so this is gonna sound absolutely insane but I need to get it out there. went on a trip to busan with friends like a month ago. we were all burnt out from work so we booked this pension called 'starlight shelter' to chill and decompress. looked gorgeous in the pics, super aesthetic vibes, you know?
arrive and it's actually beautiful. clean, quiet, had a bbq setup for the evening. stars were supposed to be insane at night. I genuinely thought nothing weird would happen. like ghosts are movie stuff right?
we start grilling and drinking, everyone's having fun, I'm vibing. but as the night gets deeper something feels OFF. like 11pm rolls around and friends are all asleep so I get up to go to the bathroom. walking through the hallway and suddenly the power goes out. complete darkness. I'm like 'great, shit pension' so I turn on my phone flashlight and that's when I see it. a SHADOW standing at the end of the hallway. and it's not just a normal shadow, it's all twisted up like vines or something. my heart starts going crazy. I flash the light around and it moves. actually MOVES. my hands are shaking at this point. so I'm panicking and flashing my phone everywhere and the shadow just... disappears.
I'm like okay whatever I'm tired, heading back to bed. BUT THEN I hear footsteps. heavy, quiet footsteps right behind me in the hallway. someone's following me. I'm genuinely terrified now. then I start hearing this sound... like a kid crying? coming from inside the pension?
I KNOW this is psycho behavior but my feet just carry me toward the sound. turns out it's coming from the first floor lobby. I go downstairs and there's this beat-up old teddy bear just... sitting there. crying. the teddy bear is literally WEEPING. I'm standing there like what the actual fuck.
the bear's eyes are hollow and empty, mouth twisted into this wrong smile. absolutely grotesque. and the SECOND I see it, all the lights in the pension flip back on at once. and this booming voice echoes through the whole place: 'you'll regret knowing what you've seen.'
then I notice blood droplets forming on the walls. they start dripping down. and they're coming from the bear's EYES. the bear's filling with blood. the temperature drops SO fast I can barely breathe. it's freezing. and then black smoke starts pouring out of the bear's mouth and it wraps around me and I just... lose consciousness.
when I wake up I'm not in the pension anymore. I'm in this weird place filled with old teddy bears. and I'm somehow sharing memories with this girl. she was the old owner of the pension, died in an accident, and she wanted revenge through the bear. she wanted revenge on ME. I can't even scream, the bear's pulling me in, everything goes dark.
next morning my friends can't find me anywhere so they call the cops. police search the whole place but I'm just... gone. they only find teddy bears. pension gets shut down, everyone says it's haunted (accurate btw).
I'm still here. trapped as a bear. every night tourists come and I torment them. it's not funny honestly. I'm trapped in this nightmare and I don't even know if this is real anymore. never staying in a pension again. go to hotels. check reviews obsessively. or you'll end up like me ngl
ㅋㅋㅋ at least writing this out made me feel slightly less insane
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