00:00Basement door number two, women horror story.
00:05The sound at 2.17am, the furnace started knocking.
00:10Not banging, knocking.
00:12Three slow taps, then silence.
00:15I lay in bed, staring at the ceiling,
00:18telling myself it was just pipes cooling.
00:21Then it happened again.
00:23Three deliberate knocks.
00:27The basement, I grabbed my phone and went downstairs.
00:31The basement light flickered weakly.
00:33The air smelled like dust and metal.
00:36The furnace rumbled softly.
00:38Behind it, where there had only ever been a concrete wall,
00:43was a small wooden door.
00:48The door, it was painted grey like the wall.
00:51No handle, no hinges.
00:53Just a thin outline.
00:55Three knocks came from the other side.
00:58I stepped closer.
01:00The wood felt warm.
01:04The text my phone buzzed.
01:06A message from my sister upstairs.
01:09Why are you knocking from the basement?
01:13The realization the knocking came again.
01:16But this time, from behind me.
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