I know people who always say they want their dreams to continue when they wake up momentarily before falling back asleep when its about something good and trust me, I want that too but, no one ever wants a nightmare to continue and well, that happened me to today and it felt so real and it’s been hours since I have woken and i’m still terrified.
This nightmare felt like an eternity, I never knew it could last so long, it felt like hell.
It was Halloween night, for some odd reason my brother Wyatt and I went out trick or treating alone and in this nightmare him and I were both small children, about the ages of 6 and 7 as he is a year older than me irl.
Wyatt had went to his bedroom which was located in the basement of the small house we lived in, I went to my bedroom on the main floor and in the room next to mine which was my parents I could hear someone moving around and I ran into my closet, hiding behind the clothes but before I could entirely hide, the thing, no, the creature came into the room and instantly took notice of me, staring into the glowing red eyes of a tall black figure with freakishly long arms and pointed fingers I stayed frozen, not daring to scream or even breathe at this point but there was a sudden flash.
I woke up momentarily to turn over.
I was now a teenager with two sisters and my parents divorced, we lived in a bigger house and my room was located right by the basement door on the main level and upstairs was my dads, sister’s, & brothers room’s. At this point of my life I had forgotten about the creature, convinced myself it was only a nightmare as a child and continued with my life and never thought about it.
We had just moved into the house about a week ago, not fully settled in yet and still not used to everything. My little sister Kaitlynn and I explored the basement and discovered a large hole in the wall, big enough to crawl through and the curiosity of whats on the other side was enough for us to crawl through the hole. On the other side were two tunnels entrances, we looked at one another before deciding to walk down the left one and we walked for what seemed like fifteen minutes, the tunnel was dark and cold and smelled of dirt but being curious we continued until we heard faint voices and laughs becoming louder as we moved further down, coming into our view were arcade games against the tunnel walls and teenagers playing them. I confronted the teens and asked why they were on our premises and they started acting aggressively and I was grabbed meanwhile my sister took off running and I shouted at her to get help. I was tied up and tossed to the ground and they went back to their games, I looked around for any sort of way to untie myself but there was nothing so when they weren’t looking I would start chewing on the rope in hopes of getting out and eventually I did, I ran and behind me I could hear them chasing me, on the ground was my dropped flashlight, on the wall of the tunnel I noticed a hole and I crawled through it and was now in the right tunnel.
“Thank God.” I mumbled to myself as I now began to walk down this even darker tunnel that reeked of rotten meat, water dripped down from the ceiling, and something about it just gave off a creepy feeling but not wanting to go back through the hole and deal with the people I continued to walk down this tunnel and the only source of light I had was from my flashlight that I gripped tightly onto. I walked for what seemed like a few minutes but came to a sudden halt at the sound of loud echoing footsteps behind me and everything in me screamed to run and that’s exactly what I did, I ran, not knowing where I was going but wanting to be away from whatever was coming from behind, a small hole on the tunnel wall came into view but I continued to run until a old wooden door on the tunnel wall came into view and I rushed in, the room was small but inside was a dirty stained single mattress, a beaten up wardrobe, a desk and chair.
Slowly opening the doors to the wardrobe I took in the scent of dirty clothes and I scrunched my face up, on the shelf was a small black bucket and I grabbed it, it contained dozens of photographs and my heart stopped at the realization that the majority of them were of me, one of the night on Halloween when I had seen the creature, one of me as a preteen, and the next one I grabbed made tears well up in my eyes, one of me sleeping in my current bedroom.
What is watching me? Who is watching me? What is it? Why me? What does it wan- I couldn’t finish my thought as I heard the loud footsteps... splat.... splat... splat... now getting closer towards the room and I shoved the bucket into the closet and climbed in, slowly closing the doors and slapping my hand over my mouth. From the little crack in the door I could see the door opening and the creature coming into the room,it loud hollow breathing sending chills all over my body, I squeezed my eyes shut and listened to it move towards the desk and then to the bed, plopping down and resting, I assumed.
Waking up once again, my heart racing in fear and my hands trembling, I clutched tighter onto my huge stuffed monkey and prayed I would dream of something else or not dream at all, I closed my eyes and fell back asleep.
