on the bathroom floor

Oh dear. I have a new obsession. Well, maybe I won't call it an obsession but something that really sucks me in. I borrowed a book called "The Diary Of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life At Rose Red". It is a diary of Ellen Rimbauer who was only 19, and her life at Rose Red, which was a mansion that her husband had gotten constructed for them. It really is quite haunting. Rose Red is a real mansion in Seattle, and "in a forty-one-year period at least twenty-six individuals either lost their lives or disappeared within its walls". Being the curious person that I am, I went on the internet to read more on Rose Red, and I found this website that gave a whole ton of information on it and I got really freaked, but somehow still had the thirst for more.

"...Affectionately known as Rose Red, the Rimbauer Estate is a Tudor Gothic mansion painstakingly constructed between 1906 and 1909 on forty acres of land covered in cedar and pine....it has an indiscernible number of rooms placed somewhere between a number of seventy to seventy five..." The description is much longer than that and I found it so enchanting. Such a huge mansion! If only I had the chance to see one like that. If only it were real.

"....Adam[Ellen Rimbauer's son] reported several things about the house. Rooms he measured seemed to change in dimension when he measured them later. He started getting lost as he searched the house as if new walls were popping up and new rooms were appearing. His wife reported seeing a figure that vanished just out of eyesight. Photos he took of rooms did not match when he compared them later. He once stepped out of a third floor bedroom and found himself a few steps from the first floor foyer. It was almost as if Rose Red was some huge organism constantly restructuring itself."

How intriguing. The pictures of Rose Red are really impressive too. What if Rose Red really had a mind of its own? This is really so fascinating. How I wish S'pore were filled with thousands of haunted houses to explore. Unfortunately since we've decided to be all modern-ized there's practically no chance of haunted houses even existing here. How fiction can scare me. Imagine if this story was real! While finding the Rose Red mysteries extremely cool, I find them pretty scary as well. I had jitters down my spine after reading the article and seeing some pictures, but I just couldn't stop. I've only started reading the diary of Ellen Rimbauer and I can't wait to continue. This whole thing is so provocative. Can everything be explained with science? Can science support everything?

Ok I am truly getting freaked. Thank God the tv is on.