Speaker 1: My friend Marcus and I loved checking out abandoned places
Speaker 1: to kill boredom. One time we found this old wellness
Speaker 1: center on the outskirts that had been there for ages.
Speaker 1: It didn't require much sneaking skills or a lot of equipment.
Speaker 1: The building was just surrounded by a fence, no security,
Speaker 1: no cameras, nothing. Upon entering, we found a stairway leading
Speaker 1: to the upper floor. There was something written on the
Speaker 1: wall near the stairs. I brushed the dust and the
Speaker 1: word sauna was revealed underneath.
Speaker 2: I wish this place was in good shape. I'd love
Speaker 2: to take a hot steam in this cold winter.
Speaker 1: Marcus pushed open the door and we landed in the
Speaker 1: mosaic covered room. I suddenly felt someone's hand touching my shoulder.
Speaker 2: Hey, stop messing with me. What I didn't do anything?
Speaker 2: Yeah right, you think your silly prank is gonna scare me, Marcus.
Speaker 1: I kept on arguing, when suddenly a voice came to
Speaker 1: my ears. It out like a song. Yes, someone was singing.
Speaker 1: It was a woman singing a very well known nursery rhyme,
Speaker 1: but in an eerie way.
Speaker 3: Bab bab black She have you any wool? Yes, sir, yes, sir,
Speaker 3: three bags full.
Speaker 1: Marcus and I looked at each other with fearful eyes.
Speaker 1: The way she sang felt so weird.
Speaker 3: One for the Master, one for the Dame, and one
Speaker 3: for the little boy who lives down the lane.
Speaker 2: Who who is that? Maybe some homeless woman.
Speaker 1: The song was coming from the other end of the sauna.
Speaker 1: I flashed my light, expecting to see someone there, but
Speaker 1: there was no one. But the song just went on.
Speaker 3: One for the Master, one for the Dame, and one
Speaker 3: for the little boy who lives down the lane.
Speaker 2: There is anybody here?
Speaker 3: One for the Master, one for the Dame, and one
Speaker 3: for the little boy who lives down the lane.
Speaker 1: The voice kept repeating these same lines again and again.
Speaker 1: We walked to the other end of the sauna and
Speaker 1: found a big gicozie filled with murky blackwater.
Speaker 2: Look.
Speaker 1: Marcus crouched down near the tub and picked up a
Speaker 1: small walkman. The song was coming from him.
Speaker 3: One for the Master, one for the Dame, and one
Speaker 3: for the.
Speaker 1: He pressed the pause button and it stopped.
Speaker 2: Told you there's no such thing as ghosts. Do you
Speaker 2: think someone left it here to scare us? Maybe? Maybe not,
Speaker 2: But the pawn shop might pay well for the stupid antique.
Speaker 1: Marcus took out the casette from the walkman and threw
Speaker 1: it on the floor. He stopped on it, crushing the
Speaker 1: poor thing into pieces.
Speaker 2: What did you do that for us?
Speaker 4: For fun?
Speaker 2: Let's check the other rooms. Maybe there's more crap we'll
Speaker 2: be able to sell.
Speaker 1: Marcus turned away, and I kept thinking, what are the odds?
Speaker 1: The walkman is years old and there was no way
Speaker 1: it was still working. Also, when we walked into the building,
Speaker 1: it was all quiet. The song started playing all of
Speaker 1: a sudden. Did someone do that just to scare us?
Speaker 2: Dude, move it? We don't have all night.
Speaker 1: Marcus's voice brought me back to reality. Just when we
Speaker 1: were about to leave the sauna room, I heard a
Speaker 1: low boiling sound. It was like water was boiling in
Speaker 1: the distance. We looked back and noticed the jacuzzi. The
Speaker 1: dirty water stood still. There was no movement in the water,
Speaker 1: yet it made sounds like bubbles popping.
Speaker 2: I think something stuck inside.
Speaker 1: What Marcus did next was stupid all this. He snatched
Speaker 1: the flashlight from my hand and torched it on the
Speaker 1: dark water. The water was so dark that the rays
Speaker 1: of light couldn't decipher the bottom.
Speaker 2: Are you crazy? There's something at the bottom of the top.
