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I Used Forbidden Spells... | The Red Void (Psychological Horror Story)

A rational man summons a dark entity using forbidden spells, trapping himself in a nightmarish, shifting apartment.

Key Takeaways

  • Rationality does not protect against supernatural forces when forbidden rituals are invoked.
  • The apartment transforms into a psychological and physical prison after the summoning.
  • The entity manipulates space, time, and perception to trap its victim.
  • The ritual's consequences are irreversible and escalate quickly.
  • The story blends psychological horror with supernatural elements to create a tense atmosphere.

What the video covers

  • Omar, a rational man and hobbyist collector of old books, finds a 19th-century architect's diary about spiritual architecture and summoning entities.
  • He performs a ritual using geometric shapes and vocal frequencies to summon an ancient female entity called the lady of the dark corners.
  • After the ritual, strange phenomena begin: power outages, spatial distortions, unsettling smells, and shadow anomalies.
  • Omar experiences increasingly terrifying supernatural events, including water reversing flow and hearing a haunting female humming.
  • Attempts to undo the summoning fail due to missing pages in the diary.
  • The apartment becomes a shifting, imprisoning maze where doors lead to different rooms unpredictably.
  • Omar encounters a terrifying red void and multiple versions of the entity, along with trapped lost souls.
  • He is dragged into the void, disappearing for a week.
  • Omar's brother Tariq investigates the apartment, finding the chalk drawings and a crack in the wall.
  • The story ends with Tariq calling out to Omar, who remains unresponsive.

Answers

Questions about this video

What is the main supernatural entity in the video?

The main entity is an ancient female presence called the lady of the dark corners, summoned through a ritual involving geometry and vocal frequencies.

How does the apartment change after the ritual?

The apartment distorts spatially and temporally, becoming a shifting maze where doors lead to different rooms and reality itself seems warped.

Does Omar find a way to reverse the summoning?

No, Omar tries to find a way to undo the summoning in the diary but finds the pages torn and missing, leaving him trapped with no escape.

