Horror Stories 2022: The Doppelganger

When I was a child I've heard different stories about different supernatural entities specially my Lolo is a folk healer that's why he really loves to tell us stories regarding the entities that we can't see but they are everywhere. One of the entities that my grandfather told me is Doppelgangers, they are creatures that had no intentions to hurt someone but they have the ability to mimick the appearance of anyone. They have the power to make confusion and bring horror to those victims of it. Actually I am fond of believing to see is to believe that's why it's really hard to believe those stories that my grandfather told me. Specially that I'm here on Manila which stories and belief regarding supernatural entities are not that popular. I'm currently at my friend's birthday party, we are already teenagers that's why a typical party is not suit on us specially we celebrate his birthday in different place.

It was a resort surrounded by nature and also good place to do something crazy specially its night right now. After we eat the foods, swimming and laughing with each other. While we are drinking at the cottage suddenly the birthday celebrant got a crazy idea. He said to us that he choose this resort due to its creepy background. Along at the side of this resort there's a abandoned mansion which no one reside. He continue telling stories and trying to scare us but we're not children anymore to be scared on those false stories. Then he recommend a game truth or dare,at first I refuse to join since I knew its gonna be a nonsense game but my decision changed when they told me there's a price to those winner who accomplished the tasked. We are having fun in playing truth or dare and there are secrets unlocked specially their crushes and deep secrets, its normal for us since we are friends. There are also girls telling who's their crush and even confess that they had crushes on our group.

The resort was filled with our voices, hopefully there are few people in the resort. When it's my time to be asked, then the birthday celebrant dare to me to enter the abandoned mansion, I predict that it will be the dare to me that's why I decline the dare and told him to switch in truth but he refused. He changed the condition that the dare is for everyone and they must do it. Everyone agreed on it, this kind of nonsense but I just go with the flow. We asked permission to the guard inside the resort and he said that it's free to enter the mansion but we need to be careful. He even told us that there are certain incidents which people got lost in the resort when they trying to get out the mansion. However it doesn't scare my friends and even urge them to explore the mansion. We borrow flashlights and lamps then continue to the mansion.

The dark eerie environment filled the whole area and there's no lights. The sounds of crickets, falling branches, sound of the wind completes the horror of the place. I told them not to continue but they told me that I'm weak. Then they enter inside the mansion that I can't figure out how large it is since there's no moon and the only way to see the place is through our flashlight. Suddenly a cold breeze of wind surprised me then I suddenly feel the chill on my spine. I can feel how heavy the air in this area and looks like there's a force stopping me from entering the mansion. I didn't realize that they are calling my name that's why I breath deep and follow them inside. As I point my flashlight in different direction, I can see shattered pieces of glass, broken woods, broken tiles and surprisingly there are furniture inside that was abandoned such as wardrobe, cabinets and even a bed.

I was busy looking around without realizing that I lost them. I tried finding them and even shouts their names. Suddenly there's a room that caught my attention, I open the doorknob and hopefully it's not locked. I enter on that room then found that everything is still intact, everything was fine and well preserved since there are white cloth covering those furniture. My curiosity kills me that's why I try to pull the cloth on a big furniture and found out that it was a wardrobe which had beautiful mirror on it. I look at the mirror using the flashlight then look at my reflection, I even do some gestures but it made me terrified when my own reflection smiled at, I got terrified and let go my flashlight.

Hopefully I catch it then run out of the room, when I'm on the corridor, I see a human figure at the edge of the corridor and it looks like a friend of mine that's why I called it but it didn't answer me that's why I approached it. When I am near on the figure suddenly there's someone called my name and it was a friend of mine that I thought standing at that corner. He told me that they are searching me everywhere on the mansion but I'm nowhere to find but I told them that I entered in a room. They told me that there's something wrong in the house thatsnwhy they decide to go out and go back to the resort. I didn't know what happen but it makes me wonder who's that person that I saw?

To be continue......

Author's Message:

I'm trying to make horror stories again and imxback on supernatural entities rather than psycho killers hahaha. I miss this kind of writing cause it was my Forte, maybe are you familiar with doppelgangers and I'm glad to finish this story tomorrow. Don't worry there's no bloody scenes on it just a pure horror that will make your body hair rise.