Latest / Crime and Horror / 10 Terrifying TRUE Stories (Volume 6) - Mr. Nightmare
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- 0:12Speaker 1: I lived on a farm ranch with my grandparents. My
- 0:15Speaker 1: parents kicked me out, and I couldn't afford to rent
- 0:18Speaker 1: an apartment, so they let me stay with them for
- 0:20Speaker 1: a fraction of the cost. I slept in a bedroom
- 0:23Speaker 1: on the first floor. The smell of old people was
- 0:28Speaker 1: much more pungent in this room. It was littered with
- 0:31Speaker 1: my grandma's religious relics. I had to deal with a
- 0:34Speaker 1: giant painting of Jesus staring at me while I slept.
- 0:38Speaker 1: Weird things didn't start actually happening until my second week
- 0:42Speaker 1: of living there I got home from my job working
- 0:45Speaker 1: at a small corner store in town, and by then
- 0:48Speaker 1: it was dark out. While unlocking the front door, I
- 0:51Speaker 1: could hear footsteps out in the crops. I had to
- 0:54Speaker 1: assume there was somebody trying to steal my grandpa's produce.
- 0:58Speaker 1: I tiptoed closer to get a better look, making sure
- 1:01Speaker 1: to stay away from any fallen leaves or anything that.
- 1:03Speaker 2: Could make some noise.
- 1:06Speaker 1: There was indeed somebody in the crops, but they were
- 1:09Speaker 1: crawling on all fours as if sneaking around. I could
- 1:13Speaker 1: have confronted them, but that might have ended in trouble,
- 1:17Speaker 1: so I went back inside to wake my grandpa.
- 1:20Speaker 2: He went outside.
- 1:21Speaker 1: Screaming like a madman with his rifle in hand. It
- 1:24Speaker 1: was something along the lines of, If I ever catch
- 1:27Speaker 1: you here on my farm, I won't hesitate to blow
- 1:29Speaker 1: your brains out. That seemed like more than enough to
- 1:33Speaker 1: scare anyone off the property, but the next night while asleep,
- 1:37Speaker 1: things got stranger. I woke up and heard laughing outside
- 1:42Speaker 1: my window There was somebody standing there looking into the bedroom.
- 1:50Speaker 1: He seemed to notice me as I sat up and
- 1:52Speaker 1: he walked away. I told my grandpa again. This time
- 1:56Speaker 1: he was really pissed. He stomped to his closet, pulled
- 1:59Speaker 1: out his rifle, and stomped over to the front door
- 2:01Speaker 1: with me right behind him. This time when he opened
- 2:04Speaker 1: the door, something immediately grabbed a hold of his leg,
- 2:07Speaker 1: causing him to trip. I jumped onto the hostile, taking
- 2:11Speaker 1: him down easily as he was already in a crouched position.
- 2:15Speaker 1: My grandpa managed to get up, grabbing his gun and
- 2:18Speaker 1: pointing it at the guy. I called the sheriff while
- 2:21Speaker 1: grandpa had the guy at gunpoint. I suddenly heard a
- 2:24Speaker 1: scream while on the phone. It was my grandpa. I
- 2:28Speaker 1: dropped the phone almost with tears in my eyes, fearing
- 2:30Speaker 1: the worst had happened. I got to the stoop and
- 2:34Speaker 1: grandpa was on the ground with his hand on his nose.
- 2:37Speaker 2: He was bleeding.
- 2:39Speaker 1: Someone else had come along, shoved him to the ground,
- 2:42Speaker 1: and punched him in the nose before taking off. I
- 2:45Speaker 1: wish I'd gone after those sickos with a gun. Who
- 2:48Speaker 1: punches an elderly man in the face? In the end,
- 2:51Speaker 1: the sheriff arrived for nothing, and my grandpa installed a
- 2:54Speaker 1: camera system aimed towards the crops. Last month I got
- 3:03Speaker 1: home late one night after hanging out with my.
- 3:05Speaker 2: Sister, brother-in-law, and a few of their friends.
