“Why are you sleeping here?” Asked Terrence, a slightly119Please respect copyright.PENANAnZsdE0Mtj4
larger-sized man with white hair and an uneven beard. His tiny eyes stared down119Please respect copyright.PENANAMHkQFWRFrp
at Aaron speculatively.
Aaron yawned, unwrapped his tiny blanket, and stretched. “My119Please respect copyright.PENANAhrjBJEKirR
bed didn’t feel comfortable.”
“You crazy bastard.” The man snorted, then plopped down by119Please respect copyright.PENANAmxKpI2fljp
Aaron’s feet, nearly crushing them. “I heard some cray person tried to break in119Please respect copyright.PENANAYkUTNlxzYj
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 he119Please respect copyright.PENANA8s9IAsA4Sd
wasn’t as scared of the knocking as he was of the ghost haunting his room. One thing119Please respect copyright.PENANA42EMo6EgrP
he did know was that he’d never sleep comfortably again. “I don’t suppose you’d119Please respect copyright.PENANAv9r7sWRCml
like to trade rooms, would you?”
“Hell no. Todd and I already have our room set the way we119Please respect copyright.PENANA2gm5BpYdyP
like it. Plus, I doubt he’d appreciate everything getting moved around.”
Aaron sighed. His own bedroom faced their neighbor’s house,119Please respect copyright.PENANAjeMBxHC9JN
giving him a clear view of their bathroom, thus he usually had his curtains119Please respect copyright.PENANAnxGCJ3WqmL
closed in case anyone accused him of spying.
“Incoming!”
“Huh?” Aaron didn’t have time to escape before Terrence119Please respect copyright.PENANARUbMrr8KAN
leaned over and ripped a whole basket of rotten eggs on him. “UGH! Gross!” He frantically119Please respect copyright.PENANAttySYAasuT
waved at the air, sputtering and scrambling away from the nauseating gas cloud.
“I warned ya,” Terrence smirked, snatching up the remote and119Please respect copyright.PENANAk7ykVJIfSK
turning on the television.
Eyes watering, Aaron wheezed. “No you did not!” Before119Please respect copyright.PENANAtBAtYUTKWw
heading back upstairs to take a shower.
His room didn’t seem quite as scary now since Caleb only119Please respect copyright.PENANAZV3DmwfztT
showed up around midnight. In hindsight, that should probably have been a sign119Please respect copyright.PENANA1kOtqztZKU
that something odd was going on. At least now he understood how the guy never119Please respect copyright.PENANArPIEgCf8hN
made the door creak.
Aaron tried to do a little more research on Caleb but was119Please respect copyright.PENANA0z8KQSAgN6
only able to pull up a bunch of missing person reports. The only thing that the119Please respect copyright.PENANAZVgQqIIzNd
articles mentioned was that he had disappeared one night after work. Since then,119Please respect copyright.PENANAvY0ehnnG9z
there were no leads as to where he went or what happened.
The case was still open and one of the theories was that he119Please respect copyright.PENANAyg2HPFhcy7
had run low on money and skipped town, which would have been a nice sentiment119Please respect copyright.PENANAZfBvF3eJbE
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, Aaron119Please respect copyright.PENANAF2cqoAwte2
went through a plethora of theories on what may have happened and where he was119Please respect copyright.PENANAurPJXZRy3p
now.
Were his remains buried somewhere nearby? Like under the119Please respect copyright.PENANAPoyLICwuoy
house or in the yard? Or worse, was his body sealed away behind the walls? If119Please respect copyright.PENANAytblUgeR8T
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 understood119Please respect copyright.PENANAacdp8LW4nx
there was a high likelihood that some of them would be oddballs, but he119Please respect copyright.PENANAGfdBqWY1Ru
certainly did not expect one of them to be dead!
He considered going to the police about this but was struck119Please respect copyright.PENANAmSyTdgajij
by the gravity of the situation. It wasn’t like he could just waltz up and tell119Please respect copyright.PENANAkio0hr5Mbu
them that he knew one of their missing persons was in fact, dead. He’d get into119Please respect copyright.PENANAjW6BsiJbka
trouble and will get questioned on how he knew that.
Yeah. No. He preferred his freedom to getting locked up,119Please respect copyright.PENANAe49zyfFjLe
thank you.
That didn’t satisfy his curiosity though. He wanted to know119Please respect copyright.PENANAU2EP8hmbj2
what happened to Caleb. Even if he was a ghost, he seemed like a nice guy. At119Please respect copyright.PENANAARZU8q3S0j
the very least, his family should know what happened to him.
