Previously posted on linuxquestions
I'm not exactly sure when this started, but games on my computer aren't using my graphics card, and are only running on integrated graphics. But when I switch from Wayland to Xorg, then it works fine.
In minecraft, since it's easy to see GPU information in that (to clarify, this also happens on every other game that I have tried), I get the following graphics information:

On Wayland

llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.7, 256 bits) 4.5 (Core Profile) Mesa 23.1.1 (git-4d5e73870e)

On Xorg

Radeon RX 6600 (navi23, LLVM 15.0.7, DRM 3.52, 6.3.6-200.fc38.x86_64) 4.6 (Core Profile) Mesa 23.1.1 (git-fa55e3c026)
This same thing happens across Gnome and KDE, and happened on both a flatpak and regular version of PrismLauncher
Some system information: Distro: Fedora 38 CPU: Ryzen 3 3200g GPU: Radeon RX 6600 If it matters: Minecraft is 1.19.4 on PrismLauncher 6.3 flatpak

I am a fresher and I have been working as DevOps engineer for past few months already, it will be one year in July. I have already mastered (at the fresher's level and still trying to improve) scripting in Python, Bash and Groovy. I am good at creating pipelines in jenkins and azure pipelines. I also have good hold on docker, jQuery, yQuery, terraform and azure cli commands. Well aware with the cloud services, especially GCP and Azure (and will be preparing for certifications soon). I didn't work much with Ansible much and since my organisation's product is yet not scalable on demand, I don't have working experience in Kubernetes, but I am well aware of both Ansible and Kubernetes. I'm also learning Go and networking. Now, from here what will be your suggestions for me? I want to switch so that I could work from my hometown. What should I do?

Here's a little story about how I got into vimwiki and how I'm thinking of wrapping mine up.
Vim changed my life. I remember when I really decided I was going to learn it I was afraid of being too unproductive because I jumped right into it. After about 2 weeks, I was sort of in the middle of it. I was still super slow at remembering the editing commands and I'd still sometimes cheat with the arrow keys. But I already was simply not able to use a normal text editor again. A few more weeks, and I was in love with vim ever since, and still am.
After getting used to vim for working with code, I wanted to use it for everything else. At the time I was using some basic note taking app for all my notes. I had 1 note for every different "thing" I was keeping track of, like shopping list or simple todo lists, project ideas, and even whole projects in a single note.
After a bit of research I found vimwiki, and fell in love with vim even more. It took a bit of time to convert over and organise all my notes but once I did it felt amazing. Suddenly they were all browsable, linked, and even had built in todo lists and it blew me away.
I started using vimwiki for everything. Daily journal, idea bin, scratchpad, managing entire projects, etc. Being a solo web developer it was just perfect for me. I even hooked up my wiki to an IRC bot that looked for undone todo items and bugged me about them. I made a Web interface for my whole wiki that directly parsed the vimwiki syntax so it was available anywhere. Vimwiki was my life and my second brain.
Some years passed where I was happily using vimwiki, but then my uses slowly started to change. The first big one was no longer writing any daily todo list or journal. I used to start the day writing my tasks for the day, writing the day's events, and then carrying over undone tasks to the following days. I was using it like a bullet journal. Until I just decided to stop that and live a more free life and go with the flow each day.
The next change was switching from manual deployment and managing of web services and config files, to using IaC and automation. Up until this point I wrote myself guides on deployment and other tips and tricks including config files etc for every deployed service or program I was using. It's what made up the bulk of my wiki. However I made the change to use Ansible and Docker to deploy my services with everything stored in git repos. Now, I no longer use my vimwiki to manage the deployment of those services. Anything related to those services deployment goes in a git issue, instead of a vimwiki todo. I no longer need copies of config files because Ansible generates them. I just read directly the code in those repos when I have any questions about the deployment, lije where it is, how to access it. I no longer turn to my vimwiki for those things either.
The third change, and probably the biggest, was switching jobs. I went from being a web developer managing multiple projects to being an indie game developer, managing only a single project. And for my first game project I used gitlab and gitlab's project wiki for outlining the information about the game, and gitlab's issues with an advanced form of project management based on traditional kanban where each task has multiple life cycle stages. I did attempt this first with vimwiki, but it just became convoluted and a micromanagement nightmare since the tasks are not just simple open and shut items anymore. Which was a shame, since vimwiki todos is something that heavily attracted me to it.
And here I am 1 year later and the only thing I use in my vimwiki for these days is a single page named Scratchpad which is just a temporary text bin/working space to write stuff down. Sometimes I search up some page I wrote in ages ago. But largely I no longer have a use for my vimwiki and while all the pages still exist their content is years out of date and no longer relevant.
Looking at those pages, definitely makes me remember all the time I spent on this wiki, and its a little sad that I'm no longer using it for my day to day.
To add a bit of discussion to this story others who found vimwiki are you still using it as a daily driver? And if not, what are you using instead?

