Story time. I’m having such a weird week staying at my mom’s house to avoid the Covid situation at home and commuting to work every day. My Mom’s neighborhood is haunted, I think.
The house is located deep on the outskirts of Portland, between Division to the North and Powell to the South. There’s also a high school to the East. Usually when I visit my mom’s house I come by car, either with my brother or sister or in a Lyft. There’s several ways to get into the neighborhood, but for some reason all drivers always end up approaching the house the same way. They turn onto the East end of the street and drive 3 blocks West until they reach the house. I never thought that was weird before, but…
This week I’ve traveled from work to the house 4 times, each time after dark. Twice I’ve taken the same route, getting off a bus on Powell and walking about a dozen blocks North. Once I got off a bus on division and walked 7 blocks South, and once I had to stop at the market nearby for groceries, and after walked about 15 blocks East. Each time I walked directly in a straight line toward the house and I SHOULD have approached the house from a different direction. However, no matter which direction I approached from, I always end up in the exact same spot, at the East end of my mom’s street, approaching the house from the East side.
wear garlic
Please don’t get eaten by a ghost.
…Oh that makes sense! Because last time she tapped into Magic Snake! This time it’s her own abilities!
Huh! I had assumed it’s because she’s not in Yeld right now.
I remember this! Cool 🙂
As a person who’s lived in portland most of my life I know of the region you are talking about. I won’t say it for privacy’s sake but every time I end up having to pass through there I can get lost– even though I am pretty good about direction in my hometown.
I can’t say anything about the house that sounds like running water, but that area is def spooky.
I love that there’s a difference between just modest casting the spell and having help from her hair. Nice attention to detail.
Ohhhh, I know that neighborhood and it is definitely haunted! I kind of think everything just south of Division is mildly haunted.
Oh yeah, that’s what happens in all “organic” towns. You don’t build straight rows of streets, and you don’t plan the structure beforehand, but instead you let the streets “grow” in odd shapes following the terrain, mixing and melting into each other as more houses are built and smaller communities join together.
But if you think a single neighborhood is weird, you should be thankful you don’t live in Mexico City. Our capital is a massive organic city twice the size of New York that basically is constantly swallowing bordering towns into itself, keeping 12 million people inside a confusing, twisting, uneven maze surrounded by mountains in all directions for the rest of their lives. Pretty colorful though.
Aw, Jenny offering to translate the spell is touching.
You shouldn’t Pokemon because he might Pikachu.
hmm