A HOUSE IN THE NIGHT

There sits this house on a dark street where something evil was spawned and ran a mock among the living. It looks like any other quiet house in a quite neighborhood.
On the gate in the front fence this house there is a wood sign. Painted in big red letters on it is 225 Hillside. Why they named the street Hillside when there are no gosh darn hills around this storyteller will never know.
But what I do know is the story of this house and the events that happened here. They are dark and filled with much sadness. So sit back and let me tell you the story of the events and people surrounding this unremarkable looking house that has one remarkable history.
This house stands and probably will always stand as a monument to the emotional havoc and horrific pain that living beings can endure. While others lived out their full lives, a unlucky few had the misfortune to be sucked into this house's history, and were only able to live a short time on this earthly realm. There lives were ended short by shocking and horrid events. Some with such gory details that one must try not to speak of them as to ward off bad luck.
You wouldn't think that this empty old house. Keeping its own silent vigil on its corner of a darkened street. On one side of the house, a street ends at a metal barrier that separates the road from a bit of brush. There is a small creek running throw it that runs along the back fences and of all the house on the street. This bit of brush separates the houses on the block from a school yard.
Surrounded by other houses of similar size, the house does not much pop out of the back ground. Its only when you dig into its past, that you believe this place could be a place where horrific acts may have been done in magical rites to old gods. Sitting there in the dark with only a single street light to illuminate its yard, it looks like it would not be such a bad place to live. If you were to stand in front of that house on some quiet night it wouldn't appear to be that creepy at all. Sitting there in the quiet night just like any other family home gone to bed for the night, but its not a happy home. Its the birth place and home to a demon that caused much havoc to those it came in contact with.
It started out as just a lovely small farmhouse house on a nice size piece of land. No other houses around for a mile or so, just out side a small budding town. As the town prospered the farm died off and the land and the house it self was swallowed up by the town. This peaceful little farm was gobbled up leaving the house just one among many. As the town grew up and out, a large section of the farm land surrounding the house was bought by the local school board to build a new school. The rest of the land was sold to local developers that built up the neighborhoods around it, till there was nothing left but the house with a fair size backyard sitting on a corner with a dead end street on its one side.
The house it self never changed much. A few fresh coats of paint, a new porch, but no major renovations ever took place. It's haunted past and strange happenings were always quickly and quietly swept away. The reason for all this secrecy around the house and what happened there was because of one particular owner. He become a infamous town legend and the the house along with him. That owner who first brought forth a demon into this cursed place, begins this story of death and secrets.
His name was John J Jacob. Jacob's was arrested and put on trial for murder when he was found living with the remains of his family in his small house on the edge of town. To those few that had know him while he worked as a local farm hand, he appeared to be a quiet, but likeable man. Living with his young family, in the nice little house on the edge of town. Then one day he and his family just stopped showing up in town. The towns people began to wonder where they had gone. There were rumors of infidelity and strange happenings going on at the house, but that was drunken talk of the old timer in town. Told in tall tales at the local bar to earn a free beer. Once the police had found out what happened at the house, he was arrested and put on trial. He was later found guilty of the murder of his wife,son and daughter and sentenced to death.
During the trial, Jacob's legal claim was insanity, but he maintained he wasn't guilty. That it was the demon living in his house that had possessed him and murdered his wife, his teenage son and young daughter. It came out during the police investigation and his trial, that part of his family's remains were found placed on alters in separate rooms of the house. What was left of his wife's body was found in the root cellar in the basement. In the testimony Jacob gave at his trial he stated the demon had driving him mad and taken possession of him. Under the demons control he had placed his wife's body there for preservation. To the shock of those sitting in the court room, he also testified, that while he was possessed by the demon, it made him take out his wife rotting corpse, for the demon's sexual gratification, on his wedding anniversary. He said the demon made him defile his wife's corpse in a ritual violation. A police officer later testified that they found the wife's head on a alter in the master bedroom.
