The furnace my parents have is a little creepy

I have lived in the same house nearly all my life, right now I still live with my parents due to financial reasons, thankfully, my parents are loving and supporting me staying until I can find my feet.

  • While much has changed over the course of many years, there is one thing that has not changed all too much in 20 years and that is my parents’ furnace! Now how I reacted to the furnace as a 9 year old child versus an adult is quite different however that furnace still makes me nervous.

I was 9 years old when my parents first bought this house and as a child I saw this new large house as something for me to explore. One of the first things I would discover was the basement and a loud noise that sounded like thunder coming from within it. When I ventured down I came face to face with an enormous oil furnace that seemed to spit fire. In my tiny brain this was some kind of monstrous beast and I ran back up the stairs screaming for my mom, but looking at the furnace now, it isn’t so large and I understand the noises it makes. As it was old when I was a child and it is even older now. But admittedly, I would be lying if I said it still doesn’t creep me out a little bit. Nobody hardly ever goes down in the basement because there isn’t much down there, but pitch blackness and the yellow red glow of the furnace light. It absolutely has an eerie vibe to it although I don’t run away screaming anymore. If only my parents could have had a normal fireplace or central heating and air conditioning system instead.

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