What was in the church basement?

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One of the people in a small town in the South went to church twice a week since childhood. The young man was not talkative, but he was religious all the same. Most religious people seemed fake to him, still, he believed in God and tried to behave well. The young man liked sitting in the back of the church during services since he liked being alone. He was watching the other people in the service. Slowly, the boy realized that something was not right about the church people. The smiling faces looked too fake. The laughter sounded fake too.

People were giving a lot of money, fifties, hundreds, while the boy could only give the small money he made. He kept going to services regularly even though he felt bothered by what he was seeing there. The young man prayed alone in the church building. The preacher found him many times and looked uneasy to see the boy after service ended.

One day, part of the building was marked with tape. There was a Do Not Enter sign beside the door. This made the boy even more curious. During one of the Sunday services, ushers were standing near the taped door like guards. He hid in the church bathroom for two hours after service ended.

He waited there for a while and he moved to the door. He entered the building and found everything strange. Just before he could touch the tape, the preacher came up, grabbed the boy's shoulder with a cold hand and tried to look friendly. But the boy knew that the preacher could not hide his uneasiness. The preacher said that the boy should find another place in the building to pray. Even after that still, the preacher followed him and kept watching until he went away.

After that, the young man stopped looking into the matter and focused on proving his thoughts. For weeks, the taped door was watched by the preacher, ushers and even some people in town. One day, a big storm came to the area, which would surely stop travel in the town and cut off electricity.

Late Sunday night, when the first snowflakes came down, the boy went to the church and hid there until he saw that nobody was left. Then he removed the tape, broke the lock, opened the door and found a stairway leading to the basement of the building. The boy saw a cold blue light, fans, files, records, blackmail letters, photos and a list with names and the amount of their debts. The lights went off and the youth heard somebody's footsteps coming toward him. Suddenly, a hand touched his shoulder, another hand covered the boy's mouth. The darkness brought somebody's voice asking, I thought I told you not to come down here, son?

What exactly was in there? We may never know.

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