My dad is a roofer. One day he came home from work acting very strange. He wouldn't tell us what was up but we found out years later.

Dads a roofer, has been for 40 years. He loves it. He gets to be outside all day, he's high up so he is often in the shade, he takes pride in knowing that the work he does is important, and finally, he gets really good pay. He's always said that as long as he's physically able to he will continue being a roofer. That's a long winded way of saying the guy is very serious about his job. <br><br>He's a no bullshit, no nonsense guy who always gets stuff done and always has. So when this happened it was so out of character that we never forgot it. <br><br>When I was about 12 he was on a regular job. He is the owner of his own company. About 15 people work for him on a regular basis, plus a few freelancers, so he's usually on jobs that his employees are also on. This particular day he went up on the roof before the workers showed up and didn't come back down until almost 1. He usually comes down to check the workers' progress periodically, to see if they need help, and to get them back on track if they aren't working hard enough. <br><br>But on this day he just didn't want to come down. <br><br>When he did come down he was acting really strange and distant. He was walking around with a blank expression on his face that we had never seen before. We were a bit worried something was going on with him but decided to give him his space since he seemed so out of it. <br><br>Within a couple of days he was totally back to normal though, so we decided it was probably just a bad day on the job that had bothered him and it had probably been a one time thing. He was definitely very serious about his job, but he was also good at staying calm. Even when employees or former employees would try to screw him over like that one time an ex employee was trying to poach workers from him because he hated my dad. Or that time another employee claimed he was doing side jobs on the clock and wanted paid for them. Stuff like that doesn't even really bother him. <br><br>So we thought he had just had a rare bad day and that was that. <br><br>This happened 8 or 9 years ago. Me, my dad, and my older brother were all hanging out in the living room and my dad was messing around with a few old pictures. He doesn't save many pictures of himself because he isn't a fan of photo's of himself, but out of the pictures he had accumulated over the years, there was one in particular that he was staring at for a long time. <br><br>After a couple of minutes of looking at the photo he just randomly started talking about it. He told us that it was from the day he found a hidden room on a house. He went on to tell us that years ago he had found a hidden room on a house he was working on. He said that when he had gotten up onto the roof to check things out before the workers came he had found a door. He described the door as being small, about the size of the door you would find in a bedroom on a ground floor. The door was actually cemented right into the roof. There was a door handle that was shaped kind of like a animals head, he couldn't remember exactly what animal it resembled but he remembered how weird it looked. <br><br>He said he had opened the door up and found that it lead to basically a sleeping bag in a closet that was just big enough to stand in. <br><br>He said that he had gone down inside the room and there was nothing really in there. No light source or anything. There was a little sleeping bag and it looked like someone had been living there recently but he hadn't found any trace of the occupants besides an empty bottle of liquor and a lighter. The sleeping bag was clearly newer than the door. He said he had looked at the door and could tell that it was definitely old and not from this century. There was no visible way to get to it from the inside of the house. He said that the only possible way to get into it was by the door that was on the roof. <br><br>He said that he had gone back to the room a few more times. He had even started leaving snacks like energy bars and water in case whoever was living there was going through a hard time. <br><br>He said that after he had done that, he started to notice they had been taken. Even though he is a big guy he said he never actually felt uncomfortable in there. Or he hadn't until one day he had gone in and found a piece of paper with writing on it. He said that it was written in what he believed to be cursive, the letters were very ornate and long. He said that there were 3 lines so the paper <br><br>Line 1<br><br>Line 2: I count on you to provide for me<br><br>Line 3<br><br>He said that he had felt extremely uneasy and had gotten out of there. He said that he had been in such a rush that he had actually fallen down off the roof trying to get off of it. Luckily he wasn't hurt or anything.<br><br>But he said that he had come down in such a bad mood over it and for some reason that he couldn't explain he just wouldn't leave the house. He said he would look out the window and see his workers that he had trusted for years trying to get his attention and he just couldn't bear the thought of dealing with them. He said that even though he knew they weren't a threat in any way he just couldn't bring himself to talk to them. <br><br>He said that he had stayed in his room the entire time until they left. He ended up calling a meeting with all of them, because he had realized he was acting weird and something needed to change. He said that even though he had come to that realization, for some reason he couldn't make himself stop acting strangely. That's why he had taken so long to even come down from the roof. <br><br>During the meeting he said that for some reason he just couldn't let himself leave. He ended up answering the door and talking to them but he said he had been extremely paranoid. He said that he was totally convinced that workers that had worked for him for 10+ years were secretly planning to hurt him. <br><br>He said that he had gotten through the rest of the day by telling himself over and over again that he was acting irrationally and that he was making mountains out of molehills. He said that looking back on it now it was obviously some sort of hypnosis. He said that he had no actual reason to be acting like that and it was just so bizarre. <br><br>He said that he had never gone back to that house and he never went back into that room. He said that he hadn't even told his employees what was up there, he had just told them that he had gotten sick. The workers had ended up finishing the job without him. <br><br>He said that he had never spoken about it to anyone until now because it was just so bizarre and it creeped him out so much that he didn't think normal people would believe him. But that looking back on it he thinks that it was a magical door of some kind and that room was meant for some magical creature. He said that when he was in the room he felt a strange feeling he couldn't describe but it was like he just knew that something about it was supernatural. <br><br>He ended the story by saying that he thinks he was being hypnotized by the room and that he has no doubt that room was meant as a living quarters for some magical creature. He thinks that the creature was obviously a fairly peaceful one since it was living right on top of a house where people were living and that they left a note asking him to provide for them instead of demanding that he do so. <br><br>That's it. <br><br>He didn't even ask us if we believed him. He just turned around and went back to his room and continued messing around with pictures.