Grew up in a brick bungalow, suburb of Chicago. It of course had a basement, dank and occasionally wet from flood water, and home of one nasty kind of insect. Aside from hordes of mosquitoes present about 6 months out of the year, not too many things really were troublesome, such as sucking one's blood!
These horrible things were often seen in our basement, especially during night-time hours. Where they kept hidden, one never knew, but they were most efficacious at climbing the walls, even saw one upstairs on a bedroom ceiling! After a skirmish I had as a late teenager, I took to sleeping in the basement. One night, one of these things bit me, somewhere on the leg I believe it was. Nasty, sore, hurt like hell. My Dad told of their house previous, in Cicero, which had a partial-wood floor in the basement which he decided to rip out. He said there were hundreds of them under that floor! He was killing them as fast as he could, as they quickly vanished; they moved with incredible speed!
But never these: This particular one was possessed of the ability of flight! In a house I had rented in Phoenix, one of them flw out of a wall register across the living room lit only by the T-V, landed on a wall, I thought it was a bird! Frightfully big they were there. And fast! Fortunately, not all could fly.
These were under my rental house in Canon City, Colorado. Lots of them. How I found out, one morning just about first-light, lying on the bed on my back, naked as usual, it was hot, house had no A/C, my spectacle-less eyes opened to see something on the ceiling, directly above me. Glasses slipped on off the nightstand, I realized it was a scorpion! Right above me! Never had I arisen as quickly as that before!
Anyone have any memories of stuff, maybe from youth, that were unnerving along these lines? imp
These horrible things were often seen in our basement, especially during night-time hours. Where they kept hidden, one never knew, but they were most efficacious at climbing the walls, even saw one upstairs on a bedroom ceiling! After a skirmish I had as a late teenager, I took to sleeping in the basement. One night, one of these things bit me, somewhere on the leg I believe it was. Nasty, sore, hurt like hell. My Dad told of their house previous, in Cicero, which had a partial-wood floor in the basement which he decided to rip out. He said there were hundreds of them under that floor! He was killing them as fast as he could, as they quickly vanished; they moved with incredible speed!
But never these: This particular one was possessed of the ability of flight! In a house I had rented in Phoenix, one of them flw out of a wall register across the living room lit only by the T-V, landed on a wall, I thought it was a bird! Frightfully big they were there. And fast! Fortunately, not all could fly.
These were under my rental house in Canon City, Colorado. Lots of them. How I found out, one morning just about first-light, lying on the bed on my back, naked as usual, it was hot, house had no A/C, my spectacle-less eyes opened to see something on the ceiling, directly above me. Glasses slipped on off the nightstand, I realized it was a scorpion! Right above me! Never had I arisen as quickly as that before!
Anyone have any memories of stuff, maybe from youth, that were unnerving along these lines? imp
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