Effective July 1st, Reddit is implementing changes to their third-party API services that will effectively kill off all third-party apps and many external tools that Reddit users and moderators have come to rely on.
We won't rehash points that many of you have already been reading about — details of the changes and the discussion surrounding them can be found on the announcement post here, and the initial response on modcoord: https://www.reddit.com/ModCoord/comments/13xh1e7/an_open_letter_on_the_state_of_affairs_regarding
Instead, we'll just briefly talk about why we consider this important, and what it means for you, the average Reddit user:
Third-party Reddit apps are going away
If you make use of a third-party app to browse Reddit, such as Apollo, RIF, BaconReader, or Narwhal, those apps are going to stop working on July 1st of this year.
Reddit have implemented enterprise-level pricing for their API that they state is intended for third-party apps, however the pricing model they've released is unconscionably high, nearly twenty times what it's believed their API services actually cost to operate. The developer of the Apollo app expects that keeping their app running would cost upwards of twenty million dollars a year, and will no longer be able to offer their app. Effectively, this change is an elimination of third-party apps in everything but name. The developers of RIF and Narwhal also expect they will be forced to shut down their apps.
Reddit content is about to become worse
Many subreddits make use of third-party tools to support their community, including custom browser extensions, bots, and archival services. Many of these services are likely to stop working, robbing communities of tools they have come to rely on to manage their content. The Pushshift API, which powered sites like Reveddit, has already ceased functioning. Many more tools are expected to cease working after this change goes into effect. We can surely expect the legacy old.reddit.com to be next on the chopping block — the mobile browser site, i.reddit.com, has already been removed.
That means that you, the user, can expect to see more spam, more FUD, more trolls, more stolen content, and more reposts in your communities.
The mod tools offered by the default app and website also pale in comparison to what's offered by third-party apps and plugins. This means that communities can expect less moderation, worse moderation, and less transparency after these changes go into effect.
Reddit content is about to become less safe
In addition to the pricing model, Reddit is blocking the display of NSFW content in third-party apps. That means that even if the app developers find a way to keep their apps running, your beloved porn is going away.
This also means that anyone viewing a user profile via a third-party app will be unable to view post histories on NSFW subreddits. Many communities serving underage users take steps to prevent posting by individuals with NSFW posting histories; the ability to do this outside of the official Reddit app is about to be crippled.
In short, this means more OnlyFans spam, and more porn directed at kids.
Reddit is about to become less accessible
Accessibility tools like screen readers simply do not work on New Reddit and the official iOS Reddit app. This change will effectively exile the Blind community from Reddit overnight. Read more about this here.
So what are we doing?
Reddit requires its user's content in order to survive — if we stop posting, Reddit stops making money.
To that end, GHM9 will be joining hundreds of other subreddits in a Reddit-wide blackout. On June 12th, 2023, participating communities will set their subreddits to private in protest of these changes, depriving Reddit of the content and traffic it needs to survive. The intent is to force Reddit to reconsider these changes and come to a reasonable compromise with app developers — who have stated they are willing to pay reasonable API costs — so that we can ensure that Reddit stays as safe and accessible as possible.
This isn't a decision we're undertaking lightly, but we believe that we do have the capacity to force change here, and we'd be remiss as members of this community to not take the few steps we can to attempt to ensure a better and safer Reddit experience for everyone.
Read more about the issues here:
https://www.reddit.com/Save3rdPartyApps/comments/13yh0jf/dont_let_reddit_kill_3rd_party_apps/
https://www.reddit.com/apolloapp/comments/13ws4w3/had_a_call_with_reddit_to_discuss_pricing_bad/
https://www.reddit.com/redditisfun/comments/13wxepd/rif_dev_here_reddits_api_changes_will_likely_kill/
https://www.reddit.com/getnarwhal/comments/13wv038/reddit_have_quoted_the_apollo_devs_a_ridiculous/jmdqtyt/
https://www.reddit.com/ModCoord/comments/1401qw5/incomplete_and_growing_list_of_participating/

