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Nightfall Crypt
  • 5/14/2025
A terrifying childhood encounter in the forests of Washington turns out to be more than just imagination. What if the monster your kids talk about is real?

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Transcript
00:00i grew up in the quiet isolation of washington's backwoods
00:04a five acre spread that bled into miles of untouched forest my twin and i spent our childhood
00:11immersed in those trees chasing frogs building forts and sleeping with windows open to summer
00:18breezes but that summer one scream changed everything and now all these years later
00:28i still hear it sometimes in my dreams have you ever felt unseen eyes watching you in the dark
00:36welcome to nightfall crypt where shadows whisper the unknown lingers and every story is waiting
00:44for you to listen if you dare one late summer night when we were eight i heard a scream in the woods
00:52not an animal cry or the yip of a coyote but something human tortured i was the only one
01:00awake i ran to my brother's room and opened his window he heard it too we sat there frozen not
01:07daring to speak we didn't tell our parents not yet for a week the screams returned closer each time
01:17low at first then shrill and drawn out still our parents brushed it off coyotes they said your
01:27imaginations but the fear was real it clawed into our bones like frost
01:34then things started disappearing my skateboard my brother's bike our inflatable shark vanished from the
01:42pool overnight we reported everything but got blamed instead be responsible with your things dad said
01:52but i knew something or someone was taking them i stopped sleeping with the window open until one night
02:02curiosity won i peeked outside and saw him standing just past our fence
02:09a tall rail-thin man moonlight reflected off his massive bulging eyes his mouth hung open unmoving
02:20when his gaze shifted to me i froze he stepped toward the gate toward me
02:28he stood beneath my window face frozen mouth agape he didn't blink didn't speak just stared
02:37then came the sound the scream but his lips never moved it came from within him like a howl from hell
02:46i broke ran to my brother and we crashed into our parents room sobbing a nightmare they said
02:55you scared your brother but i knew what i saw
02:59he began appearing in daylight just out of reach peering from the trees motionless every time i called
03:09someone he vanished my parents thought i was obsessed but every stare every silent encounter nod at me
03:17when school started i felt relief a daily escape slowly the sightings faded the screams stopped
03:29i started to believe my parents maybe it was just imagination a twisted fantasy i told myself so many
03:37times it became real then one school night a knock at the door a police officer calmly he explained that
03:48someone had broken into the neighbor's pool house a man he'd been living in the woods for months
03:55they found a camp a stash of stolen toys inflatable shark my skateboard my brother's bike
04:03i ran to the back door around the yard to glimpse the man i pressed my face to the police cruiser's window
04:13inside the darkness moved his face appeared those eyes wide and bulging
04:21the silent scream mouth his scalp patchy clothes and tatters it was him the man from the woods
04:31the screaming man
04:34the cops found his camp deep in the woods far past our property line old food wrappers torn fabric
04:42a nest of stolen items he had lived there watched us screamed for us
04:50but no one believed me until now it wasn't imagination it wasn't a nightmare monsters are real
04:58and sometimes they look just like us the man was arrested our stuff returned the summer passed but the
05:08memory never did i still wonder how close did he get while we slept why didn't he take us or was he waiting
05:17when your kids say there's a monster outside maybe you should look twice i wish my parents had
05:26and so the shadows stretch further and the mystery only deepens but this is far from the end it's merely
05:35the beginning what lingers beyond the door who is whispering your name and what is that shifting in the corner
05:43of your eye the answers await in the next chapter of these chilling tales subscribe to nightfall crypt
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05:59until next time stay in the light if you can
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