Real Encounters

*The Crack in the Cupboard...*

In 2008, a routine visit to my friends farm changed the way i live my life, a life full of paranoia and suspicion. As a preface, i'd like to clarify i was never in any harm, but the antagonist in this story went on to be a registered sex offender around last year.

(Imgur , Replica i found recently, doors are bound because i refused to sleep without it. My best friends was much larger and the doors had a bigger gap between them)

I am Jonas, I was born in 1996 and befriended a life long friend in pre-school, Sammy. This friendship years later would test through a traumatic event in our lives. On the 4th of June, 2008, around 7 days before my birthday, i visited my best friend at his farm. This had become routine over the years, because i rarely ever get to see him as he lives 2 hours away from me.

His parents had left for a dinner date with mine, unfortunately he had no gaming consoles (Back when the Gamecube was the shit) and only had a trampoline and a gameboy colour w/ pokemon, so of-course i was enthralled. Time passes and it is around 9:30 P.M. and he darts off to the bathroom, but frankly i didn't pay attention. I was lying down with the gameboy colour being suspended over my head, i proceeded to adjust my self so i sit with my knees up and my back against the bed's backboard. As i transition seating positions i glanced into the opposing cupboard doors which were in-built, i see a red object quickly pass by the crack in the door. Unfortunately, my best friend wore a red onesie (because we are hard cunts), so i though nothing of it and assumed he crawled to the cupboards while i was so intently focused on the game. For some reason, now that i think of it, this red figure was almost 5"10', and we were a measly 5'4, but this didn't budge my focus.

I became tired of the 4 hour Pokemon binge, so i place the gameboy colour down and crack my neck, as i roll my neck side to side I focus on the crack and see a distinctive facial features, thick eyebrows and wide nostrils (nothing like my friend). But then i heard something that would cause me to brink the verge of a breakdown in tears, my best friend was in the bathroom brushing his teeth...

I was paralysed, i didn't want to make obvious of my immediate panicked state. So i picked up the Gameboy and continued to "pretend" to play it, while at all times glancing to the stream of light through the crack of the cupboard doors. My friend runs in and startles me, my heart races as i see he isn't heading towards the bed, he is sliding along the cupboard doors...

He gets to the crack, and a hand reaches out and drags him in, all i can hear is muffled screams of terror and unrelenting kicks opening the cupboard doors and revealing a ginger boy in his late teens (he was 17 at the time) with his arms wrapped around my friends neck, choking him!

I panicked and started to cry, all i can do is muster a measly throw of the gameboy colour and it manages to hit him in the temple (side of head) and he collapses in a gasp of pain. Clearly dazed and confused, he loosely stumbles out of the room and i hear him fall down the stairs and the big wooden door of the house entry slam shut.

I ran to my friend who is crying and in desperate need for a hand, so i help him up, but he is completely shocked and hyperventilating. So i did what any 12 year old would do, i cried... loudly.

We didn't know the phone numbers of our parents and we had never called the police before, so it never crossed our minds.

Later the parents arrive and i just bolted down the stairs and ran to my dad and hugged him, meanwhile my friend remains up-stairs crying. They call the police, as on their way back they saw someone running through their farm.

The following week we find out it was the neighbour who lived in the farm over. He intended to steal game cartridges for the gameboy colour but had gotten there just as i had arrived. So he waited around 6 hours in the cupboard... watching us, waiting for us to move.

In 2014, he molested a 6 year old child and flashed himself to a group of 14 year old girls at a party he crashed. When i look back and remember his face, he honestly looked like he intended to kill or badly injure my friend, it was just something about his dark, empty eyes. He never confessed to anything other than breaking and entering, and assault. He was let off with a restraining order and never bothered my friend since.

Credits: Reddit, EnthusiasticTaco