Seconds felt like minutes and minutes felt like hours as I stayed hidden just feet away from it, listening to it breathing and moving slightly every now and then. Finally after what felt forever it had woken up, letting out a low growl as it climbed out of bed and left the room and most people would’ve left right then and there but I waited at least 5 minutes before climbing out just in case it came back for something and caught me but after reassuring myself it was safe I climbed out and slowly opened the door and peaked my head out, no sign of the creature so I made a run for it until the hole in the tunnel wall came into my view and I crawled through it and just knowing I was in a different tunnel and hopefully further away from it made me feel much more safer, I ran in the direction towards my basement and the familiar hole came into view and I crawled through and was greeted by a bright flashlight, a police officer, and my sister who looked relieved to see me.
Waking up again from the sudden temperature change in my room, I climbed out of bed and closed my window before getting back into bed, at this point I was debating whether to stay awake or go back to sleep but I looked at the time to see it was only 7am and I had went to sleep around 5am so I closed my eyes and hoped it wouldn’t continue again.
The police officer came crawling through the hole, sweat dripping down his face as he panted but after catching his breath he said he chased them out but they’d most likely come back and that the former home owners did everything to prevent it but they somehow found a way back in and that it’s better to just blocked the hole in the basement wall since anyone could become lost in the tunnels as it takes about an hour to reach the end and that at night the temperatures in it drop drastically.
My sister and I did as he said and blocked the hole before going upstairs and I kept my discovery to myself, trying to convince myself that I had only imagined it because I was lost and scared, that night I slept in my room with the door locked but being awaken at 3am on the dot, under the crack of the door I could see someone pacing and the loud hollow breathing of the creature, my eyes opening wide in fear and my heart racing, I kept my eyes glued on the crack under the door, watching it pace and before it stopped and suddenly my doorknob started rattling like crazy, slapping my hand over my mouth to prevent myself from making any sound.
I slowly leaned over and grabbed my earphones and put them on, playing any song and turning it loud enough so I wouldn’t hear that creatures breathing, this kind of calmed me down but seeing the shadow under the door moving was what now kept me awake.
Hours passed by and the sun was now starting to rise and after one last low growl the creature had left from lingering outside my door, I gulped and finally laid down but kept my eyes still on the door until tiredness started taking over and I fell asleep.
“Gerri!!!!!” Along with being shaken like crazy, I slowly opened my eyes to see my sister who said something along the lines of mom is coming and 5 minutes so I shooed her away and climbed out of bed, lazily changing from my pajamas into casual clothes and not bothering to brush my hair, I walked out of my room and made my way to the door and slipped on my shoes and walked outside where my sister waited for our mom who pulled up after a few minutes, both of us climbed into the back seat and buckled up, in the passengers seat was my aunt Celia who chatted away with my mom.
Glancing out the car window as we drove towards the high school, my cousin Kelsey came rushing towards the car in panic and asked if we had heard from her sister Chelsey who said suddenly vanished from school and their mother, my aunt Celia started calling people, my mom doing the same as my sister and I answered questions our cousin asked. After multiples calls and texts, we still had no idea where Chelsey was and Kelsey climbed into the car and we drove back to my house to drop us off and as we pulled up Chelsey came running from the house, covered in dirt and blood and freaking out.
Both my mom and aunt questioned what had happened, where she went, and why she was here but she turned to me and started saying “it wants you”, “It won’t stop until you go with it.” and all eyes were now on me, all questioning and horrified, I was now getting bombed with questions of what she meant but I lied and said I didn’t know but Chelsey knew that I knew but she said nothing, she held onto her mom and sister as she cried, before they left Chelsey came over to me and handed me something and climbed into the car. As the car drove off I looked at what it was and my heart stopped, it was a photograph of the creatures wardrobe and its finger pointing towards it, looking closer you can see the yellow fabric of the shirt I was wearing caught under the door and I dropped the picture, the fear I once had was now tripled.
It knew I was there, it knew I had seen everything, it knew but didn’t attack, but why?
The rest of the afternoon and evening passed by quickly, I begged my sister to spend the night with me and not to question why I was moving things against my door, I put on my TV and we watched a few movies before she had finally fell asleep and I was left alone, too terrified to sleep in case that creature decided to bust into my room, an hour of glancing at the door I had not hear the hollow breathing or door knob rattling so I started to believe I could finally get some rest but as I closed my eyes I heard the loud hollow breathing coming from down the hall and stopping at my door, I clutched onto my sister, thinking that if I suddenly let go that the creature would somehow take her.
The entire night I laid there holding onto my sister, listening to this creature breathe just on the other side of the door, waiting for me, to take me, to kill me, to do whatever it wanted with me.
