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3 True School Lockdown Horror Stories That Will Haunt Your School Days · True Horror Stories

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: We got there just before noon.
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: When I pulled up in front of the cabin, Jason
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: hardly lifted his head from his phone. The airbnb sat
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: completely by itself, in a thick stand of pine and fog.
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: It was the perfect type of place to book for solace.
• 0:17
  Speaker 2: I turned off the engine, and the silence ate us alive.
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: You know there's no Wi Fi, right, he said, that's
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: the point. He rolled his eyes, got out and lit
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: a cigarette that he claimed he quit months ago. I
• 0:30
  Speaker 2: watched the smoke curl toward the gray skies. All I
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: needed was a day, just one day to feel he
• 0:37
  Speaker 2: still loved me, deep down somewhere. Once we got in,
• 0:40
  Speaker 2: I started unpacking. Jason scrolled on his phone and sulked.
• 0:44
  Speaker 2: Weeks had gone by without him touching me. I stopped
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: asking why. At one o'clock, we were sitting across the
• 0:51
  Speaker 2: dining table from one another in silence. The air between
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: us crackled with all the old tensions that hadn't been resolved.
• 0:58
  Speaker 2: It felt like we had a invisible forest of unspoken
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: feelings between us. He finished his third glass of wine
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: and looked at me. You've been quiet, he said, just thinking,
• 1:10
  Speaker 2: I replied. He smirked. Wow, new hobby. Huh, he taunted,
• 1:16
  Speaker 2: like he was the smartest in the whole wide world.
• 1:19
  Speaker 3: Why can't you just be nice for a day, Jason?
• 1:22
  Speaker 3: Is it too much to ask?
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  Speaker 2: I can't be all lovey dovey in this crappy Airbnb.
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: He pushed the table while standing. The glass on it
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: fell to the floor, breaking. The fight started the way
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: they always did. I should have left when I had
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: the option, he said angrily, and threw his glass into
• 1:40
  Speaker 2: the sink, shattering into pieces, just like our marriage.
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  Speaker 1: Why didn't you, I asked calmly.
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: He gave me a blank look, because I wanted you
• 1:49
  Speaker 2: to break first. Jason stormed out. He said that he
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: needed some are He left without a jacket and no flashlight.
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: He just walked away into the tree line, like the
• 2:00
  Speaker 2: coward he was. I didn't follow him. I cleaned up
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: the glass that he smashed against the sink. I sat down,
• 2:07
  Speaker 2: I finished Jason's drink, and I waited. It didn't take
• 2:10
  Speaker 2: long to discover what I already knew. Jason's phone was
• 2:13
  Speaker 2: tucked away behind the firewood stack, screens still locked. It
• 2:18
  Speaker 2: never changed his passwords. Jason had always thought of himself
• 2:21
  Speaker 2: as smarter than everyone else. That was his downfall, his flaw,
• 2:26
  Speaker 2: That and underestimating me. The messages were all there, unmistakable,
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  Speaker 2: ugly little truths, packed in emojis and promises made late
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: at night text to a woman he only saved as
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  Speaker 2: l These messages weren't one time flings, they weren't a regret.
• 2:44
  Speaker 2: They were the ongoing, regular and intimate reality of his life.
• 2:48
  Speaker 2: And then there was the one that burned the hottest.
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  Speaker 2: I'm done, she's pathetic, I'll tell her after the weekend.
• 2:55
  Speaker 2: He was ready to leave me for her all I
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: had given, after all I had done. He was just
• 3:01
  Speaker 2: going to throw me away like I was some old,
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: worn out doll. No, No, that was not going to
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: happen to me. He thought I was still soft, still
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  Speaker 2: love worn and broken. He didn't know I had already
• 3:14
  Speaker 2: let go of love and replaced it with tactics. I
• 3:17
  Speaker 2: went to the fireplace and picked up the heavy antique
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: metal vase the Airbnb owners used as decoration, held it
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  Speaker 2: in my lap, feeling the weight of it, imagining it
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: connecting with this skull, not to kill, just to remind,
• 3:31
  Speaker 2: And then I waited. When Jason returned, he stepped into
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  Speaker 2: the doorway, dripping with sweat and smirking like he still
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: had a chance to talk his way out of it. Lena,
• 3:41
  Speaker 2: I stood, took one step forward and swung the metal
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  Speaker 2: vase struck him just above the temple, a clean, brutal hit.