While the police were searching the house they found Jacob's daughters room left completely alone. With a thick layer of dust over every thing, it looked like the young girl who had lived in that room had just left it one morning and never came back. Until they found her body that is. Her body was found prepared carefully in some sort of mummification to preserve her. She was wrapped in strips of bedsheets and laid out on her bed. During the only interview John J Jacob ever gave to the press shortly before his trial, he was asked why his daughter's head had been found underneath the shed out back. He claimed he had a dream were she told him that she should stand guard for him and help keep the demon from escaping. He buried her head in a ritual manner so that the demon in his house would be kept locked away.
The boys bones were found in a heap on the lower bunk of a bed in another room. His scull was never found. Later found in diaries kept by a local priest, was the written account of what was said to the priest by Jacob before his execution. In it he claims that Jacobs told him that the demon and eaten his boy as away to get back at him for some act it had not liked. He also confessed that he had broken free from the demon's influence and was using his family's remains as talismans. In what he believed was a battle to keep the demon locked away in the house.
No one knows exactly how long Jacob lived in the house with the remains of his family but records show that he officially owned the house for 10 years. There is much speculation and debate about Jacob and his life before he and his family moved into the house. There is rumors that Jacob may even have had access to the house and land before his official ownership of the property. But that is only more stories . What is know of the early life of John J Jacob is hidden in old shadows.
He was believed to be born in Alaska. To a native woman of the night and a drunk of a father. Abandoned by both his parents at a young age it appears he was mostly raised by a church going grandmother. At the age of 18 he moves away and the next time he pops up, he is in Hell Michigan. In police reports of the time their was found record of a domestic dispute call. One J. Jacob twenty one years of age was arrested at a local sleazy hotel for beating a native woman. Spent one evening in jail and was set free the next day.
No other official early record of him is ever found but we know other facts from people who claim to knew him personally. It is though these people that we can know That from a young age Jacobs was interested in black magick and the occult. At the age of twenty five, he joins a close nitted occult group. He is well accepted among the group and gets deeply involved in their community. After spending a few years with the group, he has some sort falling out with them. The details of which they never divulge and he disappears again. He doesn't show up again until he shows up at the town court house one day, with a wife and two children, to get the name changed on the deed to the farm house. Who the wife and children were before meeting Jacob and moving into the house is one of those fact hidden in the shadows of time.
After working as a farm hand for a year or so, Jacob and his family stop showing up in town. No one ever heard about or from Jacob or his family again for along time, until one night a neighbor to the property called the fire department and reported a shed on fire. The fire department called in the police when a female's head was found buried underneath a burnt out shed. On investigation by the police they found Jacob barricaded in his house and would not come out or let the police in. when they finally got inside, they found the horrid and squalid state Jacob had been living in.
when the remains of his family were found he was arrested and put on trial for their murder . His trial lasted one week and was the most scandalous event to ever happen to the town. It became fodder for the local news papers. he was tired and found guilty and sentenced to death by hanging. Shortly after being found guilty, he was was put to death at the court house and was pronounced dead.
After the the trial was over and the scandal died down, the house was cleaned out and the property sat empty as the whispers about the house being hunted began to grow. It sat dormant for a long time before the land was sold off and the town swallowed it up. The house changes owners hands a few times, some owners having the misfortune of death entering their life while they lived in the house. The wife of one owner committed suicide in the attic, the brother of another owner shot him self in the back yard. And the neighborhood had always many missing pet reports.
Then one year a 911 call on Christmas eve sent the police to respond to a claim of two men fighting naked in the snow, in the back yard of the residence. When the police got there they found the house completely unoccupied and empty of any furniture. The only thing that was found was a old used mattress in the attic. In the back yard there was evidence of some sort of struggle. Large pools of blood were found, but no bodies were ever recovered. The owner of the house at the time was recorded as one George Bunny.
After that the house sat empty passing from one property company to another. It was shown to a few prospective buyers but no one ever made any real attempt to buy it. Then on one dark and rainy night, the kind of night your glad when your home warm and cozy with your loved ones while the wind and the rain howls outside. A local group of four urban explores deiced to do a ghost hunt at this now infamous haunted house the locals had dubbed The House of Sadness.
The group split into two. A husband and wife team go to explore the top floors of the house and two other men explore the bottom two. Finding the basement empty of any activity except a few odd reading on some of their equipment they decide to explore the large roughly dug cold cellar where they believed Jacob's wife's body had been found. While examining a very old shelving unit against one wall, these soon to be lost souls find a hidden passageway leading to a room with a very old looking well made out of large rocks in the center of the room. The rocks of the well are oddly painted in faded colors and symbols and is capped with a ancient piece of wood.