I 21 F and my friend 22 F are really close. Let's call her Stacy. We are really close and currently in college and always there when we need eachother. A few days ago I texted Stacy on 2 apps and she didn't reply which was weird, because she always replies. I didn't think much of it. Me, her and a few other girls have a group chat. The next day she still hasn't answered me. I jokingly said her full name and asked her why she hasn't replied me and it was a very obvious joke. She said my full name as well like we always do, but then she overstepped with her next messege.
There is this boy. Let's call him Derek. He likes me tho he never said it, it was obvious and his friend told me aswell. I've never felt anything for him. We did get along really well and we used to chat a lot, but I got tired from him hating on one of my friends, because she is bi and I screamed at him. He has said some bad things about me, but they were always in my face and he never ment them. He apologized after I told him i was sick of him being mean even if he was "joking" and i stopped talking to him.
So back to the story. She had the audacity to call me his property. Now when I saw that message i was stunned. She new I didn't like him at all in any way, even as a friend anymore. At that point I was this close to telling her that atleast someone likes me, but I didn't, because she is still close to me and I felt it's too much. So I blocked her. I am going to forgive her overtime, prehaps in 2, 3 days, but I want to know-am I the asshole?

Any ideas on how to level this pool out? We've dug it out and put blocks under each post, but going from block to block is futile. Ideas?

Hey everyone, i mostly lurk but this really driving me insane, i thought since its a scaretheater sub some other scaretheater viewers at the time remember that and can at least tell me im not imagining this.
I remember ST uploading compilation type viseos at one point, where he debunked scary videos that he couldnt make a whole video from, kinda like 5 mini scaretheatre videos in one if you will. And one of the entries was very different to the others; and from what i remember ST couldnt debunk it and was clueless to how it came to be.
Video description (marked post as NSFW for the description of this video just to be sure):
It was filmed on a bad camera, two men were talking to each other and they were filming the appartment they were in, it was very simple and dirty, you could see the light outside the house but i think the windows were blocked- i remember the video being very dimly lit. Both men were off camera and you could hear them smile and talk to a third person, i think a child? A boy? That person was in a bathroom, a shower i think and he was very scared. They were making fun of him and talking /too/ friendly. As in "theres no need to be scared" or something like that. They were both laughing while "calming down" the scared person (obviously mocking them).
Other specific memories i have of this video:
-i think the overall colour hue in the video was blue. -i think the video started in a livingroom (?) And then the camera man went to the bathroom to film the earlier described. -there was no light in the bathroom and it was very small.
yeah im sorry if this isnt subreddit appropriate i just dont really know how any of this works. Feel free to delete this or tell me to delete it.
I was terrified when i saw it, it didnt feel like any of the other arg videos or scare vids in the video of ST. Was anyone ever able to debunk it? Or does anyone have info on this? Thank you for reading.

I am looking to fill 1-2 slots remaining.

This far away from the Centerpiece, there is questions as to the history of the Farspace and its origin thereof.

After all this time, will the truth of our creation arise? Or will we burn like the mythical idea of starlight in this infinite cloudy sky?

