"It's Behind You!"

One night I was staying at a friend's house named Edward. That night around 23:30 PM we were telling stories that happened to us when we were young. Actually, the story is not specific to one topic, we just chat according to the flow of the conversation. At that time the story stopped at the horror story experienced by Edward when he was a child.

He said that when his family had gone to bed, he was still awake because he was engrossed in playing video games. As he was playing, he suddenly heard footsteps coming from the top of the stairs to the bottom. Edward ignored it because he thought it was one of his family members who wanted to go to the bathroom.

When the time was 23:35 PM, Edward still heard the footsteps as if the person walking on the stairs never reached the bottom or the top. Then, as his curiosity grew, he made sure who it was. He called out all of his family, "Mom...? Dad...? Ellie...?". But there was no answer. Edward then hid into the blanket leaving the video games still on. From inside the video games, there was a laughing sound from the game character that was being played. However, the more attention the laughing voice changed from the voice of a child to an old man with a heavy voice, "Ha..ha..ha...Edwa-". Suddenly hearing his name being mentioned, Edward pressed the off button on the remote.

She grew increasingly frightened as she called out for her mother and father, but they did not come out. Then, she tried to sleep by wearing a headset on her head to calm herself down. It still didn't work, as Edward's disturbance intensified that night.

There was a knock on his bedroom window that led to a garden filled with flowering bushes. Trying to get up the courage, Edward looked through the blanket he had opened. What he saw left him speechless. He saw the figure of a grandfather wearing peasant clothes and carrying a blood-soaked knife in his left hand. The grandfather's eyes gradually began to turn towards Edward who was inside the blanket with a glaring gaze and an angry face. The grandfather's face was already disfigured, only his eyes were red and his mouth was gaping. The grandfather approached Edward with a figure that was originally just a shadow gradually becoming solid. The grandfather said, "Ed- Edward... What happened to me? Help me!" Walking while dragging his feet, his figure became even more terrifying.

Edward became helpless as if he couldn't even scream. When the grandfather's hand pointed towards his face under the blanket, he saw the figure of a little girl wearing a pure white dress. She looked beautiful, but he didn't know who she was. The incident confused him even more.

About 5cm away from his face, the grandfather's hand looks even more creepy and disgusting. Edward was already looking very limp and still couldn't move. Then he felt a sudden blackout until he finally realized that he was on his mother's lap.

Edward told me the story with such expression that it made me a little affected. Then, since it was already 1:35 AM, we both went to bed. Edward slept on the 2nd bunk bed, while I was underneath him. Edward fell asleep right away, and I was also getting sleepy. While facing the window, there was a childhood photo of Edward with his family, there was his mother, his father, and then Ellie who was about 5 years old. I laughed a little because I saw Edward as a toddler on his mother's lap. However, I realized that in the photo there was one little boy who looked older than Ellie, maybe around 7 years old. Also in the background quite far away was a grandfather who was walking towards them. Then I said, "Who is that...?". Suddenly there was a heavy voice from behind me, "That was me, Eddie."