never miss another strange story subscribe and hit the bell sit back and get comfortable I have a few stories to share with you I'm not sure if posting this will even work there's no signal in here but it's worth a shot I work at a hospital in Phoenix Arizona I've been here for about three months now and have gotten to know the hospital pretty well due to the fact that we provide a delivery service to patients on the higher up floors I'm usually the one who volunteers to do those errands because wandering around is far more entertaining than having to show people with the chopstick is anyways I received the delivery about an hour ago for a floral bouquet and some balloons to be delivered to a patient in the 8th floor of the hospital as soon as my coworker arrived I went off to deliver the goods I wasn't able to get to the 8th floor and this is where the story gets weird I walked to the elevator to press the eighth floor in the door shut as the doors were closing down an automated voice said going up I watched the numbers increase on the small screen above the door when I reached the 8th floor however the elevator stopped but the doors did not open I tried to push the part in a few times however nothing seemed to help so I decided to press the button into the first floor going down I waited for the elevator to reach the first floor however the same thing happened once we got there the elevator stopped but the doors did not open I press the button to go to the second floor instead going up the elevator rose but again the doors remain shut I was starting to freak out a little bit so I pressed the alarm going down the elevator went down to the first floor but didn't stop there this time he went all the way down to the basement of the hospital where the library and loading dock were it stopped but the doors see it again did not open I first the alarm button once more going down I froze down I was on the lowest level of the building there was nothing below the basement there wasn't even a button for anything below the basement and yet the elevator was definitely going down I pressed the first floor button once more going down the elevator sped up going down even faster than before I had to hold onto one of the bars inside to keep myself from falling down last stop thank you for choosing banner health again the doors did not open but this time I could hear something outside I pressed my ear to the elevator doors and listened it sounded like footsteps hundreds of them all at once I then realized they were all chanting something it became louder and louder until I was finally able to make out what they were saying last stop last stop I finally realized why it was getting louder the chants they were getting closer and closer to the elevators doors I pressed every single button in the elevator however the automated voice kept repeating the same sentence over and over last stop thank you for choosing banner health last stop thank you for choosing banner health last stop thank you for choosing banner health last stop last stop last stop this went on for what seemed like hours however in reality was only 15 minutes according to my phone suddenly everything went silent I can still feel but there's something behind the door it's been quiet for quite some time now the elevator dings I was confused for a second but then I realized what that meant the elevators doors were finally opening my husband locked me in the spare bedroom hours ago I was lying on the couch in the living room reading when he called out for me I found him in the spare room and when I walked in he pushed past me and locked the door I thought he was pranking me or joking around but he said it's safe in there do not make a sound I'm not kidding grace when you hear this knock it's safe to come out if the door unlocks they did not hear this knock do not open the door then he knocked a special knock repeated so I know you know it he called what the hell is going on Jack this isn't funny you better let me out right now I shouted banging on the door do the goddamn knock grace do not make a sound I'm serious I'll let you know when it's safe I love you I've never heard him sounds so aggressive I repeated his knock and then I heard him walk away I paced the room I was worried but I trust a jack i sat by the door for a while hoping I'd hear something where there was only silence I looked out the window afterwards but all I could see was the house next to ours and not much else I decided to take enough to try and pass the time I wasn't sure when Jack would be back and I was getting quite Restless eventually I fell asleep I remember dreaming that I was chained to a bed and was being watched by something I woke up him sweat I was tempted to call out for Jack but I could hear a noise I walked over to the door slowly and could very clearly hear heavy breathing coming from the other side of the door I tried to look through the crack under the door but could only see a dark shadow when I peered through it suddenly I could hear knocks on the door it wasn't the same special knock that Jack had done the knocks got louder and louder and soon it sounded like someone was slamming their whole body against the door I covered my mouth just in case but I didn't scream I looked around the room for something I could use as a weapon and the spare room was scarcely decorated I picked up the lamp hoping it suffice the knocks and slams eventually stopped and the house again became silent completely silent except for the very distinct and heavy breathing I stood at the door ready with a lamp in hand for what felt like eternity then footsteps at first they were moving quickly and quietly but then became slow and loud with every thug who were getting louder and louder closer and closer whoever was there unlocked the door then I heard the knock Jack's special log you can come out now grace it didn't sound