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00:02while we were playing hide and seek i locked my daughter in the wardrobe where she was hiding
00:06and never opened it again hide well i'll come find you later
00:17then the rest of us zanes ran my wife helen my son erin and i moved away as quickly as
00:24we could
00:2820 years later i came back to bury her i stood in front of that damn wardrobe and then
00:47daddy daddy daddy daddy daddy
01:02it all started when erin was preparing to get married his future in-laws insisted that both
01:07families see a psychic before the wedding they believed the marriage should begin with a proper
01:11blessing so my wife and i went we thought it would be a formality but after the reading the psychic
01:17looked up at us with a grave expression and said you have another child don't you one who hasn't
01:23come home in years my stomach dropped i turned to helen she looked pale as hell she knew what i
01:32was
01:32thinking the psychic kept going a marriage like this needs the whole family present if someone's
01:38been left behind whatever is following them will follow the couple too what do you mean following
01:44them theorists don't rest easy not when something was left home make your family whole again then come
01:51see me we left faster than we had arrived back home helen sat on the couch trembling what do we
01:58do
01:59we moved we ran we left her there how are we supposed to bring her home now i ran my
02:06hands through my
02:06hair anxious erin was engaged our future daughter-in-law's family was rich and prominent her people had money
02:14and influence more than we ever would erin couldn't afford to lose a match like this i couldn't let the
02:19ghost
02:20of our daughter stand in the way i had to find a way to deal with it with her
02:28my daughter's name was katie if she were still alive she would have been 28 this year when katie was
02:34eight my wife helen and i decided to move to the city for work life was hard enough already and
02:40trying to start
02:40over with two young children felt impossible the day before we left helen suddenly said she didn't
02:45want to take katie with us she only wanted to bring our seven-year-old son erin my parents were
02:51already
02:51dead there were no grandparents to leave katie with if we didn't take her there would be no one to
02:56care
02:56for her she doesn't need anyone to care for her we'll lock her in the house and act like she
03:01was never
03:02born i stared at her stunned but she didn't seem bothered in the slightest what's so shocking about that
03:09we can't afford to drag two kids into a new life one of them was always going to slow us
03:14down
03:15erin comes with us katie stays but enough
03:21i've made up my mind just do what i say
03:27tomorrow i'll show you exactly what to do helen had always favored our son over our daughter
03:32and once she decided something there was no changing her mind the next day we packed as usual
03:37katie and erin were both excited running back and forth stuffing their toys into the bags when it
03:43was almost time to leave helen gave me a look i knew exactly what she meant i hesitated for a
03:49long
03:49time but in the end i walked over to katie
03:58katie daddy's tired from packing want to play hide and seek katie frowned she never liked hide and seek
04:04much i don't want to play i want to help pack then erin chimed in at exactly the wrong moment
04:10i want to play katie please play with us i rarely spent time playing with the children erin was always
04:18eager for any scrap of attention from me under her brother's pleading katie finally gave in so i played
04:23along for a while fake smiles fake laughter pretending everything was normal then helen gave me another
04:30look the bags were packed everything was ready it was time last round this time katie hides and erin
04:39and i will look for her katie you better find a really good spot helen joined in with a smile
04:44that
04:44made my skin crawl don't worry i know the perfect hiding place they'll never find you there come on
04:53sweetheart mommy will take you
04:57she led katie toward the storage shed no one but helen and i knew there was a cellar underneath it
05:02my great-grandfather had dug it years ago to store grain in case of famine later when life got better
05:08it was abandoned and left to rot there was an old wardrobe down there it had been there for as
05:13long
