00:00Quarter to three in the morning, when I heard someone knock on my bedroom door.
00:04Just three times. Knock, knock, knock.
00:09Now, here's the thing. I live alone.
00:12And my bedroom door doesn't lead to another room.
00:14It's supposed to lead to a hallway.
00:16Well, at least, that's what I thought.
00:18You see, I was staying in this old guest house, right on the outskirts of a tiny mountain town.
00:23I'd rented the place for seven nights, because, honestly,
00:26I just needed somewhere completely dead quiet to finish up some work.
00:30And the house was cheap. Like, suspiciously cheaper than everything else in the area.
00:35When I asked the owner why the rate was so low, he didn't even blink.
00:39He just handed me these heavy brass keys, looked me dead in the eyes,
00:43and said, whatever you do, don't open the door at night.
00:46I actually laughed. I thought he was just messing with me.
00:49He wasn't.
00:50So the first night went by fine. Totally quiet.
00:53But the second night, I woke up at exactly 2.13 a.m.,
00:57and I heard footsteps out in the hallway.
01:00Slow, really deliberate footsteps.
01:04Someone was walking right toward my bedroom.
01:06Then they stopped, right outside my door.
01:10Knock, knock, knock.
01:13I just lay there in the dark, barely breathing.
01:16After what felt like forever, maybe a minute,
01:18I heard the footsteps walking away into the dark.
01:22First thing the next morning, I asked the owner about it.
01:24He just stared at me for a few long seconds before asking,
01:28did you open the door?
01:30I told him, no, I didn't.
01:32He nodded slowly and just said, good.
01:35I pushed him, asking who exactly had been out there.
01:38But he wouldn't answer me directly.
01:40Instead, he told me something that just made my stomach drop.
01:43He said, there is no hallway outside your bedroom.
01:47I was sure he was just trying to scare the city tourist, right?
01:50So the second he left, I went to check.
01:53I stood inside my bedroom and opened the door.
01:57And it opened directly into the living room.
02:00There was no hallway, no corridor at all.
02:02Just the living room.
02:03I convinced myself I must have just been dreaming.
02:06I mean, I had to have been dreaming, right?
02:08That worked until the fourth night.
02:11I jolted awake, total darkness.
02:12I looked at the clock on the nightstand.
02:14It read 2.13 a.m.
02:17Then came the three knocks.
02:18But this time, they were so much louder.
02:21Knock.
02:22Knock.
02:24Knock.
02:25I grabbed my phone and flipped on the flashlight.
02:27The room was freezing, like absolutely freezing.
02:30I could literally see my own breath pluming in the air as I walked quickly toward the door.
02:34And then I heard a voice from the other side.
02:37But it was my voice.
02:39It just whispered, please, let me in.
02:42I froze completely.
02:44It wasn't just similar.
02:45It sounded exactly like me.
02:48The exact same pitch.
02:49The exact same breathing.
02:50The exact same words.
02:52Please, let me in.
02:54I took a step backward.
02:56And the brass doorknob slowly began to turn.
02:59I wasn't going to stick around to see what was on the other side.
03:01I bolted for the window, forced it open, and literally climbed out into the freezing night.
03:07I just ran.
03:08I didn't stop running until I hit the main dirt road.
03:10And I called the owner right away.
03:12He showed up 20 minutes later.
03:14When he pulled up and saw me standing there in the cold, shivering out of my mind, he didn't even
03:19look surprised.
03:19He just walked right up to me and asked, did it use your voice?
03:23When I said yes, all the color just completely drained from his face.
03:28That's when he finally told me the history of the house.
03:3030 years ago, a family lived there.
03:32A mother, a father, and their young daughter.
03:34And one night, the daughter just vanished.
03:38Nobody knew where she went.
03:39The parents searched everywhere, but there was no sign of her.
03:43Then, three days later, they started hearing a knocking sound.
03:47Coming from behind a solid wall.
03:49Three knocks, every single night, at exactly 2.13.
03:54Eventually, they couldn't take it anymore, and broke through the plaster and wood to find out what was making the
03:58noise.
