Personal Narrative: The 13th Gate

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It was October 18, 2016, and I was about to meet clowns, killers, and hungry butcher. I didn't know how I did it but I made it out of there alive and in one piece. I was in downtown Baton Rouge at a 40,000 square foot building known as the 13th Gate. A place full of professional actors with a creepy makeup job.

One thing I remember the most was the elevator shaft. That crazy nurse told the group,” Stay to the edge,” well next thing you know is that the elevator starts shaking, the lights go off, and I across scream my tail off. I was hanging on as tight as possible and before I could blink a dead woman walks into the perfectly closed elevator and I scream again. Then, she was gone, that women were a murder in the making. Of course, the elevator finally opens and then I regret paying 30 dollars to go to this asylum. We were walking through

“Cylie,” I screamed, “Is he gonna kill me?”

“ No, he just likes weak raw meat,” she protested.

Well, I was weak and raw meat, so I concluded he wanted to kill me. As we kept walking there were tunnels, black inflatable tunnels
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But, when we got to the boardwalk surrounded by smelly, soggy, swamp he was nowhere to be seen. Which I was happy cause I wasn’t in the mood to die. Out of all those things could not compare what was about to happen. It came out of nowhere, an extremely loud train. The conductor was telling my group who was full of all my friends to go left and follow the line. Well, I across follow the line to hear the train, I screamed my tail off, again. The funny part is that two minutes later it happened again except with an eighteen-wheeler which literally came out of nowhere, especially the lights they blinded me. Moving on, I had a fishy feeling when I saw a baby carriage. Obviously, I was about to lose it, but I lost worse than I thought I would. There was a woman, looked depressed, “ Come see my baby,” she

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