| rdfs:comment | - Okay, so... a while ago, a friend of mine sent me an intriguing URL, saying, "I suggest we do this sometime." Of course I'm talking about The Midnight Game, which everybody in /r/nosleep has known about for a couple years at least. If you're unfamiliar, here is the set of rules. So before I continue, I figure I'll give you pictures of my house's interior so you have a frame of reference. I took them just now, and uh, I guess I'll be spoiling the account of what happened with one of these photos. Here: Album of house (with descriptions of rooms).
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| abstract | - Okay, so... a while ago, a friend of mine sent me an intriguing URL, saying, "I suggest we do this sometime." Of course I'm talking about The Midnight Game, which everybody in /r/nosleep has known about for a couple years at least. If you're unfamiliar, here is the set of rules. For those who don't want to read all of that, the gist of it is that you write your name on a piece of paper, put your blood on it, light a big candle and then put them both in front of your (wooden) door. As the time nears midnight, you start to knock on your own front door, twenty-two times. The twenty-second knock has to be the stroke of midnight, and you then blow the candle out and relight it. Doing this is said to invite the Midnight Man into your home, where you must walk around in complete darkness with the candle as your source of light. If the candle goes out, it means he's near, and you have to light your candle within ten seconds or make a circle around yourself in salt and stay inside of it. Other things that can happen are the room can go cold, you could hear a whisper, or even see a humanoid figure as you're walking around. This continues until 3:33 AM, whereupon if you've done everything correctly, you have won the game. If you lose, there are threats of insanity or even death. A couple other things to mention: I have seen renditions of this where it is said that the Midnight Man will make you hallucinate your fears. From the experience I had from 12:00 to 3:33, I either think that part was not super integral to my experience or I didn't fuck up bad enough to hallucinate. Also, it is taken as direct provocation to try to chide the Midnight Man. I'll explain my colossal fuck-up a bit further down. I, like most generic Redditors, don't have any belief in the supernatural, and I like to test little things like this as a way of amusing myself. And (until this weekend) I've had zero respect for anything of this sort. I come into this sub to read Creepypasta, but I'd never had a genuine paranormal experience, to the best of my knowledge. Just this past Friday, I remembered suddenly when my friend told me about the Midnight Game. Since I wouldn't have an opportune time to do this otherwise, as I live with my mother and she's been spending the night often at my grandparents' house to help care for them, I call Ryan up and ask if he's still in, which he replies (and this is verbatim), "Shit fucking yeah. I've been waiting for this call." Splendid. My friend (who we'll call Ryan, because his name is Ryan) picks up two giant-ass Morton salt shakers on the way over at around 10. Alright... Ryan is basically the same as me: smartass-ish about things like this, but still a little apprehensive of the dark and (as he admitted when he'd told me about it), he would never do this on his own, but would totally if someone else was with him. So before I continue, I figure I'll give you pictures of my house's interior so you have a frame of reference. I took them just now, and uh, I guess I'll be spoiling the account of what happened with one of these photos. Here: Album of house (with descriptions of rooms). If you don't want to look or don't care to, that's fine for the most part, but I have to draw your attention to the two photos of my backroom. While that room was definitely a mess before we played the game, it wasn't nearly like that. The backroom (called a Florida Room) is basically a quarter of the house's square footage, so we naturally wanted to include it so we would have as much space as possible. I'll explain how it got to be the absolute wreck it is now, as I now go through the chronology of the night. All the times are roughly accurate. I was wearing an analog watch and could check it every so often. Here we go.
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