• 3:51
  Speaker 2: His eyes widened for a heartbeat, then glassed over as
• 3:54
  Speaker 2: his body collapsed to the floor like a marionette with
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: its strings cut.
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  Speaker 1: I knelt beside him him and checked his pulse weak
• 4:02
  Speaker 1: but there that was enough.
• 4:04
  Speaker 2: Dragging him across the hardwood floor took more effort than
• 4:07
  Speaker 2: I expected. He was dead weight, literally and metaphorically. I heaved, pushed,
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  Speaker 2: and pulled out the back door, down the path and
• 4:17
  Speaker 2: through the trees. The waterfall thundered behind the cabin. That
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  Speaker 2: five hundred foot drop had been the real reason I
• 4:24
  Speaker 2: chose this airbnb. Not the view, not the quiet, the fall,
• 4:29
  Speaker 2: the kind of place that made bodies vanish. I dragged
• 4:32
  Speaker 2: Jason right to the edge with a moss turned slick
• 4:35
  Speaker 2: and the spray hit my face. He groaned, dazed, starting
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  Speaker 2: to stir. Perfect timing. I leaned down, thrust his damp
• 4:44
  Speaker 2: hair from his forehead, and whispered into his ear.
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  Speaker 1: This is what you get. For betraying me. Goodbye, darling.
• 4:52
  Speaker 1: Then I pushed.
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  Speaker 2: There was no scream, just a wet, brutal silence as
• 4:57
  Speaker 2: his body disappeared into the roaring white below. When it hit,
• 5:01
  Speaker 2: I didn't flinch. The current would carry him for miles.
• 5:05
  Speaker 2: The rocks would strip his face of features. The cold
• 5:08
  Speaker 2: would keep him preserved, unreachable. They'd never find him. I
• 5:13
  Speaker 2: walked back to the cabin, peeled off my soaked clothes,
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  Speaker 2: and began the rest of my work. I sliced a
• 5:18
  Speaker 2: neat line across my palm, bruised my shoulder on the
• 5:21
  Speaker 2: corner of the counter, smashed the mirror, and scattered blood
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  Speaker 2: across the tile.
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  Speaker 1: Then I picked up the phone.
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: Only one call needed to be made. I didn't care
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  Speaker 2: that there was barely any service, no Wi Fi. This
• 5:35
  Speaker 2: place had always been perfect for what I needed.
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: My husband. My voice shook just enough.
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  Speaker 3: He snapped. He said he couldn't take it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: He hit me. He ran into the woods.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think he's going to hurt himself.
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  Speaker 2: They believed me, of course they did. They sent officers
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: and paramedics. A blanket was draped around my shoulders while
• 6:06
  Speaker 2: I cried into it. On cue I told them about
• 6:08
  Speaker 2: the cheating, the threats, the bruises I'd hidden for months.
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: They promised they'd search for them. They're still searching. Anna
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  Speaker 2: had found this cheap airbnb, secluded cabin, forest views, all
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  Speaker 2: that rustic charm, bullshit for what was supposed to be
• 6:27
  Speaker 2: a fun weekend. But the place felt wrong from the
• 6:30
  Speaker 2: moment we pulled up. Everything too quiet, like it had
• 6:34
  Speaker 2: been holding its breath waiting.
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  Speaker 1: We settled in anyway, unpacked.
• 6:39
  Speaker 2: The tequila started a drinking game, and by midnight we
• 6:42
  Speaker 2: were all sloppy, drunk, laughing too loud to silence the
• 6:45
  Speaker 2: uneasy crawling under our skin.
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: I passed out on the couch at around two am.
• 6:50
  Speaker 2: Couldn't have been to sleep more than an hour when
• 6:53
  Speaker 2: Emily's ice cold hand clamped over my mouth, stifling a
• 6:56
  Speaker 2: terrified shriek. Her eyes were wide blown with a thrill.
