00:00But we knew. We all knew it wasn't about the building structure.
00:03The knocking didn't stop just because they put up yellow tape it.
00:07Hoostmobit.
00:08Friends I had in other parts of the building started telling me their own stories.
00:12Different buildings in the complex.
00:14Different floors, but always the same details.
00:18Always the same time.
00:201.40 a.m.
00:22Always three soft knocks.
00:25I don't live there anymore. I couldn't.
00:27I broke my lease, packed my life into a small truck,
00:31and drove until the city was just a memory in my rearview mirror.
00:34I live in a different city now. A different state.
00:37A small house with a yard and no shared walls.
00:40I thought I had left it behind.
00:42I thought I was safe.
00:43But sometimes, on nights when the world outside is completely still,
00:48when the only sound is the hum of the refrigerator,
00:50I hear it.
00:52Three soft knocks.
00:54Not on the door.
00:56Not on the window.
00:57On the wall, right beside my bed.
00:59And I know, with a certainty that chills me to the bone,
01:03that whatever was in that building didn't stay there.
01:05Eat.
01:07Followed.
Comments