Speaker 2: Come on, Marcus, don't be ridiculous.
Speaker 1: But he didn't listen. He kept searching into the top,
Speaker 1: churning the filthy water. My heart was racing with each
Speaker 1: passing moment.
Speaker 2: I think I touched something. It's a little what what
Speaker 2: is it?
Speaker 1: Suddenly something jumped from the water and pulled Marcus in.
Speaker 1: He didn't even get the chance to screen. His shaking
Speaker 1: body went in, creating a huge splash.
Speaker 2: Marcus.
Speaker 1: No, I was terrified by the sight. Marcus was gone,
Speaker 1: and only the turned on flashlight floated in the top.
Speaker 1: There was no sound of a struggle, no sign of
Speaker 1: a third person. It was only me and my heavy
Speaker 1: breathing in that creepy, dark sauna.
Speaker 2: Marcus, Please, this isn't funny, man.
Speaker 1: My throat was dry, my legs were numb and fear.
Speaker 1: I wanted to leave that place. Oh what about my friend?
Speaker 1: Where did he go?
Speaker 5: Marcus?
Speaker 1: Suddenly bubbles appeared on the surface of the water in
Speaker 1: and I saw something. A head was slowly emerging from
Speaker 1: the water. But something wasn't normal about that head. The
Speaker 1: pale moonlight from the broken window helped me see in
Speaker 1: the dark instead of hair the head began with the chin,
Speaker 1: followed by a pair of dry lips. It took me
Speaker 1: a few more seconds to realize the actual horror. The
Speaker 1: head was upside down. The pair of flips started singing
Speaker 1: that same nursery rhyme we heard moments back. Just a
Speaker 1: chin and a pair of flips peeking from the water.
Speaker 3: Sinking Baba, black sheep, have you any wool?
Speaker 2: Yes, sir, yes, sir.
Speaker 3: Three packs.
Speaker 1: I lost my balance and sat down on the dusty floor.
Speaker 1: All the blood in my veins froze. I couldn't believe
Speaker 1: what I was seeing.
Speaker 3: One for the Master, one for the Dame, and one
Speaker 3: bore the little boy who lives down the lane.
Speaker 1: The singing stopped, the inverted head remained still too swung
Speaker 1: it rotten hands grabbed the edge of the jacuzzie. Slowly,
Speaker 1: the hands started pushing the edge, making the face lift.
Speaker 1: And that's when I saw the eyes. They had no
Speaker 1: pupils except the flushed eyeball that looked infected. I couldn't
Speaker 1: stand it anymore. A scream came out of my numb throat.
Speaker 1: I got up to run. I heard Marcus's voice calling
Speaker 1: from behind, Jimmy, stop, don't leave me here. The more
Speaker 1: I ran to the exit, Marcus's voice got distorted.
Speaker 2: Oh Jimmy, come back for your friend.
Speaker 3: Don't be scared.
Speaker 2: We were just having fun.
Speaker 1: But nothing could make me go back to that sauna.
Speaker 1: It's been fifteen years now. Marcus's body was never found.
Speaker 1: His parents blamed me. The village people think I killed
Speaker 1: them and got rid of the evidence. Every night I
Speaker 1: wake up drenched in sweat, seeing that inverted head smiling
Speaker 1: at me from that dark, murky water.
Speaker 2: I think we all have in common that, even if
Speaker 2: only for a moment, we enjoy activities that give us
Speaker 2: peace and relaxation. I am a person who works a
Speaker 2: lot and has almost no rest, but when my vacations come,
Speaker 2: I just want to be relaxed. That vacation, I went
Speaker 2: with my family to the beach and we spent the
Speaker 2: night in a paradisiacal hotel near the beach. The next day,
Speaker 2: my husband took our children to see a soccer game.
Speaker 2: I could have gone with them, but he insisted that
Speaker 2: I stay at the hotel and enjoy some alone time
Speaker 2: in the sauna. I thought it was an excellent idea,
Speaker 2: so I thanked him and agreed. After my family had left.
Speaker 2: I put on my towels and headed for the sauna area.
