I live in a small town, like, less than 500 people; so, everyone knows everyone. There's a house here that's been abandoned since the 90's. There was a fire and the residents left and never returned. Some of my local friends went and explored the house earlier yesterday, and when I was hanging out with one of them, Tanner, and he was telling me about how creepy it was in there. Me being a sucker for any ghost-hunting activity proposed we go explore it.
So, at about eleven last night Tanner and I went to explore the old abandoned Gary K place. We parked down the road next to a neglected farm so my car wouldn't be seen by anyone driving by and walked to the house. The moon was waxing gibbous and I marveled at how much the outside of the house resembled an old pulp fiction novel; dark, overgrown, and in a mild state of decay. We walked around the downstairs of the house and it was pretty creepy, a lot like those videos of people exploring Chernobyl. They left a lot: old computers, furniture, luggage, dishes. I guess after they fled from the fire they had no interest in reclaiming anything from the house.
Tanner told me there was a really creepy doll upstairs. So I followed Tanner up the stairs, and before we got to the room with doll, there was a noise. We had just reached the top of the stairs when out of the doorway came a masked person, moving fast and not saying a word. I screamed and bolted down the stairs as fast as I could, scrapping my arm as I went. When I got to the bottom they let me know what was going on, but I was pumped and pissed. So I yelled a couple of "fuck you"s and "goddammits" and whatnot, but I couldn't stay mad long because that was too awesome of a prank

We finished exploring the house and were out in front standing on the road, when a neighbor down the street (about two hundred feet away) got in his car a drove past us real slow. We waved, and he turned around after passing us and pulled back in his driveway. He then walked towards us holding a handgun and told us, his whole family was freaking out because of us and we'd better get going because the cops were on their way. So we went back to our cars and drove to our respective homes.
I'm really annoyed by all this. I don't know if be was telling the truth about the cops or whether or not we had upset his family. But if he was telling the truth I feel bad we scared his kids, but if he was lying I'm annoyed he walked up to us with a gun and lied to us just to get us to leave. One of the other guys wants to go apologize today, I have mixed feelings because of how the neighbor reacted to something that wasn't even on his property.