Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark

Sleep Talking

I have a secret that only me and my wife know, I've been talking to my sleep every time I slept late at night it wasn't a random gibberish or something unnatural to say it's just a part of a strange metamorphosis I've been experiencing since I was young.

I experience unusual dreams whenever I close my eyes and believe me or not it's not a fantasy or some incredible dreams everyone dreams of but a terrifying voice whenever I fall asleep. My wife seems scared of me in the morning. She told me she couldn't get any sleep at all, she even asked me if I was doing something odd or maybe if I was dreaming anything peculiar. I told her I didn't and I was having the best sleep in my entire life.

At first, she didn't believe me, I thought she was not joking at all but she confessed and told me what she heard when I was sleeping. My wife mentioned a crime scene, like those you see in the movies or sometimes in real life. She said I was muttering a description of a crime, it wasn't just a crime but a brutal one that shivers her all night.

I remembered I didn't dream about that at all, I was totally confused. She was so serious and focused on explaining everything she heard but I just ignored it. When night came she was expecting me to sleep and talk again, I just shrugged and told her nothing was gonna happen and just didn't mind about it, we both slept last night, and then morning came when I saw her scrolling through her phone.

She had dark circles under her eyes as if she didn't sleep a wink last night. She kept on scrolling until she noticed that I was already awake.

"Honey, why are you awake early?"

"I didn't sleep" She put her phone on the table and avoided looking at me. "I've been hearing your sleep talking it almost makes me sick."

"What do you mean?" My eyebrows furrowed.

"Honey, I heard you talking about a young girl who was forced to have sex with 45 guys and got killed after that, you even said that you were responsible for her death. I don't know if that's true or not, do you even dream about that stuff?."

I don't have any idea what my wife was talking about, I was shocked and didn't believe her at all.

"Of course not, why would I even say those?."

"Believe me, I'm not joking around. I knew what I heard. You were explaining it in your sleep, every detail of it." She then yells at me and leaves.

I tried explaining everything to her that it was just her imagination and I was not even sleep-talking She even insisted on recording it at night so she had proof she was telling the truth. I was feeling uneasy about this until one night came, my wife and I slept early in the evening she was so tired and couldn't sleep properly because of me, I felt bad but then when my eyes became heavy I closed my eyes and fell asleep.

I woke up seeing my wife so stunned when she saw me awake. She moved away from me and started screaming like crazy. She had eye bags and her hair was messed up, you could tell she hadn't slept well last night again.

"Leave me alone, don't come any closer" she yelled at me. "You're not my husband."

"Honey it was me" I was surprised by her behavior, I couldn't believe she's been acting this strange.

"I heard you last night, I heard you!" She then runs off the door dropping her phone on the floor.

I tried to stop her but she stormed off so quickly and drove away. I was so stressed out. What did I even do to deserve this? I couldn't contact her because she forgot to bring her phone, I then decided to call her parents. After twice calling them in line, they finally answered.

"Carl? Is it you on the phone?" Her mother-in-law answered.

"Yes Mom, is Anna there? She left just when I woke up, I can't believe she just did that. I just woke up"

"She's here, she doesn't want to come home for now."

"Why?"

"She said you weren't her husband, did you do something to her?" The voice of her mother-in-law was anxious.

I was about to talk when she already ended the call, I tried calling their number again but I was blocked by their contacts. What the hell was going on? I pulled my hair, my wife just left me just like that. Like I'm some kind of a monster.

I caught a glance at my wife's phone, I immediately picked it up and opened it, the record app was opened, and there was a standard record that was recorded last night. I remember she would record me while I was sleeping, I was nervous to play it but I did it anyway.

In the voice recorder, I heard my breathing, I was breathing heavily as if I was not sleeping at all. I started to mutter some words out of the blue. "I'll kill my wife, I'll kill my wife, I'll kill my wife" all over and over again. My hands were shaking and I was trembling nervously. I could even hear my wife sobbing while recording my voice.

Then there's another word I'm talking about that sends shivers through my core. "I'll kill her in the most horrifying way possible. I'll chop off her head and her limbs and eat it." Then after that, the voice was already stopped my wife was telling the truth, she was horrified by what she heard last night it affected her sleep.

I was about to go to my mother-in-law's house to apologize to my wife. I was walking through the door and all of a sudden I caught a glimpse of myself in the mirror. I turned over to look and was shocked to see me as a different person, I had this big scar on my face no wonder why my wife was so shocked to see me. I then switched into a completely different person, I can't control my own body anymore, but I can see what he was doing. He was grinning in the mirror and I saw his horrifying face.

He then spoke a word "I'll take care of your wife from now on" My body then walked into the car and drove. That's when I knew where he was heading, he would go to my mother-in-law's house. He was coming for my wife, please Anna wherever you are stay away from me I'm not in my body anymore, I can't control myself anymore.

~The End