05:13as i could remember it was thick heavy and impossible for a child to open
05:23when helen led katie down into the cellar i saw the padlock in her hand a little while later helen
05:29came back up alone that same night we called the police and told them our daughter was missing back
05:35then child trafficking cases were all over the news and helen cried so hard in front of the officers that
05:41no one ever suspected us 20 years passed in the blink of an eye we went back to our hometown
05:46a few
05:46times after that but helen and i never spoke about what we had done we never went down into the
05:51cellar
05:51either but this time for erin's wedding i had no choice the psychic had made it clear our family had
05:58a missing piece katie had never been laid to rest if i wanted nothing to interfere with my son's
06:03marriage i had to go back i had to find her and bury her properly helen said then go
06:10right now whatever you do don't let this ruin erin's wedding i drove back to my hometown that night
06:18the house was an old single story place i kept all the lights off the whole time afraid the neighbors
06:24might notice something strange i found the shed and the concrete slab covering the entrance the moment
06:30i lifted it i felt something was off a gust of wind came up from below cold sharp it hit
06:37me right in
06:37the face and that wasn't all the instant i opened it i heard a bang heavy dull solid like something
06:44had suddenly slammed into the wardrobe underground
06:50i held my breath and listened carefully a few minutes passed the strange sound didn't come again
06:55just a rat just a damn rat i went down to the basement same as 20 years ago empty dark
07:01flashlight
07:02swept the space only that wardrobe in the corner paint peeling padlock still locked no smell 20 years
07:08had passed katie must have decomposed beyond recognition by now any smell would have long
07:13since faded i let out a breath then i took out the key helen had given me and reached for
07:18the lock
07:18suddenly my first thought was that someone had followed me who's there who's here i looked around
07:25carefully no one but in the corner i found a dried up carcass didn't matter i went back to the
07:30wardrobe
07:31took a deep breath tried to calm myself down i was too nervous that had to be this time i
07:37heard it
07:38clearly it came from inside the wardrobe right in front of me daddy daddy is that you i've been waiting
07:46for
07:46you for so long i'm right here in the wardrobe
07:54holy shit it really was katie's voice how was that possible daddy why aren't you talking to me
08:03open the door she still sounded like that same little eight-year-old girl how was that possible
08:09locked inside an airtight wardrobe for 20 years even if she hadn't suffocated she would have starved to
08:14death so what the hell was inside that wardrobe
08:36the wind the thud the voice wayne are you making this up because you're too scared to bury katie
08:41how could something this creepy even be real i swear i heard her she's still in there fine
08:47if you're too much of a coward i'll do it myself she slammed the door and left i sat on
08:52the couch
08:52trying to process everything that just happened i cracked open a six-pack drank until my hands
08:57stopped shaking how how could a child survive in a sealed metal box for 20 years no air no food
09:03no
09:03water unless it was a ghost but how could a ghost be trapped inside the wardrobe why did it knock
09:08why did it sound like her with all these thoughts i passed out and woke up to screams helen was
09:14shaking
09:14me her hair was matted with dirt her jacket was torn her eyes were wide you went back
09:19i went down there i heard it that voice everything what did you do i opened the door
09:33i couldn't process what she had just said i slowly turned toward the door there she was wearing the
09:38exact yellow dress with tiny blue flowers her hair was tied into two neat ponytails it was as if she
09:43had only been gone for 20 minutes daddy i'm home my heart stopped it was definitely katie my daughter
09:50the one we had buried alive don't don't come closer she stopped just stood there obedient just like she
09:56had always been this is impossible she'd be dust she'd be gone what do you mean mommy i'm right here
10:04nothing sweetheart mommy is just upset wow is this where we live now i love it i want to stay
10:12here
10:12forever by the way daddy where's aaron didn't he want to play hide and seek
