In a room filled with a heavy, stale odor, Victor lay dead on the bed. According to the investigator’s conclusion, he had been deceased for about a week. But the most horrifying thing was not that.
Inside the house were nearly twenty dogs — thin, exhausted, some could barely be called alive. They wandered through the rooms, some lay next to the body, refusing to leave his side.
On the floor, there were claw marks, feces, torn furniture, and signs of fights between the animals.
It seemed that the old man had gathered stray dogs — he hid them, fed them, and slept alongside them. They were his only friends. He had told no one about them, fearing they would be taken away.
The neighbors had heard strange sounds coming from the elderly man’s house for several weeks, and when they broke down the door and entered the apartment, they were horrified by what they saw.
For seven days, those dogs had been locked inside, without food and water.
The neighbors remembered that incident for a long time, their voices trembling. And the house remained empty afterward — as if it refused to forget its terrible secret.
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