The first man is pulled into the well by something when while examining the strange markings on the lid in the gloom of his flashlight, the lid crumbles away to dust under his weight and something drags him down into the well. His fiend rushes to his aid and looks over the edge in to the well. To his astonished eyes, in the light coming form the flashlight at the bottom of the well. His friend appears to be dissolved away by what looks like water at the bottom of the well. It does not act like water tho, it acts like it was acid. It eats his flesh from his body as he thrashes wildly about. The man at the top of the well does not hear a single scream come from his friend as he dies in agony.
The man at the edge of the well stares down in slack jawed amazement, as the water appears to evaporates into a mist and rushes up at him as it try's to escape the well. Before he even has a chance to scream himself, a corrosive mist passes over him and eats away the flesh from his body. Leaving only a pile of bones with bits of of undigested flesh sticking to them. It passes out of the room and rushes up towards the attic where the other two urban explorers are checking out a closet at one end.
As soon as they had got up into the attic. They had started hearing a male voice and had begun to see shadows darting all about the place, the activity had led them to the closet at the back of the attic. The voice they herd, they believed to be the ghost of the son.
All the souls of Jacob's family and the others that had died in the house were still trapped in side. The spirits were hidden away by the demon. He kept his power over them by bullying them into submission. The wife's sprite he locked away in the mater bedroom. The son's he had trapped in the attic with the others souls he had collected. The daughter's spirit had grown to powerful for the demon to control and held domain over the yard and had been keeping the demon trapped inside the house.
When the demon pops up from the basement into the closet in the attic, it draws to it the souls of the son and others trapped in the attic. It devours them creating enough energy to swing open the closet door and manifest it self as a bunch of rotting arms. Each with a reaching hand that grabs the woman and pulls her kicking and screaming in to the closet. The door slams shut and it goes deathly quiet. In the silence left,the man begins to scream himself and he runs out of the attic. Only to get chased down the hall and into the master bedroom by the demon.
Consuming the soul of the wife trapped in the bedroom, the demon creates a whirlwind that swells up around the man. As the air around the man speeds up it picks up glass form a broken mirror on the floor. The demon rips the man to shreds with the glass and suck out his soul. Being stronger then he ever was before, the demon is able to over power the ghost of the young girl in the backyard and escape from the house. And so after that night of horrors the house goes silent once again.
After all the death he has caused at the house, the demon becomes strong enough to leave the house and roam around, but by morning it begins to weaken and goes in to hiding in a crumbling old mausoleum in the local graveyard. He pass his time floating around the city at night, Invading people's dreams until he finds those that are of weak mind and soul. He manipulates their dreams drawing them to the grave yard, where he marks them as his own.
By placing a bit of his essence in each like a little seed of evil he begins to control their thoughts and emotions. At first he does this for his own amusement and to test out his abilities. Then he begins to gather up all those poor soul that he has marked. Manipulating them into joining a cult dedicated to bringing him into a physical form. Even tho he is very strong, he is still not strong enough to to do more then influence peoples minds and move a few objects. The demon craves for pleasures of the flesh.
The demon set out to use his cult to preform a magical rite, so that he can take over the body of a new born child and be born into the world of the flesh. On the night of this rite he gathers his members in the basement of the town hall. He has them set up the new born on a alter. As one man beats a drum,the rest chant and dance around the child, to draw the demon into the child's body. While in the middle of this magical act, the demon's influence is weakened just enough to allow the love of the mother for her child to break her free of the demon's influence just long enough to allow her to take her mind back. She steals the baby off the alter before the demon has time to enter his body and try to escape. This cause the demon to go mad with anger. Using what power he has left over the cult he force them to kill the mother and child with their bare hands. But before she and her child are ripped apart by them, she is able to set the room on fire with a candle. The fire quickly spreads around the room and kills every one except one man.
The only one who doesn't die that night is a fat and balding man. He is over come by some sort of calm after being released from the demon's influence and a voice spoke to him and told him to trap the demon in a alter bottle.