• 7:02
  Speaker 3: Living room now.
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  Speaker 1: She whispered.
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  Speaker 2: I followed her on unsteady legs. Madison and Hannah were
• 7:10
  Speaker 2: already circled around something in the floor, a rusted metal
• 7:13
  Speaker 2: ring jutting from the wooden boards like a bone through skin.
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  Speaker 2: Open it, Madison whispered, excited. I knelt down, gripped the
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  Speaker 2: cold iron ring and pulled the hinges, grown like an
• 7:26
  Speaker 2: animal dying. That smell hit me so hard. I gagged.
• 7:30
  Speaker 2: Damp earth and something sickly sweet, like meat gone bad.
• 7:35
  Speaker 2: My phone's flashlight caught rough stone steps disappearing into darkness.
• 7:40
  Speaker 3: Nice, you shouldn't the owners hadn't mentioned the basement.
• 7:45
  Speaker 2: Hannah whispered, backing away, but Emily was already descending, giggling
• 7:50
  Speaker 2: that high, tight laugh she got when she was scared,
• 7:53
  Speaker 2: but wouldn't admit it.
• 7:55
  Speaker 3: Don't be such a baby, hen.
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: The basement wasn't built. It was excavated, just raw boulder walls,
• 8:03
  Speaker 1: like one of those Game of Thrones dungeons.
• 8:05
  Speaker 2: The ceiling pressed down, forcing us to stoop as we
• 8:08
  Speaker 2: scurried deeper. In the corner sat a child sized table
• 8:12
  Speaker 2: with a single chair. Scattered around it were toys no
• 8:16
  Speaker 2: child should own, dolls with mouths shown shot, a rocking
• 8:20
  Speaker 2: horse with what looked like real teeth embedded in its mane.
• 8:24
  Speaker 2: Behind the table, hundreds of tally marks scratched into the
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  Speaker 2: dirt wall. Some looked decades old, others looked relatively fresh.
• 8:33
  Speaker 2: Madison picked up a half burned book from the table.
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  Speaker 2: Morile was carved into its cover. Listen to this, she said,
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  Speaker 2: reading from the last page.
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  Speaker 3: Mommy, thanks, Burning me will make me go away, stupid, Mommy,
• 8:48
  Speaker 3: fire just makes me angry. I'll wear someone new every night. Guys,
• 8:54
  Speaker 3: I think someone did rituals down here.
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  Speaker 2: Emily pointed at a circle of blackened candles in the corner.
• 9:00
  Speaker 2: Madison's eyes lit up.
• 9:02
  Speaker 1: We should do a sounds Are you freaking kidding me?
• 9:05
  Speaker 1: My voice cracked.
• 9:07
  Speaker 3: Come on, Tyler, don't you want to meet little Moriel?
• 9:12
  Speaker 2: Emily teased. But that night, after too many beers and shots,
• 9:16
  Speaker 2: there we were sitting in a circle in the suffocating basement.
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: The candles we'd found cast flickering shadows across the dirt walls.
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: We call upon the spirit of Morio. Madison intoned, come
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: forward and speak to us. Hannah fidgeted beside me.
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  Speaker 3: This is stupid and disrespectful. Sh Emily snapped, Moriol, if
• 9:40
  Speaker 3: you're here, give us a sign.
• 9:43
  Speaker 2: Suddenly, the candles flickered all at once, Very funny, I said,
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: who blew on him?
• 9:50
  Speaker 1: No one answered. The air had gone completely still.
• 9:54
  Speaker 2: Then the trap door slam shut with a bang so
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: loud it made us all jump.
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: What the fuck?
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  Speaker 2: I scrambled up, rushing to the steps. The door wouldn't budge, guys,
• 10:06
  Speaker 2: It stuck. A horrible choking noise cut me off. I
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: turned to see Emily convulsing on the floor. Her back
• 10:14
  Speaker 2: arched at an impossible angle. Her eyes rolled back as
• 10:17
  Speaker 2: her limbs jerked violently. Emily Madison screamed, reaching for her.
• 10:23
  Speaker 2: Hannah screamed, don't touch her.
• 10:26
  Speaker 1: Too late.