- 3:09Speaker 1: I walked up to the stoop and saw my mom
- 3:11Speaker 1: left a note on the door telling me to take
- 3:13Speaker 1: out the garbage cans to the front. I made a
- 3:16Speaker 1: point of being really quiet since mostly everyone was asleep
- 3:19Speaker 1: by that time. When I got to the side of
- 3:22Speaker 1: our house by the garbage cans, I could hear voices
- 3:25Speaker 1: coming from our backyard. I took a peek over the
- 3:28Speaker 1: top of the fence. There were two people standing by
- 3:31Speaker 1: our patio table. I was freaked out. You could understand why.
- 3:35Speaker 1: I had to run inside to tell my mom. My
- 3:39Speaker 1: dad doesn't live with us, otherwise I would have gotten him.
- 3:42Speaker 1: We only made it out her bedroom door when we
- 3:45Speaker 1: noticed the two people from the backyard coming up the steps.
- 3:49Speaker 1: I shoved my mom to the window, basically forcing her
- 3:51Speaker 1: to jump out onto the tiny ledge below. I somehow
- 3:54Speaker 1: got her to do so, and while hopping out myself,
- 3:57Speaker 1: the two intruders entered the room. I only caught the
- 4:01Speaker 1: briefest glimpse of them before hopping down to the ledge
- 4:03Speaker 1: myself and then down to the grass. Me and my
- 4:06Speaker 1: mom booked it to the neighbor's house. Two weeks later,
- 4:10Speaker 1: when we had just started to move past the incident,
- 4:12Speaker 1: the sound of the phone ringing at 3am woke me.
- 4:17Speaker 1: It kept ringing non-stop. It didn't go to voicemail. My
- 4:21Speaker 1: mom got up after like the 10th ring. We looked
- 4:24Speaker 1: at each other and let it be. The phone rang
- 4:28Speaker 1: for another good 10 minutes straight until my mom finally
- 4:31Speaker 1: yanked the phone cord out of the modem. We slept
- 4:34Speaker 1: with it off that night. I was sure it had
- 4:37Speaker 1: something to do with the break-in. Two weird things like
- 4:40Speaker 1: that don't happen so close together without them being linked somehow.
- 4:45Speaker 1: The next day, my mom got a text message on
- 4:47Speaker 1: her phone. It said, Why didn't you pick up? This
- 4:52Speaker 1: was only a week ago, and we're still shitting ourselves,
- 4:56Speaker 1: worrying when the next incident might happen. A 14-year-old girl
- 5:04Speaker 1: was asleep in her room on a school night. when
- 5:06Speaker 1: she apparently woke and remembered that she had homework due
- 5:09Speaker 1: the next day that she didn't even start. She flicked
- 5:12Speaker 1: her light on and began to work on it.
- 5:15Speaker 2: The clock read.
- 5:16Speaker 1: Exactly 1.15 a.m. Over the sound of pencil lead pushing
- 5:20Speaker 1: onto the paper, there were faint noises coming from.
- 5:23Speaker 2: Inside the walls.
- 5:25Speaker 1: She stopped writing, and the sounds became more clear. It
- 5:29Speaker 1: was as if something was being pushed from inside the walls.
- 5:33Speaker 1: There was a storage space right next to her bed,
- 5:35Speaker 1: with a big square door that comes.
- 5:37Speaker 2: Off the wall to enter.
- 5:38Speaker 1: The girl started screaming for her mom, and the noises
- 5:41Speaker 1: suddenly became exaggerated, as if something were running in there.
- 5:46Speaker 1: The door to the wall popped off, and a figure emerged.
- 5:50Speaker 1: The girl's mother and father could hear the screams even
- 5:52Speaker 1: through three closed doors. When the girl's father came to
- 5:55Speaker 1: the room, he found a tall and overweight white man
- 5:58Speaker 1: covering the girl's mouth with his hand. The fight was
- 6:01Speaker 1: over in a matter of seconds, with a few good
- 6:03Speaker 1: punches to the man's gut. Two pairs of the girl's
- 6:07Speaker 1: underwear were found in the man's pocket before he was arrested.
