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The House That Answered the Baby Monitor | Supernatural Horror · MYSTERY & HORROR STORIES

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  We didn't own a baby monitor. So when I heard
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  a woman whispering through one in our kitchen,
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  I thought my wife had bought it. The little white
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  receiver sat beside the kettle. A green light
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  blinked above its speaker. She's finally asleep.
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  The woman whispered. I looked upstairs. My wife,
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  Anna, was working in the spare room. We had no
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  children. Did you leave something in the kitchen?
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  I called. She came down, saw the monitor. and
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  stopped on the last step. Where did that come
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  from? Before I could answer, the speaker crackled.
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  A man's voice said, keep your voice down. They'll
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  hear you. Anna plugged it. The green light stayed
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  on. Batteries. The compartment underneath was
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  empty. We carried it outside and left it in the
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  garage. At dinner, needless mentioned. Then Anna's
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  phone lit up. A notification up our doral camera.
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  Someone was standing on the porch, on the screen.
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  A woman held a baby wrapped in a yellow blanket.
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  Her face was turned away. I opened the front
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  door. Nobody. But our kitchen smelled of warm
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  milk. The monitor was beside the kettle again.
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  Its green light blinked. Hannah gripped my arm.
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  From the speaker came three slow footsteps, and
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  the woman's voice put the kitchen downstairs.
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  I stared at the ceiling. The footsteps moved
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  directly above us. In the spare room. I took
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  a flashlight from the drawer. Anna stayed by
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  the front door while I climbed the stairs. The
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  spare room was empty. Laptop -open chair pushed
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  back. But beneath the desk, something pressed
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  forth deep circles through the carpet, as though
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  a heavy cut had stood there for years. Downstairs,
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  Anna said my name. Quietly, I hurried back. She
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  was looking at the monitor. A man's voice came
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  through it. There's someone on the stairs. Then
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  we heard my footsteps. The exact hurried steps
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  I had just taken, Hannah whispered. From the
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  speaker. Her voice repeated. We left. At a hotel.
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  I called the landlord. He asked whether the monitor
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  was white. Then he asked if we'd heard a baby
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  cry. He arrived at the hotel carrying an old
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  folder. Inside were photographs of our house.
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  One. The downstairs kitchen was a sitting room.
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  The spare room contained a wooden cot. A yellow
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  blanket hung over its side. My parents lived
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  there. He said for the renovation. Who was the
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  baby? My sister. What happened to her? Nothing,
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  she's 46. She lives in Leeds. I looked at Anna.
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  The landlord rubbed his hands together. When
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  she was little. My mother thinks through the
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  monitor people talking in rooms. But it was dad.
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  Us. Dad thought it was interference. Till a voice
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  described the wallpaper he was about to hang.
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  Did they hear anything else? His eyes dropped
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  to the folder. A smoke alarm. Outside our hotel
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  room. Someone pushed a cart along the corridor.
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  We waited until it passed. My mother heard a
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  man telling a woman to get downstairs. Then,
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  glass breaking, she took my sister outside and
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  called the fire brigade. Was there a fire? They
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  found faulty wiring behind the nursery wall,
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  said Mr. Gwon, and I set forth. So they prevented
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  it? I thought so. He handed me the last photograph.
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  His parents stood outside the house with their
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  daughter. Behind them, an upstairs window was
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  black with smoke, and Lord stared. That wasn't
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  there before. I heard the same quiet static.
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  The smoke alarm began. We're staying here. The
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  landlord called an electrician and gave him permission
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  to enter the house. We waited together. The electrician
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  phoned. It found heat damage inside the spare
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  room wall. But at 3 .06 a .m., a wall threw green
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  light blinking beside the hotel gate.