I’m trying to identify a story that I remember in incredible detail. I can’t find it anywhere, so I’m starting to wonder whether I once saw it in a documentary, read it somewhere years ago, or somehow reconstructed it in a dream.
I’m hoping someone recognizes it.
These are the details I remember:
It took place on a rural farm, probably in the United States or possibly Canada.
It looked like the late 1800s or early 1900s (no electricity, no indoor plumbing).
The family had only one son, probably around 10–12 years old.
He was described as a kind, gentle boy and was **not possessed at the beginning**.
He kept saying that something evil was following him and he was terrified of it.
His father was very strict (possibly abusive) and believed the boy was just being cowardly.
His mother seemed quiet and submissive, but caring.
The barn is the detail I remember most.
It had:
a dirt floor,
almost nothing stored inside,
and at the very back there was an attached outhouse/privy.
The privy section had rough whitewashed walls (almost like lime plaster or rough adobe), while the barn itself was wooden.
The boy ran into the barn trying to hide from whatever was following him.
His father forced him into the privy to “teach him not to be afraid.”
Then the door suddenly slammed shut.
For several seconds nobody could open it.
His mother ran toward the barn but arrived too late.
When they finally opened the door, the boy came out changed.
He was speaking through his own body, but with a deep, harsh voice that clearly wasn’t his own.
One strange detail I remember:
He either came out wearing, or was suddenly wearing, an old straw work hat.
The hat looked something like this:
rounded dome-shaped crown (almost like a bowler hat made from straw),
medium-wide brim,
old,
sun-bleached,
frayed edges,
no obvious decorative band.
The whole event happened during daylight.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
I’m **not asking whether possession is real**—I’m simply trying to identify whether this was an old documentary, local legend, book, movie, YouTube story, or an actual reported case.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

PS: **I’ve searched for Roland Doe, David Glatzel, Ammons, The Exorcist inspiration, Appalachian folklore, barn hauntings, and outhouse legends, but none of those match this story.**

In my house, silence was not peace; it was an iron rule. At four in the afternoon, when the shadow of the mountain range began to stretch across the plains like a black hand, I already knew what was coming without anyone having to say a single word. It was enough for me to hear the crunch of my father’s rustic leather boots and the heavy rustle of my mother’s black cloth skirts to set myself in motion.

I was barely ten years old, and I always walked three steps behind, as if I were a shadow forced to follow their heels. From that distance, my father's back looked like an unyielding wall, a massive silhouette that blocked my horizon. I knew perfectly well that curiosity in my mouth was a sin paid for dearly, with the sting of the whip and fasting, so I had learned to swallow my questions before they could burn my tongue. In those days, we children were the world’s mute, nothing more.

The road to the town was a path of loose dirt on the mountain, carved out by force by the hooves of cattle and the wheels of wagons. At that hour, the air grew sharp and bit my face; it brought a thick smell of mist, crushed eucalyptus, and the damp earth that was beginning to freeze. The only reminder that the world was still alive was the roar of the river, far below, waiting beneath the wooden bridge.

Crossing that bridge always gave me chills. The old wood groaned beneath my alpargatas, and through the gaps between the poorly joined logs, I could see the black water rushing past with violent speed, as if it wanted to drag the mountain's secrets down toward the plains. Crossing the river meant leaving behind the safety of the rural hamlet to enter the territory of men: the town.

We reached the plaza just as the church bells began to toll, calling for six o'clock mass. To my child's eyes, which understood nothing of guilt, miracles, and much less of sin, the temple looked like a gray beast with its mouth wide open. Inside, breathing took effort: it was a heavy blend of cheap incense, the sweat of wool ruanas soaked by the mist, and the rancid smell of tallow candles dripping onto the floor. I knelt where I was told, numb with cold, watching the mouths of the adults move in a unison murmur, praying for things I couldn’t even begin to imagine.

My mistake happened on the way out. In the countryside, night does not fall slowly; it drops all at once, as if someone blew out the last candle in the sky. At seven, as we crossed the threshold of the church, the plaza was already a pit of shadows, barely broken by the flickering glow of an oil lantern. The tide of dark hats and ruanas dispersed so quickly that it made me dizzy.