Aaron decided he would try something tonight. Caleb was119Please respect copyright.PENANAmmhST6BeFA
easygoing, so if he showed up again, maybe he could ask the ghost himself?
He tried asking his roommates first, but none of them had119Please respect copyright.PENANAIoockGjXD6
any additional information. He felt like something was about Caleb’s case because119Please respect copyright.PENANAYVtVGDBEbG
there was very little information posted online. It was like the news outlets hadn’t119Please respect copyright.PENANAgTFmHTDp9z
found his story interesting enough to report anything consistent. Then again,119Please respect copyright.PENANAEa3WHY7JUk
people went missing everyday and the guy lived alone, so maybe his family hadn’t119Please respect copyright.PENANAUvZJLzAvVh
raised enough fuss for the media to consider the story interesting?
That night, he sat hugging his body pillow, waiting for the119Please respect copyright.PENANApa3VoQl69Y
apparition to appear. It was still unsettling to see that the corner of the119Please respect copyright.PENANAGeQXlqQTdK
room was empty now. He half-expected the bed to appear out of nowhere or119Please respect copyright.PENANAI5FR7Hb4G6
something whenever he blinked. Soon, he grew sleepy, and his eyes began to119Please respect copyright.PENANAAxXkf7LtWU
close. A few times he’d jerk back awake as he struggled to stay conscious, but119Please respect copyright.PENANAf7Jvqm61KT
eventually, he lost his battle and slumped sideways.
He hadn’t noticed the figure staring at him at the corner of119Please respect copyright.PENANAUf1aTP7rAr
his room.
When he woke back up, it was light out.
Realizing his plan had failed, he got dressed. Ruffling his hair,119Please respect copyright.PENANAgNgLKGY4K8
Aaron stumbled out of the room, then paused when the door opened silently.
He stared at the hinge, swinging the door to and fro, trying119Please respect copyright.PENANAbeOnhloy3J
to replicate the shrill squeal it usually emitted.
Did someone finally lubricate the darn thing while he was119Please respect copyright.PENANAs16fhE0bor
sleeping?
Confused but grateful, he made a note to ask the others if119Please respect copyright.PENANA3MfzRWvZzV
they did something. He wouldn’t be surprised since the noise he had made the119Please respect copyright.PENANAyhLIM3LZNv
other night had gotten on most of their nerves.
Downstairs he started digging through the cabinets, looking119Please respect copyright.PENANAtnLgCPxyos
for a quick meal before brainstorming his next compilation video. Maybe he’d119Please respect copyright.PENANADI60ziw2my
put on some special effects makeup and shop around dressed like a zombie? He119Please respect copyright.PENANAxtyMLLa7lN
could do something cool, like that zipper-face makeup that was popular a while119Please respect copyright.PENANAWRGnMKBrn8
back.
When he realized his box of frosted flakes was gone, he119Please respect copyright.PENANAdPjV91KA3L
grunted, assuming one of the other guys had decided to help themselves to it119Please respect copyright.PENANA3xm9309AYZ
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 moved119Please respect copyright.PENANAYbcFyeJxGL
it?
Aaron walked over and noticed that not only was it moved,119Please respect copyright.PENANAxHCAIRDQTs
but it was also brand new with four slots instead of two. Maybe one of the119Please respect copyright.PENANAN9nb9k6N1C
others traded it up? Not like he was one to complain. A toaster was a toaster119Please respect copyright.PENANAt2hDbjbmC0
after all.
Popping down the lever, he waited for the tarts to heat up119Please respect copyright.PENANA4lkwGE0783
as he noticed a few other odd things. The biggest one being the living room.
The kitchen and living room were adjoined downstairs, with119Please respect copyright.PENANAqFj08WlO8g
nothing but a bar counter separating them so you could look over and watch TV119Please respect copyright.PENANAXczMYkdo2W
while you cooked. However, the TV was situated on the wall to the right, and119Please respect copyright.PENANA4OcKcFeuAz
the couch was made of sleek black leather instead of the ragged brown one that119Please respect copyright.PENANARFT60TT8hR
usually sat slumped in the middle of the room.
He also noticed that someone had put magnets all over the119Please respect copyright.PENANADGHDJUaJXx
fridge. All of them were little squares with motivational quotes and pictures119Please respect copyright.PENANAXhSwC0bKMZ
of puppies.
On the wall beside the fridge were an outdated calendar and119Please respect copyright.PENANAqbp96nnyQi
a blender that he’d never noticed. What’s more, the whole place was way cleaner119Please respect copyright.PENANAAfon38boHJ
than it had ever been.
