00:00Someone was breathing behind the door's scary story.
00:04The woman had lived alone in the house for three years,
00:08long enough to memorize every creak in the floor and every whisper of the wind through the vent.
00:15That was why the sound at midnight made her sit upright in bed.
00:20Footsteps. They were soft, deliberate, moving from the living room toward the hallway.
00:25She held her breath, telling herself it was the house settling, the way old houses always did.
00:34Still, she reached for her phone and turned on the flashlight.
00:38The beam cut through the darkness, revealing the hallway exactly as she'd left it.
00:44Empty. Relief washed over her until she heard breathing.
00:49It came from behind the bedroom door.
00:52Slow. Wet. Patient.
00:53Her heart slammed as the doorknob began to turn, inch by inch, impossibly quiet.
01:02She backed against the wall, unable to scream.
01:05The door opened just wide enough for her to see a face in the darkness, pale, smiling, familiar.
01:11It was her. Same eyes. Same scar on the chin.
01:18The thing tilted its head and whispers, you finally notice.
01:22The light snapped on. The hallway was empty again.
01:27Shaking. She checked her phone.
01:29A new message glowed on the screen.
01:32Don't go to sleep tonight.
01:33From her own number.
01:35From her own number.
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