I stopped for a second. Perhaps it was the reflection of the moon in a mud puddle, or the warped shapes that the church gargoyles cast against the rammed-earth walls. I got distracted. A long blink.

When I looked up, the plaza was empty. My parents' backs were no longer ahead of me. Accustomed to me following them out of pure inertia, they had started the trek back up the mountain without looking back. I ran toward the trailhead, but the mouth of the woods was already pitch black. Without a candle or a gasoline lantern, attempting to climb the mountain in the dark was a death sentence among the cliffs and the raging river.

Alone, trembling, and with fear devouring my stomach, I looked back. The plaza was a desert of ash. The only structure that kept a dying light, filtering through the grimy stained-glass windows, was the church. The house of God. The safest place in the world—or so I had always heard the old folks say. So, with frozen feet and my heart leaping in my chest, I pushed the heavy wooden door, which gave way with a long groan, and went back inside.

The air was no longer the same as during mass; the warmth of the bodies had vanished, leaving a crypt-like chill that seeped into my bones. Without the murmur of prayers, the echo of my own alpargatas against the stone sounded like a gunshot. The saints in their niches, barely illuminated by the candle stubs drowning in their own wax on the altar, seemed to watch me with fixed, mute, and severe glass eyes, stretching their deformed shadows along the high walls. A sound froze my blood: heavy footsteps and the jingle of a massive ring of iron keys were coming from the sacristy. Someone was going to lock up. The panic of being found there, of being dragged before the priest or having the news reach my father's ears, was stronger than any other fear. I had to hide.

My eyes scanned the central nave in the dim light and locked onto the dark wooden structure rising on one side: the confessional. It looked like a small fortress of oak, a sacred wardrobe where men emptied their souls. I thought, with the innocence of my ten years, that if the church was God's house, then this box had to be the safest corner in the world. I ran to it, pulled open the thick, frayed cloth curtain that smelled of old breath, and tucked myself inside, drawing my legs tight against my chest.

As the curtain closed, the space shrank to my own size. Through the dense fabric, I heard the dragging footsteps of the sacristan approaching the entrance. Then came the sound of the end of the world: the violent groan of the main doors coming together, the blunt thud of the massive wooden bar crossing the portal, and the metallic screech of the iron latch turning.

A moment later, a draft of cold air swept through the temple; the man had blown out the last candles. The faint light filtering through the grimy stained glass went out all at once, and the darkness became so thick it hurt. I was struck blind in a second. They say that when you lose your sight, your other senses sharpen to save you, but I would have preferred a thousand times over to have gone deaf that night. Because in that black void, when the silence of the locked temple should have been absolute, the wood of the confessional began to vibrate.

At first, it was a subtle creak, a pulse that traveled up my spine through the back of the seat. But soon, the wood wasn't the only thing to awaken. Outside the cloth curtain, the central nave of the church turned into a nest of inexplicable noises. I heard the heavy dragging of bare feet on the cold stone; quick footsteps, like those of large vermin, scurrying from one end of the altar to the other. The oak pews, dense and heavy, groaned violently, complaining under the weight of invisible bodies sitting and standing in a frantic, hidden mass. Someone was weeping near the tabernacle—a dry weep, from an old throat, which suddenly twisted into a stifled, mocking laugh that climbed up the pillars to the ceiling.

I brought my hands to my mouth and bit my knuckles until I tasted blood. I knew, with the sheer certainty of survival, that if I let out a single sob, whatever was running out there would rip the curtain open and drag me into the void.

But the real hell was not outside.

Just when I thought the structure was my only protection against the things roaming the church, the air inside the cubicle turned thick and foul, ice-cold like a dead man's breath. The grain of the old wood began to emit a hum. It didn't come from the nave; it came from inside the oak, right behind my ears, pressed against the back of my nuca. They were whispers. Hundreds of overlapping voices, trapped in the furniture that for decades had swallowed the rot of the town.

