The creepy👻 old house🏚

This is a complete short horror-comedy webcomic story (with a twist ending) by the artist comicVid.sg. Here’s what actually happens, panel by panel:
A young woman with teal hair rents a very old, cheap, run-down house because the rent is low. Local rumors say a mysterious man (a ghost/pervert) appears in the house at night.
From the very first night she keeps waking up desperate to pee, but every time she gets out of bed to go to the bathroom, strange and terrifying things start happening:

Objects fly around
Ghosts/spiders appear
The house looks haunted
She even arms herself with a baseball bat and goes full rage mode chasing “someone” around the house

She can’t take it anymore and decides to move out immediately, even though she has tons of luggage.
While packing, she finds an old dusty book titled
Ph.D. Elson – TIME TRAVEL RESEARCH 1928–2002
with a picture of the exact same old house on the cover and a huge steampunk time machine.
She opens it curiously… and suddenly the book sucks her (and the entire scene) into some kind of time vortex. She gets spat out inside the time machine itself.
There she meets the inventor, a nerdy scientist (the “Ph.D. Elson” from the book), who has been stuck doing time-travel experiments in that house for decades.
The twist/reveal:
The “ghost” that kept scaring her every night wasn’t a pervert or a haunting at all.
It was the scientist desperately trying to appear in the house at night over many decades of failed experiments.
Every time he finally managed to materialize for a split second, the girl (who was asleep in the future version of the same house) would wake up needing to pee, get out of bed, grab a bat, and chase him away before he could properly arrive or explain anything.
So for almost 80 years (1928–2002) the poor scientist kept almost succeeding, only to be beaten back by an angry, half-asleep woman in her underwear swinging a baseball bat because she really needed the toilet.
In the end she accidentally activates/completes his time machine, gets pulled back to him, and the two finally meet properly (he’s blushing because she’s still in very little clothing).
The title of the series is “Shade of Memories” by Darkbox, and the whole thing is a silly but clever pun:
The “ghost” was real, but completely harmless — she was just beating the crap out of a time traveler every time he tried to say hello, all because she kept needing to pee at the worst possible moment.
Classic horror setup → actually just two people hilariously failing to meet across time for 74 years because of full bladders and bad timing.

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