US homeowner discovers chilling 15-word message written in her wardrobe

Madeleine Jones was at home reorganising her clothes when she made an unsettling discovery in her wardrobe.

It had been a year since she and her family had moved into her 1920s home in Arlington, Massachusetts. It was the first time she had paid close attention to the wooden closet.

“It’s way in the back of a probably a three feet plus closet, scratched into the contact paper,” she told Newsweek.

A 15-word message was scrawled on the wall, she said.

 “A red river clogs my eyes as I slide down deeper from despair into death.” it said.

“It totally creeped me out,” Jones told the media outlet.

Jones said she initially thought the words might be song lyrics.

However, a Google search failed to turn up anything. 

She took a photo of the words and showed it to her friends and family. They were equally spooked.

The discovery left Jones feeling uneasy and enduring a number of sleepless nights.

“Who could sleep five feet away from something like that,” she said.

In her search for answers, Jones turned to the online community of Reddit.

It garnered a mix of responses. Some found the message similarly unsettling.

 “Yep, creepy. Place is probably haunted too,” one person wrote.

“I wish you well,” a second person wrote.

“Move again! Now!” another person advised.

For some, the message appeared to unlock nostalgic memories.

“Memory unlocked. When I was 12-ish I distinctly remember writing weird things on the wall of my closet, over the door where they’d never really be seen,” one person shared. 

“Every time I help a friend move I write something on top of their bedroom closet door,” another person wrote.

For others, they found the message inspiring.

“We’re renovating our basement shortly and I’d like to leave weird things in the wall for the next people who decides to tear it up,” one person said.

In a later post, Jones provided an update that gives credence to the teenage theory.

“Can now confirm that three teenage girls shared our 100 sqft bedroom in the 70s and 80s — that would be enough to make me write this too,” she joked.

It’s not the first time an unexpected discovery has been made at someone’s home.

In April, Emmie Brookman and her partner Norton Johnston were removing the render off the walls of their property in Lancashire, UK when they uncovered what appeared to be bones.

A plasterer in the UK also recently unearthed the historic origins of a home while on a routine call-out.