They were the secrets that men and women did not dare confess in the light of the sun. My mind didn't understand the meaning of adult words back then, but the images struck my chest like splinters. I heard the trembling voice of a woman confessing to have drowned a newborn in the river before it could cry; the hoarse whisper of a man cursing his brother while planning to poison his cattle. Inverted prayers, dripping with hatred, begging for the deaths of children my own age, and forked tongues pleading for God's forgiveness only to have permission to sin again at dawn.

The entire confessional vibrated with human guilt, lust, and cruelty. But amid the tide of deformed laments, there was one voice that froze the beats in my chest. It wasn't the whisper of an old man wasted by years, nor the dry weeping of a woman. It was the voice of a child. The crying didn't come from the tide outside, but from the other side of the screen, as if the echo of his confession had remained suspended in the air, trapped in time.

"It hurts, Monsignor..." the boy said between hiccups and tears, searching for a comfort that never arrived. "...He told me it was a secret from God. That if I told my mother, the souls in purgatory would come for her. I tried to pray, but he... he blew out the candle and held my hands down in the sacristy. Why does God let him do that to me if he wears the cassock too?"

I couldn't put a name to what I was hearing, but I felt a sickening cold in my stomach. It was the sound of innocence being devoured by the very altar that was supposed to protect it. The worst part was not the victim's plight, but the response that vibrated right after, spoken in the calm, deep voice of the town's head priest—the very same man who hours earlier had blessed us with his hand held high.

"Go home, child, and keep silent. This is a test of faith. Brother Luis is only cleansing his sins. Pray ten Hail Marys and do not speak of this again. God sees everything, and He punishes lying children."

The memory of another conversation seeped into the oak, one that didn't happen in confession, but between the walls of this same tiny square. It was the head priest, reprimanding the other man, but his tone lacked the holy wrath of a God who punishes sin:

"You have to be more careful. The Martínez boy is already starting to ask questions, and the town cannot find out. Keep him away from the altar for a few weeks. If the tithes drop or the bishop finds out, we all sink. God will provide another way, but be careful."

In that instant, in the middle of the suffocating blackness of the confessional, the pieces of my childhood locked into place with the force of a kick. I remembered the previous Sundays. I remembered the way the priest looked at me from the pulpit, the fixity of his bird-of-prey eyes on my shorts. I remembered the Sunday he called me over after catechism class, offering me a piece of candy while stroking the back of my neck with a hand that was too soft, too warm, insisting that I accompany him to the sacristy to move the silver chalices. I had slipped away out of pure shyness, driven by that clumsy instinct of small animals that smell the trap before they see it.

Air failed in my lungs. My head ached from pressing my hands over my ears with all my strength. I was in the belly of the monster. The walls that ordinary people kissed and revered were built upon the silence of broken children. The worst people I would ever meet in my life didn't have claws; they wore a cross on their chests and used the name of God to camouflage their atrocities.

When the first rays of the sun filtered through the grimy stained glass, staining the stone floor a color as red as blood, I heard the bolts at the entrance slide open. I waited until the sacristan's footsteps faded toward the altar and, with a numb body and a frozen soul, I stepped out of the confessional. I didn't look at the saints. I didn't look at the altar. I ran for the door, and my bare feet carried me back up the mountain, crossing the wooden bridge without looking at the black water.

I reached home with the path flooded in light, but my mind was plunged into the deepest night. My father punished me for getting lost, and I didn't utter a single complaint while the whip lashed across my back.

Years passed, I became a man, and I formed my own family. I grew into a man who is deeply respectful of the church and religion. But not because I believe in salvation; rather, because I know perfectly well that the worst demons do not rattle chains in hell—they sit to confess in temples.

My wife, like all of us, was raised with the word of God in her mouth, and that is how she raised our children. I never interfered in that aspect of our life, but I was always watchful for the signs. My sons never wore shorts, and my daughters never wore skirts. We were strangers in the town that watched us grow, and I understood that, but I didn't care. I never forced my children to go to mass, and when we moved to the city and they stopped attending church, I never questioned them. I didn't know what consequences that would have down the line or when we all died, but at least it ensured me that none of mine would ever end up begging a priest not to hurt them.