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For many thousands of Cycles has the Outlands given fear to the people of the Farspace. Rightfully so, as the first skyland to exit the Centerpiece was terrified by the sudden switch to darkness, a concept unknown at the time. And now, even hundreds of Cycles later, not much is know about the Outlands, and the existence of something beyond it, now termed the Farlands, is just a theory. When a derelict skyship made of metal with hulking weapons is found one Twilight in the Outlands, the discovery is not a welcome one. The Centerpiece has enjoyed its time knowing all it needed to know, and the peoples that lived there, no matter how much they loved a good mystery... none could ever bring themselves to look at such a craft clearly designed for war with joy.
Enter the newly-founded Starfall Academy, a mysterious organization with... no ties to anything at all? Where the Antispace did these people come from? And why is the founder so familiar with the mechanics of the skyship? For that matter...

Who are you?

A seemingly random collection of absolutely mismatched and restless individuals that have no business being this far into the Outlands have suddenly been approved to approach the skyship and board it, seeking out some of the answers it may hold as to how it got here, and from where did it come. You'll have a few days to prepare before reaching Outpost Nemo, the most distant skyland ever sent out from the Centerpiece. This mission is likely to have at least one fatality, so says the initial research team, who had not dare approach more than a few miles to the skyship. You certainly can't disagree, having heard the phonograph and seen the visimark notes by Outpost Nemo. The ship itself is massive, the size of some skylands, and the level of damage and lack of activity means that whatever might be on the ship encountered something bigger, nastier, and lost to it.

Your mission

Get to know each other, say your last prayers to the Gods, and hope you won't be seeing Packet anytime soon. Board the advanced skyship and explore. And try not to die. Outpost Nemo has already made it clear they won't be rescuing those who fall from the skyship.
Should you clear the vessel with no issues, fire the flare and call for the away ship and report your findings. Should there be something on that nightmare ship with you...

Starfall Command Contacts You

This campaign will be two series of mini-campaigns, roughly 4-5 sessions at most for both. The first one will be as I detailed above, and the second... well, that'll depend on what happens in the first :O
Our day of play will be Saturdays @ 2pm-7pm/8pm EST from June to August, using Discord as audio and FoundryVTT as rolling and visual. Session 0 will take place literally as soon as you can join, your first week of play will be June 17th, 2023.

How to apply

Applications will be available until the sun goes down tomorrow (meaning this will be open for two days). You will need to add me on Discord @ chorustrilogy#0013 and send me the following information:

1 - Your age/name/pronouns 2 - Your availability on Wednesdays in EST 3 - Your history with roleplaying systems 4 - Your favorite session/experience as a DM/player 5 - Your least favorite session/experience as a DM/player 6 - Your introduction to TTRPGs 7 - Your pre-session 0 character concepts 8 - Your favorite comfort snack 9 - Your greatest fear (I promise I will use this against you)

Priority will be given to people who show aptitude and versatility in roleplay, lengthy responses and positive and repeated interactions with other members of my group.

I just had a convo with a person on reddit who belongs to Delhi. Using my alt to post this and fyi, i blocked him from this id too. I had posted something to seek advice from a different reddit account and this guy slid into my dms offering me advice on it. Then we just talked a bit(where are you from and other things) and north campus ka naam aaya convo me. He said, north campus me to bohot sex sux chalta hai, its normal. Aapko chahiye ho to intezaam hojayega, aap bolo. Kitne bf reh chuke hain aapke. When i mentioned that i am not interested in a relationship rn, he said lmao how do you look like. I blocked him then. Ladkiyon ka to easy hota hai, hookups ke liye acceptance rate 100%. I'll be moving to delhi next year and felt really awkward. Sabhi aise hain kya waha. I know delhi safe nhi hai for girls and aaj saamne se dekhlia. Like is this all that guys think or talk about among them.

