BLUE MOUNTAINS WEEKEND AWAY

A sudden getaway for the long weekend was required and indeed that’s what we did. Packing my car to the fullest with heaters, blankets and god knows what else, it was going to be a relaxing weekend away!

However I did have my doubts as the whole accommodation booking was a complete disaster. Leaving things to the last minute of course means everything is fully booked out. We were looking at staying at a cottage so that we can have our own kitchen to cook and lounge room with a DVD player. The only place we found available was a cottage called "Pussy willows". Immediately I wanted this place because of the name. Anything named pussy was an incident waiting to happen. Slight problem as pussy willows didn’t have a fireplace and some of us insisted on a fireplace. By the time we made our minds up pussy willows got booked leaving us high and dry.

Hence the whole "Eileen" thing happen. We found another cottage in Katoomba and immediately called the woman to ask if the cottage is free that weekend. Previous to the phone call we sent an email and SMS.
Eventually this woman answered the phone and the conversation went something like this:

"Hi, I tried making a booking online last night"
"Oh! You’re the one who sent me the SMS?"
"Yes …"

The phone hangs up. Before we could get a word in the woman hang up the phone. What kind of a sick person hangs up on a potential customer. Confused about the whole situation, we called the woman a thousand times to only notice that her phone was switched off. First the bitch hangs up and then switches her phone off. It wasn’t looking good I’m afraid. With no accommodation and all.

Finally the woman calls back after a few good hours to tell us that her phone died and she doesn’t know how to send an SMS. So we booked the accommodation and paid for it. The woman sent an email to confirm the details to only reconfirm the details every day leading up to the weekend. How many times can you possibly confirm details for crying out loud? At this point we knew that this woman was a total freak and we would have to get her photo for our records. Only the woman refused to meet us and decided to leave the house key in some glove hidden in a box on the front porch. Who the hell leaves their house key in the front porch? I knew nothing good could come of this.

The weekend arrives and we start our drive to the mountains. Now I always knew the blue mountains wasn’t that far from my place and seeing as I have never been the minute I saw a "Welcome to Blue Mountains" sign after half an hour I got pretty excited thinking we had arrive. This wasn’t until the next sign which basically stated that Katoomba was another good hour drive. Thank god we stopped for coffee at Maccas before hand.

THE HAUNTED HOUSE

We arrive to the house and from the outside the house looks nice. It wasn’t until we found the key hidden in the glove to open the door and realize what lies inside this house.

Picture - The Haunted Cottage

The minute you walked into this house you just got a weird sense. There was something totally weird and freaky about this house. It was worst than an antique shop. It was like some old granny lived here and collected bits and pieces of junk just to have stuff. I just couldn’t believe the amount of piled up junk in this house.

Picture - The narrow hallway

Picture - Street view from the front door of the Cottage

Better still the house was like the big brother house. Every where you looked you found a hidden room that lead into another room. The house was a complete maze. The rooms were filled with hats, handbags and dolls.

Picture - The freaky light in the hallyway

Picture - The Gun above the door

However it wasn’t until we opened the room that had the closed doors to see this:

Picture - The haunted / evil spirits room

Picture - The Mannequin in the haunted room

What the hell was this? This woman was a complete freak I tell you. Who the hell puts a mannequin in their house? There was something totally freaky about this mannequin and the whole house. It wasn’t until later that we realized it was the fact that this mannequin had no hair? This was the defining moment that we realized that this house was indeed haunted!

Our imaginations started to run totally wild when we just couldn’t take it anymore and ran out of the room and closed the door shut. Hence one problem, we forgot the light on in the room. None of us dared to go into the room to close the light. What if this mannequin came to life after we slept? What if this mannequin tried to strangle one of us in our sleep? We tried closing the gap to block the light coming through the door and then realized that we don’t have a lounge room to sit in or a TV.

Wandering through the house we slowly discovered the other living room, which had a TV, DVD player and a fireplace. Thank god!

Picture - The safe lounge room

Picture - The hidden sun room
Picture - Freaky House Item # 1789

Picture - Freaky House Item # 1984

Picture - The side porch at the back of the cottage=

Picture - The Backyard

We unload our gear from the car and the weather looks totally shit for the weekend. Just as well we had over 50 DVD’s with us. We settle into the house before running out to lunch.