Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark

Don't Answer the Phone Call at 3:00 am

When I was little my mother used to tell me about strange things that happened to her at night. At first I didn't understand what she meant that day but until I got older I understood everything to be exact, those are the memories I've buried in my mind at that time, and still, it was surreal for me to think that my memories of her aren't easy to fade.

I have lived in the apartment for 4 years now, My cousin occupied it for me to stay there and live as long as I want. I lived for my own sake without parents depending on me or anybody in between. I an orphaned when I was 8 years old my father left my mom when she got pregnant with me, and my mother died for an unexplained reason. One of my aunts told me that mom died because she was possessed by an evil spirit they called Satan. It was really disturbing to hear when after I became an adult I started searching for that thing and it shocked me to read that information about that evil demon. As we can see we're kids at that time and anything keeps on appearing in our minds specially when we're small enough to know everything.

My Aunt raised me until I was 18 years old, things weren't good enough for the both of us because when I made a little mistake she just beat me up to death knowing that I always did everything to make her happy. But Instead of hating her I just endured and suffered as a sign of thanking her for letting me stay.

When I was 20 years old I started to live on my own. Applying for jobs to earn money and to satisfy my needs. I was thankful when my cousin on my mom's side offered me this apartment to live in, he said I wouldn't worry for the apartment fees since I've been good to him and he just lent it to me for free without paying any money. I hug him so tight and thank him for at last I finally end my suffering with my Aunt and I wouldn't live with her house anymore. I thought she'd confront me if I'd leave but she just said it's better if I left her house because I don't do anything good in her life. Hearing those words from her shredded my heart into pieces but instead of grieve and hatred I'd rather thank and pay her money in exchange for raising me.

I've been 24 years old now and things weren't easy for me cuz I had to find a job to earn and buy food every day. I started to get lonely in my apartment without having any friends or a person to stay there with me. I don't plan to have a girlfriend at my age since love isn't my thing yet. The only thing that keeps me entertained is chatting with my cousin and playing games on my phone. I thought my life would be just in peace when suddenly I felt strange things at night.

One time when I was about to sleep, it was 10:00 pm I still remember the time cuz I always checked the time before I sleep. It was indeed my routine to look first at what time it was before I could go to bed. When I was walking towards my bed I heard 3 knocking sounds on the door, It's about 3 tap sounds. I was wondering who would visit me at this hour. I didn't hesitate to open the door at all maybe it was just a neighbor next to my apartment but for a fact my body froze to open it when the knocking sound came very intriguing. The first knock sound was calm also the second knock started to knocked so loudly as if it wanted to break my door. I was frightened and I couldn't move that time it felt like I'd been hit by a brick or something.

I didn't even bother to open the door and just let whoever doing that, I was just thinking that someone just wanted to scare me knowing that I was all alone living here. I started to sleep and ease my mind for a bit until I found myself waking up suddenly when I heard my phone ring with a rock song ringtone. I immediately took it and surprised to see that someone was calling and it was an unknown caller, I answered it and said hello but the other line didn't respond I even asked who is this but the caller wasn't speaking. I was mad to think that someone just pranked me in the middle of the night waking me up without saying anything, I was about to hang up until I heard a cracked voice.

"I can see you," he said with a disturbing laugh

I started to freeze and my hands were trembling even my heart started to beat fast. His voice can make me look afraid and faltered.

"Who are you?, How did you know my number?"

"You're on your bed looking so scared right now"

My mind went black when he said those. I couldn't even think of who I was calling but this time I wasn't happy this person might be prank calling me.

"WTF man!, don't play jokes on me I wasn't happy with your shitty prank waking me up. Get a life dude don't ever trynna make me curse on you"

I didn't even know how that bravery came up to me, but I was indeed scared and I didn't know if I was talking to an insane person right now.

"Hehehe, you'll soon see me," he said and ended the call.

What does he mean I'll see him soon?

My hands still trembling when I saw what time it was, It was 3:00 am. Once you've woken up at this hour you'll encounter him that's one of the information I remember when I searched for that devil on Google. After what happened I started to feel like I was being watched, I didn't even woke up at night and always slept early. I even call up my cousin to sleep with me every night but if he doesn't have time to come to the apartment I'm the one who will go there just to be with him.

He asked me what happened but I didn't tell him and just told that I wasn't comfortable sleeping all alone, he believed anyway and he was easy to convince. It was too bad for me not to tell him the truth about what I've experienced in his apartment so I just kept it a secret just for me.

I always feel scared every time I remember that day, Now I know what my mom felt when she told me that she felt strange things when I was little cuz I've experienced it myself and it was indeed an awful experience of my life.

The next day as I was heading off to work. I saw the old woman sitting at the roadside she was staring at me with rage in her eyes, she was homeless but that didn't catch my attention at first. I was surprised and my heart started to pound when I read the cardboard she was holding. It clearly says "Don't answer the phone call at 3:00 am."

~The End