The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings - Lot 076 : Roadkill

Episode Date: March 15, 2025

I Killed Someone By Accident. Now She Is Crawling Through My WallsWritten by SkullKnitterPerformed by Larry Fessendenhttps://www.reddit.com/r/scarystories/comments/1j1w9oe/i_killed_someone_by_accident_now_shes_crawling/Featuring Stephen Knowles as The Antique DealerTheme music by The Newton BrothersAdditional music byCO.AG ([e-mail])Vivek AbhishekSUBSCRIBE us on YOUTUBE: https://bit.ly/3qumnPHFollow on Facebook : https://bit.ly/33RWRtPFollow on Instagram : https://bit.ly/2ImU2JV Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Hello, friend! How nice of you to make the time to stop by! Always delights me to see you betwixt these ill-fated shells. To what do I owe your visit today? Ha ha ha ha ha. As if you must even answer that. Tonight, my dear Traveller of the Strange, I have something particularly unsettling. A simple backpack, worn and weathered by time. Its canvas staying dark with something that was once red, but has long since dried to brown.

It came to me by chance, as many of these artifacts do, left behind, forgotten, or perhaps abandoned with purpose. At first glance, it appears ordinary, zippers, straps. A few personal belongings still rattling inside. But there's something wrong about it. Something that lingers in the air, like the scent of rain on asphalt, just before the storm turns violent. You see, this backpack has a story to tell,

one that reeks of dust and gasoline, of headlights cutting through the dark, and of something that was never meant, to be found. So settle in, if you dare. But be warned, some roads should never be traveled, and some things left behind should remain.

As such, this is roadkill. Before we begin, I want to point out some of the customers whose names have been etched in brass on this beautiful plaque I had made above the front desk. These are some of the members of the inner circle of the Antiquarium. We go by the Obsidian Covenant.

Recent initiates include Morgan Vandevere, Crystal Hall, Devin, Liz Marshall, the artist formerly known as Mouse Cop, Gavin Hagg, This is Honto, Brigh, hope. We are ever appreciative of your devotion to the order. Go to the Obsidian Covenant.com to receive the sacrament. Now, where were we? Oh yes.

Welcome to the antiquarium of sinister happenings. And odd goings on. Killed someone by accident. Now she's crawling through my walls. The girl's body made a sickening sound when my tires hit her. Back of her skull against the grill of my car. She was bent down, maybe tying her shoe, just low enough that I didn't see her. Right there in front of me.

Why didn't she look up? Why didn't she hear me coming? You'll figure it out soon enough when the news gets out. That's fine. I don't care anymore. But what was she doing out there, on the road, in the middle of nowhere, just dirt and corn for miles. It's not like I wanted this.

I didn't ask for it. I was in a hurry. It was raining. A sheet of fog rolled in thick and low across the ground. One minute I was looking down. The next, wham! Her body was there, twisted and broken. Smeared across my grill like some goddamn nightmare I couldn't wake from.

What fuck was I supposed to do? You think you'd handle it any better? You really believe you'd... do the right thing and march her body straight to the nearest police station. It was the middle of nowhere, no witnesses, and I was just supposed to tie the manslaughter noose around my own neck. What if you weren't just driving for fun? What if the reason you were out here on some forgotten backroad

was because your car was loaded with enough weed to lock you away for ten years? You telling me you'd risk 20, 30, 40 years rotting behind bars for this? because some idiot decided to wander into the dark. You can speculate. Tell yourself you'd do better than me, but I know better. I lived it. And I'm not about to sit here and pretend I'm some goddamn saint,

but you can't tell me it was all my fault. I stepped out. What a fucking mess. Lean from the socket. Air tangled in the hood, strands matted and slick with rain. Jesus, caved in. Brain matter splattered. across the pavement in wet clumps, and her legs pulverized beneath the tires. Nothing left,

threw up. The rain came down in sheets, cold and merciless. The air smelled like a slaughterhouse, raw and metallic, thick with the stench of death. She had shit herself. I could smell that, too. Zinc and copper clung to the air, the bite of blood thick on my tongue. There was that sharp ozone to thunder rolling somewhere far off low and distant like a warning, making flesh free from the axle, every pulse sick and nauseating. A fist-sized dent cratered the grill, but all I could see was the blood. Every drop the rain washed away seemed to summon ten more, oozing relentlessly from her shattered skull. I heard it, addling snore of a body too stubborn to die just yet.