Speaker 2: I had never been in one before, but I had
Speaker 2: always wanted to. Upon entering the sauna, I must admit
Speaker 2: that it was everything I had imagined. The warmth began
Speaker 2: to permeate the room, and I laid back, relaxed, just
Speaker 2: enjoying the heat and almost falling asleep. Everything was going
Speaker 2: more than perfect until I heard the doors open. Someone
Speaker 2: else had come in. I didn't mind another girl entering
Speaker 2: the sauna. I'm not gonna lie. I preferred to be alone,
Speaker 2: but she also had the right to have a good time,
Speaker 2: and I had no reason to feel uncomfortable. The problem
Speaker 2: is is that this person was walking very slowly in
Speaker 2: my direction, and when I had it in front of
Speaker 2: me and the steam dissipated, I realized it wasn't a woman.
Speaker 2: The person was a man. As soon as I saw him,
Speaker 2: even when I was inside a sauna, I got goosebumps.
Speaker 2: This man's eyes were tiny, so small that it looked
Speaker 2: like they weren't even there. He had no lips on
Speaker 2: his mouth, and his nose was so close to his
Speaker 2: face that it looked like the holes were glued to
Speaker 2: his face. The man walked with great difficulty in my direction.
Speaker 2: At that moment, I didn't care how terrifying he was.
Speaker 2: I wasn't going to let a creep ruin my rest.
Speaker 4: Hey, get out of here. This is the women's sauna.
Speaker 2: The man ignored me and just kept walking in my direction.
Speaker 2: It was then I realized that I could be in danger.
Speaker 2: That this man had not entered the woman's sauna by accident.
Speaker 2: I stood up and walked towards the exit of the sauna,
Speaker 2: but with a quick movement, the man came back to
Speaker 2: the door and stopped it with his hand. Wait, you
Speaker 2: can't leave yet.
Speaker 6: What what's wrong with you? Get out of my way.
Speaker 2: I tried to push him, but the man didn't flinch,
Speaker 2: and I must admit that terrified me. No, you can't leave.
Speaker 5: You have to help me.
Speaker 6: What do you mean, I'm too too hot?
Speaker 2: Too hot?
Speaker 5: Here?
Speaker 4: Are you crazy? If it's that hot here, just go away.
Speaker 4: This is a sauna.
Speaker 5: No, I can't leave.
Speaker 2: They'll find out.
Speaker 6: What is anyone out there?
Speaker 5: No, they're sid me. They're in my head. They talk
Speaker 5: to me all the time. They say I'm a bad point.
Speaker 5: They say they have to punish me.
Speaker 6: Okay, that's enough.
Speaker 2: I tried to get up from the seat, but before
Speaker 2: I could, he threw himself at me, putting one arm
Speaker 2: on each side so I couldn't get up. His face
Speaker 2: was in front of mine. His small, tiny eyes were red.
Speaker 2: That wasn't sweat. He was crying, please, you have to
Speaker 2: help me.
Speaker 5: I can't stand the heat anymore. I hate the heat.
Speaker 5: You have to do something.
Speaker 2: At that moment, I was speechless. I didn't know how
Speaker 2: to help them. I didn't know what to say to him,
Speaker 2: much less how to escape from that situation. That man
Speaker 2: may be crying and asking me for help, but my consent.
Speaker 2: See how unstable he was. That person could attack me
Speaker 2: at any moment. I looked at his hands in my
Speaker 2: face and realized that his fingernails, besides being dirty and broken,
Speaker 2: were very sharp. His little eyes were darting from side
Speaker 2: to side, and his body was shaking. I had never
Speaker 2: felt so terrified in my life. While the man was
Speaker 2: screaming at me for help, all I could think about
Speaker 2: was my children, my husband. I didn't want to be
Speaker 2: in that sauna anymore. I wanted to be with them right.
Speaker 5: Don't ignore me.
Speaker 2: I'm melted. You have to do something. You help me.
Speaker 2: If you don't help me right now, I'm gonna.
Speaker 5: Melt to death.
Speaker 2: His cries were getting more and more desperate. This man
Speaker 2: was having a breakdown right in front of my eyes,
Speaker 2: and all I could do was witness it. Crying with him.