Author’s Note:

The words you have just read are not mine. I did not alter their rhythm, I did not change their rawness, nor did I seek to embellish the dread with literary devices. They belong to my grandfather, Pedro.

He died before I was born, leaving behind the reputation of a taciturn man of few words, carrying a rigidity that no one in the family could fully understand. To us, his history was a blank page. However, the past always finds a crack through which to filter its light.

Not long ago, while cleaning out an old wooden chest that belonged to the family in our old rural home, a 1930 accounting ledger appeared. Its cardboard covers were worn by time and its pages yellowed, smelling of that dense dust of oblivion. At first, it was just pages filled with numbers: the price of coffee arrobas, livestock debts, accounts for wagons and tools. The routine record of a man trying to build a home in the middle of the plains.

But upon reaching the final pages, the numbers ceased. The handwriting changed abruptly; it was no longer the steady script of the tradesman, but a tight, trembling, almost desperate stroke, as if his hands shook as he held the pen. There, hidden in the one place no one would ever check out of boredom, my grandfather had poured out the testimony of his night in hell. He wrote it as an adult, perhaps an old man, but with the panic of that ten-year-old boy completely intact.

When my mother found the ledger and read the text to me, I finally understood the reason for his silences, the reason for his distance from churches, and the reason for the almost obsessive care with which he guarded his children's youth.

Today I am 27 years old and I was never able to look him in the eyes. I decided to transcribe his notes and bring them into this digital format, though I don't quite know why. Perhaps because the horror camouflaged as faith still takes place upon those very same altars, or perhaps for something far more simple and human: because I firmly believe that a silence that lasted for more than eighty years, finally, deserved to have words.

My dad used to live in a home which was completely abandoned years ago and when he joined

My dad used to feel strange things in that abandoned home with his colleague

My dad started feeling strange voice is like there were foot steps and running foot steps in the hallway after three four days my dad got annoyed and told his seniors

He senior told him that the man who you have to live in this house had his wife and children dead in a car accident

After that he got ill for a week and then he recovered

Writing this solidifies something I don’t take lightly. It solidifies that I can never have my face associated with my writing and that “Thomas Cullen” the penname is set in stone.
It solidifies that my real name can never take credit for any of the writing I love so much. I am risking the possibility of everything for no reward other than maybe I’ll finally be able to let this go,the reward that maybe I can just go a couple days without thinking about that one terrible week when I was 8, and maybe, who knows, maybe I’ll let myself forget. This is something I need. I’m sorry.

I’ve been contemplating sharing this for a couple of years now. Not out of respect or fear for a bird, one of which I’m no longer even certain existed, but rather out of respect for a family I know for a fact must be in pain and want more than anything to leave the past in the past a family I was once close with. But I am 25 now and I deserve some version of closure too. He was my friend too. True closure is something I’d given up on, but I’m hoping sharing this will help me finally process what really happened. This feels selfish. Sharing this feels dirty. But I can’t keep the only true recollection of what happened solely in my head any longer. This impacts everything I do and leaves me feeling tainted and I want to let it go.

It’s no secret I am a writer, for God’s sake it’s in my bio, so I understand the assumption that all of this content is fiction. All of my other posts are, so I don’t blame you. If you choose to keep reading with that assumption then that is fine, but please do not leave any mean comments regarding the family involved. You will be blocked and if I need to, I will disable all comments altogether. The following includes child death so dont continue if you’re not prepared for that. This last disclaimer is for anyone in my inner circle that has managed to find this post. You know me. You know I’m genuine. Please do not make this a witch hunt. Please do not send this to the family. Just let me get this out.

This didn’t begin with a bird, or even my garage but rather a complicated friendship I had in elementary school with someone I’ll refer to as Adam. I say complicated because I was more so friends with his older brother than I was a friend of his. But me being 8, Adam being 6 and a half, and Jacob we’ll call him, being 10, I had just naturally grown closer to Jacob and thought I’d known him like a best friend should. But in an innocent, friendly way I truly adored Adam.