- 6:15Speaker 1: Me and my wife were spending the night together in
- 6:17Speaker 1: Cedar Beach. Unfortunately, the place closes at 9.30, and the
- 6:22Speaker 1: place was miles from basically anywhere, so we were pretty
- 6:26Speaker 1: much stuck with nothing to do at the beach at 9.30
- 6:28Speaker 1: at night.
- 6:30Speaker 2: So we just took a walk through the.
- 6:32Speaker 1: Wet sands until 10. For the first half of the walk,
- 6:35Speaker 1: we didn't see a single person on the whole beach.
- 6:38Speaker 1: Then we turned around to head back. About 20 feet
- 6:41Speaker 1: into us walking back in the direction we came, we
- 6:44Speaker 1: both picked up on something. There were more than two
- 6:48Speaker 1: pairs of footprints in the sand. Ours were more washed
- 6:51Speaker 1: away by then, but there were two other sets of.
- 6:54Speaker 2: Footprints that weren't there before.
- 6:57Speaker 1: These, a little more recent, They seemed to set off
- 7:00Speaker 1: up away from the wet sand where there would be
- 7:03Speaker 1: no more footprints. You may think it was just another
- 7:06Speaker 1: couple taking a late night stroll, but we hadn't seen
- 7:10Speaker 1: anyone for the good mile or two we walked, so
- 7:13Speaker 1: we were spooked. I used the flashlight app on my
- 7:16Speaker 1: iPhone to scan around the nearby dunes. I even went
- 7:19Speaker 1: as far as calling out asking if somebody was there.
- 7:23Speaker 1: I told my wife to wait there while I headed
- 7:25Speaker 1: over to the garbage pails. It seemed like the only
- 7:28Speaker 1: place somebody could be hiding.
- 7:31Speaker 2: It was clear.
- 7:33Speaker 1: I shined the light further down, revealing a tunnel that
- 7:36Speaker 1: probably led to a parking lot. I moved closer until
- 7:40Speaker 1: I could actually see a little into the tunnel, and
- 7:43Speaker 1: as soon as I could, I shut the light off.
- 7:46Speaker 1: There were two things in there. I don't even know
- 7:49Speaker 1: if I should call them humans, because from what I saw,
- 7:52Speaker 1: they looked like hunched, naked creatures huddled in there. They
- 7:57Speaker 1: had skin to match that of a medium dark-skinned Caucasian,
- 8:01Speaker 1: but with much more flaky, wrinkly skin.
- 8:05Speaker 2: I didn't mutter a word.
- 8:06Speaker 1: I just stomped through the sand to my wife, pulling
- 8:09Speaker 1: her with me as we ran back in the direction
- 8:11Speaker 1: of the car. We made it back to the car
- 8:14Speaker 1: in about five minutes, completely out of breath. We got
- 8:18Speaker 1: in the car, and I finally explained what I saw
- 8:20Speaker 1: to my wife. She looked at me like I was crazy,
- 8:23Speaker 1: and she still does, but can you blame her? I'm
- 8:27Speaker 1: sure you're not even taking this seriously. I reported my
- 8:30Speaker 1: sighting to the proper authorities the following day and have
- 8:34Speaker 1: been coming back to the beach at night once a
- 8:35Speaker 1: week to try and find the creatures once more. I
- 8:44Speaker 1: work as a night janitor at the local high school.
- 8:47Speaker 1: I would 95% of the time be the only one
- 8:49Speaker 1: working the night shift because there wasn't really a need
- 8:52Speaker 1: for more than one.
- 8:54Speaker 2: I always start with the.
- 8:55Speaker 1: Downstairs classrooms and work my way up to the upstairs classrooms.
- 8:59Speaker 1: The cafeteria, gym, auditorium, nurse's office, those were all responsibilities
- 9:05Speaker 1: of the morning and afternoon guys. So since I was
- 9:08Speaker 1: always alone, I would commonly have a bunch of radios
- 9:11Speaker 1: sitting around the hallways playing loud music, like I did
- 9:14Speaker 1: this one night. The upstairs of the school was shaped
- 9:17Speaker 1: like a U rather than an O, so to go
- 9:20Speaker 1: around to the other side, there was only one way.
