When I heard this story as a child, it frightened me so much that I couldn't sleep for several nights...
A young boy was sleeping as usual.
But then he heard footsteps outside his door.
So he quietly opened the door, returned to his bed, and peeked in to see what was happening.
He found a murderer carrying the bodies of his parents.
The murderer had moved his parents onto chairs and
used their blood to write something on the wall.
Then...he quietly hid under the boy's bed.
The little boy was terrified and lost for words.
He couldn't understand the writing on the wall, but he knew the murderer was hiding under his bed!
He began to lie still, feigning sleep.
And in the quiet night, he could hear the murderer's breathing beneath his bed...
An hour passed...
He still kept his eyes closed.
He tried to write something, but he couldn't think of how to write.
Finally, when he finally formed a sentence, he gasped...
A voice from under the bed said, "I know you're still awake..."
waystone