7/28/10

I don't even know where to begin. The past few days have been….crazy to say the least. I guess I should just start from the beginning.

On the night of the 24th I decided to come back to the Opera House by myself to check things out. Originally I was going to bring Jazmine with me but I decided against it because her ankle is still sprained and she can't walk very much and also because I don't know what would happen if I did find the Opera Ghost and I had her with me.

I got back to the Opera House at about nine. Standing outside looking up at the building this late at night with no one around you would never have known that the inside was almost completely refurbished. The street was completely empty and the street lamps on that end of the street were not working. If I hadn't know what this building was it would have been easy to think that it was a haunted house that belonged in an amusement park. For a second there I almost decided to just go back to the hotel and leave things alone but deep down I knew that I couldn't do that, not with my family getting hurt. So, I took my keys out and opened the front door into the Opera House.

I had brought a flash light with me since I had decided against turning the lights on. I didn't want to do anything that would alert the "Opera Ghost" to my presence especially so late at night when no one else was around.

I clicked the flash light on, shining the light into the corners of the lobby. I headed to a doorway that I kept locked that was right on the base of the stairs. I kept this door locked because I didn't need to have employees or my family members wondering down into the cellars. There weren't going to be any murders or serious accidents while I run this Opera House.

I unlocked the door and walked into the hot stale air, shining my light up to the slanted roof from the stairs above me. Looking in front of me I saw another staircase but these stairs led down, down underground. I walked down the steps slowly, listening and watching. I didn't want to be taken by surprise. Finally after what seemed like an hour I reached the bottom of the staircase.

I had reached a long narrow hallway with cave like rooms on each side. As I walked passed each room I would shine the light into it. Most of the rooms were empty but a few had what looked to be barrels of something, onne room had shelves with rows of what looked like bottles of wine. It was very dark down there, the farther down the hall I went the darker and quiter it got. There was also a chill in the air and the air felt mosist, damp the way it would after a rain storm. I pointed the flash light up towards the ceiling wondering how far underground I was. I looked back down just in time. I had come back out on the other side of the hallway onto a giant lake. The water was crystal clear, you could see straight to the water couldn't have been any deeper than six or seven feet.

This part of the cellars wasn't dark there were giant candelabtras sticking out of the water every couple hundred feet and chandeliers hanging from the low ceiling. I could just barely make out a faint glow of lights coming from what I assumed was the other bank of the lake. Of course there were no boats down here so if I wanted to go any further I would have to swim. I was contemplating whether or not I should risk it when all of a sudden a hand wrapped around my mouth and nose from behind me, I took a deep breath ready to scream and in doing so I took a deep breath in and before I could even get the scream out, everything went black around me.

I…I cant continue the rest of this tonight. It's almost midnight and there are.. things that need to be done in the morning. I need to get some rest. I'll finish this another time.