- 9:24Speaker 1: I was mopping the floor in one of the social
- 9:26Speaker 1: studies classrooms when I noticed, from all the way across
- 9:29Speaker 1: the other side of the school, the lights to one
- 9:32Speaker 1: of the classrooms turned on.
- 9:34Speaker 2: I don't mean it was left on. I always shut
- 9:37Speaker 2: the lights to every room I wasn't in.
- 9:39Speaker 1: I mean the lights turned on. I stood there with
- 9:43Speaker 1: chills running through my body. There was somebody walking over
- 9:46Speaker 1: to the window. They stopped and stared straight over to
- 9:51Speaker 1: me through the window. It was the most disturbing thing
- 9:55Speaker 1: I had ever witnessed. I didn't know what to do.
- 9:59Speaker 2: Confront them? Run away? Call the police? I got closer
- 10:04Speaker 2: to the window.
- 10:07Speaker 1: It was somebody who looked like they were in their
- 10:10Speaker 1: 30s or 40s. He had black hair and I couldn't
- 10:14Speaker 1: see a lot of facial hair. He raised his hand
- 10:17Speaker 1: and began slowly waving at me. I pulled the blinds
- 10:21Speaker 1: to the room shut and tried to catch my breath,
- 10:24Speaker 1: tried to sort out my options. When I lifted the
- 10:27Speaker 1: blinds back up, the light from the room across the
- 10:30Speaker 1: school was off. My heart went back into panic mode.
- 10:34Speaker 1: He was surely on his way over to this classroom.
- 10:38Speaker 1: Right then, the option to run seemed best, and so
- 10:41Speaker 1: I did. I ran down the stairs and out the
- 10:43Speaker 1: back door of the school, not giving a second damn
- 10:46Speaker 1: about anything but me and my life. Security cameras revealed
- 10:51Speaker 1: that sometime in the night, the man emerged from the
- 10:53Speaker 1: basement of the school and began wandering around. Getting a
- 10:57Speaker 1: closer look at his face, I could see just how
- 11:00Speaker 1: disturbed it made me feel. He was not a pleasant
- 11:03Speaker 1: looking man. The creepiest thing, though, was the camera revealed
- 11:08Speaker 1: him going back down into the basement and never coming out.
- 11:12Speaker 1: He was never found down there, though, which makes me
- 11:14Speaker 1: question if there's... Some hidden rooms or exits down there. Lately,
- 11:21Speaker 1: doing this job has never been more terrifying. I used
- 11:31Speaker 1: to work as a house cleaner when I was a
- 11:33Speaker 1: 17-year-old guy trying to save up for college. The person
- 11:37Speaker 1: I worked for the longest was a man named Jeffrey.
- 11:40Speaker 1: I only spoke with him once when I met him,
- 11:42Speaker 1: and a few times in between when he came home
- 11:45Speaker 1: early from his job.
- 11:46Speaker 2: That was it.
- 11:48Speaker 1: I couldn't tell you if he seemed normal or not.
- 11:51Speaker 1: He had a very serious rule, though. Not to go
- 11:54Speaker 1: into his basement. He even left a big sign on
- 11:57Speaker 1: the door. The curiosity ate away at me, but I
- 12:00Speaker 1: did my best not to sneak any peeks. So one day,
- 12:04Speaker 1: while I was dusting the furniture in his room, I
- 12:07Speaker 1: just got a little snoopy and started going through his drawers.
- 12:11Speaker 1: Don't ask me why. In his bigger drawers, there was
- 12:15Speaker 1: just a bunch of clothing. I started going through the
- 12:18Speaker 1: smaller drawers and found things like cameras, batteries, photo albums,
- 12:22Speaker 1: and various knickknacks. Same thing in the middle drawer, but
- 12:26Speaker 1: in the bottom one, I found a small wooden box
- 12:30Speaker 1: sitting perfectly in the corner. It needed a key to
- 12:33Speaker 1: open it, but I had actually taken notice to a
- 12:36Speaker 1: small key that had been hanging on his key ring
- 12:38Speaker 1: in the kitchen. It looked like it could fit in
- 12:40Speaker 1: this lock. When I tried it, surely enough, the key
- 12:44Speaker 1: twisted in the socket and opened the lock. What I
- 12:47Speaker 1: found was disturbing. There was a pile of black and
- 12:51Speaker 1: white photos. The first ones were just pictures of the house.
