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I immediately laid eyes upon the old man who had been in the casket, up on his feet staggering in my direction like a zombie, just about 10 feet behind me. His yellow eyes shined like a cat’s in the night and his mouth slowly dropped open as he finished another clumsy step in my direction.

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When she asked him about it, the boy just said, “The man in his ear told him.” Her eyes went wide with creepy suspicion, and she called me on the off chance that I had any knowledge of ESP being an added cause of hearing aids.

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“I saw our dog that had long been dead go to where his food bowl used to be to eat.”

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A strange little shiver crept up my spine at that. He likes the dark. Kids are creepy. Shaking off the feeling, I walked across the room and checked under the bed.

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“Today, Cindy and I ran away and killed an old lady. It was lots of fun.”

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REDRUM could totally be the name of an IKEA bedroom set.

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“My real mom and dad were killed when the bad men came.”

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“He also showed the elders where the murder weapon was found, and upon digging, they did indeed found an axe there.”

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My son from the age of three always tells me about the “creeper man” who lives in my mom and dads bedroom. He brings it up after he visits them. I made the mistake once of asking what he looks like. My son said “Oh, he doesn’t have a face.”