1. A young girl is playing in her bedroom when she hears her mother call to her from the kitchen, so she runs downstairs to meet her mother. As she's running through the hallway, the door to the cupboard under the stairs opens, and a hand reaches out and pulls her in. It's her mother. She whispers to the child, "Don't go into the kitchen. I heard it too."
2. It has been reported that some victims of torture, during the act, would retreat into a fantasy world from which they could not wake up. In this catatonic state, the victim lived in a world just like their normal one, except they weren’t being tortured. The only way that they realized they needed to WAKE UP was a note they found in their fantasy world. It would tell them about their condition, and tell them to WAKE UP. Even then, it would often take months until they were ready to discard their fantasy world and PLEASE WAKE UP.
3. One school day, a boy named Tom was sitting in class and doing math. It was six more minutes until after school. As he was doing his homework, something caught his eye.
His desk was next to the window, and he turned and looked to the grass outside. It looked like a picture. When school was over, he ran to the spot where he saw it. He ran fast so that no one else could grab it.
He picked it up and smiled. It had a picture of the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. She had a dress with tights on and red shoes, and her hand was formed into a peace sign.
She was so beautiful he wanted to meet her, so he ran all over the school and asked everyone if they knew her or have ever seen her before. But everyone he asked said "No." He was devastated.
When he was home, he asked his older sister if she knew the girl, but unfortunately she also said "No." It was very late, so Tom walked up the stairs, placed the picture on his bedside table and went to sleep.
In the middle of the night Tom was awakened by a tap on his window. It was like a nail tapping. He got scared. After the tapping he heard a giggle. He saw a shadow near his window, so he got out of his bed, walked toward his window, opened it up and followed the giggling. By the time he reached it, it was gone.
The next day again he asked his neighbors if they knew her. Everybody said, "Sorry, no." When his mother came home he even asked her if she knew her. She said "No." He went to his room, placed the picture on his desk and fell asleep.
Once again he was awakened by a tapping. He took the picture and followed the giggling. He walked across the road, when suddenly he got hit by a car. He was dead with the picture in his hand.
The driver got out of the car and tried to help him, but it was too late. Suddenly he saw the picture and picked it up.
He saw a cute girl holding up three fingers.
4. My wife had lost the baby.
We were pretty far along at the time. The doctors were calling it a freak accident.
I was devastated, almost psychotic.
My wife was having a hard time adjusting too. I tried everything- therapy, the hard truth- nothing worked. I found a baby doll for her to care for.
She cuddled that baby doll like it was her own. She swaddled it, bathed it...even pretended to breast feed it. I was worried that this was going too far. I tried to take the fake baby away one night, but she screamed and howled at me, nearly scratching my eyes out. It nearly broke my heart.
"Don't touch my baby!" she spat, holding the bundle closer to her body.
I was going to have to do something drastic.
While she was sleeping, I snuck into the "baby's" room and stole the doll. I couldn't just throw it away (she'd find it), so I threw it in the fireplace. It burned quickly, the fire licking over the dolls clothes. From upstairs, I heard my wife scream "Where's my baby?" I looked back down to the fireplace.
Sitting atop the embers, I could see a tiny skeleton engulfed in flames.
