21 Chilling Hometown Mysteries That, To This Day, Still Keep People Up At Night

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“There’s a house on the corner of two main roads in our town. It’s an older house, built in the 1950s. It’s all yellow — exterior paint, shutters, etc. There’s an Oldsmobile in the carport. Even that is a yellow beige color, its wheels covered in cobwebs. Every night, like they’re on a timer, the lights in the living room turn on. Every week, the yard is trimmed and carefully edged. But the car has never moved. The door never opens. No one actually lives there. I first heard a rumor in middle school. There was an older couple who paid thousands of dollars to cryogenically freeze their brains. They paid years in advance for their house to be taken care of so that it would still be there when they were woken up in the future.”

“The bars on each window are what made me believe it. No one can break in and loot their relics from a bygone era. Something one would only think of if they are leaving a building alone for a long time. A protection that an average suburban home wouldn’t need. 

I’ve asked around for years. No one knows who owns that home. No one has ever seen the owners, not even a glimpse of how the grass is cut each week. It’s been a mystery, with the legend passed down from seventh-grader to seventh-grader, only to grow as old as the paint that covers the unused mailbox.

It’s a house frozen in time. A small vortex of mystery in the shape of an ordinary ranch-style home.

Who knows, maybe one day, in the distant future, an older couple will walk through the solid oak door again to find their lives just as they were the day they left.”

—valannetine