like Jack though it actually sounded like someone mimicking Jack I didn't dare to speak I stood there watching the lamp holding my breath saying a silent prayer you can come out now grace the voice yelled over and over piercing my ears and then again silence every so often I can hear the sounds of chains and every so often the footsteps approach the door and do Jack's special knock and I'm told I can come out the mimicking is getting closer and closer to the sound of my jack but I know it's not him I know it's not safe I am NOT coming out [Music] my wife and I have the most amazing little boy he's only two but he's already smart funny caring and generous we are so blessed to have him in our lives Natasha and I suffered for years and years of infertility and I do not use the word lightly we suffered emotionally physically and financially for 10 years we went to different doctors for their hearts money even our family's money and so many hours into starting our family we endured everything you could think of countless bottles of vitamins drugs hormone therapy and procedure after procedure but everything seemed to fail we were beginning the adoption process and looking into different agencies when we decided to give it one last shot we were all in as my wife liked to say so what was one more thing to add to the list it couldn't hurt could it lo and behold it worked just over nine months later we had a little boy of our own it was absolutely perfect born April 21 2017 with dimples just like mine we immediately fell in love postpartum was so hard on her she was so disappointed she couldn't breastfeed so she made sure she did everything else and read every book and blog out there if she could find she did every bottle feeding every diaper change or him around the house like a kangaroo you name it she did it she does a wonderful job and he is absolutely devoted to her he just won't call her mom no other form of mom either no mama or mommy or even mom he calls her Terra which we assume is short for Natasha it is breaking my heart and his slowly breaking my wife's heart as well I see it in her eyes every time our little man runs at me when I come home from work shouting daddy as he leaps into my arms I see her smile fade when my mother comes to visit then he calls her Nana it isn't that he doesn't love Natasha he cuddles and plays with her they sing and have adorable dance routines even inside jokes that crack both of them up it is just concerning sometimes and I know it bothers her especially when we all play together sometimes we would be tossing the ball around or something simple as such and I will go bring the ball to mommy hoping he will run it over to Natasha but time after time again he will run straight to the basement door look back at us and smiled it was the strangest thing he has always done it and we just can't figure out why it's not like he knows that is where we buried her Karen I think that was for me his biological mother he would have no memory of her at all he only spent ten minutes downstairs in total once he was born we immediately brought him upstairs to his new room in fact he hasn't been downstairs since the day he should have no memory of this event why won't he just call him out I don't know why did it but I guess curiosity will eventually catch up to the cap it started about a year ago with me just watching youtube videos of my laptop nothing serious just those four true scary deep web horror stories type of videos now I found it interesting how possible and realistic all the story sounded and I would watch them every night before I went to bed then I moved on to informational videos about how to access the Deep Web and what software would keep you safe from anyone with bad intentions I never really considered using any of it just thought it was something cool to learn about however I eventually moved past the initial law it forgot completely about the ability to access the Deep Web well about three weeks ago I decided to watch another one of those scary videos and then I watched a video on how to access the lower levels of the web I was extremely bored and decided to download the software necessary and plan on just browsing the web sites only slightly below the surface web after about 30 minutes of setting everything up realized that some of the software would cost money they just decided to say screw it look around without any protection software I mean it's just like the normal web you don't go anywhere stupid right eventually I got bored of the normal internet and I found myself on a deep web search page there were lists of different services products and so on one that really stood out to me was the webcam and security camera website a place in which anyone could watch whatever was being viewed on many compromised cameras around the world it just blew my mind I wish I had stopped there with curiosity again brought out my inner cap I decided to click on the web site and was faced with hundreds of different perspectives all from different cameras in different countries I decided that I would come back to the web site another time and try to hit the back arrow in the top left corner of my open tab the page didn't respond frode's for about two minutes and then the entire top closed I was a bit confused at what had just happened but didn't think much of it this morning I decided to open up the software yet again the first time in three weeks to be exact and I never gated my way back to the security-camera website this time however it looked much different instead of hundreds of different camera streams it was only one single camera view being displayed I recognized myself in my room immediately as I looked up in the camera on top of my laptop the image on the screen played back my movement with only a second or two of delay there were instructions in the screen as well and I think I've done everything