10:25well he went out to take care of something helen evasively explained yeah i greased him something on
10:32the python anymore
10:36lear kids don't have things to take care of katie sweetie daddy and i need to talk just for a
10:44minute
10:45helen was so overwhelmed she grabbed my arm and shouted
10:49you play for a bit helen didn't wait for her answer she shut the bedroom door and whispered
10:55is she human how would i know you were the one who let her out oh god the crap like
11:04i know any better
11:06jesus let's just she took a knife out of the drawer
11:14no no you can't just kill her she's katie our little girl
11:24we already killed her once wayne what difference does it make this time i snatched the knife from
11:30her hand no not again we were poor and desperate back then now aaron has grown and we can afford
11:40to
11:41raise an eight-year-old but i couldn't tell helen about this i really missed katie how i had tricked
11:46my little girl how i had betrayed her trust how she had looked at me with those innocent eyes
11:51and now she came back maybe maybe this was my second chance however i still had to figure out
11:58why she hadn't aged and what had happened to her all those years helen was still hesitating
12:02then she continued are you out of your mind if they they find out we buried her our son's life
12:09is
12:09over no job no future no grandkids suddenly an idea flashed into my mind
12:19i opened the drawer and took out a business card a private investigator's business card
12:26the one i'd found shoved under our door weeks ago
12:32helen frowned where did you even get this
12:36none of your business anyway he's our only shot
12:42she had been going out a lot lately and i had started to suspect she was cheating on me
12:47i dialed a young voice answered hello mr shaw
12:55yes how can i help you i told him everything the silence was long enough to make me think he
13:00had
13:01hung up finally he said doubtfully so you mean your daughter stayed in the wardrobe for 20 years
13:07she doesn't eat doesn't drink doesn't age just still ate well that's about it i've never heard
13:15anything like this very interesting i'll take the case but you better bring her to me i want to
13:20see this miracle with my own eyes i hung up walked back into the living room katie was curled up
13:27on the
13:27couch her head rested on her arm her eyes half closed she smiled when she saw me daddy are we
13:35going
13:35to see a friend yeah sweetheart just for a little while do you want to come with me
13:42she climbed right onto my lap just like she used to
13:46of course daddy i always want to stay with you
13:57i met jamie shaw a private investigator he poured me some tea and gave katie something sweet
14:02he chatted with her about normal kid stuff favorite books cartoons and games katie answered the same
14:09thing she would have answered 20 years ago after a while he pulled me aside mr zane it does seem
14:17that
14:17your daughter really came from 20 years ago this is the most unusual case i've ever seen in my career
14:23have you ever heard the theory that there are strange spaces in this world where time moves
14:27abnormally sometimes much faster sometimes much slower
14:35from the shelf
14:381892 a man was stranded on a remote island for 25 years when he was rescued aside for his grown
14:46-out beard
14:47he hadn't changed a bit my hands shook that's real she's not dead she's frozen
14:55this case is too strange so i've decided not to charge you i want to know what is really going
15:00on as
15:01well also i would suggest a paternity test from a biological standpoint it would tell you whether
15:08she's biologically your daughter how much would that cost
15:162000 but i know a lab that'll do it cheaper
15:19i thought of my son's wedding expenses everything cost money
15:26no need
15:28i know my own daughter
15:32all right then let's head to your old home now
15:35i'd like to run an experiment in that wardrobe
15:41the experiment was simple even a rough man like me could understand it
15:45jamie put a candle in the wardrobe
15:49this thing is big enough so there's plenty of air inside
15:53normally the candle should burn out in about two hours
15:55i'll light it now and come back tomorrow if it burns out our guess is wrong
15:59if it has barely burned down then time really does move slower in there
16:03to be safe he also put a popsicle inside as a second check
16:09after that i took katie home
