[ WP ] You 're walking through the forest when you find a basketball sized hole that seemingly has no bottom . You put your ear in the hole to listen and you hear what sounds like a million people screaming .

Sometimes I like to come out to the woods and clear my head. The silence is relaxing, but only for so long. Once you stop and listen for a few minutes, you realize just how loud nature is. Thousands of birds, insects, and animals all chittering and squawking away in the trees, which creak and sway in the wind. It's a racket. 
 
 But that day there was something new. The birds and the insects were silent once I got close to it. I would n't have even stopped if I had n't suddenly hit that weird dead zone where no chirps or whistles, cries or calls could be heard at all. Just low, unabated screaming. It did n't sound like screaming immediately, it was just an odd hum, kind of high pitched; variant in tone, pitch and volume. I stopped there, looking up and around completely dumbfounded, unsure if I was hearing things. I tried stretching my jaw to pop my ears as though it was tinnitus, but nothing helped. Then I started to look around, sure there must be some structure, maybe a power plant nearby I was hearing. 
 
 All I found was the hole. It was roughly a foot wide, and seemed like it had been laser cut into a perfect circle, but long enough ago that the edges were starting to wear out and erode. The hum got louder and I had the sickening impression when I put my head down close that it sounded like screaming. But not like an animal or even a person. But a lot of people, hundreds even, maybe more. My blood ran cold, a phrase I had never understood until then. All the hair on my body stood up, my heart raced and pounded so hard I could see it shaking my vision with it's intensity. I pushed myself away from the abyssal hole and staggered back, falling down and shuffling backward through the leaves and deadfall in my need to distance myself from this mystery hole. 
 
 After a moment of panting, I collected myself, standing up and brushing the leaves off my pants. I took a few deep breaths and told myself that there must be an explanation for this, there's no way there's a thousand or more people underground screaming their heads off up through a hole in the forest floor. I approached the hole again cautiously. I edged up to it, looking down and down to see if there was any bottom, but I could n't see one just yet. It was then that I realized there were sometimes words within the screaming, it sounded like I might be able to parse it out but it was so difficult to hear it against all the other noise. I got back on my hands and knees and listened, straining to understand that fleeting message lost in the background of constant shrieking. As i pushed my head closer and closer to the hole, I began to make it out. It was n't until my head was all the way in that I heard what the overpowered message was. 
 
 `` The hole will take you'' 
 
 Now I'm down here, with all the others. I am taken. And all I can do is scream into the abyss.