For context, I’ve had really bad body image for YEARS and think I have body dysmorphic disorder
And before anyone says, I’m not talking about highly filtered unrealistic body girls
And ikkk there’s gonna be comments such as but you’re pretty in your own way but like objectively speaking I am very much average looking/bit below average - I see it when I’m out, when I’m with friends/family, even the ladies who post selfies on here and Ik that’s not anyone’s fault but I don’t really know how to accept my averageness

Personal Info-
Real Name: Roland, Orlando
Class: Berserker
Gender: Male
Source: Song of Roland, Orlando Innamorato, Orlando Furioso
Region: France
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Height: 183cm
Weight: 99kg
Parameters-
Strength: A+
Endurance: A+
Agility: B+
Magic Energy: C+
Luck: B
NP: A
Class Skills-
Mad Enhancement: -
See “Personal Skills” Below
Personal Skills-
Bitter Tears from a Love of Love: A
A variant of Mad Enhancement. He can quickly fall in love with a stranger, and is easily shaken when rejected. It’s possible to believe that being so easily rejected is not the fault of the skill but the person, but don’t think about it too much. In return for a weakness towards seduction-type skills and Noble Phantasms, he gains a variety of benefits. When under the Berserker Saint Graph, this Skill is constantly activated and operating at a higher rank, providing “+” modifiers to all Parameters except LCK but sealing another Skill. However, Roland is wild and rabid, blind with rage and only acting as an incarnation of destruction that a Master would struggle to control.
Diamond Body: A
A diamond body with a hardness of 10. Spears, swords, and bows are useless against him. However, there are always weaknesses with these types of legends, and in the case of Roland, that applies to the soles of his feet. How to attack the soles of one’s feet on the battlefield depends on your tactics. Sealed when under the effects of Mad Enhancement.
Monstrous Strength: B
Skill that temporarily grants a rank-up to one's Strength parameter for a time limit determined by the ranking of this Skill. A Skill normally possessed by monsters and beasts, Roland’s unnatural fury and madness was so great that he can temporarily rank up his strength that could uproot trees and swing them around and tear men apart with his bare hands.
Noble Phantasm-
Durandal: Ultimate Unbroken Hallow
Rank: A
Anti-Unit
Lauded for being unbreakable, it is often referred to alongside Excalibur as an indestructible holy sword. The golden hilt contains a number of rare relics that did not exist in Hektor’s time, making it extremely effective as a conceptual weapon. Roland being under the Berserker Saint Graph has morphed it into a darker great-sword he swings around with one hand but lowered the Rank of this sword, unable to preform the miracles it would be able to do if summoned as a Saber.
Motives and attitude towards the Master-
He is Mad, unable to rationalize or properly communicate with others, only able to form simple words and roar in furry and rage on the battlefield at his master’s command but his madness is so great that sometimes a command spell may be necessary to put him back on a leash. His hair has grown long and unkempt but hidden by the pitch-black helmet, armor, and cape that he has donned, however, each ascensions begin to strip parts of his armor away until he’s left nude.
lines for other Servants-
Astolfo/Bradamante: “MY…FRIENDS!”
Charlemagne: “MY…KIIING!”
Hektor: “ANCESTOR!” Mandricardo: “DIIIIEEEE”
Berserker Lancelot: “ME!?”

Hi,
I just received an email which looks like a puzzle. This is the email body:

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Subject line: in look it for you were going to down I have checked email headers etc and doesn't seem like there's any information there apart from standard email headers.
It is weird to me because the first line seems to say "We must insure of the possibilities of.. " and the last line feels like "It is quite true that the surface on the occasion was...". Does anybody know what this could mean?
Further there is a PDF attachment on the email. File name is "Show RCD.pdf" and it contains picture of a girl posing like a dating site with a button saying "Open profile" in green button. The PDF is hyperlinked and points to this webpage: https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1VS3PyswqTrIvNDL3qwU-29xbzj9RJpIidth6n8aC-2Y/preview#cyyr7
Following the trace, I got to a piece of code which check if my device is a computer or a mobile. If it is a computer it redirects to "google.com" and ends the trail and if it is accessed through a mobile site it comes to what appears to be a dating website. There is a page between the url redirects which also returns a lot of number in the HTML body which seem like they are in hexadecimal but cant say for sure. Does anyone have ideas how to decrypt this?

