[ITA/ENG] The Smell of a Dumpster / Odore di morte - Day 45 of the 5 Minutes Freewrite
Foto e storia tratte da un'esperienza vera / Photos and story taken from a real happening
English version
I clearly remember that day, an April made of promising summer whispers, hints of twilight were already stretching our shadows. We were quite talented, me and my colleague, in mixing small moments of discovery and poetry with our working activities. There, during one of our many surveys, a church appeared behind a hill, on the left of the small building the old vestiges of a castrum kept her company, further up we found the relics of a Roman water collection cistern nearby a cemetery. Small rituals of old curvy women, changing the water, new flower replacing old ones. Our curious gaze, lost admiring the horizon but focused at the same time, suddenly catched a detail: some stairs, a passage under the church, a crypt. Strangely open and.. inviting. Me and my colleague didn’t think twice and, after the consumed stairs, we found ourselves in a huge room under the church, the barrel vault and the obscurity swallowing us with avidity. The smell of a dumpster surprised us, almost solid, maybe a smell of death that our minds refused to recognise. We found in the penumbra a small plastic table, out of tune, then cigarette butts, then I had to turn on the torch. And like in those nightmares, when horror anticipates discovery like a clairvoyant fear arising, there it was that mask. A demon staring at me in a twisted grin. The thing was there in a recess where the tabernacle should have been placed. We escaped, do I have to add it?
That is how, sometimes, life appears to me: an ancestral horror waiting and lurking, an obscene open mouth, right behind the corner of our apparent normality.
Versione italiana
Ricordo bene quel giorno, accenni di crepuscolo in un aprile che già sussurava di estate. Io e il mio collega eravamo abili nel ricavarci parentesi di avventurosa scoperta, pur senza mai smettere di lavorare. Eccoci, durante i nostri tanti sopralluoghi, in quel luogo inaspettatamente silente, senza tempo, di quiete solenne e incantata. La strada si inerpicava sulla collina, svoltata la curva ci appare una chiesa antica, le antiche vestigia di un castrum, i resti di una cisterna romana vicino ad un cimitero, i ritmi lenti di vecchine ligie ai loro riti, cambi di acque e fiori nuovi. Lo sguardo si perde nell'aria tersa, fino ad incontrare un dettaglio curioso, una cripta. Stranamente è aperta. Io e il mio collega non ci pensiamo due volte e, scesi gli scalini, ci troviamo in una stanza ampia, sotto la chiesa, la volta a botte e l'oscurità che ci inghiotte avida. Un'odore di spazzatura ci sorprende, quasi solido, forse un odore di morte che la mente rifiuta di agganciare. Troviamo in penombra un tavolino da baretto sul lungomare, stonato e sinistro. Poi mozziconi di sigaretta, poi il buio prevale e devo accendere la torcia. E come negli incubi, quando l'orrore anticipa la scoperta, quasi una preveggente solida paura, ecco quella maschera. Un demone mi fissa in un ghigno distorto. Là da una nicchia, dove dovrebbe esserci un altare, dove dovrebbe esserci il tabernacolo. Ecco, così, a volte, mi appare la vita: l'orrore in attesa, l'oscena bocca aperta, dietro i nostri angoli di falsa normalità.
YOU are very lucky @f3nix that I didn't read this right before bed!
very spooky! and knowing it's real makes it even spookier!
I don't think I would have been able to stop and take photo's
Yes the second photo was made just becouse i was using the smartphone light to see there inside.. glad that It gave you a bit of shivers @snook ;-)
Wow.that must have been crazy scary!! Glad I wasn't on that hike....
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-46-5-minute-freewrite-prompt-gullible
It wasn't so scary by itself..the fear came from the unexpected
and mixed with the smell!! Thank you so much for creeping us out!! lol
hahah...you can relax by reading my poetry...about a mantis devouring the partner's head :-P
That sounds so beautiful, romantic and relaxing!!! bahhhhhh :)
Exactely, I think I'm really a typical romantic Italian guy hahah 😛
😂 🤣
(my wife always tells me "how romantic! " ironically..i just reply im authentic ;-p)
I think you and your colleague have come across some remnant of a satanic rite.
There are reports of sects in our foothill countries. One time or another, I will write a post about the surreal affair of the Montaner Schism.
That would be very interesting..Yes I think so Marco, I even called the priest the day after to warn him, but it seems he didn't really give a shit about it, maybe he was part of it?
I wouldn't be surprised of that, but perhaps he simply didn't believe you.
I guess the second, but the plot would gain great benefit from the first ;-) Domani ti commento quella della selkie..ora a durmì!
that falls close to home. Many years ago, a friend of mine was murdered in an area known for devils worshippers and it was very weird.....
Someday, I have to write that story.
still freaks me out!!
I'm sorry for your loss, I guess it was terrible😞
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