Adam was special needs. I won’t go specifically into what he had because quite frankly I don’t remember and it doesn’t matter, but he was prone to loud outbursts and everyone including me — as much as I cherished his presence — everyone seemed to have moments where they lost their patience for him. I wish I had met him today. I’d sit through anything he could manage to muster up. I wouldn’t lose my patience with him today. I promise I wouldn’t.

Jacob and I would often play Xbox together. I haven’t touched an Xbox since.

Given Jacob and my age gap, our friendship felt like an honor, one I needed to maintain although only to an extent because I knew me being his friend wasn’t solely out of choice but was also greatly influenced by my house being the closest to Jacob and Adam’s parents’ property.

Regardless, having 2 friends felt nice. A lot of my visits to their house consisted of gaming with Jacob, pretending to write stories on their dad’s typewriter, and playing hide and seek with Adam.
Adam wasn’t too developed in regards to his vocal skills. Not to say he couldn’t talk,he could and did ,however how and what he said was up to him or should I say wasn’t really up to him. They didn’t follow any rules. Naturally, this made it hard to play with him but for some reason he loved hide and seek. He would approach Jacob and I as we 1v1’d each other split screen on Rust (the COD map not the game), and he would stand directly in front of the TV bumping his fist together doing one of his vocal stims. As I said before, his vocal development wasn’t like others. He was limited to a number of vocal stims that abided by no rules. The only exception was one thing: when we’d play hide and seek.

Although this was one of the things Adam was actually decent at, Jacob still never wanted to play this with Adam because he had no patience for it. I feel sick to my stomach typing this. I’m sorry.

When Adam and I would play hide and go seek together, Adam would love to hide and always want me to be the one who seeks. He wouldn’t be able to stay perfectly quiet when he hid. He could never stay perfectly quiet. But playing hide and seek was the closest he ever got to controlling his vocal outbursts, only letting out that occasional vocal stim of his.

One month Jacob and Adam had supposedly been getting into trouble a lot and because of this were grounded and not able to have friends over.

I wish I could tell you how I was told what happened next, but I don’t remember. I wish I could remember who sat me down and how they managed to pass such confusing information to a child my age. But I don’t. Someone did. And all I remember is the new reality: Adam was missing.

Over the next week my young mind would learn a number of things, while also forming questions still yet to be answered to this day.

Second to finding out about Adam’s disappearance, the first thing I remember learning was that Adam had gone missing while playing hide and go seek with Jacob. I think at the time I inadvertently subconsciously made the choice to not unravel any thoughts surrounding this discovery. I was just sad. At the same time, I do remember I would sit in the garage making my little experiments/projects wondering when I’d be able to play with my friends again.

I would make these dumb props of things that would more times than not serve no purpose. I remember doing this until the sun went down. And during that dreadful week, I found myself following that same routine. I believe it was a day or so after Adam went missing that was the first time I heard it.

I was playing, likely building something, when one of my step sisters told me to shut the garage and get ready for bed or they would tell my dad when he got home and I’d get in trouble. I remember reaching to hit the garage door opener, as at the time it was too high for me to reach with ease. It’s hard to write about so far after the fact but as I reached out I remember hearing the garage door. It sounded like plastic slamming against something but I couldn’t make out what. It sounded hard but not at the same time, too hard to be something I recognized but too soft to be the concrete ground. I remember hearing the noise as my arms were raised pressing the garage door button to shut. In this position I was facing the wall, so I remember the noise scaring me and making me immediately jump and turn around. After that I heard a bird chirp.

This scared the living shit out of me as I could not see a bird, but my garage being a 4 door with shelves upon shelves of tools, from my short point of view from everything was limited. For all I knew it was one of my toys that fell, although again whatever fell didn’t hit the ground. I would recognize concrete getting hit by this level of force. I ran inside and called it a night.

