'I have no idea what could have caused that, and I really don’t want to know. It still makes me feel uneasy thinking about it.'
"When I was about 7, I became very, very ill. My grandmother, who was raising me, took me to the doctor, and they had me taken to the emergency room. I was changed into one of the ugly, starch-hardened hospital gowns with the open backside, given a bed, and just had to lie there. I had an incredibly high fever, and my body felt like it had been steam rolled.
Fast-forward 20-odd years, and my grandma and I were talking about my childhood while I was visiting her. We got on the topic of the town we lived in the first time I got sick, because the only hospital there was about to be closed. I asked if I really had Scarlet Fever since I know how incredibly rare that would have been in the US in the '80s. She looked at me like I had sprouted wings.
"I lived by the old town reservoir, so I would frequently walk up to the lake and just chill there. The lake/reservoir had this small clearing that had a public bathroom and a tornado siren. When you walked into this clearing, you could see a little bit of the neighborhood across the highway that went through the town. I remember walking up to the lake one day and just walking around, relaxing, and looking through that clearing for a while because I was bored.
The owner was in the beginning stages of having the basement finished. It had a concrete floor and no interior framing or walls yet. The only thing down there was the laundry area, a handful of boxes, and fixtures for the would-be bathroom. The staircase was a normal set of wooden stairs going straight down.The snow hadn’t been disturbed in the yard or around any of the windows. Regardless, we made sure the basement door was locked.
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