Tbh I kinda miss the late night gaming with friends so I’m looking for people or someone with a nonexistent sleep schedule (since I’m on at strange or late hours.)
I mostly play a wide range of games mostly: Dead by daylight Modern warfare 2 Overwatch 2(don’t expect much) Rainbow Six Siege (also don’t expect much) Far cry 5 Borderlands 3 Fortnite Watch dogs 2 Genshin Impact Minecraft The forest Dead island (+170 more I didn’t list)
I’m 22 so I would prefer people 18+ and please have a mic it’s okay if you are shy or introverted I will do most of the talking until you feel comfortable to speak if you wanna add me pm me and I’ll give you my psn
Or if you’d like to talk first my discord is Snoooppyy#6666

We set up a server with AD and we're using command shell to pull a client list from a text file named "pclist" and then push a copy of 7zip to those PC's and install on them with the aid of PsExec.
My script is as follows:

 for /f %%a in (c:\scripts\pclist.txt) do ( copy /y c:\scripts\7z2300-x64.msi \\%%a\c$\windows\temp PsExec64.exe -accepteula \\%%a msiexec /i c:\windows \temp\7z2300-x64.msi /quiet ) 

On the clients I am able to see that the 7zip2300-x64.msi is being pushed to the temp folders on the clients, but then it is not installing.
On my AD server I'm getting the "msiexec exited on Client1 with error code 1619. 'c:\windows\temp\7z2300-x64.msi' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
I'm pretty new to this but it would seem that msiexec is not opening or PSExec64 is not opening to actually begin the install process.
Any help would be appreciated.

For context, I’ve had really bad body image for YEARS and think I have body dysmorphic disorder
And before anyone says, I’m not talking about highly filtered unrealistic body girls
Is it sad that I’ve just started blocking pretty girls on TikTok who make me feel UGLY ☠️ cause like Ik it’s better for my mental health so I don’t start spiralling but like it feels sad that I’m that easily affected
And ikkk there’s gonna be comments such as but you’re pretty in your own way but like objectively speaking I am very much average looking/bit below average - I see it when I’m out, when I’m with friends/family, even the ladies who post selfies on blackladies and Ik that’s not anyone’s fault but I don’t really know how to accept my averageness

I moved into this apartment in March (it’s an old style house thats divided into four apartments with the stairway and basement as shared common space) We have a company as our landlord and can contact multiple landlords for help. They are terrible and I still haven’t gotten the trash bins I asked to be ordered WHEN I MOVED IN and the landlord has “forgot” two times. We’ve had problems because they didn’t install the “heavy door with a key code on it” that they said they were waiting to be installed THE WEEK I MOVED IN. They never installed any door or LOCK and so this homeless man was sitting outside my apartment door, blocking the stairs and it was very scary. He came back multiple times and they FINALLY installed a lock but it was cheap so he broke in again due to the terribly light door. They installed a better lock, and we still have ptsd but he hasn’t bothered us. ANYWAYS thats not the point, thats to show how terrible they are. My downstairs neighbor and I started to hear mice in our shared wall and we contacted our landlord about it in May, they jUST got the place checked today. At this point the noise of the mice or rats can be heard outside the house extremely loudly. The pest control guy said they are going to have to fix the broken garage door that they’re getting in from, among other entry points that require something to get fixed by the landlord. I have a feeling that the landlords will not be out anytime soon if at all to fix anything.
Is there a way I can get out of this lease? I have many things in writing?