A thin whistle from her lungs, like her tongue was jammed in the back of her throat, alive, alive, still somehow clinging to life. By the time I had her stowed away in the trunk, she had stopped breathing altogether. I found her backpack lying ten feet from the road flung out like some sad afterthought. I tried to gather her teeth. I think I missed a few. I tossed what was left of her arm in after dragging it free from the wheel well what little remained of it.

And as I drove back home, all I could feel was panic, clawing at my throat. If I got pulled over, I'd say I hit a deer. That was the plan. The dent in the hood, the blood, a deer. Nothing more. When I got home and opened the trunk, it shifted. I told myself it was just the drive, bumps in the road, gravity doing its work. and I saw her face.

High lids, a bloodshot. Red spiderweb spread across the sclera glass. Split maybe somewhere below the incisors. Just as they centered on me, dilated, locking on like she was still there. Eyes, transfixing, haunting. Her broken jaw and all, she was smiling at me.

Smiling like the fucking Cheshire cat after someone took a baseball bat to its smug, grinning face. I slammed the trunk shut, hard enough to make the whole car shutter. My heart thundered in my chest, hooves pounding, relentless. Every beat was pain, sharp and jabbing like my ribs were trying to split open. My pulse kicked wild in my throat, palpitations firing off like I was about to drop dead from a heart attack. I live alone. Always have.

The house, an old 80s era colonial, was left to me after my parents died. Most homes nowadays don't come with a dirt floor crawl space in the basement, but mine does. And really, where the hell else was I supposed to put her? I don't get visitors. I keep to myself reclusive, they'd call it. I worked a toll booth during the day, and that's it. No friends dropping by, no neighbors sticking their noses in. But I don't have the guts to cut her apart. To hack her into manageable pieces and toss them into some river miles away.

That felt like crossing a line. Dismemberment. Desecration. Really, considering everything I had already done, would it have even mattered anymore? Dug deep. Six feet down, maybe deeper. Rapt her in a blue tarp thick and plastic and shoved her into the hole. A smell hit me harder than anything else. Death, it was wrong. Sharp ammonia like rancid cat piss mixed with the stench of sulfur. Rotten eggs cracked open in the sun, spoiled milk curdling in the back of your throat, filled the dirt back in, packed it down as best I could. The smell didn't go away. I scrubbed my car clean, pulled clumps of hair out of the bumper, strands tangled and slick with dried blood. I tore the upholstery out of the trunk and burned it, watching the fabric curl and blacken in the flames.

I didn't dare take the car to a mechanic. If things went south, if someone started asking questions, that car would be the noose around my neck. So I left it. Parked it in the garage and locked it uptight. I even burned my stash. All of it. Care about selling it anymore.

Money didn't matter. Nothing to gaze. Old in sick to work. Food poisoning, I said. My manager bought it, offered that fake sympathy that barely stretched past protocol. Whoreshit, they didn't care. Nobody did. I biked to the corner store for supplies, sweat-soaked and paranoid.

Car locked away like a coffin on wheels. I bought cans of frieze, wall diffusers, anything to kill that smell. But it didn't help. The stench was overwhelming. It seeped from the vents thick and rancid like the breath of something monstrous and starving. I could almost hear it. Each exhale, a wet, foul sigh, dragging through the ducts like something alive was tasting the air. I was in the living room a few nights ago.

Plugs jammed in my nose when the TV flickered on by itself. Not the ruin I left in my trunk, no. before. A photo of her, smiling, bright-eyed, caught in some high school volleyball team picture. Perfect. Guilt hit me like ice watered down my spine. My skin crawled like insect legs scratching just beneath the surface, tiny, invisible petapalps brushing up my arms. They said she was missing. Talk of police searches. The community route turned it off. I unplugged the TV. The screen went dark, but her face lingered, burned into the glass. A fire. faint ghost image searing into the pixels.

I grabbed a paperweight and smashed it through the screen. Shards of glass scattered across the floor. I got rid of her. I stopped answering calls after that, let them pile up. I found out I'd lost my job through a voicemail I never listened to. A week had passed. I was drowning in panic, too consumed by it to care. I destroyed every radio, every TV, yanked my landline straight from the wall when it started ringing and wouldn't stop.

