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screaming mimic humanoid terrifies young

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i haven't told anyone besides some

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family members this

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this happened when i was about 13 or so

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it was summertime and i was on vacation

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with my parents we had hit the road and

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driven quite a ways to visit my older

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sister

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who lived across the country in british

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columbia about 20 kilometers outside of

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victoria

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after spending time together and sharing

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supper we decided to call it a night

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my parents slept in my sister's bedroom

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and she slept in the neighboring room

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with her small son

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it's important to note a few things at

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this point

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my mother is a round short woman with

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very delicate feminine features

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she has round glasses and that night

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went to bed in a long blue

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nightgown my sister on the other hand is

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very tall and athletically built

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taking after my dad in regards to her

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facial features

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she too has glasses but unlike my mother

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hers were square shaped

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she went to bed in a shorter orange and

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striped nightgown

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these small but substantial differences

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are key

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now since all of the bedrooms were full

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i was given a blanket and pillow to

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sleep on the couch with

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of course like any kid i watched tv for

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a few hours

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well into the night at around 4am it

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dawned on me that we had plans for the

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next day

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so i should try and get some rest after

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tossing

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and turning for about an hour or so i

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gave up and just laid on my back staring

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at the stars visible from the nearby

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window

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as the natural light flooded the room

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from the sun rising

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i flipped through some photo albums i

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did this for a while

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not having slept of all the entire night

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at this point i was pretty bored and

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lonely

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hoping someone would wake up soon and

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talk to me

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around 8 am i heard a door slowly open

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and someone came out into the hallway

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at my sister's house the living room is

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sunken in

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and a small staircase of maybe three

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steps leads to the raised kitchen and

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dining room

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the hallway is also in this raised area

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and connects to the bathroom and

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bedrooms

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in the living room there is a doorless

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archway that leads down to the basement

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and laundry room

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this means that i could look up and see

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what was going on in the dining area

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from the couch

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this person hummed a little and then was

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caught off guard by a table in the

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dining room

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full of framed pictures of family my

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sister had on display

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i don't know how to describe the way

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they looked at the photos

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besides saying they were bewildered by

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them maybe even enchanted

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letting out an occasional low and ah i

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could tell it was a woman

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but i wasn't sure if it was my mother or

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sister this was strange because like i

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they looked alike but were also very

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distinguishable

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i also felt this weird feeling because

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everyone in my family has seen these

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photos many times

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and i'd even say may own a few copies of

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their own of those exact same photos

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so why act so amazed by them i said hey

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ma what are you doing in a nervous yet

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warm voice

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no response okay then it was my sister

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hey good morning what are you making

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your dear sibling for breakfast

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no response huh i knew i was definitely

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loud enough

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they had heard me for sure that uneasy

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feeling in my stomach grew stronger now

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and i had no idea why

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the likeness of my sister and mother was

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there so it wasn't like a stranger or

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something

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were wearing a knee-length

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blue and orange striped nightgown their

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height wasn't short

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but it wasn't tall either it was average

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they had a muscular build but could not

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be called skinny either

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the hair was the same color as both my

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sister and mother's

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and so was the skin color my heart

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skipped and i thought who the hell is

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this

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maybe someone stayed overnight but how

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could they have

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i had laid right beside the front door

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all night

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when they turned around and went to

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inspect another photograph on a wall

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near that staircase

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their face made my heart sink it was a

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hybrid of my mother and sister's most

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discernible features

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with glasses that were round on the

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bottom but squared on the top

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their eyes were not my mothers or my

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sisters they were very white and

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unnerving and darted all around the

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walls very quickly

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very excitedly it was as if my mother

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and sister had been frankenstein ed

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together into one person

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my knee-jerk reaction after seeing the

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face was to scooch my legs in

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and pretend i was sleeping i could feel

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the veins in my neck beating very hard

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and my breathing became very loud and

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labored

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whoever the hell it was came down the

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stairs and looked around the living room

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with that same excitement

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i don't know how to explain how scared i

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was as it came closer to me

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i thought maybe if i stayed quiet it

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would pass by me

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i was also scratching and pinching

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myself now in case i was asleep without

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realizing it

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the pain was very real i was awake the

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thing i watched with my eyes squinted

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took up an interest in a photo album i

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had left on the table

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very close to me then probably the worst

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thing that could have happened

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happened my sister's portable home phone

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rang

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my sister had answered a call last night

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and had put the phone on the couch frame

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between the wall and its cushions

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the thing's face became very alarmed and

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it turned in my direction and saw me and

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became very

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very angry i opened my eyes and looked

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at it in its face and just stared back

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with my entire body trembling its eyes

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were pure black

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total darkness like two huge pupils

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staring right at me and furious

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it opened its mouth unnaturally white

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and screamed no

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then it turned and darted down the

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stairs to the basement where i heard a

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door slam

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shut and it kept yelling no no no no no

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i stared at the archway for a long time

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still shaking and digging my nails into

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my arm

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begging to wake up because i was so

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afraid it would come back

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wishing i was just dreaming i literally

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could not move

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because i was too scared to get up in

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case it came back or was waiting at the

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arch

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and i could not speak for the reason my

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brain abandoned me

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an hour must have passed like that i did

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not move

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it had stopped yelling and this was for

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some reason even scarier than when it

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had been yelling because at least then i

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was sure it was downstairs

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and not slowly climbing back up the

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stairs to fill it me alive

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i then wondered why no one in the family

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was awakened by the screams

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then i heard a door open again from the

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hallway upstairs and stared at it

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full of adrenaline at this point it was

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my mom

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exactly herself and in the right