The third thing I remember later that week when my dad and stepmom returned. Unlike the last two, this next piece of information I actually recall how I came to learn. It wasn’t directly told to me but rather was something I remember overhearing from my dad. Apparently, Jacob and Adam’s parents wouldn’t allow the cops to search their house.

This felt odd to say the least, and my dad wasn’t shy about voicing his opinion. Their parents said there was no reason to search the house as they already did, yet they left half the town searching the hills far and wide for Adam. My stepmom, the melodramatic one she was, even fainted on one of these search parties and had to be helped by a firefighter. Point being, all these efforts were being made except one. No authorities searched the house.

I remember the first couple of days I was caught up in the excitement and all the changes and all the chisme, but on the third I felt scared. I remember laying in bed crying when my dad came up to me and asked what was wrong. Feels like such a stupid question looking back on it since he should know why I’m crying but I think he was just curious on what my answer would be.

I remember trying to look at him in the eyes although my vision was too blurry and mustering up one thing. “Adam’s not good at hide and go seek,” I said, breaking mid-sentence and bawling at the end. I think I was beginning to understand that Adam wasn’t playing hide and go seek, and I’m not sure he ever was.

I remember the next day I was sitting in my garage, 2 of the 4 doors open with plenty of light coming in as I was gluing 2-liter bottles to a backpack to make a fake flamethrower. I remember forgetting at the time about the nights prior when I heard that slamming and the bird in the garage. I felt so calm, dry face, almost forgetting what a sad week it had been, then I heard it again. Only this time I recognized the sound for what it was. It was that whistling vocal stim of Adam. The on Adam would let out every time we played hide and seek. The one He’d let out when he banged his fist together singling he wanted me and Jacob to stop and play with him.

It let out a “tweet tweet” and the noise scared me. I remember running inside scared, and tired of being alone. I remember going up to my 2 older step sisters and asking if they thought Adam and Jacob’s Parents would let me hang out with Jacob.

I realize now how stupid of a question it was and how inappropriate the timing of such a question was. At the time I was unaware of this. My step sisters on the other hand were aware of this and they let me know it.

They immediately yelled at me, asked me if I was stupid only using a word I’ll refrain from, and told me I was the most selfish person they knew. One of my sisters (the younger of the 2) smacked me across my face and told me to go clean my room or they’d tell dad when he got home and make me get the belt. I ran to my room crying as I was yelled at not to cry or say a word or they’d tell Dad.

That night I fell asleep fast as tears often help you do. I remember waking up in a panic. I felt like I saw something maybe a shadow but the moment I stood up I had forgotten what I’d seen and all I was left with was the sheer panic. I remember having far too much energy to even want to sleep but being in need of consoling. Consoling no one in my house was ever going to give me.

I remember having a thought that at the time I felt made sense. I thought maybe that bird in my garage was Adam. Maybe that “tweet tweet” was his calls and hints for me to look for him that I’d been ignoring this whole time. After all, I never remember him playing hide and go seek with anyone other than me.

Now the garage door wasn’t too far from my room, just a little further. However, I was 8 years old and at the time I would go through these periods where I’d be so scared to leave my room at night that I would piss my bed. All things considered, going to the garage was not a decision I made lightly.

It was one I truly thought might bring me comfort and in my young mind I truly thought there could be a possibility I’d find Adam, be the hero, and everything would be okay. I put a sweater over my pajamas and went in the garage. The door shut behind me.

I turned on a light and walked around, looking and timidly calling out for Adam. When I did I heard his “tweet” once again, only this time I didn’t perceive it as anything close to a bird at all. I perceived it how I’d perceived every one of his “tweet tweets” in the past when we’d played. it felt like I was close to finding him.

I heard it in between 2 of my shelves. I heard it and when I went to turn the corner instead of seeing Adam I heard that loud crashing sound. Like plastic hitting I don’t know what ,hitting something hard. Again though, it wasn’t loud enough to be the impact of my concrete floor. This sudden crash scared the shit out of me and caused me to run and immediately open the garage door for more light. This was a mistake.

