Thomas Hale bought the property believing it was only a neglected fixer-upper. The journal suggests otherwise. These notes collect everything known about the house, its structure, and the rooms that appear too often in the entries.
Property Overview
The house sits back from the road behind overgrown brush and an uneven gravel drive. According to Thomas’s first entries, several areas did not match the original listing: the crawlspace seemed deeper than expected, the attic door never stayed shut, and cold spots appeared in fixed locations as though the house were marking its own boundaries.
House Layout Notes
This is not a true blueprint. It is a reader’s guide to the rooms most often mentioned in the journal. Each area below connects to a cluster of entries tied to that part of the house.
Front Porch
The last place Thomas saw the house as ordinary, before the entries turned darker.
Living Room
Where Thomas woke after the fall, still unaware of what really happned to him.
Hallway
Cold pockets, delayed footsteps, and shadows seen at the far end of the corridor.
Attic
The most avoided place in the journal and the area least likely to remain empty.
Basement
A threshold that seems to appear and disappear depending on who is looking for it.
Crawlspace
Where Thomas first documented the dark ring in the soil and the carved beam notches.
Roofline
The site of the fall, and perhaps the first place something in the house touched him directly.
Mirror Landing
The staircase landing where reflections begin failing him and the house feels closest.
Garden Shed
An isolated outbuilding behind the house, mentioned rarely but never without unease.
Hidden Room
A space the house seems reluctant to admit exists, hinted at long before it is entered.