00:03Bodies in the Ceiling
00:05On the next page, the owner of the confession writes,
00:10I'm writing this confession because I can no longer live with this secret and because I know my end is
00:17near.
00:18Two years ago, I bought an old two-story house in a remote rural area.
00:24The house needed a lot of repairs, but the price was too good to pass up.
00:31I moved in alone, and during the first few days, everything seemed perfectly normal.
00:37But after two weeks, I started hearing strange noises coming from the crawlspace above the false ceiling in my bedroom.
00:47The sounds always began shortly after midnight.
00:51A slow dragging noise, as if something heavy was being pulled across wood,
00:57followed by steady tapping, like fingernails knocking against the ceiling.
01:03I convinced myself it was nothing more than rats or large rodents
01:08that had found their way into the narrow space between the concrete roof and the suspended ceiling.
01:14As the days passed, a small dark stain appeared in one corner of the ceiling.
01:21Night after night, it grew a little larger.
01:26Along with it came a strange smell.
01:29Dampness mixed with something rotten, something oddly familiar, though I could never identify it.
01:36One freezing winter night, I woke up at exactly 3 a.m. to the sound of droplets falling from the
01:44ceiling.
01:45I turned on my phone's flashlight and aimed it upward.
01:50The stain had become enormous, and the liquid dripping from it wasn't rainwater.
01:57It was thick, dark, and tinged with red.
02:01Fear and curiosity took hold of me at the same time.
02:06I grabbed a wooden ladder and a flashlight, determined to open one of the maintenance panels in the suspended ceiling
02:14to see what was inside.
02:17Slowly, I lifted the plastic panel and pushed my head and flashlight into the darkness above.
02:25What I saw froze me in place and made me forget how to breathe.
02:30There were no rats.
02:33There was a man and a woman.
02:36They wore tattered clothes, and their skin was as pale as corpses.
02:42They weren't dead.
02:44They were crawling on their stomachs through the impossibly narrow space, their backs scraping against the concrete ceiling above them.
02:54When I pointed the light at their faces, they slowly turned toward me.
03:00Their eyes were stretched unnaturally wide, with no eyelids.
03:05Their mouths hung open in horrifying smiles that reached all the way to their ears.
03:12They stared directly at me.
03:16Then the man whispered in a sharp, kissing voice.
03:20You've discovered our hiding place, now it's time to switch roles.
03:26I fell from the ladder in pure terror, ran out of the house wearing nothing but my pajamas, and never
03:34returned.
03:35I sold the house online for next to nothing and moved into a new apartment in the middle of the
03:42city,
03:42surrounded by people and constant noise, hoping I would finally feel safe.
03:48But I didn't escape.
03:51Just an hour ago, I woke up because I felt a cold drop land on my forehead.
03:58I looked up.
04:00A dark stain had begun to spread across the ceiling of my new apartment.
04:06Then I heard it.
04:07The unmistakable sound of light fingernails tapping gently from inside the ceiling.
04:14The unmistakable sound of light fingernails tapping gently from inside the ceiling.
04:14Two years later so well, I think…則
04:15either chosen enhancing design or physician or peg mal bodies. Well,
04:17know nothing. Now I don't
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