- 12:56Speaker 1: But then eventually, I was in every single photo, in
- 12:59Speaker 1: every single room of the house, including the bathroom. The
- 13:04Speaker 1: most disturbing picture was a colored one that stood out
- 13:07Speaker 1: from the rest. It was taken from outside one of
- 13:10Speaker 1: the windows aimed to me when I was in the kitchen.
- 13:14Speaker 1: I put the pictures back in the box, except for
- 13:16Speaker 1: a select few to use as possible evidence for something
- 13:19Speaker 1: that I feared might happen. I locked it back up
- 13:22Speaker 1: and put it in the drawer. I left everything else
- 13:25Speaker 1: in the bedroom as is. I was about to leave
- 13:28Speaker 1: the house and never return when I passed the basement door.
- 13:32Speaker 1: Now that I wasn't coming back, I figured I should
- 13:35Speaker 1: check out the basement so that the curiosity wouldn't forever
- 13:38Speaker 1: eat away at me. I stepped inside and flicked the
- 13:42Speaker 1: lights on. The air down there smelled really bad, like
- 13:46Speaker 1: rotting animals. There were weird posters on the walls, a
- 13:50Speaker 1: lot of erotic ones. I was shocked to even see
- 13:53Speaker 1: some with boys and girls that looked under 18. There
- 13:57Speaker 1: were two doors leading to either rooms or closets. I
- 14:00Speaker 1: didn't go into them, but the horrid smell was the
- 14:03Speaker 1: worst by those two doors. I finally realized there was
- 14:07Speaker 1: a buzzing sound whenever I moved. I noticed in the corner...
- 14:11Speaker 1: There was a ceiling camera pointing right at me, but
- 14:14Speaker 1: after noticing it, it seemed to stop moving completely. That
- 14:19Speaker 1: was my cue to get out of that house. I
- 14:21Speaker 1: drove home to safety. Jeffrey tried calling me one time
- 14:25Speaker 1: after this.
- 14:26Speaker 2: I didn't pick up.
- 14:27Speaker 1: He didn't leave a message. I'm glad I never gave
- 14:30Speaker 1: him my address. I was getting off from work at
- 14:40Speaker 1: Stop and Shop after doing the midnight shift when me
- 14:43Speaker 1: and the only other guy working at the time went
- 14:45Speaker 1: to our cars. A black pickup truck pulled up next
- 14:48Speaker 1: to us. There was a man and woman inside. They
- 14:52Speaker 1: looked like dirty hillbilly rednecks. The guy had a mustache
- 14:56Speaker 1: and a beard with a cap on and a cigarette
- 14:59Speaker 1: hanging out of his mouth. The woman had dirty looking hair.
- 15:03Speaker 1: Then again, her whole face looked dirty. When they stopped
- 15:06Speaker 1: in front of us, blocking our path, The guy sitting
- 15:09Speaker 1: inside asked us if we have any spare change for gas.
- 15:13Speaker 1: My co-worker dug through his pockets and dropped two quarters
- 15:15Speaker 1: in the man's hand. I handed him a dollar in
- 15:18Speaker 1: hopes that he would just drive off. The guy looked
- 15:21Speaker 1: at the money in his hand, then looked back at us.
- 15:25Speaker 1: I'm gonna need more than that, he said. We apologized
- 15:28Speaker 1: and told him that that's all we had.
- 15:31Speaker 2: Bullshit, he said.
- 15:33Speaker 1: I could see my co-worker was getting just as nervous
- 15:35Speaker 1: as I was. The woman in the passenger seat had
- 15:38Speaker 1: a devilish-looking smile on her face. I walked around their
- 15:42Speaker 1: car and speed-walked to my car, as did my co-worker.
- 15:47Speaker 1: I could see the man was spinning his pickup truck around.