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  Speaker 2: The moment Madison's fingers brushed Emily's skin, Emily's head rotated
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty degrees with a wet, tearing sound.
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: Her eyes had changed not just black, they were leaking. Dark.
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: Fluids streamed upward across her forehead to find gravity. The
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: voice from her mouth wasn't humic, multiple tones layered over
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: each other, like a child's voice stuffed. M Emily's body
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: snapped upright with a sound like kindling breaking. Her head
• 11:05
  Speaker 2: remained backward with that terrible grin splitting her face literally
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: ear to ear.
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  Speaker 1: The skin tore the corners. I know, do your secret,
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  Speaker 1: she said, neck twisting further with each word.
• 11:19
  Speaker 4: Anna herfashion of her boyfriend sleep. Madison steals dead people's
• 11:29
  Speaker 4: stewelery at Cuno.
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: Hannah gasped. Madison went white.
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: She crawled toward me, moving like a spider in tailor
• 11:40
  Speaker 2: a tree tiller.
• 11:43
  Speaker 4: You watch your will make shower through the crack in
• 11:47
  Speaker 4: the door.
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: My stomach dropped. Stop at Emily, I said, shaking. She
• 11:54
  Speaker 1: was axious from my face, her breath sour and cold.
• 11:58
  Speaker 3: Not Emily.
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: She shrieked, her voice splitting into multiple tones. Then she
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: lunged at me. Unbelievably strong hands wrapped around my throat
• 12:08
  Speaker 2: as inhuman fingernails dug into my skin. My eyes rolled
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: back in my head while Emily twisted within human speed,
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: throwing Madison across the room.
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: When she tried helping, Hannah screamed.
• 12:21
  Speaker 3: Mammy tried to lock me away.
• 12:23
  Speaker 1: Emily Morris whispered, face inches from mine, cash cubly locked.
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: Suddenly, Hannah smashed a porcelain doll against Emily's head. She collapsed,
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: releasing her grip. We dragged Emily up the stairs. This
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: time the trap door opened easily, too easily, like it
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: wanted us to leave. We burst into the living room.
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: The morning sun was streaming through the windows. Emily was
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: bleeding from her temple, still unconscious again, her eyes snapped open.
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  Speaker 1: We scurried away while she groaned and blinked.
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: However, this time her normal brown eyes confused, scared, stared
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  Speaker 2: at us. She started screaming raw animal sounds of terror.
• 13:12
  Speaker 2: Then she vomited a thick, black liquid that smelt like rot.
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: We didn't wait, just drove to the hospital, Emily still screaming,
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: her voice going hoarse. The doctors diagnosed her with a
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: psychotic break. They didn't believe our story about the basement,
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: about the voice that wasn't hers, and we were too
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: much of a chicken to revisit the dungeons. I visited
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: her yesterday at the psychiatric hospital. She doesn't talk anymore,
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: just sits by the window, drawing the same thing over
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: and over, a circle of candles a child's table, And
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: when no one was watching, she looked at me and
• 13:48
  Speaker 2: smiled once again. Her eyes, just for a second, went
• 13:53
  Speaker 2: completely black. It started with Airbnb, a charming country cottage
• 14:03
  Speaker 2: that would.
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: Save our marriage.
• 14:05
  Speaker 2: Mark had said, remote, romantic, just what we needed after
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: months of silent dinners and separate beds, and I was
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: totally for it. The smell hit me first, as soon
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: as we arrived, musty and sweet, like rotting flowers. The
• 14:20
  Speaker 2: old caretaker woman who let us in didn't return my smile.
• 14:25
  Speaker 3: Do not disturb what isn't yours.
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: She instructed, pressing the key into my palm with ice
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: cold fingers, her nails dug into my skin as she emphasized.
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: Some things in this house, like being alone.
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: I followed her eyes into the bedroom. That's when I
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: saw it. The cradle, small and ancient. It's dark wood,
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: polished by decades of touch. It sat in the corner
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: like a spider waiting to strike. So out of place
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: it had sent creepy chills.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: Down my spine. Weird decoration.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: Mark muttered, dropping our bags. I nodded, mouth dry. Something
• 15:04
  Speaker 2: about it seemed hungry. That night, I woke to Mark's
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: breathing beside me, heavy and slow. Something else was breathing, too, graspy, wet,
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: coming from the corner.