He walks over to the alter, picks up a glass bottle that had been used to hold some sort of ceremonial fluid, dumps the liquid on the floor and begins to speak words no human mouth could form. It just bubbles forth from his mouth. As he speaks the words, he thrusts the bottle into a mist that had formed over the alter and the demon gets sucked into the bottle. The man escapes the burning building unharmed not even a scratch on him. You would think that alone was weird, even if you dint believe he escaped and runs away into the night with a now cursed bottle, with a demon trapped inside.
Bad lucks follows that fat man where ever he goes. cars begin to always have accidents around him and he begins to notice he keeps losing money when he goes to sleep at night. Owning the bottle becomes to much of a burden for him, so he quickly sells it off to a unsuspecting antiques dealer. The antiques dealer quickly becomes aware of its true value and enters it in a auction where he markets it as a haunted object. It was sold along with other items as morbid pieces of art to willing bidders.
The mans who buys the bottle and also becomes the last owner of the creepy old house of our story, is the great grandson of one of the original founders of the occult group that Jacob joined. He may even be related to the same family that originally built the farm house. This young man, who became successful at a age where most were dealing with raging hormones and acne,had become bored with the mundane pleasures of the life of a millionaire playboy and began to search for more harder to come by pleasures.
After having many odd adventures and interesting pleasures, he begins to follow in his family's tradition of occult study. After much study he is lead to the few serving members of the occult group his great grandfather had help found but once they find out who his family is they don't want anything to do with him. We next take note of him when personal tragedy falls on him when his father dies unexpectedly.

After his father's death he is intrusted with his great grandfather's personal journals. In a hand written letter inside the front cover of the journals, his father warns any reader not to fall into the same traps as those that came before him. In these journals he begins to find bits and pieces of the story of Jacob and his time with his great grand fathers group. He learns that on a trip abroad, Jacob finds a very old manuscript and brings it back to the group for study.
Jacob wanted to have the group start working with the book but the leaders of the group begin to see the hardships and misfortunes the words in that book would bring to them and decide that they don't want to go down that road. His great grandfather becomes jealous of Jacob and his book. After having him banished from the group, he steal the book from Jacob and goes into hiding with it. The old man try's some of the magic in the book and is almost destroyed by it so he hides the book in a library somewhere in the world.

The young man now becomes obsessed by finding an owning this book and spends a fortune trying to track it down. After many dead ends He finds it in the library of a small old church in England where it has been kept a secret in plain sight on a bookshelf for such long time that it passed out living memory of any one left at the church. He was only able to find that this was the place that held the book because hes great grandfather kept talking about the church in his journals that he visited often in his youth.
After finding the book and learning form it that it is about summoning demons, he begins to research into Jacob's life. That leads him to he house and once he looks into the house history, he realizes Jacob's must have used rituals out of the book to call forth a demon into the house that he could not control, and it ultimately killed his family and drove him mad.
He then buys the house but on finding no evidence of anything left in the house, he begins looking for odd things that might have happened in the town. That leads him to the night of the fire at the town hall and to the only survivor. The fat bald man. He learns from the fat man about how he came to own and then sell a demon trapped in a bottle.
Once again the man uses his wealth to track down what he wants this time its the bottle .He finds it in Africa, the owner gladly sells the cursed item to him. Bringing back the demon to the house along with the book , the young man is able to release the demon from it prison cell in exchange for the demon's servitude. The demon is then forced to do the young mans bidding. Bringing him more wealth and fame


On Halloween night the demons presence in the house awakens the ghost of Jacob's daughter in the back yard. Finding the demon is back the house, the ghost of the little girl hunts it down. She finds the demon asleep in the well. At the bottom of the well In a gathering of little glowing blue lights the ghost of the little girl traps the demon and destroys it.
The presence of the book then draws the little girl's ghost to it. Hovering around it like a moth to a flame, the ghost of the girl waits for the book's owner to return. He returns later that evening in a drunken stoop-er after a night on the town and pass out in his bed. The ghost of the little girl then kills the young man in his sleep. slitting his throat with a rusty nail that it had taken out of the back yard.
destroy the owner of the book then frees the little girls ghost to take ownership of it And she floats off into the night leaving the house empty never to be heard from again.