The Mirror House

The Mirror House

The house on Marrow Lane was never sold. It simply... waited.

Locals called it "The Mirror House" — a decaying Victorian mansion built in 1873 by the eccentric architect Silas Vant. Every wall, every room, and every hallway was adorned with mirrors of all shapes and sizes. Some said it was vanity. Others claimed it was obsession.

No one had lived there since 1911, when the Vant family disappeared without a trace. All eight of them — gone in a single night. The house was sealed. No buyers. No renovators. But it stood tall, daring the curious to enter.

And that’s exactly what Jenna Cole planned to do.

Jenna was a YouTuber — one of those paranormal explorers who filmed overnight stays in haunted places. Her channel, “Dead of Night,” had grown rapidly, and she was always on the hunt for real scares. The Mirror House was perfect.

“24 hours in the haunted mirror mansion,” she whispered to her camera as she crossed the rusted gate. “Let’s see if the ghosts show up.”

It was dusk when she entered, flashlight in one hand, camera in the other. The air was thick with dust, the scent of mildew and old wood choking her senses. Mirrors lined the entrance hall, all cracked or fogged, yet reflecting with strange clarity.

Her own reflection followed her as she moved — but sometimes, just sometimes, she swore it lagged a step behind.

As night fell, Jenna explored room after room. Each had its own bizarre arrangement of mirrors — on the ceiling, beneath the furniture, even framed into the floorboards.

In one upstairs bedroom, she noticed something odd.

A full-length mirror reflected a young boy sitting on the bed.

Jenna turned sharply. The bed was empty.

She pointed her camera back at the mirror. The boy was gone.

“Did you see that?” she whispered, uploading the clip to her story. Comments poured in within minutes. Her viewers saw it too.

She was thrilled.

But her excitement began to sour when the house started responding.

At 3:13 a.m., Jenna entered the central hall — known in urban legend as “The Echo Room.” It was a long corridor, mirrors on both sides, stretching down into darkness.

She walked slowly, flashlight flickering.

Her reflection — no longer quite her. It stared straight ahead even when she turned. Its eyes darker. Its mouth twitching into a cruel grin.

Jenna stopped.

The reflection did not.

It kept walking… into the mirror.

And disappeared.

Then the lights in the hallway burst — every bulb exploding in sequence, one by one, pop-pop-pop, until she was in utter darkness.

She ran.

She locked herself in the Vant family parlor, the only room without a mirror. Her camera battery was draining fast. Her phone had no signal.

From the hallway outside, she heard footsteps. Slow. Wet.

And laughter.

Childlike.

Jenna curled in the corner, whispering into her camera, trying to rationalize. “I’ve done dozens of haunted locations. This is just... illusion. Old house creaks. Maybe gas leaks.”

Then she looked at her screen.

The camera was still recording — but behind her, in the viewfinder, stood a tall woman in a black dress. Face pale, mouth stitched shut, eyes like obsidian.

Jenna turned.

Nothing there.

But when she looked back at the camera, the woman was closer.

Jenna tried to escape.

But the doors were gone.

Not just locked — gone. Sealed with mirrored glass that showed her dozens of reflections… but none matching her movement.

In one, she saw herself screaming. In another, she was burning. In the third, she was still — pale, lifeless, a doll with glass eyes.

She smashed the mirror with a chair.

But behind the broken glass was only more mirror.

An infinite corridor of herself… decaying.

In her final recording, uploaded automatically by her livestream gear, Jenna is seen sitting calmly in front of a mirror. She speaks softly:

“They don’t trap your body. Just your image. You become... one of them. Reflections that never fade. I see the others now. So many. Watching. Waiting.”

She smiles.

Then her reflection reaches out — and pulls her in.

The screen cuts to static.

Summary:

In The Mirror House, thrill-seeking content creator Jenna Cole explores an abandoned mansion filled with mirrors — only to discover they reflect more than just her image. As the house distorts reality and her own reflection turns against her, Jenna learns the chilling truth: in the Mirror House, every reflection is a prison, and escape is just an illusion.