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The Closet's Sinister Secret: Unveiling the Haunting Knock · Shallow Nights: Scary Bedtime Stories

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  Pretty sentimental person. I tend to think back to my
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  childhood and teen years a lot because to be truthful, I miss
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  it. Life was so simple back then in
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  comparison to the hectic mess that I deal with now.
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  Sometimes it's just nice to remember the good times and
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  relive them. Just last week I moved into my
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  new apartment after arriving in my new city for better job
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  opportunities. The apartment wasn't
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  suspiciously cheap, it was an average price for this
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  particular area. The apartment wasn't too special
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  or to rundown. It was a pretty nice
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  run-of-the-mill typical college graduates first apartment type
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  of deal. I had a friend from back home
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  volunteer to help me move in and the next day they left early in
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  the morning for the three hour drive back home.
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  It was just me. Now I have to admit I was a
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  little bit emotional as this was the first time I was ever truly
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  on my own. Even in college I had the
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  company of a dorm roommate. Now all I had was neighbors who
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  were total strangers and the people walking on the streets
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  outside my window. I've always been slightly
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  paranoid, so I did an occasional investigation around the house
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  to make sure I was alone. Every nook and cranny, closet,
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  and even the air vents were closely inspected with my
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  flashlight. I'm pretty confident to say I
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  was as alone as I could be. I didn't even find any crawly
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  creatures or the like. That would be a good thing,
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  since one of my biggest fears about living alone was not
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  having someone to kill the bugs for me.
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  I continued about my life for the following days, getting
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  adjusted and searching for employment.
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  I spent some time trying to set up the small TVI had brought
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  from my child at home, but I didn't have much luck.
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  There wasn't much I could do for entertainment besides browse my
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  phone, which meant using up my data since I was yet to get
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  Wi-Fi or go outside and explore the city streets.
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  I spent some time doing both and made sure to send my mother and
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  sister videos of the huge buildings and bridges that
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  surrounded me. I arrived home one night from an
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  adventure of walking across a bridge over the ocean and
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  settled in my bed for the night. It was quite cold because my
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  heating was pretty crap, but I hadn't made sure to bring as
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  many blankets as I could find in my old room.
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  I laid in my bed and snuggled under an old blanket that I
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  remember always laying with when I was a teenager.
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  I would always snuggle with my cat on Friday nights since I
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  only had a few friends who'd also didn't like to leave their
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  homes. Growing up, it was just my
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  parents, my sister and I. We had a typical middle class
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  house, so lucky for my sister and I, we both got our own room.
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  As I laid in my new apartment bed, I smiled at the memory of
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  how every night I would knock on the wall three times and my
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  sister would always knock back. It was our thing.
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  Our rooms were right next to each other, so the shared wall
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  was easy to hear knocking through.
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  Unlike typical siblings, my sister and I always got along
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  pretty well. It must have been because we
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  were both pretty lonely, so we were each other's sort of best
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  friend. We were only a year apart and I
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  was the older one. Right now, my sister is in her
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  senior year of college. I teared up at the thought of
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  our secret knock, as I didn't talk to my sister that often
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  anymore. It's like the bittersweet
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  feeling of remembering your old high school friend that you
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  haven't seen in forever. Being my old sentimental self, I
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  decided to do it for all time sake.
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  I needed to feel like I was back home.
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  I leaned over, looking at the wall of the bedroom in my
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  apartment. My bedroom bordered a very small
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  closet. I softly knocked three times,
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  smiling before turning away and looking up at the ceiling.
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  It was about 10 seconds after that that I suddenly heard an
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  unmistakable 3 knocks back. I froze, my eyes wide.
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  I looked back at the wall, paralyzed in fear.
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  This couldn't be real. I knocked three times again, and
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  it was followed with a soft but still very evident 3 knocks
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  back. I sprang from my bed, grabbing a
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  hammer I had laying on the floor for moving in.
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  I approached the closet slowly, trying not to make much noise.
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  I quickly sprung the door open and was met with darkness.
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  I flipped the switch on and I a completely empty closet.
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  I did a full check of my house like I had done tons of times
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  before and nothing. This couldn't have been
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  coincidence. I decided to push it off and
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  told myself I was just imagining things.
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  Maybe I was just hearing the memory of my sister's knocks.
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  Out of pure emotion. I told myself I needed to rest
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  and headed to bed. The rest of the day I couldn't
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  get the strange occurrence out of my head.
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  The familiar knocking pattern ran in my head.
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  How could this be possible? It finally got to me and I just
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  had to try it again. It was too strange to just
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  forget and I had to see if it was a permanent thing.
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  I sat in my bed, staring at the wall.
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  I had checked the closet prior and even set up a camera to make
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  sure it was empty. Against a slight pit in my
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  stomach that was filled with a strange feeling of dread, I
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  knocked three times. I waited a few seconds and it
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  came. The three knocks.
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  What the frig? I yelled.
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  I knocked again, this time a bit harder.
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  The same calm soft knocks returned.
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  I was beginning to feel angry. I felt like the knocking was
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  mocking me. Its calm demeanor was just
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  taunting my fearful mind. My knocks became more aggressive
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  and we're always met with the same thing, but the mysterious
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  knocks became more rapid and impatient.
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  I finally knocked a final time. At this point it was just loud
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  banging with my whole hand. I wasn't prepared for what
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  returned. A huge loud banging returned 3
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  knocks, but it was so aggressive, so hostile and
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  inhuman. It was like a tornado was
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  throwing debris at the wall. The sudden loud sounds shocked
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  me and I jumped up terrified. I ran to the closet and was
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  unsurprisingly met with emptiness.
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  I grabbed the camera and brought it back to my room with me.
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  What I saw was nothing. It was just the closet.
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  But the knocking, even the soft knocking was amplified.
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  It wasn't the muffled sound from in my room on the tape.
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  The knocking was very clearly coming from inside of that
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  closet. It sounded like the knocking was
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  happening right beside the camera.
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  In a moment of panic, I called my sister.
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  I just had to vent this whole situation to her as she was the
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  only one who can understand. I skyped her and as she answered
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  I saw her familiar face. She was smiling and she seemed
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  genuinely happy to see me. She greeted me, telling me that
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  she missed me. Her face then changed to that of
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  concern. Are you OK?
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  You look scared. She said.
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  I explained to her in a panic tone why I had called.
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  I went through everything. She seemed genuinely scared for
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  me. She told me that I needed to
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  call the police immediately. I nodded, out of breath, and
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  began to dial 911, trying to stay calm.
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  I was about to press the call button when my sister said
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  something that sent chills throughout my entire body.
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  My sister said to me, her voice trembling, that while we were
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  growing up, she never once knocked on the wall back at me.