I didn't dare listen. I didn't want to know what was on the other end. And the flies came. Lazy black things, thick as pencil erasers, they bit hard, like tiny can openers tearing in my skin. They gathered on the windowsills, piled high and sticky black drifts, their brittle corpses crunching underfoot. And still, the smell lingered. I was taking a shower when I first heard the tapping behind the wall. Told myself it was just the pipes adjusting. Nothing unusual.

Houses creak and groan all the time. Guffling. Something dragging, slow and deliberate like a predator pulling along its kill. My mind betrayed me then. I imagined her shattered legs bent at impossible angles. trailing behind her like the slug-slick remnants of something that should have stayed dead. The sounds didn't stop, always there, always closer, late at night above my bed, circling like a shark beneath the waves. Dust trickled down from the ceiling, forming

neat little pyramids on my sheets. It followed me from room to room. The sound of something sliding across the ceiling, kitchen to bathroom to bedroom, like a loyal dog shadowing its owner. But this wasn't a raccoon, and it sure as hell wasn't anything natural. Two nights ago, I was sitting in the bathtub trying to drown it out. Just the rush of water filling the tub, the only sound I could trust. I thought maybe I could wash the fear off, scrub the stench of rock and guilt from my skin. The smell lingered, damp, sour, festering, no matter how much I cleaned. Then, muscle locking up like ice had filled my veins and another tap.

Closer this time, deliberate. I told myself, it was in my head just like the scratching, just like the dragging in the walls. Slow, heavy knock from beneath the water. And the surface rippled with it, tiny waves trembling outward. I leaned forward, staring into the water's reflection. That's when I saw it. Something drifting from the drain, wet and clumpy,

like tendrils stretching towards the surface. I reached down without thinking, pulled it free, still attached to a slick patch of scalp, pale and quarter-sized. I threw it across the room. It hit the wall with a sickening thud, it churned, bile rising.

But then the drain started gurgling. Greedy sounds like something, was drinking from below. The water swirled faster, slurping down in wet gulbs. And then it stopped, back at me, open and dark like it. And something inside it, a shadow bulged beneath the porcelain. Fingers clawed at the underside, scratching from the other side. I couldn't see them, but I felt them, long, cold nail scraping for release. I watched as something pale forced its way through, a single broken finger bloated and rotten, pushing through the drain. It twitched, searching like a worm, writhing out of the soil during a storm. I bolted from the tug, slipping

hard on the wet tile, splitting my knee open. I didn't care. I just needed to get away. It wasn't enough that she had destroyed my car, ruined my life, and put me at risk of prison. No, she couldn't leave it at that. Now, she was haunting me. You look uneasy, friend. Can't say I blame you. The thought of something crawling up through the drain is particularly disturbing. But don't worry, you have a moment to collect yourself. There's a small matter I need to tend to in the stock room that requires my immediate attention.

Something you'll learn all about. Soon enough. Stay put. And I'll be right back. The message. Garden gnome from you guys about a year ago, had a salt and pepper beard, carried a little spade. I've been pretty happy with my purchase. It came with the list of rules.

It was a little weird to follow at first, but, you know, over time it gets a lot easier. You know, don't walk on the grass after dark. Keep, it's been pretty good. You know, my garden grew really great last year. I came out today with my seats started. I was ready to start a new garden for the new year. and um there's there's two more of them out there who's got a little pair of hedge clippers and one of them have a little pitchfork uh i don't know if you know them but purchase been due to the same rules apply neighbors have started asking questions about some of their pets

call me back when you can let me know what's going on uh if there's anything you can do to help uh good you're still here i was beginning to wonder if you've taken this opportunity to walk away but no curiosity always wins doesn't it now let's see just how far our poor driver's mistakes will follow him shall we a single broken finger bloated and rotten pushing through the drain it twitched searching like a worm writhing out of the soil during a storm I bolted from the tongue slipping hard on the wet tile, splitting my knee open. I didn't care.

I just needed to get away. It wasn't enough that she had destroyed my car, ruined my life, and put me at risk of prison. No, she couldn't leave it at that. Now, she was haunting me, mocking me. I grabbed a roofing hammer from the garage and planted myself in the living room, listening to the dragging to shifting.

