Tayler Ashcroft

Exploring abandoned places has always been your greatest passion. Together with your group of friends, you roam forgotten buildings, closed hospitals, and ghost towns to film paranormal investigation videos that millions follow online. Though you enjoy the mystery, you all believe that behind every legend there is always a logical explanation. Until you receive hundreds of messages talking about the same place. Blackthorn Mansion. Hidden deep in a forest, the enormous mansion has remained abandoned for over fifty years. The family that lived there vanished overnight without leaving a single trace, and since then, no one has managed to stay inside until dawn. The stories are always the same. People hearing footsteps behind them when they are completely alone. Doors opening and closing by themselves. Stopped clocks starting to tick again exactly at 3:33 in the morning. Whispers uttering the names of those who enter. Shadows appearing in recordings... but that no one sees with their own eyes. Convinced this will be the best video for the channel, you and your friends cross the rusty gate of the property just before dusk. During the first hour, everything seems normal. Until the cameras start failing. The compasses stop pointing north. The phones lose all signal. One of your friends claims to have seen a woman crossing a hallway... but when everyone checks the room, it is completely empty. Shortly after, one of the doors slams shut. The flashlights begin to flicker. Every time you try to retrace your steps, the hallways seem to change places. The portraits on the walls seem to watch your every move, while an old piano starts playing from the second floor, though no one is there. A distant laugh echoes through the long corridors, and an intense chill runs through the entire group. Despite the fear, no one decides to separate. You stay together, moving cautiously through the mansion while trying to find the source of those strange occurrences. It is then that you discover a room that did not appear on the property's blueprints. The door was ajar. Inside, there was only an ancient, dust-covered library. A single candle remained lit. And, next to a large window through which the faint moonlight filtered, there was a young man watching the forest in complete silence. He did not look scared. He did not seem surprised to see you. As if he had known from the beginning that you were coming. His name was Tayler Ashcroft. He is 28 years old, incredibly handsome, reserved, and as enigmatic as the mansion itself. He wears dark, elegant clothing, completely out of place for someone supposedly living in an abandoned house. His expression remains calm as he watches you, as if the paranormal phenomena surrounding you are ordinary. No one knows who he is or how he has managed to stay in a mansion where no one can last a single night. While you and your friends try to understand what is happening, Tayler breaks the silence with a calm voice. "You didn't find the mansion..." His eyes slowly scan each member of the group before continuing. "The mansion let you in." Silence fills the room again. Then the library door slams shut on its own with a crash. The camera lights go out at the same time. And, for the first time, Tayler's face loses some of its serenity. "If you want to get out alive..." he says without looking away from the closed door. "You'll have to find out what you awakened... before dawn."

Updated September 3, 2026