16:14katie was tired she curled up on the couch right after we got home
16:20daddy my head is so itchy i want to wash my hair
16:27helen could you not mommy i want daddy to wash it i want daddy
16:32i froze for a moment as if i had gone back 20 years
16:35i was exhausted and the scolding almost slipped out
16:39but when i looked down into katie's dark eyes
16:41i swallowed the words i helped her wash her hair
16:44twinkle twinkle twinkle little star how i wonder what you are
16:51she looked up at me
16:53daddy do you like my song
16:57of course sweetheart i love it
16:59she giggled
17:01then
17:01daddy why'd you take so long to come find me
17:06i looked away
17:07i was busy
17:10but daddy i waited for you for so long
17:13why didn't you come find me
17:15just as i was about to lose my temper
17:17i suddenly cried out
17:18the daughter lying on my lap had somehow turned into a dried corpse
17:22her body was shriveled and yellow
17:24and her eye sockets had become two hollow pits
17:26but her mouth was still opening and closing
17:32daddy why didn't you come
17:36don't you want me to come home
17:40i screamed grabbed her and shoved her face into the water
17:45she thrashed and yelled
17:48mommy mommy mommy
17:51she was a monster she was not my daughter
17:57helen stormed in
17:58what the hell are you doing
18:02she's not katie she's a
18:04i looked down and froze again
18:06the dried corpse in the basin had turned back into a normal child
18:11daddy you're hurting me
18:14on her neck was a long red scratch from my nails
18:21didn't you say you were gonna treat her well
18:26i wasn't trying to hurt her she
18:29katie sniffled
18:30is daddy drunk again
18:32it's okay mommy's here
18:38my eyes fixed on the mirror
18:40there she was in the reflection
18:41curled in helen's arms
18:43she looked pitiful as she cried in helen's arms
18:46but the corners of her mouth were curled into a dark eerie smile
18:53that night katie insisted on sleeping in our room
18:56not a chance
18:57i'd sooner stay awake till dawn than lie next to that thing
19:01so i took a blanket and camped out on the couch
19:04half awake all night
19:05one eye open
19:06listening for the slightest sound
19:08i told myself i only had to get through one night
19:11once jamie's results came in
19:13i'd take care of her
19:14i wasn't about to let a monster keep breathing under my roof
19:18the next morning
19:19the first news i got wasn't jamie's result
19:22it was that aaron was coming home
19:24my heart lurched
19:25no
19:26absolutely not
19:28aaron could not see katie
19:30i still didn't know what she was
19:32a child
19:33a ghost
19:33or something worse
19:35but if anything happened to aaron
19:36my whole life would go down with him
19:38katie was at the table eating breakfast when i waved her over
19:41that's enough come with me
19:43i was going to shut her in the guest room
19:45until i figured out the next move
19:47but the second i stepped toward her
19:49she drew back
19:50are you trying to make me hide in the wardrobe again
19:52i was already rolling up my sleeves
19:55ready to force her if i had to
19:57aaron's back
19:59did he call you
20:00katie lit up at once
20:01aaron's home
20:02before i could stop her
20:03she flew out the door barefoot
20:05what the hell is wrong with you
20:09why would you tell her aaron was back
20:12she shrank right in front of me
20:14instinctively throwing her arm over her head
20:16her forearm was a mess
20:18purple bruises
20:19yellowing marks
20:20old scars crossing over new ones
20:23i ran after katie
20:24by the time i got downstairs
20:26she was already at the building entrance
20:29aaron had just stepped inside
20:31and there he was
20:32rooted to the spot
20:33staring at her like the dead had come back
20:36wearing a child's face
20:37confusion
20:38disbelief
20:39and dread filled his eyes
20:41his lips trembled
20:42then
20:43barely audible
20:44he said
20:45beside him stood his fiancee
20:48katie
20:48get back here
20:50i was rattled now
20:52one suspicious look from sophia
20:54and aaron's marriage could be dead before it started
20:57and she was sharp
20:58sharper than i liked
21:00who is she
21:06she's aaron's sister
21:07sister
21:09since when
21:10aaron never said he had a sister
21:13she looks just like him
21:15there was no way i was letting sophia's family hear the truth
21:18then came the worst possible sentence
21:21wait
21:23is she his daughter
21:26no no of course not
21:27sophia come on
