Journal Entry – July 31st, 2025

I woke up in a dark house. It was very old fashioned with wooden floors, walls, and antique looking furniture. The lights in the room I woke up were on, but some of the other rooms and hallways had no lights, so I was unable to see into the darkness. I quietly crept around, exploring the various rooms and hallways until I eventually came upon a particularly dark hallway. There wasn’t a single light beyond that point (even in the rooms adjacent to it), but I could see a faint outline of the hallway itself.

I walked into the darkness, entered the closest room, and turned on the lights. It turned out to be a completely ordinary room with a desk, shelves, etc. I ventured back into the dark hallway and noticed a room at the end of the corridor now had its lights on and the door was open. I approached the room and stood in the doorway until a man I didn’t recognize emerged.

The entire time I was in this mansion, I felt like I was intruding in someone else’s home. When I saw the man, I apologized for intruding and told him I didn’t know where I was. Instead of responding, he remained silent and threw or shot something at me. When it hit me, I fell backwards into another room immobilized. I didn’t feel any pain and I wasn’t unconscious, I was only paralyzed.

While I was laying on the ground, he crouched down over me and used a red cloth to wipe under my nose. It seemed as if he was trying to collect blood from my nose, even though I wasn’t bleeding. Afterwards, he lifted a decorative/ritualistic object (it looked like a statue of some kind perhaps?) that was on the floor in front of me and began wrapping or folding the cloth around and under the object. It seemed like he was prepping it for some ritual – that was the feeling I got.

Due to my position laying on the ground at the time, I was able to see under the object when he lifted it. I saw what appeared to be a glyph, sigil, or ancient writing on a circular piece fitted underneath the object. Once he had finished wrapping the cloth around it, he set it back down and left the room.