“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly118Please respect copyright.PENANAh66Ynrtknv
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down118Please respect copyright.PENANAVAEBcDpkGw
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My118Please respect copyright.PENANAW1TEenRs6G
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by118Please respect copyright.PENANAlhPyFWC1Hq
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in118Please respect copyright.PENANACfxmAW3X0Q
last night and here you are sleeping by the front door.”
Aaron didn’t think it’d be wise to bring up the fact that he118Please respect copyright.PENANAGyYElNeyhR
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing118Please respect copyright.PENANAWt2JwdF7du
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d118Please respect copyright.PENANA341NAsmhWZ
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we118Please respect copyright.PENANApY0er8L5mX
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,118Please respect copyright.PENANAcGb5q5CNH5
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains118Please respect copyright.PENANAXsEgbD18bU
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence118Please respect copyright.PENANAUNokgvNbx1
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically118Please respect copyright.PENANAnBDngVBule
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and118Please respect copyright.PENANASvLWIzjpNv
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before118Please respect copyright.PENANAYYL7tJ4LkQ
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only118Please respect copyright.PENANAgiEOaBSVzV
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign118Please respect copyright.PENANAM9Qb23VZq5
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never118Please respect copyright.PENANA0o6vuo2xDO
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was118Please respect copyright.PENANAOQwv2VHkUM
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the118Please respect copyright.PENANAdFRd1lDai5
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,118Please respect copyright.PENANAB5bdSjzCVP
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he118Please respect copyright.PENANAsfceR09I5R
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment118Please respect copyright.PENANAzmyREZYgaD
if his ghost wasn’t haunting Aaron’s bedroom.
In other words, Caleb was dead, and no one knew it.
Remembering all the horror films he had ever watched, Aaron118Please respect copyright.PENANAurK9cHgUP8
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was118Please respect copyright.PENANAcjwilmn00b
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the118Please respect copyright.PENANABKjQ4kDSWu
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If118Please respect copyright.PENANAqiCB8Q3zzf
he was in the walls, then he’d most likely be in the walls of his bedroom…
Aaron shivered.
When he moved in with a group of virtual strangers, he understood118Please respect copyright.PENANAPIiLxw4YQP
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he118Please respect copyright.PENANASezKoHTa2T
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck118Please respect copyright.PENANAgtirVpOrd1
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell118Please respect copyright.PENANAkcl2WP95Rn
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into118Please respect copyright.PENANA0V5M1m6o6m
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,118Please respect copyright.PENANAds3kVR7cW9
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know118Please respect copyright.PENANASe5nvLlrqV
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At118Please respect copyright.PENANAs6QB1Ij0HT
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was118Please respect copyright.PENANAnUoC4Zp1Gx
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had118Please respect copyright.PENANAxQdH1eePVh
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because118Please respect copyright.PENANA1MiS8Y0zTJ
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t118Please respect copyright.PENANAHq0w2TKj84
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,118Please respect copyright.PENANAkWbiyOCRW5
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t118Please respect copyright.PENANAVobLTd9m2F
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the118Please respect copyright.PENANAhYiRR7Wlff
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the118Please respect copyright.PENANAyhJpqcWig4
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or118Please respect copyright.PENANAeV39rlXRZx
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to118Please respect copyright.PENANAViqkbsJe1m
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but118Please respect copyright.PENANAlVw2Tw9l5D
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of118Please respect copyright.PENANAhoeZBKrncq
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,118Please respect copyright.PENANAOv0IEyCIvT
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying118Please respect copyright.PENANAawtrwmtSkh
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was118Please respect copyright.PENANAFomrzarrXS
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if118Please respect copyright.PENANAAKagPAWkNr
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the118Please respect copyright.PENANAQxjptP5m1G
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking118Please respect copyright.PENANAQR72jJVwpU
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d118Please respect copyright.PENANAsTom2QkT9Y
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He118Please respect copyright.PENANA8iRTmvyF2n
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while118Please respect copyright.PENANAryEsi8047T
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he118Please respect copyright.PENANAEsf9yYkqfs
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it118Please respect copyright.PENANArtYV6lCti2
and grabbed a Pop-tart instead. Then he turned to find the toaster which was…. Missing?
