Although Halloween season is coming to a close, 26-year-old Liv Johnson says she’s yet to spend any money visiting a haunted house. Instead, she just goes into her building’s basement to do her laundry for free – which is pretty much the same experience.
“People go to haunted houses for the adrenaline, the thrill of not knowing what’s going to be around the next corner,” Liv explained. “Well, that’s the exact same experience I have when I do laundry in the basement of my apartment building.”
Spooky!
Liv added that her apartment’s basement is actually better than a haunted house because of the possibility that it actually is haunted.
“I haven’t actually seen a ghost down here, but I also haven’t encountered any incontrovertible evidence that a ghost doesn’t live down here,” she said. “What I have seen is several mice, a handful of house centipedes, and my neighbors’ underwear.”
Ghost or no ghost, that basement is definitely cursed!
As a bonus, Liv says that living in an old, semi-decrepit building means the Halloween fun never has to come to an end.
“It’s pretty much always spooky season when I have to go into the bowels of a 1920s-era apartment building to wash my sheets,” Liv told reporters. “But it’s definitely amplified once fall hits. Descending those creaky, cobweb covered stairs into total darkness really gets me in the Halloween spirit!”
Liv says sometimes she does her laundry at night just to add to the eerie ambiance.
“One time, I heard a noise and got so scared!” Liv told reporters. “Then I realized it was just the sound of the washing machine I had literally just turned on. I guess I’m just jumpy down here!”
She continued, saying, “And then, another time, I turned around, and my neighbor was like right there. They were just doing their laundry, but still. No haunted house can top the anxiety of being caught off guard by your neighbor.”
Now that’s a jump scare!
At press time, Liv had decided to give a real haunted house a shot, just to see what all the fuss was about, but was ultimately unimpressed.
“Where’s the exposed insulation in the ceiling? Where’s the spider web that definitely had a spider in it a second ago but is now suspiciously empty? Where’s Don from 2E? I think I’ll stick to doing my laundry for a scare from now on.”
