It wasn’t a cursed object, a fire hazard, or some forgotten experiment. It was the sad remains of an artificial Christmas tree, once bright and joyful, now crushed, bent, and half-swallowed by insulation. Years of dust, cobwebs, and stray decorations had transformed it into something unrecognizable, dangling like a warning from the rafters.
What looked terrifying at first turned out to be nothing more than nostalgia gone ugly. Old ornaments still clung stubbornly to twisted branches, bits of tinsel shimmered faintly in the dim attic light, and the whole thing felt like a ghost of holidays past. In the end, the only real mystery was how long it had been up there, quietly decaying while life went on below, until someone finally looked up and decided to know, not just imagine, what it really was.
