The Dionaea House was presented as a series of blog posts and email chains. The following is a condensed account of the primary correspondence.
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Mark to Eric — Aug 14:
Eric, I know you probably think I'm losing it. But I need you to look into this because you're a journalist and I'm not, and what I've found about David's death doesn't make sense.
David killed himself last month. I told you that much. What I didn't tell you is that before he died he called me twice and the second call I missed, and on the voicemail he said: "The house wants me. I think I have to go."
I went to his apartment. The neighbor said he'd been spending a lot of time at some house across town. She said there were usually other people going there too. She said the house felt wrong when she walked past it. She said that wasn't her normal way of talking about things.
I found the house. I'm looking at it right now from down the street.
Eric, I don't know how to explain what's wrong with it. It's a normal house. But it looks like something is missing from it — not something physical. Something else. Like the house is present in a way that buildings aren't usually present.
I'm going to go closer.
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Eric to Mark — Aug 16:
Mark, I got your emails. Do NOT go back to that house. I've been doing some research and I found something.
There's a woman named Tracy who visited that address two years ago. She wrote about it online before her account was deleted. She said the house draws people. She said once you've been inside you don't think about much else. She said she went back four times before she realized she was going back against her own conscious intention.
She said the last time she went she met others inside. Quiet, staring people. She said they didn't seem unhappy. She said they didn't seem like much of anything.
She said the house was warm.
She hasn't posted since 2002.
Mark, are you reading this? Write back.
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Mark to Eric — Aug 17:
Sorry, I was inside. It was fine. It's really fine in there. I don't know how to explain it to you but the house isn't threatening, it's just there. Very there. More there than anything else.
I talked to some of the others. They're fine. Everyone there is fine.
You should come see it. I think you would understand if you came to see it.
It's warm in there, Eric. Really warm.
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Eric drove to the address on August 19th. The house was empty and appeared to have been vacant for several years. There was no evidence of recent habitation. He found Mark's car parked two streets away. Mark's phone, wallet, and keys were in the car.
Mark has not been found.
The Dionaea house — named for the Venus flytrap, Dionaea muscipula — appears in archived accounts dating to at least 2001. The address changes. The description does not.