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nightgown she was humming as she put on

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coffee and started making toast

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another door opened my sister this time

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the same as she had looked before

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heading off to bed

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she and my mom talked for a bit and i

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just stared at them

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my sister eventually saw me staring at

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her over the banister and yelled

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ha ha what the hell why are you just

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staring at me

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why didn't you say something i replied

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back in a very shaky voice i did

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twice they looked at each other as if to

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say huh

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i told my mom i hadn't slept yet and she

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said that was a big mistake

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etc i ate breakfast with them and then

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realized eventually i was awake and had

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really not slept at any point that night

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i decided against my judgment to tell

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them what had just happened

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in case it came upstairs to hurt them

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they pretty much laughed at me and told

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me i had just fallen asleep and imagined

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it

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they basically told me i was nuts my

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sister told me to go sleep with my

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nephew

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and asked me to try and fix the screen

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in her room as it had somehow fallen out

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of the window onto the floor in the

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night

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on my way to her room i walked by that

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table in the dining room

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and noticed all of the frames were moved

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and in different places than last night

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i pointed this out very excitedly like

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cece

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and my sister just shrugged it off and

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said her son liked looking at them

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i kept pressing the issue so my sister

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much to my hysterical protest

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went to the basement in every room just

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to make me shut up about it

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she didn't see anything unusual i laid

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in the bed and did not

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sleep a wink i still think about it from

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time to time

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and did not ever sleep on that couch

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again opting instead to sleep in the

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floor of the room my parents were in

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unlocking the door

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shape-shifting entity in northeast

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pennsylvania

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my grandparents have a cabin in a town

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in pennsylvania

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south of scranton every summer we

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usually go

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up for a few weeks as a family event

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ever since i was little

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a few years ago we decided to go up in

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the winter because my family wanted to

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go skiing at some point

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after we got there the weird things

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started happening really quickly

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and seemingly out of nowhere the house

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was built in the 1920s

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old brick and wood home the doors are

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these giant almost church looking doors

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and the style of the home is very

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medieval definitely adding to the creepy

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vibes of the home

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the first night was seemingly calm

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through the house but whenever i went

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there i always felt there was something

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there

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or something lurking through the holes

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the first night i got up to go to the

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bathroom at around 3

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10 a.m which is also interesting because

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i never get up to go to the bathroom

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back at home

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most nights i sleep right through

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without waking up

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there were eight of us in the house my

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two parents my grandparents

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my aunt and uncle and my two male

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cousins

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i went to one of the three main

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bathrooms four in the house if you count

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the master

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so when i heard someone in there i

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thought that was interesting

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because i was one of the few people who

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doesn't share the bathroom

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but i stood outside waiting to make sure

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i did not intrude on anything going on

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in there as my one cousin has ibs and i

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didn't want to bother him

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what was extremely weird is the fact

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that whatever was in there didn't sound

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human in its movements

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it seemed to drag its feet around which

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made me nervous that he may be sick

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i called out his name a few times drew

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are you okay in there

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it's been a long time and i want to go

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to bed or something along those lines

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a few seconds later he comes out of his

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bedroom and tells me why i'm making so

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much noise

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and he's trying to sleep and slams his

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door behind him

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before i could freak out he had already

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shut the door

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and i was too scared to even yell back

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to him i never realized before that the

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door wasn't even locked in the first

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place

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which made me feel even more uneasy

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between the banter i never realized the

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sound stopped

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and it seemed like nobody was even in

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the bathroom anymore

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i still even tell myself this was just

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my imagination going wild but i'm not

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known for sleepwalking or having any

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type of sleep disorder

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i decided to just open the door brushing

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it off as my two vivid imagination

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when i opened the door it really looked

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like nothing strange had happened in

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there but when i was washing my hands i

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realized the window was open

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and i froze thinking someone had broken

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into the house

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but this was on the second story with

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nothing to climb up on

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making it almost impossible to climb up

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there

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the next day nothing happened in the

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daytime making it seem more to me that

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it was just a figment of my imagination

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in reality

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but that night i had to let my dog out

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she is elderly and never really barks

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much

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nor does she run fast so this definitely

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is a case for concern

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i thought when i let her out she bolted

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to the edge of the woods and vanished

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inside them

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i tried to follow her barking but

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honestly i was too scared to go into the

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woods past the tree line

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when i finally got her to walk back her

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back leg seemed off

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almost like a person pretending to be a

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dog walking on the ground

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her eyes were also off they looked

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human-like not a usual dark

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almond eyes i freaked out and ran back

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inside without her

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when i got inside she was sitting

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panting by the door

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so she must have ran back in when i was

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yelling into the woods to try to find

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her

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at this point i didn't even want to

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leave that house for fear of what was

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lurking in the woods

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the last night we stayed there was the

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most interesting and confusing turn of

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events that had happened

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we all had skied all day so we went to

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bed quite early

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around nine to ten i never fall asleep

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early

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as i am usually a night owl but i woke

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up around 12 a.m to sounds of my cousin

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drew yelling outside

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i woke up in a fog and tried to quickly

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rush to the door and open it

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i didn't even take into consideration

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that the door was still locked from the

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inside

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when i got outside his voice seemed to

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be coming from multiple directions

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and echoing through the valley i saw him

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by the cars yelling

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and when i started to go outside and

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call out his name

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he looked at me quickly his eyes got

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huge and he ran

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into the woods with a beckoning gesture

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for me to follow

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i decided that was definitely a bad idea

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so i woke up his parents

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and he ended up being asleep in his room

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the whole time

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i still have no idea what was out there

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that weekend

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and i haven't been back since cr

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