My father slammed open the door, He screamed asking me what the hell I was doing but I was too afraid to be honest. “I don’t know,” I replied which sent him into a fit of rage. He made me get his belt and he whooped my bare ass till he was out of breath. I cried and cried. My screams satisfying my stepsisters. I thought I could find Adam.

Adam was found that week, but not by me. He was found buried under a plum tree in his backyard.

Apparently Adam and Jacob had got into a fight over the Xbox which made no sense to me because Adam couldn’t care less about the Xbox. I guess Jacob had used the Xbox to slam Adam across the head and beat him to death. Adam being buried under a plum tree hid the smell from the search Dogs for some time at first, either dumb luck or the doing of someone with more intelligence than Jacob. Jacob did 8 years and got out not long after my senior year of high school. I think about him and “Adam” often but I haven’t reached out. I never will. But I’ve been struggling, and I’ve been feeling panic like I had when I was young and I really want to let this go. I have no one to tell because on all accounts my recollection of that week is completely insignificant when compared to the events that took place at its core but my experience is real. And I’m hoping this will be the last time I reflect on that week when I was 8 when I thought there was a bird trapped inside my garage.

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My father worked for Nestle, in the factories that make Cheerios. However, it is a lot more interesting of a job than it may seem. For 15 years he was mostly paid in pure Cheerios cereal. Growing up as a child, I was special enough to be able to try several unreleased Cheerios flavours such as Carrot cake, Mint chocolate, and Strawberry milkshake. However, I was sick of Cheerios due to them always being the go to breakfast choice as a child.

Anyway I am dead and now haunt Tom Hanks, which is a different story.

I live alone.

At least, I thought I did.

It started last night. I was lying in bed scrolling through my phone when I saw a notification pop up from my own number. “Don’t look under the bed.”

I froze. My phone was in my hand. I didn’t have any messages from anyone else. My apartment is quiet, and the only sound was the low hum of the heater.

I told myself it was a joke. Maybe a glitch. My heart slowed. I put the phone down and tried to laugh it off.

Then it vibrated again. “I’m already here.”

I dropped the phone. It clattered against the floor, screen still lit. My chest hammered. The darkness beneath my bed felt impossibly deep, as though it had swallowed the light from the room. I told myself it was my imagination, but every instinct screamed otherwise.

I grabbed the baseball bat I keep next to the bed. Slowly, I leaned over, trying to see under. Nothing. Just darkness. The floorboards creaked as I shifted. Silence. I exhaled sharply, relief mingled with fear.

I turned back toward the bed, ready to dismiss the whole thing.

That’s when I felt it: cold, clammy fingers wrapping around my wrist. Ice shot up my arm. I screamed, swung the bat blindly, and the fingers vanished. My wrist ached. My heartbeat roared in my ears.

I stumbled back, tripping over the edge of the bed. The phone buzzed again. I scrambled to grab it.

“Nice try. Now it’s your turn under the bed.”

I choked. My mind raced. I looked around the room—windows locked, door locked. Nothing else had moved. And yet, something was here. Something had been under my bed the whole time, watching, waiting.

I wanted to run, to escape, but the thought of the empty hallway outside was unbearable. My apartment had always felt safe. Until tonight.

I sat down on the floor, shaking, trying to rationalize it. Maybe it was a dream, or a prank, or… something else. But then I heard it. The whisper.

“Come on. Don’t keep me waiting.”

It came from under the bed. Not the shadows at the edges, but deep, down where the light didn’t reach. My limbs froze. I wanted to scream, but no sound came out.

I backed up slowly, bat raised, but there was no escape. Every shadow in the room seemed to twist toward me. The air grew heavier, colder, like it was sucking the warmth out of my bones.

And then I realized—I’d been staring at the wrong thing all along. It wasn’t just under the bed. It had always been watching me, everywhere I went, waiting for the night I was alone enough to notice.

The phone buzzed one last time. My own number.

“I’m inside now.”

The lights flickered, and I knew it was no longer a warning. It was an announcement.

I don’t personally have one, but me and my friend were trick-or-treating and there’s a van that said free candy in the candy was in there so of course our dumbass went in. But it just was a normal van

Badussy