PART 2 — THE TERRIFYING CONCLUSION

On Halloween night in 1998, a stranger wearing a scarecrow mask appeared outside my house and warned me that someone was watching from my upstairs bedroom.

I lived alone.

At first, I thought he was trying to scare me.

But later that night, I heard footsteps upstairs. When I picked up my telephone downstairs, someone lifted the receiver in my bedroom.

I could hear them breathing.

The police searched my house once and found nobody.

Then they came back.

This time, something was different.

An officer stopped me outside my own front door and told me not to come inside.

Moments later, I heard three words over his radio.

Behind the wall.

What the officers discovered inside my house changed everything I believed about that Halloween night.

And what they uncovered afterward was even more disturbing.

Because the person I had been afraid of wasn't necessarily the stranger standing outside.

The real danger was much closer than I ever imagined.

And the final discovery revealed just how close I had come to someone I never even knew was there.

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On Halloween night in 1998, I was living alone in a small two-story house outside Salem, Oregon.

I had only moved there four months earlier.

That evening, the neighborhood was crowded with families, costumes, and people going from house to house.

Everything seemed normal.

Until I noticed someone standing across the street.

A tall stranger wearing faded blue coveralls and an old scarecrow mask.

He wasn't carrying a candy bag.

He wasn't visiting any houses.

He was simply standing beneath a tree, facing mine.

A little later, my doorbell rang.

The scarecrow was standing on my porch.

He didn't ask for candy.

Instead, he looked past me toward the staircase.

Then he asked,

Is somebody else home?

I told him I lived alone.

He kept staring upstairs.

Then he asked something that made me uncomfortable.

Are you sure?

I assumed he was trying to scare me.

But after he left, I noticed the upstairs hallway light was on.

A light I couldn't remember switching on.

Later that evening, I heard strange creaking sounds coming from the second floor.

Then the scarecrow returned.

This time, he pointed toward my bedroom window.

And told me something I wasn't prepared to hear.

The guy up there keeps watching people.

I told him nobody was upstairs.

He seemed genuinely confused.

Then he said,

I just saw him.

I called the police.

Officers searched the house, including a narrow storage space behind a wooden panel in an upstairs closet.

They found nobody.

I tried convincing myself the stranger had been playing a Halloween prank.

Until later that night, when I picked up my telephone downstairs.

And heard something that made me realize I might not be alone after all.

Someone had picked up the other telephone.

The one beside my bed.

Upstairs.

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In February of 2001, I was thirty years old and living alone in a small rented house outside Eugene, Oregon.

Everything started when I came home from work one evening and found something strange in my bedroom.

A key.

Lying in the middle of my pillow.

It looked exactly like my front door key.

Same shape.

Same little blue rubber cover.

But I was still holding my own keys.

I searched the house.

Nobody was there.

Nothing had been taken.

And there was no sign that anyone had forced their way inside.

I called the police.

The locks were changed that evening.

I thought that would be the end of it.

But a few days later, I came home and found my kitchen chair pulled into the middle of the room.

Then my bedroom radio was playing when I returned from work.

Someone seemed to be entering my house while I was away.

And I had no idea how.

Then things became much more personal.

I was considering a new job in Seattle.

Only a few people knew about it.

But one afternoon, I found an envelope beneath my front door.

Inside was a photocopy of my private job offer.

Someone had circled the start date.

And written a question beneath it.

ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO GO?

I became afraid that someone was watching my life far more closely than I realized.

Then, a few nights later, my telephone rang at 1:17 in the morning.

I answered.

Nobody spoke.

For a moment, the line was completely quiet.

Then I heard a click.

And a recording began playing.

It was my own voice.

I recognized the conversation immediately.

It was something I had said privately inside a friend's car.

A conversation I had never expected anyone else to hear.

I stood beside my bed, gripping the telephone, trying to understand who could have recorded me.

When the recording stopped, I whispered,

Who is this?

A quiet voice answered.

You always leave.

Then the line went silent.

I thought someone was trying to frighten me into staying.

But I had no idea how much this person already knew.

Or how long they had been listening.

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