How drunk are you right now?” She crossed her arms and glared at me with mock disapproval. I just grinned ear to ear and chuckled.
She helped me to my feet and I was hit with an intense wave of dizziness. After a few minutes of regaining control of my body we joined back up with Tommy and everyone else for more games. No more drinking for me though, I was too far gone already. People were constantly coming in and out of our room, and I started to notice a trend in their conversations. They were all talking about room eleven thirteen.
Dorm room eleven thirteen belonged to a guy named Levi. He didn’t have a roommate, it was just him in there and I never found out why. He was a weird one, the kind of guy to randomly derail a conversation into something completely unrelated and sometimes really dark. None of us were very close with him, but it wasn’t like we hated him or anything either. I will admit though, if I knew he was going to be somewhere, I would make a point to avoid that place. Levi was hosting some sort of haunted house in his room that night. I just laughed and said “fuck that” when Sydney said we should go check it out. She looked up at me with a sad expression on her face.
“But I love haunted houses, you’re not too scared are you?” She said with a sarcastic smirk.
“Of Levi Crawford? Yeah, I’m terrified.”
She laughed and we continued our game, but we kept hearing passing conversations about the crazy shit that was going down in Levi’s room. I decided to ask Tommy if he knew anything about it. He told us that Levi was charging five bucks for a trip into his haunted closet.
“Haunted closet, Are you for real? Five dollars to go stand in a rectangle?” I thought he had to be joking.
“I haven’t gone down to see it yet, but Chase was saying it’s fucking crazy man. Like I guess there’s a whole other room connected or something.” Tommy replied.
This piqued Sydney’s interest.
“A secret room in his closet? Nate, we have to go see it!”
The closet in room eleven thirteen was the last place on earth I wanted to be, but Sydney was so excited, how could I say no? I pulled out my wallet to make sure I had a five, I did. She lit up with joy and I rolled my eyes.
“Okay, let’s go see this creepy closet. Tommy, if I’m not back in 20 minutes you better call the police.” He laughed and agreed.
We walked down the hallway and found a line of five people waiting outside the door that read eleven thirteen. I asked them if they had been through yet, but none of them had. They all had stories from their friends though. Each story was different, and completely unbelievable. I just chalked it all up to inebriated exaggeration. There’s no way Levi Crawford was pulling off these Hollywood level effects in his little homemade haunted house.
Sydney interlocked her fingers with mine as we listened, and gave my hand a squeeze. My heart leapt a bit, this was the first time we had ever held hands. I squeezed back and all feelings of regret disappeared. I remember thinking, “Hey, I guess this five bucks isn’t for nothing after all.”
The door opened and a lanky dude with an afro came out. He didn’t say a word, but he was visibly shaking and his eyes were wide. Then he just slowly walked out the front door of the building. I don’t know what he saw in there, but it must have been pretty bad. The two girls at the front of the line exchanged nervous glances with each other and then walked into the room, closing the door behind them.
They were inside for about ten minutes before the door opened again. They came stumbling out into the hallway. One was crying and the other had her arm around her friend, trying to console her. We were all concerned and asked what happened.
“I don’t know.” Replied the girl who wasn’t crying. “She got really scared by something, but I never saw it. She won’t speak and I don't know what to do.”
The next three people in front of us went in one at a time. The first was gone for ten minutes too, but he came out fine. He actually laughed when he saw us.
“Pretty freaky shit in there!” He chuckled and pointed his thumb back at the door behind him.
Then it was Cate’s turn, one of Tommy’s many ex-girlfriends. She was gone for less than five minutes before the door swung open, unleashing an outburst of rage.
“What the fuck is wrong with you Crawford?” She looked absolutely pissed. “How could you do something like that? Fucking freak!”
Levi peered around the corner. “It’s not real Cate, I’m sorry!” But she was already storming away.
“What the hell happened?” I asked Levi.
“Sometimes things just seem too realistic, that’s all. It’s nothing to worry about.” He gave a smile that was probably meant to reassure us, but it wasn’t convincing. Nervously trying to move things along, he shifted his attention to the next in line.
“Collin! You're up next buddy! Got the money?”
“Actually uh, I just realized that I didn’t bring my wallet.” An obvious lie. “Sorry Crawford.” He scurried away from the door, and then it was just me and Sydney. Levi shifted his gaze to us.
“I guess that means it’s our turn!” Sydney said, bouncing up and down with nervous excitement.
I wanted to follow in Collin’s footsteps, but she grabbed my arm and led me into Levi’s room. Once the door closed behind me, I found myself trapped in an atmosphere of the pungent aroma of old take-out food and sweat. A wad of cash was sitting on his bed surrounded by pizza boxes. He added my five dollar bill to the pile and ushered us to the closet. I opened the door to reveal a super regular looking closet. There were some coats hanging up, shoes on the ground, and no Halloween decorations.
“What do we do?” I asked.
“Step inside and see what happens.” Levi replied.
I looked at Sydney and she stared back with a puzzled expression. I think she was finally having regrets, but it was too late to back out. We stepped inside the musty closet and Levi shut the door, engulfing us in darkness.
We stood in silence for half a minute and I let out a sigh.
“Is this some sort of joke Levi?” No response from the other side of the door.
“Maybe it’s a puzzle, like an escape room!” Sydney said optimistically.
“I don’t see how that could be possible.”
“Tommy said there was a secret room, remember?”
“Tommy likes to talk out his ass, he hasn’t even been in here.”
I couldn’t see a damn thing, but I could hear and feel Sydney fumbling around in the dark. She shuffled to the back of the closet, blindly patting the wall. Then she let out a gasp.
“Holy shit there’s a door!”
Suddenly, light poured into the closet. There was actually another room connected to Levi’s. It looked just like a typical dorm room with the same colored walls, carpet and light fixtures, but it was completely unfurnished. There was nothing in the room at all.
“This is so weird. Who’s room is this anyway?" Sydney asked.
“I don’t know, I guess nobody’s using it this semester. Why the hell are the closets connected? That seems like a privacy issue.”
“Maybe that’s why it isn’t being used.”
As we paced around the empty room, I was expecting a jump scare or something but nothing happened. I realized that I couldn’t hear the music playing from the hallway anymore which was odd. I made my way to the front door and placed my fingers on the handle, and hesitated. It hit me that this was the obvious path to take. Certainly Levi had something set up on the other side of the door to scare anybody who opened it. I lowered my hand and looked through the peephole first. Complete darkness.
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