The house has been vacant for decades, yet the porch shows signs of movement no one can explain. Visitors who approached the property over the years reported deep scratches on the wooden boards — long, uneven, and carved with a force no common tool could replicate. Some marks run parallel, others bend sharply as if whatever made them changed direction mid-motion.
There are no records of animals in the region capable of producing such patterns. The spacing is too wide for claws, too irregular for tools, and too deliberate to be weather damage. Locals insist the marks “appear” after quiet nights, usually following strong drops in temperature.
Former investigators noted that the scratches are freshest near the doorway, increasing in depth as they spread across the planks, almost as if something tried to enter but stopped just short of crossing the threshold. No footprints accompany the marks. No debris. No hair. Nothing but the grooves in the wood and the steady silence of the lake behind the house.
These reports remain unverified — no camera has ever captured the cause.
But every visitor agrees on one detail:
the porch never looks exactly the same twice.