My findings
Not in my entire life have I ever considered such a turn of events involving me to take place, after all, I thought I was just a nobody. Forgettable, lonely, plain, boring that's all I ever considered my life to be. That was until I started studying the drastic change of events that took possession of me and my life. The "Charybdis" is what I called it. The anomaly, the phenomenon, the masked figure. It was about 2 months ago since I realised it had been watching me through my window as I typed out the script for my new video essay. At first I was terrified, I closed the curtains and flicked off all the lights as I thought this person had been stalking me, planning to sneak in and rob the place, and even kill me. But that never happened. I waited in bed fearing for my life, but I didn't hear anyone enter the house, I was safe. Was I just seeing things? No, they returned the next night, only for me to be completely unharmed and my house untouched as usual. As the days went by, I would always catch a glimpse of the strange person, staring up at me? I couldn't be too sure, as my room is upstairs so I have to look down to see them. Their eyes were impossible to make out because of the strange mask they wore. A cat mask? That's why the first night I saw them, I was convinced they were a robber hiding their identity, but I was wrong. After all, this "person" wasn't really a person at all. I recalled how people move, people talk, people breathe. It didn't do any of these things. It just stood still, not a single shift in movement. During that same month, I went to the shops, relatives houses, libraries ect. On the way I would always seem to see the masked figure standing on the sidewalk, standing next to street lights, standing next to signs, never walking. Why doesn't it walk? Beats me. When I made it to my aunts house, I explained to her why I was so nervous and on edge. She didn't believe a single thing I said about the masked figure, but why should she? It sounds crazy, a masked non-human that watches you and never moves or hurts you? That's something straight out of folklore. She advised I see a psychologist or something, but I've never been so certain about anything. The figure is real, I see it every night. I see it right now as I write this. It's just standing there on the sidewalk, I'm peeking through the curtain so I don't alert it of my acknowledgment, but it's there, there's no doubt about that.
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The Charybdis
HorrorHorror story about the cryptid that watches and causes false memory