perfectly you watching this video should be enough time for everything to run its course I'm sorry I want you to know that because you haven't done anything when I guess life's not fair and a person as myself knows how to make other people curious I like your outfit by the way it suits your hair color you might be confused don't worry they'll be in contact soon I always loved my twin sister Amy we were the perfect cliche of identical twins doing everything together finishing each other's sentences and playing pranks on people we had a happy childhood and for a good few years everything went fine it was only in the end of our adolescence that it became clear we weren't going to be two peas in a pod forever Amy started to hang out with people I didn't like and became troublesome for our parents we grew apart I was in school clubs and dating she was skipping classes doing god-knows-what at only 17 she always smelled of booze and looked tired and stoned sometimes the police would ring her home for trespassing or shoplifting by then I realized that she didn't have a bright future ahead but I still loved her with all my heart the years went by I went to college got married and had a somewhat simple and boring but stable life amy was barely able to graduate high school it was only able to get by because of our parents pity for her she was on and off rehab on and off temporary jobs on enough with dangerous looking boyfriend's we didn't know what to do about her anymore I tried so hard to be supportive but I had my own life to take care of she always found a way back to her addictions one day Amy simply disappeared she vanished it was painful and stressful for our family but we easily accepted that some violent drug dealer got her and maybe it was for the best to die young instead of keep suffering for a long time I started to get anxious I had constant nightmares of being stopped strangled or locked up forever I observed at home my husband and parents told me that I was being paranoid I was under an extreme amount of stress and was even considering spending some time in a mental ward for my own sake I've been fighting my whole life to avoid falling into the craziness that runs in the family not now what I thought I'm strong I can handle this alone so I agreed with going to therapy and nothing more after a few weeks missing Amy is back she simply showed up at my house and she was never gone she looked healthier than ever insane while I looked like a mess emaciated from worrying too much and with huge dark circles under my eyes from avoiding sleep because I was too terrified of the nightmares I've been stalking you Alice I want to start over but I can't do that under my own skin so I need yours at that moment Amy was more Alice than me it was astounding during the few weeks she disappeared she's been watching me all the time I don't know how but she had perfectly mimic to my whole demeanor my usual haircut my signature she was able to convince anyone and everyone that I was her so just like that I was put in the mental asylum for two whole years for 730 entire days and planned my revenge I was cautious I didn't want to actually become crazy the medication was so strong sometimes I was knocked out for days straight but I had a purpose I used to love my sister but she ruined her life then stole mine so now I hate her and now she has to pay for two full years Amy slept with my husband like she was me for two years she smiled and cackle when she deserved to be miserable for two years she had our parents love all for herself and they pitted me all together so I killed her I strangled my own sister with my bare hands buried the body in the backyard and made a garden above her corpse I took my place back I took my life that the fools didn't notice a thing nobody knows they think amy is gone for good with some outlaws she is somehow it's all their fault am I going crazy like her by losing it I'll tell you a secret now whenever I look in the mirror I see my reflection laughing at me [Music] every time I get a box in my doorstep my skin crawls I used to have panic attacks but now I know that a the creepy gift will only come on my birthday and be it's inevitable I never had simple pleasures such as waiting happily for something I bought online or living for many years in the same house I've been moving every year and this person still finds me according to my parents the McCobb tradition started when I was 10 my mother got an unknown box addressed to me her only daughter and naturally opened it to check it out at 45 she literally had a heart attack but my parents were still able to hide its various contents from me we moved to another house and they were the ones to find my creepy gift the next year yet again when I turned 12 living in yet another house I found the box for the first time needless to say it really messed up my head my parents tried to tell me that it was a sick joke and that the thing was a fake one for a while I tried to believe it but it was hard because I had to spend all my birthday's at a police station and the policeman never addressed that like it was fake I don't have friends or a boyfriend live in fear I've been homeschooled after I was 12 and always worked home office the only thing I ever did outside of my house was going to therapy my parents are getting too old to move around every year I've been living on my own lately it's fine as long as my lease and bills are under someone else's name it makes me feel like I have some control over my life I legally changed my name twice but this person still finds me happy birthday to me I'm spending it to the police station yet again testifying the same thing all over no I don't know where this person could be yes I tried setting up cameras I tried having both policemen and private security at my doorstep to catch them but it was to no avail no nothing out of the ordinary happened