Speaker 2: I could only beg him not to do anything to me,
Speaker 2: until out of nowhere, the man let go of me
Speaker 2: and fell to the ground limb. I ran to the
Speaker 2: front door, and as I did so, I heard him
Speaker 2: whisper something in a very low voice.
Speaker 1: Still making fun of me.
Speaker 2: What have I done you? Why you sou mead to me.
Speaker 2: I ran in towels to the management and told them
Speaker 2: everything that was happening. I was still panicking, even though
Speaker 2: it made no sense. I felt I was still in danger,
Speaker 2: and it didn't go away until I hugged my family.
Speaker 2: A while later, the security personnel went to the sauna
Speaker 2: and found the man. He had just passed out, probably
Speaker 2: from the nervous breakdown he had just suffered. The man
Speaker 2: ended up hospitalized in a mental health center. The man
Speaker 2: suffered from schizophrenia, and his family never took enough interest
Speaker 2: in him to get it treated, which is more common
Speaker 2: than you might think. He was convinced that there were
Speaker 2: people in his head who wanted to kill him, and
Speaker 2: that day they almost did. I may have feared for
Speaker 2: my life at the time, and maybe my life was
Speaker 2: in danger, But today I can't stop thinking about that
Speaker 2: poor man, and as I work, I just pray that
Speaker 2: by getting the help he needs, he'll get better.
Speaker 1: Going to the sauna used to be my regular routine.
Speaker 1: When I turned thirty, my whole body started to hurt.
Speaker 1: Sauna therapy was the only thing I found that helped
Speaker 1: me soothe my skin, ease my soreness, and alleviate this
Speaker 1: stress from my life, which can get pretty hectic. Of course,
Speaker 1: I wasn't settling for some cheap ot public sauna, so
Speaker 1: I got a membership at a more exclusive spa where
Speaker 1: I could have a regular appointment for getting my own
Speaker 1: private sauna room. Since I own my own business, Mondays
Speaker 1: and Tuesdays are my off days, so I would go
Speaker 1: on Mondays every week at the same time of day
Speaker 1: when it's not busy. Everything about my weekly ritual was
Speaker 1: totally fine until this one guy showed up. He was
Speaker 1: about twenty years old, super greasy and weird looking. He
Speaker 1: was weirdly shure too, almost the same height as me,
Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure even for a woman who was
Speaker 1: standing around in the lobby. When I went in for
Speaker 1: my appointment, I was a few minutes early, so I
Speaker 1: was told to wait for my room to open up.
Speaker 1: When I sat down, this whirdo approached me and started
Speaker 1: trying to strike up a conversation.
Speaker 2: Hi, there, you've got great skin.
Speaker 6: Thanks.
Speaker 2: I bet you get that a lot, though. Guys must
Speaker 2: be all over you.
Speaker 6: Not really, it's just from the sauna. Are you a member?
Speaker 2: I was thinking about signing up, but I'm not really
Speaker 2: sure if I want to yet. It's kind of expensive,
Speaker 2: you know.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, if you can't afford it, there are plenty
Speaker 4: of other places you can go.
Speaker 2: Nah, I'd like to go to this one. I just
Speaker 2: want to make sure I'm getting my money's worth. Do
Speaker 2: you think I could step in with you for a
Speaker 2: free trial.
Speaker 4: I don't think so. I get a private room for
Speaker 4: a reason.
Speaker 2: Is it because you don't think I'm attractive?
Speaker 4: I just don't share my son as with other people. Now,
Speaker 4: if you'll excuse me, my appointment is ready.
Speaker 1: I was saved by the bell. I got up and
Speaker 1: walked away as soon as the hostess gave me the signal.
Speaker 1: I was obviously very thankful to get out of being
Speaker 1: cornered by that guy. His free trial comment literally made
Speaker 1: me throw up in my mouth because I couldn't get
Speaker 1: the image out of my head of all his pimples
Speaker 1: oozing puss once the steam started to express them. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: it was still in the lobby when I was done,
Speaker 1: except this time he was talking to the hostess about
Speaker 1: getting a membership. I distinctly remembered the look on his
Speaker 1: face when he glanced up from the paperwork. It was
Speaker 1: the creepiest smuggest expression of victory I'd ever seen on
Speaker 1: such an ugly mug. Whatever I thought walking out and
Speaker 1: getting on with my life, by the next week, I'd
Speaker 1: almost completely forgotten about the creed. Of course, it all
Speaker 1: came back to me when I walked in and he
Speaker 1: was waiting for me again. Before I was even able
Speaker 1: to check in with the hostess, he got in my way.