Who the heck redecorated the entire house last night? And119Please respect copyright.PENANABEMAIo9n3V
how did they do it so fast? That TV was bigger than the old one and would have119Please respect copyright.PENANAQDHYHIycvo
taken quite a bit of effort to get through the front door.
He started wandering around, noticing even more odd things119Please respect copyright.PENANA58cq0CTYpL
that were clearly out of place. Like the carpet being different, and the walls119Please respect copyright.PENANAv4ePjLnwWG
being white instead of beige. Then there was the fact that no one else seemed119Please respect copyright.PENANARygrB8SQ7d
to be home.
This was a house with 8 men living in it. There was always119Please respect copyright.PENANAtNW2ZQF1Y8
at least another person here aside from Aaron. So where are they?
As he wandered, listening closely to see if he could hear119Please respect copyright.PENANAhdjrb8ixh9
any of the guys hiding somewhere, he came to realize he couldn’t hear anything119Please respect copyright.PENANAPWGnFJuxR6
at all. What’s more, it was cold, like, really cold throughout the house.119Please respect copyright.PENANAWTvDZxzZ55
Someone might have turned the AC too low.
Rubbing his arms, Aaron decided to wander back to his room119Please respect copyright.PENANAHGBKawsRkC
where he once again noticed things were out of place. Namely the fact that his119Please respect copyright.PENANA7MCvVQUEqI
bed was now gone and instead, he found the missing spare bed in the corner that119Please respect copyright.PENANA5z2N84zGMr
it had always been in.
Aaron’s pulse begam to race and he backed up until he tripped119Please respect copyright.PENANA6SIRM8VNpD
over the door frame. This had him knocking into a standing floor lamp that wasn’t119Please respect copyright.PENANAvu26fx8Xlt
supposed to be there, and the thing fell over, punching a hole in the drywall119Please respect copyright.PENANAziILHnuVRl
just beside his bedroom door. Then it crashed to the ground, shattering the bulb119Please respect copyright.PENANANhHETXmBhx
into a million pieces.
This isn’t right. None of this is right!
Utterly weirded out, he ran back downstairs and made his way119Please respect copyright.PENANA4yO5vbeMS3
towards the front door but was stopped abruptly by someone banging on it from119Please respect copyright.PENANARxrNntMo3b
the other side. It wasn’t a knocking sound. It was loud, hard and deliberate119Please respect copyright.PENANAwXY9HO9F8i
like someone was angry.
Unlike before, this banging did not let up and it continued119Please respect copyright.PENANAo51Tmrz6z1
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 and119Please respect copyright.PENANAd250Kg9iZy
his body too terrified to move. “I mean it!”
“Who is it?” Someone asked, causing Aaron to spin around and119Please respect copyright.PENANArVYLyXycld
find Trevor, eyes wide with fright and glued to the front door.
Suddenly the house went dark and the noise stopped. The old119Please respect copyright.PENANAmk2Dw4dthf
ragged couch and small flat screen were back to where they belonged in the119Please respect copyright.PENANAwKTon07uxT
living room, and wrappers were laying on the counter with shoes tossed aside119Please respect copyright.PENANAU2c7xE4LzF
near the main entry.
Doug rounded the corner, looking just as scared. “Dude, was119Please respect copyright.PENANAOzYUerll5z
that you banging the door just now?”
“What ?” Aaron asked, confused.
A few of the others started calling from upstairs. “What’s119Please respect copyright.PENANAmpNurGd5la
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 while119Please respect copyright.PENANABro6MWXePX
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 the119Please respect copyright.PENANAXUqpoM4NuW
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,119Please respect copyright.PENANAvwz1yj4AAZ
then pulled out his phone and sure enough, it was 1:02 AM. “What the hell’s119Please respect copyright.PENANA5ySVNIz9L5
going on?”
“I’m getting a security camera, that’s what’s going on.” He119Please respect copyright.PENANAKO5unrcDB8
heard Todd coming down the stairs, determined. “If whoever is banging at our119Please respect copyright.PENANAlyCyWopEUi
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 continued119Please respect copyright.PENANAqMmfE9n2zF
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 corner119Please respect copyright.PENANACh9TP3U98b
where the spare bed used to be and somewhat relieved to find it was still gone.119Please respect copyright.PENANAVtz3ZKyP27
Too scared to find sleep immediately, he flipped on the119Please respect copyright.PENANAJpjdKvd612
light switch and that was when he saw it.
On the wall right next to the door was what looked like a119Please respect copyright.PENANAsIEplsZxtQ
patched hole in the wall, right where he had knocked over the lamp.
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