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[music] [music] Omar lives alone in a spacious apartment he inherited from [music] his grandmother.
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High ceilings, old wooden floors that creak with every step. He was a purely rational man. [music] His whole life was code, algorithms, logic. Collecting strange old books was just a hobby, nothing more.
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From a junk dealer, he picked up a worn handwritten journal. The diary of a 19th-century architect obsessed with something he called spiritual architecture. How the right arrangement of angles and dimensions in a sealed room paired with specific vocal
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frequencies could tear open a rift between our world and the realm of the jin. The architect had fixated on summoning one particular entity, an ancient female presence [music] he called the lady of the dark corners. No incense, no talismans, just math and
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sound. Omar treated it like a puzzle. He'd run the algorithm once, prove the whole thing was nonsense, and move on.
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On a rainy night, he cleared out the guest room, chalked interlocking geometric shapes onto the floor exactly as the diary described, sat at the center, and began chanting the phrases in a steady rhythm. He told his brother Tariq about it afterward. I was smiling
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the whole time I read those lines. I figured I'd laugh it off and go to bed.
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Then, 20 minutes into the chant, the power cut out across the entire street. Nothing else happened that night. Omar switched on his phone flashlight, told himself the outage was just the storm, and went to sleep.
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Small unsettling things started happening over the next few days. Nothing that would make you scream, just enough to make you doubt your own mind.
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Omar noticed a strange smell creeping through the apartment. Something like burned ozone or wet rusted copper. It always settled in the upper corners of the rooms.
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Then came the spatial thing. He'd be sitting there, coating, and out of the corner of his eye, he'd catch the furniture shadow stretching the wrong way. The armchair shadow reaching toward him instead of away from the light. The
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second he looked directly at it, everything snapped back to normal. He sent Tariq a voice message. Tariq, [music] the apartment feels bigger somehow. The walk from my room to the bathroom used to take five steps. Today it took eight. I didn't measure it. I
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just know. I walk that hallway every day. Does wood even do that? Omar tried to explain it away. Air pressure, exhaustion, bad sleep. He never found an explanation that actually held up.
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A week after the ritual, the fear started sharpening [music] into something worse. One night, Omar was washing his face at the bathroom sink.
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The light flickered [music] off, then back on, dimmer than before. The faucet cut out midstream. Then the water surged backward from the pipes into the basin like it was about to overflow. He grabbed something to clear the drain,
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but there was nothing blocking it. Nothing at all. While he stood there, confused, a sound drifted in from the guest room, the room where he'd performed the ritual. A woman's voice humming in a flat, unbroken tone. No emotion in it, just
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endless repetition. Fear crawled up his [music] spine. Then the sound cut off completely. He ran back to the bathroom and found the lights back to normal, the water draining fine, like nothing had happened at all. Omar [music] didn't sleep that
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night. He sat on the couch, knife in one hand, phone in the other, staring at the guest room door.
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The next night, Omar decided he was done with this. He tore through the old diary, looking for some way to undo the summoning, but all he found were torn pages, scraps still clinging to the binding. Whatever answer had been there
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was gone now. Near dawn, he sat searching his laptop for anything that could explain what was happening to him.
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Then the power died. The laptop screen went black. The room's temperature dropped so fast his breath started fogging in front of him.
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He grabbed his phone to keep searching, but a scraping sound stopped him cold, coming from inside the wall. He raised the flashlight toward it. A long feminine arm was emerging slowly [music] from the wall itself as if the wall had
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turned liquid. Then a massive red eye surfaced beside it. No pupil, just staring straight at him. Omar staggered back. The arm shot toward him with terrifying speed. He spun around and ran full [music] sprint for the apartment door and out.
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At sunrise, Omar came back, convinced the whole thing had been some kind of nightmare. The moment he stepped inside, the front door slammed shut behind him.
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He threw his weight against it. It didn't budge. The smell of ozone [snorts and music] and burnt copper filled the air. Nothing about the apartment felt right anymore, like left and right had been swapped.
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Then the arm burst out of the wall above the front door, lunging for him. He bolted for his bedroom, but opening that door dropped him straight into the bathroom instead.
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He froze for a second, then ran for the kitchen to grab a knife. Except the kitchen was completely empty. No furniture, nothing. He spun around, ran for the bathroom door, hoping to reach a window, and stepped straight into the
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guest room. He threw himself at the living room window, smashed it with his bare hand, and jumped through. He landed back on his own bed and blacked out.
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There was no outside left. The apartment had folded in on itself. Every door now just led somewhere else inside the same prison.
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Time stopped meaning anything. Omar sat on the couch, hollowed out, exhausted. No idea how long he'd been trapped. She hadn't shown herself since the last encounter, but he could feel her watching from every corner. The light stayed dim, flickering constantly, like
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the whole apartment was dying. He sat there, catching his breath when a knock broke the silence. [music] A weak voice followed.
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"Open up, Omar. It's Tariq." Omar shot up and ran for the door, but stopped just short of the handle. He remembered.
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Doors didn't lead anywhere real [music] anymore. This place wasn't home. It was a cage.
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He froze. The voice went silent. He crept closer and pressed his eye to the peephole. It wasn't Tariq. Someone was standing there with his back turned, [music] wearing Omar's clothes, built exactly like him, like looking at himself from behind.
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Omar couldn't move, couldn't process it. Then right behind him, not from outside the door, but from somewhere inside the apartment itself, a cold female voice spoke.
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Why didn't you open the door, Omar? I'm hungry. That's when it hit him. The voice begging him to open up a moment ago had never been his brother's.
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The second he heard her voice, Omar bolted for his bedroom, then stepped straight into the bathroom instead. The door slammed shut behind him. Every faucet in the room burst open at once.
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Water rose fast, too fast. He was seconds from drowning. With whatever strength he had left, he hauled himself through the window and out, only to land back in the living room.
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He ran for the bathroom door again, hoping this time it would lead somewhere safe. He opened it. She was already there, waiting. He lunged inside anyway, desperate to hide, and her arm shot out, stretching toward him. He barely dodged
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it. And as he scrambled away, the bed lifted off the ground, nearly crushing it where he stood. He threw himself out of the room and landed in the guest room. The same room where it all began.
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He froze. A massive crack ran the length of the wall. Through it, an impossible red void [music] stretched out with no visible end. Deep inside, enormous shapes moved. Versions of her, dozens of them. And drifting through that space
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were what looked like lost souls wandering, trapped there for what felt like forever. Omar turned to run. Before he reached the door, something seized him with overwhelming force and dragged him through the crack. The crack began sealing shut behind him until only a
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thin sliver remained. A full week passed. No word from [music] Omar. Tariq finally went to the apartment. Spare key in hand. He climbed
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There was no keyhole. He ran his hand over the door, checked the handle twice. No lock like it had never existed.
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He stepped back and broke the door down. Dead silence inside. The apartment was spotless and completely empty. No bed, no couch, no table, nothing. Just bare walls and an empty floor.
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He walked slowly toward the guest room. It was the only room that hadn't changed. The chalk drawings were still there on the floor, exactly as Omar had left them. And in the corner where the wall met the ceiling, a thin crack had
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appeared. Tariq stepped closer, shaking, and leaned in. His eyes went wide. There was no wall behind that crack, just a vast red void stretching on forever. And suspended in the middle of it, motionless, head tilted back, eyes fully
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white, showing no sign of life, was Omar. Five massive entities surrounded him. Thick black tendrils pulsing between their bodies and his slowly draining something out of him.
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Tariq screamed his name. Omar didn't move.
Topics:psychological horrorforbidden spellssupernaturalspiritual architecturejin realmhaunted apartmententity summoningdark cornersVorixThe Red Void

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