Speaker 2: Hey, I've got a membership. Now do you think you'd
Speaker 2: share a room with me? Now?
Speaker 4: Excuse me, but no, what do you think changed? Why
Speaker 4: don't you just get.
Speaker 6: Your own room?
Speaker 2: I'm worried I'll get bored without someone to talk to.
Speaker 6: Well, why don't you try it.
Speaker 1: I walked around him flat out, ignoring him. I could
Speaker 1: tell this made him angry, but it was kind of embarrassing. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it just made him seem like a man child to
Speaker 1: my dismay. I kept seeing him in the lobby every
Speaker 1: time I went. It was clear that he was intentionally
Speaker 1: going there just to trap me into conversation. So I
Speaker 1: bit the bullet and changed the time of my appointment
Speaker 1: to a Friday afternoon, which unfortunately meant it was way busier.
Speaker 1: I didn't see that creepy guy for a while, but
Speaker 1: he was a lot more peron assistant that I thought
Speaker 1: he would be. It wasn't long before he showed up again,
Speaker 1: but this time he was different. His skin was clearing
Speaker 1: up from the sauna treatment, and he was surprisingly better behaved.
Speaker 1: I guess that or maybe I was just feeling nicer
Speaker 1: after not having to deal with him for a bit.
Speaker 1: But he didn't come up and bother me immediately. Instead,
Speaker 1: I ran into a problem. While I checked in with
Speaker 1: a hostess, they told me that I didn't have an
Speaker 1: appointment and that I would have to come back next
Speaker 1: week since they were books solid. I was upset, but
Speaker 1: I didn't want to blow up on the people that
Speaker 1: I saw all the time. That's when I looked over
Speaker 1: my shoulder and saw him smiling at me. I already
Speaker 1: had the feeling that I shouldn't do what I was
Speaker 1: about to do, but I really didn't want to go
Speaker 1: all week without my ritual of relaxation. I walked up
Speaker 1: to him and said the words.
Speaker 6: Hey, do you think I could share yours sauna room?
Speaker 4: This time?
Speaker 6: They seemed to have lost My appoint meant.
Speaker 2: I thought you'd never ask.
Speaker 1: We waited for his appointment that I reluctantly followed him
Speaker 1: into the sauna. My heart sank a bit when he
Speaker 1: threw the latch. Everything was fine for a while, we
Speaker 1: just made small talk. That was until he took off
Speaker 1: his towel, exposing himself. I immediately started to freak out.
Speaker 6: Excuse me, but I'm not comfortable with that. Could you
Speaker 6: please cover it yourself up?
Speaker 2: If you're not comfortable, why don't you take off your towel.
Speaker 6: That's not what I meant. I've changed my mind. I'm leaving.
Speaker 1: I stood up to leave, but he jumped in front
Speaker 1: of me and blocked my way out.
Speaker 2: You're not leaving yet sweetheart, I've got another twenty five
Speaker 2: minutes with you.
Speaker 6: Get out of my way, you creep.
Speaker 1: I tried to get around him, but he grabbed me
Speaker 1: by the wrist.
Speaker 2: Stop squirming, just sit still. I'm not gonna hurt you
Speaker 2: that bad top of me.
Speaker 1: We fought back and forth. He tried to immobilize me,
Speaker 1: but I kept kicking him. Then he tried lifting me up.
Speaker 1: Suddenly he tripped on the wet floor and I fell
Speaker 1: on top of him. Then we both crashed through the
Speaker 1: glass door. He fell on his back, screaming in pain
Speaker 1: as a million shards of glass got stuck in his back.
Speaker 1: I got to my feet and ran away from him
Speaker 1: and started hollering for someone to call the police to
Speaker 1: get him arrested. Through legal action, I eventually managed to
Speaker 1: get a restraining order placed against him. Unfortunately, I was
Speaker 1: permanently banned from the sauna for the scene I caused