Demon Trap

The two brothers had been conjuring up spirits for for many years but they did it in secret without their parents knowing. The Da Salvo twins named Clint and Chad would go into the basement cellar of their parent's house which sat on an isolated acreage. For years the boys were able to successfully conduct seances to communicate with dead spirits from a graveyard that was less than half a mile away. The process the boys used was this. They would walk down the dirt road to the graveyard at night and they would enter it with their flashlights beaming at the tombstones. And when they found a name that was interesting they would write down all of the vital information from the tombstone engraving and head back home to conjure up the spirit. 

​But as the years went by they began to notice that they were being harassed in the graveyard by certain unknown spirits and it got to the point that every time that they entered the graveyard they feared for their lives. One time the twins were stalked by a wolf until they left the yard. Another time they were swooped upon by a swarm of bats. Other times there were unexplainable events that nearly killed them such as a falling tree or a sinkhole near a grave. The twins started to believe that they were being stalked by evil demonic spirits so they stopped going to the graveyard because of the logical fear that one of them might become demonically possessed. 

But even after they had stopped going to the graveyard or conducting any type of seances in their cellar, they still believed they were being stalked by evil spirits and feared for their lives. Nearly a year went by and they had not gone into the cellar because everytime they did they were haunted by something. Over time these hauntings became too much and the boys  decided to conduct a seance with an apparatus called a demon trap. The trap was made out of thirteen poles that were about ten feet high and surrounded the table. The twins then had to intricately weave hundreds of strings which formed a mesh from pole to pole around the table. Then the final step was to lacing it with barbed wire. It took the boys nearly the whole summer but they completed it. Now it was time to do the seance. 

On a warm September night the twins lit the candles, held hands and through a series of incantations they probed the infinite realms for the demons that were haunting them. The demon trap was designed to catch the demons when they came to attack the boys. About an hour into the seance one of the trap poles  shook and then another and another. The twins then started to hear the moans and groans of the demons stuck on the barbed wire. The trap was working. Within thirty minutes the barb wire was saturated with  demons that would not go away. 

A sudden wave of horror shuddered through the boys as they realized they had no way out. Then one by one the poles of the trap began to collapse and here came the demons.