to me in the last couple of days or in any other day of the year for that matter no no one has ever tried to kill me they never wronged anybody they never accidentally witness a crime I never did anything that could make a murderer target me because this much is pretty clear my predator is a murder every year I get a woman's scalp I already got all types of slaughtered females old young middle-aged blonde brunette this time it was clear that the head belonged to a very young female she couldn't have been older than 10 my heart sank I hate how they always ask twice if I don't have any enemies if I didn't steal someone's boyfriend because that's the first thing that goes to your mind I guess killing someone is sending their head to your rival there are many things about the situation there are even creepier than the scalps the first of course is that I do my best to hide whenever I move to a new place but the person doing this always finds me the second is that the box always has fingerprints of a single person all over it he or she doesn't even try to hide it whenever the police checks them out there's never among as if this person doesn't exist or it doesn't exist yet am I too crazy to consider that my attacker is a time traveler the third thing is that when the police technicians run the DNA tests from the scalps they always find the same result year after year the dead female is me you know that feeling you get when you're alone in the dark the one that's not there during the daylight or if there's someone else there beside you you may have discussed this feeling with your friends laughed it off as you told them that you found yourself running up the stairs last night hardly daring but unable to stop yourself Lansing back down into the dark everyone knows that feeling right now there is a woman in the basement storage room her office building searching through boxes of files with a torch for last year's tax return the air is very still but the hairs on the back of her neck are rising as though there is a breeze she glances back over her shoulder towards the door but sees nothing she flicks through the papers a little faster suddenly desperate for the chatter of the office above her that moment for her at least his handless there is a young man walking home from the bus stop down a short path enveloped by trees it counts five minutes from his journey and he always takes it without thinking but once he's on the path out of the soft orange glow of the streetlights he regrets his decision every whisper of the wind every rustle of the leaves makes him cast his eyes back behind in another minute or so you will emerge onto the street and forgotten about this feeling completely until next time somewhere else there's a girl in the shower washing her hair this is usually a mundane task that she completes with barely a thought but tonight she's alone in the house and something is different she keeps opening her eyes soaked burning through her retinas to confirm that the bathroom is still empty she feels exposed in a way that she never does when her parents are downstairs watching the television unseen but their presence is still known another one in the living room of a shared flat the flatmate left an hour ago or so through an archway in the corner of the eye is the dark empty space of the kitchen they realized that their eyes keep drifting over to the space until they are staring wide-eyed and the blackness they lived their lips thirsty they do not venture into the dark kitchen or much grave glass of water people have tried in the past to isolate and examine that feeling find the reason for its being explain it away with science in comforting natural logic they've all failed of course the feeling is not natural because when it perceives is not natural you always tell yourself they were just being paranoid and that it's just the leftover spooks from that last horror movie you watched but I'm afraid that feeling is very real its primal and it knows it puts you on high alert because it senses danger and the eerie feelings come from not being able to perceive it with your first five senses of course there's an easier way of describing this feeling this thing that comes over you in the dark empty spaces find yourself in it's me turn off the light will you Freddy wasn't your typical thirteen-year-old he was an [ __ ] if he wasn't in his bedrooms screaming at videogames you are scaring his seven-year-old sister every traumatizing prank he pulled on little Anna would be worse than the last once even told her that their mother had been murdered and covering the kitchen floor would catch up for maximum effect he was the reason she was so unstable she would often tell their mother that she had heard whispers and had even seen ghosts wander around the house at night Freddy would giggle that almost proud of the damage he had done but unfortunately for Anna it was never enough for him felt compelled to break her completely the storm had kept ready awake that night restlessly he tossed and turned and boarded for a while he tried to count sheep but even that didn't help in defeat he lay mindlessly watching the raindrops slide down his window lightning flashed suddenly illuminating his entire room it was soon followed by a definitely very smile he knew what was dead to come Freddie heard his sister crying through the wall closely followed by a faint pitter-patter as she ran to their mother's room this was it his moment of fun he crept down the hallway and into Anna's bedroom prowled around her room like a serial killer study every interval countless ideas rush through his mind then he saw the closet Freddie waited in the dark for what seemed like forever I'm peering through a small gap between the closet doors yet decided but when his sister returned and settled into bed he would begin to whisper then while she was completely terrified who had