Several months ago, one of my local weird stores (crystals and witchy supplies) suddenly burst into flame in the middle of the night, didn’t do any damage to anything outside of its store, and the local Fire Department completely slapsticked their response like a Three Stooges movie until the fire put itself out. Firefighters were slipping and sliding down the icy sidewalk and per the local news the fire truck slid away down the street with a guy on the ladder, something that shouldn’t be possible.
There are scorch marks on the still-standing walls that once separated this store from its neighboring stores in the same building. Even the burning roof put itself out before it got to either of the adjacent stores. It screams of insurance fraud, but the ATF sent a bunch of arson investigators that looked into it for like 5 months, couldn’t figure it out and turned it over to some other agency. Literally an actual X-file in my own back yard.
This actually seems to be the quiet consensus around town, that something supernatural happened. People actively cross the street instead of walking past it, nobody’s bought the land, and there’s no construction there unlike every single other block in town.
It’s an abandoned piece of prime real estate in the dead center of a rapidly growing and expanding downtown mixed-use area, and even the local porkies and their piggies are scared shitless about it.
Several months ago, one of my local weird stores (crystals and witchy supplies) suddenly burst into flame in the middle of the night, didn’t do any damage to anything outside of its store, and the local Fire Department completely slapsticked their response like a Three Stooges movie until the fire put itself out. Firefighters were slipping and sliding down the icy sidewalk and per the local news the fire truck slid away down the street with a guy on the ladder, something that shouldn’t be possible.
There are scorch marks on the still-standing walls that once separated this store from its neighboring stores in the same building. Even the burning roof put itself out before it got to either of the adjacent stores. It screams of insurance fraud, but the ATF sent a bunch of arson investigators that looked into it for like 5 months, couldn’t figure it out and turned it over to some other agency. Literally an actual X-file in my own back yard.
Clearly summoned the insurance fraud daemon.
This actually seems to be the quiet consensus around town, that something supernatural happened. People actively cross the street instead of walking past it, nobody’s bought the land, and there’s no construction there unlike every single other block in town.
It’s an abandoned piece of prime real estate in the dead center of a rapidly growing and expanding downtown mixed-use area, and even the local porkies and their piggies are scared shitless about it.
This sounds like a literal Scooby Doo plot.
This sounds like the opening of a Stephen King novel lol
…i played a call of cthulhu adventure like that…
“Aeyup there’s your problem, you stored your rose jadeite next to your malachandrine and the healing energies caught fire”
Spontaneous wiccan store combustion.
Also uncritical support for insurance fraud.
Heck of a warding.
There are witchie supplies stores…
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they’re like 3/4 of the economy of Salem, MA
definitely summoned a fiery entity of some kind