No wait, it’s over by the fridge now. Who the heck moved118Please respect copyright.PENANAOlEGiazzea
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,118Please respect copyright.PENANA2aeYn4EzXX
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the118Please respect copyright.PENANA4q54y3ogyn
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster118Please respect copyright.PENANAD1NOjFdQGg
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up118Please respect copyright.PENANA3xoIHdLhnL
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with118Please respect copyright.PENANAkQ3Xzu2F27
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV118Please respect copyright.PENANA2oqFh82n1v
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and118Please respect copyright.PENANA3Vrt4JPEpH
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that118Please respect copyright.PENANA0y9apxpuTl
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the118Please respect copyright.PENANAR7wjlZ9099
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures118Please respect copyright.PENANAbILXFeAf5V
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and118Please respect copyright.PENANAdfAhkcfDLX
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner118Please respect copyright.PENANAWP0D4nUiaT
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And118Please respect copyright.PENANA6V7EU5V7Yj
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have118Please respect copyright.PENANAFhElRhMXFH
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things118Please respect copyright.PENANAksvSWZdquW
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls118Please respect copyright.PENANA3URLS6BL4X
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed118Please respect copyright.PENANA8ifTfKjYQb
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always118Please respect copyright.PENANAkNPrfi9BYW
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear118Please respect copyright.PENANAY8CCGi8lvi
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything118Please respect copyright.PENANANJqA2oV1zu
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.118Please respect copyright.PENANAzF6fSe3MLh
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room118Please respect copyright.PENANAonWwq37ACp
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his118Please respect copyright.PENANAAbbEvd6dXH
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that118Please respect copyright.PENANA53k1I17CDb
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped118Please respect copyright.PENANABAnunHF9x7
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t118Please respect copyright.PENANAjUku3pFr1K
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall118Please respect copyright.PENANA0FGc87KDdk
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb118Please respect copyright.PENANA651sl6XGfS
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way118Please respect copyright.PENANANsi4iFrtZQ
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from118Please respect copyright.PENANACANNiRmAQj
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate118Please respect copyright.PENANAFkPubnsIXA
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued118Please respect copyright.PENANAR2v9l5sIJk
to bang harder and harder, practically shaking the whole door off its hinges.
“Who’s there?” Aaron called.
No response.
“I’m calling the cops!” He shouted, his voice trembling and118Please respect copyright.PENANAIxI7UckhEh
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and118Please respect copyright.PENANA1wk1uB09pY
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old118Please respect copyright.PENANAGM6WIXW5GF
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the118Please respect copyright.PENANAgSclo43D6l
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside118Please respect copyright.PENANAmhq0GlzCpi
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was118Please respect copyright.PENANAlwryqzdmge
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s118Please respect copyright.PENANA2qXHbFz3oy
going on?” He recognized that as Todd’s voice.
“Aaron’s banging on the front door!” Doug replied.
“No I wasn’t!” Aaron defended himself. “Someone else was!”
“It’s true.” Trevor agreed. “I was standing behind him while118Please respect copyright.PENANAEIUbsbS2ii
it was happening. It wasn’t Aaron.”
“Are you saying it’s the same crazy bastard from before?”
“Maybe.”
“What the fuck? Why are they knocking on our door?”
Aaron started to check all the windows, wondering where the118Please respect copyright.PENANAYBCnJRWU5w
sun had gone. “Hey guys what time is it?”
“1:00 AM” Doug answered.
“That cant be. It was light out a second ago.” Aaron mumbled,118Please respect copyright.PENANAdBg8GNy2ML
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s118Please respect copyright.PENANAkABPrQfg3I
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He118Please respect copyright.PENANAdpXmAyPeFx
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our118Please respect copyright.PENANAjTW1FLrBs7
door doesn’t cut it out, I’m getting his ass on video and call the cops on him.”
The rest of the guys agreed and started to disperse. Aaron continued118Please respect copyright.PENANAtyekvDqdXx
to stare at the door in disbelief, then rubbed his eyes.
Had he been sleepwalking?
Returning to his room, he shut the door eyeing the corner118Please respect copyright.PENANAG4nQQxgMY2
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.118Please respect copyright.PENANABfyUgYnYJL
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the118Please respect copyright.PENANALXSC2Yk4mg
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a118Please respect copyright.PENANACXQj6gc1hO
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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