Have you ever looked into an old mirror and felt like the reflection was just a second too slow?
Last month, an antique collector named Elias purchased a heavy, silver-framed mirror from an estate sale in Vermont. The mirror was beautiful, crafted with intricate carvings of roses and thorns, but it had a strange reputation. The previous owners claimed it was "too honest."
Elias hung it in his hallway. For the first few days,
nothing happened. But on a rainy Thursday night, as the clock struck midnight, Elias walked past the mirror and stopped dead in his tracks.In the reflection, Elias was standing still. But in the mirror, behind his reflection, was a woman in a flapper-style dress from the 1920s. She wasn't looking at him; she was frantically writing something on a piece of paper.
Elias turned around quickly. The hallway was empty.
When he looked back at the mirror, the woman was gone, but there was a faint mist on the glass. As the mist cleared, words began to appear from the inside of the glass, written backwards:
"Look behind the wallpaper in Room 402."
Elias researched the history of the mirror. It had originally belonged to a woman named Clara who disappeared mysteriously in 1924 from a hotel that was now an apartment complex.
Driven by curiosity, Elias visited the building. Room 402 was now a storage unit. With the manager’s permission, he peeled back a loose corner of the vintage floral wallpaper. There, tucked into a hollow space in the brick, was a small leather diary and a pearl necklace that had been reported stolen 100 years ago.
The diary revealed the truth: Clara hadn't run away. She had been hiding the jewels from a thief and died protecting them. The mirror didn't just show reflections; it held onto the last moments of those who stood before it.
Elias returned home to look at the mirror one last time. As he gazed into the glass, he saw a faint smile from a woman in the background before she faded into the shadows forever.
The secret was finally out. The mirror was now just a mirror. Or was it?
What would you do if your mirror started showing you the past? Let us know in the comments!
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