Hello guys :) im looking for somebody to form a connection and spend a lot of time with! Chatting and playing games together ideally, i really enjoy video games and i play: minecraft, league (euw), osu and more. It'd be nice to have a minecraft world together or duoing on league! but id love to try new games too
Other things i may like: cats, baking, youtube, psychology, philosophy, sleeping zzz, winter, drinking, coffee, calling
Things i may not like: politics, loud things/people, summer, smoking/drugs
Im very chill and easygoing (sometimes too much so-), i enjoy slowly learning and understanding people as i feel like that will make communicating about things better :D and because of that i tend to be quite patient and non-judgemental but sometimes i do sadly end up being easier to pushover hehe, once im comfortable i enjoy being more silly and most likely laughing at everything as i have a silly sense of humour. Oh also im an infp and have asd in case anyone cares or can relate at all
Itd be lovely if you were able to make an introduction about yourself! Dont feel bad about putting a lot out there, theres so much to find out about people
Please be 18+, ideally be from europe/uk (im from the uk) and use discord or i cant even be your discord kitten ;-; (i joke)

The Rock House
I am a 28 year old female. The story I’m about to tell you happened back in 2016 with my best friend Chris
Now every since the day Chris and I met we have always got ourselves in the dumbest things ever. I mean Chris ran away once and had my nerves all messed up. But He came back because he had no money. We were not the smartest teens but we still enjoyed life.
So one summer night Chris and I were hanging and we were trying to think of a place to explore (like we always did). At the time I told him I’ve never been to the old Rock House In Greenwood South Carolina. ( Now before I get started let me give you a little History on the Rock house. A man named Thomas “Tom” Payne Tolbert built a “Fire Proof House” in 1926. The fireproof house was constructed entirely from stone, concrete, glass, and steel.After years of family homes burning down. Tolbert lived in the detached kitchen and used the large house to store family heirlooms. Tolbert lived his later years in isolation.) The now-crumbling fortress is accessible only by foot, and no one has ever lived inside its walls. You can look up way more about the History online if you like.
No back to my story. I’ve always been told the Rock House has many spirits in and around it but like I said at the time I’ve never been to it. So with that said. Chris and I took my cousins car and headed out to the Old Rock House. I’ve heard of people going in the day time but never heard people say they went at night. We being dumb went at night because why not. Ghost and spirits never bothered me to much being that I’ve seen them my whole life.
Once we pull up to the woods and park on the side of the road I get the bad feeling run all over my body. I sit there for a moment. I believe Chris sees this look on my face and ask if I still want to do this. Something is telling me not to get out but at the same time I want to see this place even at night.
“Yeah let’s go see how scary this place is” I told him. “Hell yeah let’s do it!” he replied. We get out and start walking threw the woods. As we are walking we have our phones out for light and we are making jokes acting silly like we always do. We can never take anything seriously no matter what. As we are walking we don’t realize how quite it is to be in the woods… at night… in the middle of summer…
We find our way to the front of the house. Chris is in front of me and we are looking at the house. No front door and no windows. All you can see is pure darkness. For some reason I just can’t move even though Chris is walking to what used to be the door. At this moment I realize we are in complete darkness and there are no sounds. No animals, no bugs no wind or anything. Just pure silence. Then out of the corner of my eye I see something in the top left window. But before I completely look I hear something to the left of me and I look over. But I see nothing. Only the darkness. A feeling of dread falls over me but nothing is there. Chris is now at the door of the house and looks inside. I look at the windows and there it is. Something is there in the window looking down at me. My body turns cold. Those eyes. I’ll never forget those eyes burning a hole in my soul. Bright yellow redish eyes like fire. All of a sudden I hear Chris say “Oh Hell No” He turns to run to me but my body is still frozen. He grabs my wrist and pulls me to run. He never lets me go. As we are running we are jumping over falling trees and everything on the ground that people have left over time. As we run I realize something is running beside us and I don’t dare to look back.
My body is now in pilot mood as Chris has the grip still on my wrist pulling me. My mind is blank and my heart is racing. At one point I feel like I can feel the breath of what ever is chasing us.