The next few days were the same, begging my sister to sleep with me and barricading my door and never getting any sleep, only ever getting 6 hours of sleep within the past 6. I was starting to lose my mind, panicking over every little sound, even my sisters sneeze or my sick fathers cough, I didn’t feel safe no matter where I was and who I was with and my hands trembled with fear almost every second and I kept looking around, trying to see this creature that wanted me but I never saw it.
Earphones in and staring out the car window as we drove closer towards my aunt Sheilas home out in the country, the sun was starting to set and the summer heat was cooling down, pulling into her driveway we exited the car and went into her home where she greeted us and said something about her son Adrian talking to his imaginary friend and her and my father went to sit at the table where they’d drink coffee and gossip as they always did whenever we came to visit.
I walked downstairs to the basement to find my little cousin Adrian sitting on the couch and he looked towards me, he patted the spot beside him so I sat beside him and he started asking how I was and I lied saying I was okay and he what he asked next sent shivers down my back, “Have you seen it yet?” and I pretended like I didn’t know what he meant and he went onto saying, “It comes here often, looking for you but nowadays you guys are too busy to visit.” I felt guilty for not visiting as much as I used to but I felt relieved we didn’t since he said the creature comes by. I apologized and he only shook head and said, “It will not stop taking people until you go with it.” I quickly questioned what he meant and he went onto saying that my grandmothers death months ago was because the creature had visited her and scared her to the point she had a heart attack.
“It cannot take you, you have to go with it. You have to willingly go with it or else everyone you love will pay for it.” He said as he looked calmly at me but suddenly his expression changed to terrified, “It’s here.” He whispered as his eyes moved to an area of the room and I got up and ran upstairs, screaming at my dad that he need to leave now and after a lot of screaming we were driving away from the house, not once looking back as we now had a 20 minute drive home.
Hands trembling with fear and eyes teary, my dad asked what was wrong but I kept saying we needed to get home, the rest of the drive home was silent and once I stepped into the house I ran to my room and my sister entered shortly after with her pillow and locked my door, helping me barricade the door and climbing into bed, I hugged her as she began to fall asleep and the exhaustion I felt was finally getting the best of me and I had fallen asleep, awaken but a sudden loud bang and screamed I sat up and noticed my sister was no longer beside me.
I climbed out of bed and followed the screams that came from the basement and at the hole was the creature and my sister who was screaming at the top of her lungs, I began to plead for it to let her go but it continued to hold her and I started shouting that I'll go with it if it put her down and my sister started screaming at me to not go and it let go of her and she came running to me and held me and I started telling her it was okay and that this is to save everyone but she kept crying saying I can’t go but I shook my head, saying I had to do this and to finally get her to stop I had to knock her unconscious. Now looking at the creature I nodded and slowly walked over to it and it held it’s long pointy fingers out and I took it.
Momentarily waking up to turn over, clutching onto my monkey and checking the time, it was now 4pm but I still felt tired so I turned my phone off and closed my eyes.
I was sitting on the bed in the small room, on the chair across from me was the creature who stared at me, no sound whatsoever but I broke the silence, “Why me?” I asked, wanting to know why this creature was interested in me.
It shifted in the chair before finally speaking, “The first day we met was accidental but you intrigued me, the way you didn’t scream or break eye contact, the way you went to sleep that night in the dark, not once getting scared and how I snuck into your dreams but you never thought anything of it, how you continue to live as if none of it happened but now, now you are aware of my existence.” It’s low inhuman voice sent chills down my spine, it’s deep stare making me tremble.
“What do you want with me?” I asked but regretting it seconds after, afraid of the answer but the creature only evily laughed, “I’m like an urban legend, you become aware of me but only you can choose whether to believe or not and the more you believe the more afraid you become and the more I feed on that fear, the more I want you.” It started to move closer towards me, I held my breath as it stopped an inch in front of me, feeling it’s breath against me, its glow red eyes staring into mine before I started to close them, a sinister chuckle filled the room.
I woke up and grabbed my phone to see it was 5pm, I turned on my phone flash and looked at all areas of my room before calming down but my hands trembled and my heart raced, still remembering how that creature sounded in my nightmare, finally realizing that it was the exact same thing I had dreamed of before and the one that had scratched me in a dream and I woke up with a cut in the same place. My eyes began to tear up and I shook my head, in hopes of the nightmare leaving but as minutes passed I knew that this nightmare will definitely haunt me like the others ones still do.
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