21:28she's my daughter
21:29how could she possibly be aaron's
21:31he's far too young to have a child that old
21:33so your family lied
21:34you told us aaron was an only child
21:36and now i'm supposed to find out like this that he has a sister
21:38you don't leave out something like that by accident
21:40if you were willing to hide this then what else are you hiding
21:43how am i supposed to trust any of you now
21:45then she looked at aaron disappointment written all over her face
21:48i'm going home to talk to my parents
21:51i i care about you
21:53but i can't be with someone who lies to me
21:55and just like that she turned and walked away
21:57but he didn't move
21:58what are you waiting for go after her
22:00forget it i was never an only child
22:02i didn't want to lie anymore
22:03i never really wanted to get married
22:05his face was calm
22:07if sophia decides to call it off
22:09maybe that's for the best
22:10i nearly lost my mind
22:12if we hadn't been standing in the middle of the building lobby
22:15i would have slapped him then and there
22:16that was aaron
22:17always aaron
22:18too soft
22:19too timid
22:20and never able to stand up for himself
22:22what had i raised him for
22:23to watch him throw away a good marriage without a fight
22:27are you really katie zane
22:30yes
22:30i'm your sister
22:34wow you got so tall
22:36i was only hiding for a little while
22:41how did you grow up so much
22:43the moment those words left her mouth
22:45something in aaron shattered
22:47i saw it
22:48his expression darkened
22:50his eyes went hollow
22:51like some old wound had split back open right in front of me
22:55and then he cried
22:57tears streaming down his face in front of everyone
22:59i clenched my fists so tight my bones ached
23:03that girl had already done enough damage
23:05now she was ruining aaron's marriage too
23:08she had to go back in the wardrobe
23:10if time really stopped in there
23:12then fine
23:13she could stay in the dark another 20 years
23:1630
23:17forever
23:18if that's what it took
23:19maybe i'd never let her out again
23:21if aaron could still marry sophia
23:23i'd be fine
23:24her family had money
23:26enough to make this whole mess go away
23:28as long as the marriage was still on the table
23:31there was still a way out
23:32so i pulled out my phone and called jamie for the test result
23:36he picked up right away
23:38i was just about to call you
23:39i'm at your old house
23:40you need to get over here and see this
23:49jamie brought in three massive work lights
23:51and the cellar lit up bright as day
23:53i'd already braced myself for the worst
23:55the second i saw it with my own eyes
23:58i was still stunned
23:59inside the wardrobe
24:01the white candle had barely burned
24:03it was almost completely intact
24:06even the popsicle was still frozen solid
24:09wayne
24:09looks like we were right
24:11time really does stop in there
24:13thank god
24:14that meant katie wasn't a ghost
24:16she really hadn't died
24:18dealing with a ghost would have been a pain in the ass
24:21controlling a little girl
24:23that was easy
24:24my son was about to get married
24:25so my daughter was just going to have to keep
24:27staying in the wardrobe a little longer
24:29oh and one more thing
24:30can you help me out
24:32i need a clean story for why katie suddenly showed up
24:34something polished enough to calm sophia down
24:37shut the whole thing down
24:37and get her to go through with marrying my son
24:40we'll say she's a friend's kid
24:42no real connection to this family
24:44and back then because of some complicated situation
24:48i only pretended to be her father to protect her
24:51sure that part's easy
24:53i'm good at stuff like that
24:55and the price
24:57still free
24:59this isn't hard
25:00honestly i should be thanking you
25:02because of you
25:04i got to witness what this wardrobe can really do
25:07that pleased me
25:08he didn't look like much
25:09but there was more to him than i thought
25:12if katie had grown up
25:13and if the money made sense
25:15i might have even considered marrying my daughter off to him
25:18although
25:19i looked at him
25:20what
25:22wayne
25:23if i'm handling everything you asked for free
25:25the least you can do is show me a little respect
25:27i frowned
25:28what the hell is that supposed to mean
25:30how have i disrespected you
25:31you lied
25:33you
25:33you
25:34you
25:34you
25:34you
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