The moment we make it to the car everything comes back to me and I’m back in control of my mind and body. We jump In the car and Chris goes to start the car he has is face covered in the string wheel as he tries to start the car... but… it’s dead! THE CAR IS DEAD! We start freaking out with my head buried between my legs and Chris still hiding his face I yell out “THIS IS IT CHRIS THIS IS HOW WE DIE! THIS IS WHY US WHITE PEOPLE DIE IN MOVIES BECAUSE WE DO DUMB SHIT LIKE THIS!” Chris yells back at me “Shut up we are not going to die the car will start!” I can still feel this thing outside of the car. Its just there. Is this why there are so many spirits here? Does it take the souls of people who it has caught come here? I feel it looking at us. Something wants me to look at it but at the same times a voice in my head is telling me not to. I want to cry.
The car starts and Chris tries to speed off. We start going dowm the road but then… one of the ties blew. We are now on the side of the road again and we just sit there not wanting to get out. It’s quite again. The feeling of being watched is still there. Luckily for us a guy in a truck pulls up behind us. I feel safe right now. The guy pulls over and helps Chris change the tire. I hold my phone as a light with my back to the woods. I still have that feeling. I want to turn and see what is there but I dare not to. Something is telling me not to look.
After the tire gets fixed we head to the Huddle House close by to calm down. The poor lady working that night sees something is wrong and with what little money we have the lady helps us pay for a meal.
The next few days Strange things start happening around my house. For example I’m in the kitchen fixing something for lunch. My roommate and I are talking like normal and the cutting board goes flying across the kitchen. See gives me this looks and says. “See what you caused! Shit keeps happening for no reason all because you want to visit haunted places.” I pick up the cutting board. At this point I feel like I need to make things right. I've always been told that if you disturb the dead that you have to make things right. So with that being said. That weekend I go see some friends who doesn’t live for from the Rock House and tell them I need to go there so we do. This time it’s full daylight. Once we get there I still have this feeling but I don’t say a word. Once we get to the house my friends go in to look around. They explore the place. Inside and out. I look to the left of me and see nothing but the feeling is there. My body is weak. As I walk in I look in the direction that Chris saw something at. Then I look into the room to the left of me and see the room is full of designs in paint all over the room. The whole house is covered the same way. But there is something about this one room. I walk into the room. There is a Pentagram with all the markings around it. I walk over to it and examine it closely.
I walk around it seeing if it’s done right and to my eyes I see that it is. I yell out to my friends “Hey I think someone tried to summon a demon or something!” As soon as the words leave my mouth something comes crashing down. I nope the hell out of there and just start running out of the house sadly leaving my friends inside not meaning to. All I do is run through the woods yelling “I’m sorry I’m sorry I’m sorry!” I don’t stop until I’m out of the woods.
My friends come after me wondering what is going on so I tell them about the other night and what just happened as well. At this point I just want to leave. We all get into the car. The friend driving goes to start the car… it’s dead… just like the other night but in a different car. My mind goes back to the other night this big dark creature comes to mind for some reason. I never seen it before. Was it the thing chasing us that night? Was it putting itself in my mind to scare me more? So many questions. I try my best not to freak out. I called my roommate to come pick us up. As we are waiting a car pulls up. He must live on this road and knows what happened. He says every time someone goes to the house their car is dead when they get back. He helps jump start the car and we go down the road. I see my roommate and I jump out of the car and jump into mine. I speed off as fast as I can wanting to get as far away from this place at possible. My friends meet me at my house and I made a promise to my self to never go back to the Rock House.
For some reason Chris and I stopped hanging out. We didn’t get in a fight or anything we just stopped being friends and we never spoke about what happened that night until a few weeks again. We both seemed to have forgotten that night. I called him and asked him what it was that he saw that night inside the house to make him do what he did. He doesn’t remember what he saw but he remembers that night. I thought I wouldnt forget but I did until a few weeks ago... Someone told me that a brain will block out something so traumatizing that you won’t remember what happened and live your life like normal. Maybe that’s what our brains did for us so we won’t live in fear forever.
Now its 2023 and now that I remember this I told this story recently to a few of my friends at work and one person told me they want to visit The Rock House. I told them no they don’t but they really want to not believing in Ghost and has never experienced anything Ghostly. So I said “Go if you want but I promise you I won’t be going back to that place ever again and once you do you won’t go back there either. The witch that used to live behind me didn’t scare my as much as what ever was in the woods that night.” Yes a witch used to live in the property behind my hosue.