She was in the walls now, moving, watching. When I heard her slither past the far, wall, rage. I rushed forward and began tearing into the drywall, hammering again and again, bits of plaster rained down like snow. I caught sight of something pale, an arm, a leg, slithering, just out of reach. Oh, and the smell. When the wall cracked up and it hit me like a freight train, rotten eggs, ammonia, and decaying flesh, thick enough to taste on the back of my tongue. She was contaminating my home, infecting it. I swung the hair. again, but before I could pull back, it was yanked from my hands, sucked into the wall with terrifying force.

I stumbled backwards, crashed into a lamp, breathed, ripped from my chest, and all I could do was stare at the hole, gaping useless, like a fish out of water. And then I saw it. That dark crimson bulging through the fracture in the wall, he watched me, split with jagged red lines. And then I saw it. like a cracked mirror, and every primal part of me screamed. Deep down in the marrow of my bones and the electric pulse of my brain, I knew I'd fucked up. I'd crossed a line I couldn't uncross. Before this, there were rules. She had the walls.

I had the rest of the house. That boundary, thin and fragile as it was, had held until I broke it, until I opened a door. And from that moment on, everything got worse. As I lay in bed, every breath shallow and ragged, I heard it of drywall, the slow, deliberate tear of the hole widening, a sound wet and gritty like muscle being stripped from bone. I thought about vampires then, how they had to be invited in.

Had I done that? Was smashing through the wall an invitation? When I finally worked up the nerve to rush downstairs, slower this time, more cautious, I saw what had become of the hole. It had widened into a mouth. The jagged edges of the drywall jutted out like cracked, broken teeth. She was inside now. Inside my house.

I bolted back upstairs, locked the door, shoved the dresser up against him, and then, was circling from the walls while I lay there, eyes bloodshot and wide open, plugs jammed into my nose to fight that goddamn smell. Sulfur. What she was now, wasn't she? Just roadkill. But then came the thumping. Cabinets ripped from their hinges, drawers wrenched free and hurled across the floor,

the unraveling of my home, my sanity, coming apart like a loose spool of thread. The destruction lasted all night. Dairs. A half-paralyzed child clawing her way upward. Then she slammed against my door again and again. No words. No heavy breathing. Just the smell thick and suffocating, burning in the back of my throat so close I could taste it.

At dawn she left. I heard her slither away back to whatever crack she crawled out of, retreating to the spaces between reality and madness. Move the dresser. Two things. A framed photo of me and... and my parents. Smashed, crumpled beneath shattered glass and a mangled frame.

Bite marks in the wood from a mouth that wasn't whole, teeth uneven, broke. And the door. Punched through several holes, as if she'd driven her fists into it. But then I saw the hammer, my hammer, embedded high in the wood, higher than it should have been, as if she'd been standing, standing on those. twisted, broken legs, splintered bone grinding through fresh and cartilage like knives through wet paper, like a toddler taking its first unstable steps. I laughed, a raw, guttural noise that clawed its way out of my throat. Sleepless nights, the stench, the violation of my home, my

control, no eyes prove it was all in my head. This was my house. I wasn't going to let some stupid whore, too careless to tie her shoes on the side of the road. Take it away from me. I needed to see her, convince myself she was still there, rotting in that pit, mangled, dead. Crawled into the basement. Another mistake. Like the hammer in the wall, like smashing through the drywall, I was crossing another line in a rulebook I didn't understand.

The crawl space was darker than it had ever been. The air thick and humid. dirt wet beneath my feet clinging to me like decay. The smell of sulfur and rot suffocated every breath. I started digging. The deeper I went, the more my skin crawled. Goose flesh prickled along my arms. Every hair standing on edge. Three feet down, anything. The edges of the blue tarp, crumpled and filthy half swallowed by the earth. And then something fell into the crawl space with me. me. The sound of wet, rancid meat hitting the dirt. I peeled the edge of the tarp open. Hollow is a grave with no corpse. No clicking of nails, just the wet, dragging sound now,

slow and steady, like something ancient and patient moving through the dirt. Something hungry, the instinct in me screamed. Asked the light towards the sound. Don't acknowledge it. So, I didn't. Narrow, collapsed, burrow in the earth, leading a little. away from the tarp and toward the cracks in the walls, like she had writhed her way out, a worm slipping through the soil, dragging herself back into the shadows. I left the hole behind, left the tarp, crawled toward the faint glow of the hatch, heart pounding like a war drum, huffing, stumbling, dirt-filling my mouth, the copper sting of fear, biting my tongue. But I could hear her behind me, that dragging,