- 15:50Speaker 1: I turned the car on and immediately put it in
- 15:52Speaker 1: drive and sped out of the parking lot. They seemed
- 15:55Speaker 1: to be following me at first, but I eventually lost them.
- 15:59Speaker 1: I pulled into a gas station and texted my co-worker
- 16:02Speaker 1: to make sure he was alright. He texted back saying
- 16:05Speaker 1: he was fine. I wish it ended there, but a
- 16:09Speaker 1: pair of headlights entered the gas station. It was the
- 16:12Speaker 1: pickup truck. I got back in my car. He tried
- 16:15Speaker 1: to block me by pulling up in front of me.
- 16:18Speaker 1: The woman in the car pulled a gun and started
- 16:21Speaker 1: to lower the window. I yanked it in reverse right
- 16:24Speaker 1: out of the parking lot. My back window cracked as
- 16:27Speaker 1: it was hit by a bullet. I somehow managed to
- 16:30Speaker 1: lose them once more and make it home alive. I
- 16:33Speaker 1: found two more bullet marks on my car. It's so
- 16:36Speaker 1: scary to think how close I was to dying.
- 16:40Speaker 2: And for what?
- 16:41Speaker 1: Unfortunately, there are so many messed up people in this world.
- 16:50Speaker 1: Me and Andrew, my half-sister's cousin, were 18 years old
- 16:53Speaker 1: at the time. We decided to go exploring in the
- 16:56Speaker 1: abandoned asylum in our town. It was way past dark.
- 17:00Speaker 1: There were no cars on the road. So it was
- 17:03Speaker 1: probably after midnight. Andrew drove We both brought our video
- 17:08Speaker 1: cameras in hopes to catch some interesting footage. YouTube was
- 17:12Speaker 1: only two or three years old at the time, and
- 17:14Speaker 1: exploring abandoned places was a pretty big thing for YouTube
- 17:17Speaker 1: videos back then, so we thought it would be cool.
- 17:21Speaker 1: We had to crawl under a hole in the fence
- 17:22Speaker 1: that someone else had cut. We both brought along flashlights,
- 17:26Speaker 1: of course. We got in through one of the broken windows.
- 17:30Speaker 1: There were a few planks on the floor by the
- 17:32Speaker 1: window that had once been planked up against the window
- 17:34Speaker 1: to prevent anyone from entering. We began our search, both
- 17:38Speaker 1: flashlights on, along with Andrew's camera which had night vision capabilities.
- 17:43Speaker 1: There was nothing but broken glass and graffiti everywhere. There
- 17:47Speaker 1: were a few cracks and holes in the wood floors
- 17:49Speaker 1: that led to blackness below. We didn't dare shine our
- 17:53Speaker 1: lights down there. We both shared a few laughs, but
- 17:56Speaker 1: I was creeped out as hell in there, and I
- 17:59Speaker 1: knew he was too. The place was huge. We ended
- 18:03Speaker 1: up in a small room with a dental chair and
- 18:05Speaker 1: other equipment. It was strangely unsettling. The most unsettling room upstairs, however,
- 18:12Speaker 1: was the bathroom. When we were in there, we heard
- 18:15Speaker 1: a constant dripping sound coming from one of the stalls.
- 18:20Speaker 1: When we tried to open it, it was locked. The
- 18:23Speaker 1: opening at the bottom was far too small to crawl through,
- 18:26Speaker 1: so we just left that room in a.
- 18:27Speaker 2: Hurry, very creeped out.
- 18:29Speaker 1: Behind one door, we found a stairway leading upstairs or downstairs.
- 18:34Speaker 1: We wanted the video to be as scary as possible,
- 18:36Speaker 1: so of course, like two teenage guys would, we went downstairs.
- 18:41Speaker 1: There was a new set of hallways, much more creepy
- 18:44Speaker 1: now that we were underground. There was a bulletin board
- 18:48Speaker 1: on the wall with a bunch of old photos and.
- 18:50Speaker 2: News articles on it.