burst out and run out her screaming at the top of his lungs he had almost lost all hope who was about to leave when he heard the footsteps approaching his mother opened the bedroom door and slowly shuffled in he was sucking her thumb and dragging her favorite blanket behind her as she crawled into bed Freddie couldn't help but grin in excitement Freddie watched in silence as their mother talked Anna tightly into bed planned to bake kiss on her forehead and finally said midnight he waited anxiously until he heard his mother's door closed before beginning this is it he thought shaking in delirium the moment I break her Danya ready whisper at the continent she didn't respond and he continued still no response I'm in the closet Anna come play with me he harshly croaked not tonight Lucy Anna calmly replied Freddy frowned in confusion she must be sleep talking he thought when he got better that's not a hand reached out from behind the moon pulled Freddy back into darkness and clutched over his mouth with a cold tight grip she said not tonight I'm a young man in my twenties the typical kind you would say I had a girlfriend until she was killed in her own room thousands of miles away from me I witnessed everything over Skype it was a late autumn afternoon I sat down on the couch with my laptop and pressed called I'm Skype me and my girl we had been in this relationship for longer than most people would expect from a pair of Millennials living on the opposite side of the globe the Skype thing for us was kind of a schedule daily ritual but bridged the distance and sustained a lot a healthy habit if you may the ringing tone stretched out into what sounded like millennia I smiled getting ready to greet her blissful face always too close to the camera that was what was special about her a certain clumsiness and innocence losing of every little thing she did from the big brown sparkly eyes from the unknown baby hair from the killer smile that my thoughts were violently interrupted when a masked figure appeared in the car window I yelped but the deep dark stare from behind the eye cutouts stained undisturbed it looked unapologetically at the camera then slowly backed up letting the whole scene be captured my heart tensed my girlfriend was lying on her bed motionless the masks thing grabbed her and jerked her head up to look straight at me it's finger pointed at the bloody mess that now covered the entire room then moved up to its lips in a shushing gesture the brutality of the scene paralysed me my seat I covered my mouth with my hands to stop myself from vomiting my eyes stayed fixed and frozen in the surreal sight in front of me a silent scream was lost amid the vortex of emotions inside my brain the masked killer dropped my girlfriend's head winked at me then quietly left out of the room silence I was left there staring at a corpse of the girl I loved lying in the bed that turned crimson from her blood a physical metaphor for the bed of roses at once promised her I guess you get what you deserve I thought bitterly impressed and called I sip my coffee satisfied not letting my guilt take over the pleasure I gave myself a 10 out of 10 for such a genius plan of hiring an assassin to murder my cheating girlfriend all I needed to do was to pick up the phone and call her local police station and to play the role of the distraught witness thousands of miles away the phone rang as I reached for it mildly perplexed I took the call they it's me it looks like somebody's with her a man probably her new you know guy Affleck was formed a surprise party today speak later said the distorted voice the assassin they hired [Music] the headaches were there in the beginning I remember the pain better than I remember my first words or my first day at school mom used to say Donny glad for you you think too much you'll stress yourself out but despite my greatest attempts despite meditation alcohol smoking all the good and bad you can name as an escape detention at the top of my skull never went away my first doctor wrote it off as a psychological issue but I wasn't psycho anything the pain for me was all too real I happened to be clever and overachiever the advice given by parents and teachers was to not be so hard on myself I was doing great already I took their advice at face value I learned to live with it by the time 28 rolled around I was used to the pain I had my own place I was dating a girl I had a good job the tension was part of who I was in fact something about being in this state of despair made me work harder it made me want to prove that the pain meant something almost as if I had rid myself of the burden Dana and I decided to start a family it had been both of our dreams my family would make us happy we tried we tried so hard this time the doctor said that I had to relax that the stress was harming our chances several months later Dana left me she said that was miserable I was she said I needed to get myself sorted I needed to get rid of whatever I was holding on to I needed help all I wanted was to live a normal life this time I was put in line for an MRI in my local the pain had never been worse what had once been an ache in my skull had spread to my neck and shoulders the doctor stared at his computer screen sweat being across his forehead I'm not sure how to say this he said spit it out doc the doctor pause you have a tumor in the base of your skull that's not all the doctor said it's blowing hair teeth arms and legs it's been living inside of me for god knows how long I swallow trying to process what he just said its fingers have been praying away at the inside of your skull for for what looked like years we've got days maybe hours mr. Klatt field we must act the pressure on the top of my head increased it was a sharp prick from the inside the skin and the warm dribble rolled down the back of my neck I think it's finally coming out [Music]