No breath, no groans, just silence And that awful wet pull of something dead moving towards me The hatch slammed shut above me I screamed, I couldn't turn around I couldn't bring myself to shine the light behind me If I saw her, I knew it would break me I crawled faster like a dog, frantic and pathetic My hands clawed at the earth

My knees scraped raw, my head slammed into a wooden post Crack! White hot pain exploded behind my eyes and blood spilled down my face thick and blinding, but I could hear her picking up speed. The dragging sound grew faster, more eager. I had to look. I didn't want to, but I had to.

I turned the flashlight, and there she was. A broken rictus in the beam of my light. More rotten than I could have imagined skin slothing off in ribbons, scalp peeled back like the torn skin of an orange, revealing wet red bone beneath. Her body contorted into a sick parody of a crawl like a spider with every leg snapped. Her arm reattached but wrong bones stabbing through torn flesh like jagged knives. Her elbows bent outward, her knees twisted inward, an obscene mimicry of movement.

And she was frozen in the beam like a deer caught in headlights. Her spine arched high above her head, jagged and crooked beneath her tattered shirt. An unnatural mountain range clawing for the sky. She didn't speak. She didn't need to, because then suddened. And slapped the wet earth, arms, pinwheeling, legs convulsing and crunching with every frantic step. Her broken body hurtled forward with terrifying speed. God, how is she so fast?

The sound of cracking bones echoed through the crawl space, clicks, pops, the awful shuffle of shattered limbs dragging forward, Pulling her closer. I reached the hatch. I forced it open, clawing at the frame, every muscle screaming. But something heavy pushed down from above. She was so close. That sulfurous stench, rot, death and vengeance was inches away.

And all I could do was, with a burst of raw, terrified strength, and threw myself up the ladder. She hit the ladder behind me hard. The impact rattled the wood like a dog, lunging for a ball and missing by inches. wet, meaty thud followed as she collapsed below, but she didn't stay down. I heard her shuffle, then brace knuckling onto her wrists like a broken marionette, finding its balance again.

I slammed the hat shut, locked it. She wasn't playing anymore. No more taunting, no more games, no dragging sounds meant to pull terror from me like blood from a wound. Now, she wanted me. The cellar door shook beneath me as she slammed into it over and over, relenting. No hesitation, no breath between each hit, a machine with no soul behind its violence. And that's when I saw it. The dresser had fallen across the hatch, wedged tightly in place. She set a trap. That calculating venomous thing had found a way to let it drop.

Maybe she had weakened the leg, worn it down until it would collapse at the right moment. She turned on the TV before God knows what else she could do. I imagined what she would have done to me. she had gotten hold of me. The frantic banging didn't stop. Each hit came without pause, without hesitation, pure, mechanical persistence. I flipped the dresser back over, scattering a wave of those fat, lazy flies that had made my misery their nest and sat on top of it, bracing myself against the door and feel angry. It looked like she was enjoying it. The way she threw her broken body into the hatch, It wasn't rage driving her.

It was hunger. The reckless, obsessive violence of a predator that didn't care if it tore itself apart in the process, like a chained pitball gnawing through its own flesh just to rip apart a stray cat. Relentless, predatory, unstoppable. Her house, lighting her up along with everything else. But what if she didn't burn?

What if she survived? That thought twisted in my gut like a knife. somehow that would be worse. No, I couldn't let it end that way. Made my decision. I would turn myself in. I'd go to prison, confess to everything, everything if it meant I'd never have to hear her again,

never hear her nails scraping through the walls, never hear her mangled hands thumping toward me in the dark. She had become a disease, a cancer gnawing through the fabric of her. My reality. Back one thing. Don't have that. Thank you for your patronage. Hope you enjoyed your new relic as much as I've enjoyed passing along its sordid history.

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Engineering production and sound design by Trevor Shand. Theme music by the Newton Brothers. Additional music by Coag and Vivek Abyshech. The Antiquarium of Sinister Happenings is created and curated by Trevor and Lauren Shand. Follow us on Instagram and Twitter at Antiquarium Pod. Call the Antiquarium at 646-481-7197.