03:59Behind that wall, they found a small hidden room.
04:03A room that wasn't on any floor plan for the house.
04:05And scattered all over the floor inside were hundreds of photographs.
04:09Every single one was a picture of the family, sleeping.
04:13But they were taken from inside the house, from impossible places, from inside closed closets, up near the ceilings, from
04:20behind locked doors.
04:21And the very last photograph, it showed the missing daughter, standing right behind her parents' bed.
04:28And she was smiling.
04:30The owner went dead quiet.
04:32The silence out there in the mountain air just felt so suffocating.
04:36I asked him what happened next.
04:37He said the parents disappeared about a week later, and the house was abandoned.
04:41Years went by, it got bought and renovated, but that hidden room was never found again.
04:47Not until I got there.
04:49I asked him, why on earth would you rent this place to me, knowing all of this?
04:53He just looked at me with these hollow eyes and said,
04:56because the house chooses someone every few years.
04:59I felt physically sick.
05:02Why me?
05:03I asked him.
05:04He didn't answer.
05:05Instead, he reached into his coat and handed me this old, frayed photograph.
05:10I looked at it, and it was a picture of my bedroom, but taken from the hallway.
05:16As I stared at it, I noticed some faded ink on the back.
05:19A date.
05:20October 4th.
05:2130 years ago.
05:23My hands started to shake, because October 4th was the exact date I had arrived at the house.
05:29I flipped the photograph back over, and I realized there was someone standing in the shadows behind the bedroom door.
05:35A woman.
05:36You couldn't see her face.
05:38It was completely hidden in absolute darkness.
05:41But I recognized the clothes she was wearing.
05:44They were the exact same clothes I had on right then.
05:47I dropped the photo right there in the dirt.
05:50The owner leaned in and whispered,
05:52Don't look behind you.
05:53I stood totally paralyzed.
05:56And then, I heard it.
05:58Three knocks.
05:59But they weren't coming from the bedroom anymore.
06:01They were coming from right behind me.
06:04Knock.
06:04Knock.
06:05Knock.
06:07The owner grabbed my arm and yelled at me to run.
06:09We sprinted toward his truck.
06:11And behind us, the lights inside the house started turning on, one by one.
06:16The bedroom.
06:17The kitchen.
06:18The living room.
06:19And then, the hallway.
06:21That hallway that wasn't supposed to exist.
06:24At the far end of it stood a door.
06:26My bedroom door.
06:27The owner looked at me, and he whispered,
06:29It's open.
06:31I just couldn't stop myself.
06:32I looked back at the house.
06:34And there was something standing up in the upstairs window.
06:38It looked exactly like me.
06:41And it was smiling.
06:42Then, it raised one hand and knocked against the glass.
06:46Three times.
06:48Knock.
06:49Knock.
06:50Knock.
06:51I never went back to that house.
06:53I left every single thing I owned inside.
06:55I moved to a totally different city.
06:57Changed my phone number.
06:58And just stopped talking about what happened.
07:01For almost a whole year, I actually thought I had escaped it.
07:05Nothing happened at all.
07:07Until last night.
07:08At exactly 2.13 a.m.
07:11Someone knocked on my apartment door.
07:13Three times.
07:14Knock.
07:15Knock.
07:16Knock.
07:17I pulled out my phone and checked my security camera.
07:20The hallway outside my apartment was totally empty.
07:23But then, my phone buzzed with a new notification.
07:26Motion detected.
07:28I opened the live camera feed.
07:30And I saw myself.
07:33Standing right outside my own apartment door.
07:35The thing on the screen was staring directly into the camera lens.
07:40Then, that version of me smiled this impossible, terrifying smile.
07:45And it whispered,
07:46Please, let me in.
07:49And the video just ended.
07:51Okay, okay.
07:52And then, someone knocked again.
07:55But this time, from inside my bedroom.
07:57And then, I'll see you next time.
08:01I'll see you next time.
08:01Bye-bye.
08:01Bye-bye.
08:01Bye-bye.
08:01Bye-bye.
08:01Bye-bye.