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: Creak. My body went rigid, creak, creak.
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: The moonlight slicing through the curtains illuminated the cradle, rocking gently,
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: empty but moving. My rational mind grasped for explanations. Uneven floorboards,
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: air currents, too much wine.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: Creak.
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: It rocked faster now, the motion too deliberate to rhythmic.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: I opened my mouth to scream, but couldn't. I stared
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: horrified as it swayed, then abruptly stopped, as if whatever
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: was rocking it had noticed me watching and hated it.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: At breakfast, Mark told me I'd been mumbling in my
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: sleep all morning.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: What was I saying?
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: I dun'no, something like it's empty, but it's not. While
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: Mark hiked that afternoon, I walked near the cradle. I
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: dreaded how it pulled me, compelled me to touch. I
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: was running my fingers along the wood when I felt
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: them fresh scratches gouged deep into the oak, like something
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: had clawed its way out.
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: I pressed my finger to one. It was sticky warm.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: That night, Mark built a fire, We drank wine and
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: talked about trying again for the unborn we'd lost last year.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: When a high pitched cry shattered the moment, unmistakable, impossible,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: coming from the bedroom.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Mark's face drained of color. You heard that too.
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: As we crept toward the sound, the crying grew more desperate, wet,
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: gurgling gasps between whales, like a baby drowning in its
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: own tears. The bedroom door swung open on its own.
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Inside the cradle was empty, but the crying conte filling
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: the room like poisonous gas. Then everything went eerily quiet
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: for a few seconds before laughter started echoing, soft at first,
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: then building until it screamed the morphed words Mommy, Daddy,
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: play with me. Every light in the house went out simultaneously.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: In the pitch blackness, I felt something brush against my leg,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: small cold fingers grasping Mark's scream was primal. We fumbled
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: through the darkness, crashing into furniture, desperate to escape, but
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: the front door wouldn't open, and every window was nearly sealed.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: The back door, Mark hissed, pulling me through the kitchen.
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: Behind us, something dragged across the floor, slow deliberate, a
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: scraping sound, like tiny nails on hardwood. Mommy, The whisper
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: made my breath hitch.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Please don't be alone again. I'm scared you.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Mark slammed his body against the back door once twice.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: On the third try, the wood cracked again. I screamed,
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: joining him. My eyes kept flickering back to the shadows
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: in the dark. Scraping was closer.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: Now, hurry, it's near, I.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Cried, shivering at the cold sensation that had kissed the
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: whole of my body freezy. It whispered directly into my ear.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: Mark rammed the door again. This time it splintered open.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: We burst into the night, the frigid air burning my lungs,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: and ran blindly through the darkness, not caring about the
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: branches whipping our faces behind us. The house seemed to
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: pulse with sickly yellow light. Mark yanked open the car door,
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: fumbling with the keys. The engine sputtered once twice.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I looked back at.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: The house and the upstairs window our bedroom stood a
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: small figure. Even from this distance, I could see it's
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: unnatural smile, splitting its face nearly in half. It pressed
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: its tiny hands against the glass and mouthed something.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Ah, fine, dear.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: The engine roared to life.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Mark floor did tire, spitting gravel as we tore down
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: the driveway.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Neither of us spoke for miles. What was there to say?
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: A week later, I couldn't stop thinking about the house,
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: about the cradle, about what the voice had said. I
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: ranked the Internet until I found the details. A small
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: newspaper article from thirty years ago cited the cottage's owner
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: had left her baby in that house, days alone in
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: the cradle by the time anyone checked, he was dead,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: starved and cold. They never found the mother, but her
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: diary was retrieved, which told in great length how her
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: illegitimate pregnancy ruined her life. It was the last entry
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: that nearly chilled my blood. He won't be alone. I'll
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: always send him someone to play with until I come
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: find him again. I wept the whole day and showed
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: it to Mark when he returned from work. He said
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: he felt sorry, but we better put everything behind. But
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: can you ever really put behind something like