- 18:52Speaker 1: Me and Andrew were checking that out when a metallic
- 18:54Speaker 1: thud came from down the hall. We shined our lights
- 18:57Speaker 1: over in that direction, just in time to see what
- 19:00Speaker 1: we were sure was a forehead moving from the hallway
- 19:03Speaker 1: into one of the rooms. Andrew started screaming as we
- 19:07Speaker 1: ran back in the direction we came. Now, I would
- 19:10Speaker 1: have just thought it was a homeless person or something,
- 19:13Speaker 1: but as we were stomping up the stairs, a single
- 19:15Speaker 1: flight below us, we could hear steps following us. At
- 19:19Speaker 1: this point, I was screaming too. The feeling of being
- 19:22Speaker 1: in the back was horrifying. I felt that at any
- 19:25Speaker 1: moment I would be grabbed from behind and dragged down
- 19:27Speaker 1: the stairs. But we made it back to the main
- 19:30Speaker 1: hall and down to the window that we entered from.
- 19:33Speaker 1: We made it outside and could hear through the window
- 19:35Speaker 1: the door to the stairway opening from.
- 19:37Speaker 2: Down the hall.
- 19:39Speaker 1: We got to Andrew's car as fast as we could
- 19:41Speaker 1: and drove off, never looking back. We were a young
- 19:53Speaker 1: couple that had just moved into a new house. We
- 19:56Speaker 1: had a bedroom on the first floor. The house had
- 19:58Speaker 1: an upstairs, a middle floor, and a den.
- 20:01Speaker 2: No basement.
- 20:02Speaker 1: At night, we started hearing strange noises coming from below us.
- 20:07Speaker 1: I checked under the bed. Nothing was there. The sound
- 20:10Speaker 1: seemed to be coming from beneath the floor, but the
- 20:13Speaker 1: house didn't have a basement, so it didn't make sense.
- 20:17Speaker 1: We started to notice things were different in the morning,
- 20:19Speaker 1: like certain doors were opened that we were sure had
- 20:22Speaker 1: been shut the previous night. My wife's closet door always
- 20:25Speaker 1: seemed to be open. We made sure to shut all
- 20:28Speaker 1: the windows one night, just to make sure it wasn't
- 20:30Speaker 1: some kind of draft. The doors were all open the
- 20:34Speaker 1: next morning. We had decided that it had gone far enough.
- 20:38Speaker 1: The next night, we both stayed up, listening and waiting.
- 20:42Speaker 1: The noises coming from below were louder than ever. Sounds
- 20:46Speaker 1: like things being pushed around, moaning. I headed down to
- 20:51Speaker 1: the den and put my ear against the wall, listening
- 20:53Speaker 1: for where the sound may be coming from. It was
- 20:57Speaker 1: coming from inside the wall I was up against, but
- 20:59Speaker 1: a little lower down, below the den. I went back
- 21:03Speaker 1: to my wife. I told her we had to stay
- 21:06Speaker 1: up for as long as possible and see what happens.
- 21:09Speaker 1: We stayed up until around 2. My wife started to
- 21:12Speaker 1: drift off, and I guess I had shortly after. I
- 21:16Speaker 1: woke to my wife shaking me, silently crying to herself.
- 21:20Speaker 1: She pointed at her closet, which had been opened. There
- 21:23Speaker 1: was some kind of hidden door propped open in her closet.
- 21:27Speaker 1: It led down into the floor. I hopped out of
- 21:30Speaker 1: bed and shined a light down there. It was a
- 21:32Speaker 1: ladder leading far down to some hidden room. I had
- 21:37Speaker 1: my wife lock the door and call the police while
- 21:40Speaker 1: I took my machete with me down into the secret room.
- 21:43Speaker 1: When I got to the bottom, I found a light switch.
- 21:46Speaker 1: The room had a table and chair, a small cot
- 21:49Speaker 1: in the corner, and a bunch of toys scattered across
- 21:51Speaker 1: the room. A scream came from upstairs.
- 21:56Speaker 2: It was my wife.
- 21:58Speaker 1: Somebody was trying to break down the door. I climbed
- 22:01Speaker 1: up the ladder the best I could while holding the machete.
