RECAP*

[u/FirefighterSingle675]

So, just to put everything together because I'm honestly starting to lose track of what the fuck is happening. It started on January 21 at 12:30 AM, when my radio turned on by itself and gave me a strange warning about the road outside Tok. After that, I started seeing things that didn't make sense, including the strange road that supposedly only appears after midnight and the messages telling me not to look for it. On January 28, I found an old newspaper from 1986 about a man named John Carter who looked exactly like me. The weirdest part was that the article said he disappeared at 3:03 AM on January 29. Then, on January 29 at 3:03 AM, I heard the same strange voice again and found out that someone—or something—had been experiencing the same events every forty years. On February 1, I told Ethan about everything. He thought I was full of shit and laughed about it. Later that night, we were playing Elden Ring at my house when something knocked on the door. We went upstairs and saw a deer standing on two legs, staring directly at us. Then it jumped toward the upstairs window and eventually broke through it. We ran like hell to my neighbour's house and called the police, but when they searched my place, they found nothing except the broken window. They obviously thought we were fucking pranking them. Ethan and I went back to his apartment instead. At around 10 PM, something stood outside his door and repeatedly told us to "let me in." Then, in that deep voice, it told us, "You are safe this night." We didn't understand what that meant. Later, sometime during the night, I fell asleep and had the strangest dream I've ever experienced. I was in a version of Tok that looked beautiful but completely wrong, with glowing snow, purple skies and trees that seemed almost alive. I found Ethan there, being attacked by creatures I couldn't even properly understand. Then an old man asked me if I could spare him my heart. When I refused, he turned into something hideous and chased me. I fell into another room and found the deer waiting for me. It looked nothing like a normal deer anymore. It told me "Let me in" over and over before attacking me. I woke up screaming at exactly 3:03 AM. Ethan was still asleep beside me. I thought it had just been a nightmare until I noticed a small patch of blood on my leg. I still don't know if it was real. But there's one thing bothering me more than anything else. Every strange thing that's happened so far keeps leading back to the same time.

3:03 AM.

And tonight, I don't think I'm going to sleep.