- 22:04Speaker 1: By the time I got up there, they had already
- 22:05Speaker 1: kicked in part of the door They stuck their head
- 22:08Speaker 1: through a hole in the door and looked at me.
- 22:11Speaker 1: He was a dirty looking man. I saw craze in
- 22:14Speaker 1: his red eyes. He must have seen my machete because
- 22:18Speaker 1: he ran straight out the front door. I don't know
- 22:20Speaker 1: what the room is for, maybe some kind of old
- 22:23Speaker 1: bomb shelter or something. But I don't know who the
- 22:26Speaker 1: hell that man was, how the hell he got down there,
- 22:29Speaker 1: and how long he's been down there. I was 27
- 22:38Speaker 1: years old, moving out to live with my girlfriend in
- 22:40Speaker 1: an apartment. It wasn't the fanciest place ever, as we
- 22:44Speaker 1: weren't the wealthiest couple ever, but it was fine for us.
- 22:48Speaker 1: The first night in, we already hated the neighbor. There
- 22:51Speaker 1: was yelling and thumping going on all night. It was
- 22:54Speaker 1: like they didn't sleep all night. My girlfriend wanted me
- 22:57Speaker 1: to go over. I told her if it continued the
- 23:00Speaker 1: next night I would go over.
- 23:03Speaker 2: We didn't hear.
- 23:03Speaker 1: Anything of them throughout the day while setting up furniture.
- 23:07Speaker 1: But when night came and we were trying to get
- 23:09Speaker 1: some sleep, the freakish yelling and banging resumed, sometimes even
- 23:13Speaker 1: bangs on the wall. I decided to draw the line
- 23:16Speaker 1: and confront them. I knocked on the door and a
- 23:19Speaker 1: middle-aged albino woman answered the door. Her voice was raspy
- 23:23Speaker 1: as if she'd been smoking cigarettes for the past 40 years.
- 23:27Speaker 1: I politely asked her to quiet down. She told me
- 23:30Speaker 1: to back off and mind my own business before slamming
- 23:33Speaker 1: the door in my face. The noises and yelling only
- 23:36Speaker 1: got louder after this. My wife said we should report them.
- 23:40Speaker 1: I went to the front desk the following day, bringing
- 23:43Speaker 1: up the couple that lives in that apartment. The doorman
- 23:46Speaker 1: looked puzzled. He told me that only a woman named
- 23:49Speaker 1: Kathy lived there. Her husband passed away five years ago.
- 23:54Speaker 1: She was written down as only being one person in
- 23:57Speaker 1: that room, so she was breaking a rule of the
- 23:59Speaker 1: apartment building. The doorman went to go check out the room.
- 24:03Speaker 1: The woman let him search the apartment. He came back
- 24:06Speaker 1: to tell me that she was all alone in there,
- 24:08Speaker 1: which seemed so odd. He did however ask her to
- 24:11Speaker 1: keep it down. I thanked him and went back to
- 24:14Speaker 1: the room. It seemed it had worked as there weren't
- 24:18Speaker 1: any sounds that night. I woke to see somebody standing
- 24:22Speaker 1: by our bed. Anna?
- 24:25Speaker 2: I whispered. My wife turned next to me. She was
- 24:30Speaker 2: in the bed.
- 24:32Speaker 1: The familiar raspy voice at the end of the bed
- 24:34Speaker 1: said we shouldn't have reported her. I screamed and fumbled
- 24:38Speaker 1: for the light switch. My wife started screaming even louder.
- 24:42Speaker 1: By the time I turned on the lamp.
- 24:44Speaker 2: She was gone.
- 24:45Speaker 1: I slipped on my shoes and ran out into the
- 24:47Speaker 1: halls in my robe looking for her. Her apartment door
- 24:50Speaker 1: was open, but she wasn't in there.
- 24:53Speaker 2: Where could she have gone so fast?
- 24:56Speaker 1: Nothing was heard of Kathy for a whole week. Before
- 24:58Speaker 1: one night, there were four loud knocks on our walls.
- 25:02Speaker 1: not thumps like the previous noises. These were actual knocks,
- 25:07Speaker 1: meant to get our attention. We moved out a day later.