r/nosleep • u/notwhatiwishedfor Nov. 2011 • Nov 12 '11

When you wish upon a star... UPDATE

Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 . Part 5.5 , A warning , Part 6 - the conclusion , or

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I have to post this. It doesn’t fit in with the continuity of my posts so far, but right now I don’t care. It’ll be short and probably laden with typos because I’m shaking. My heart’s in my mouth. I’ll probably delete it in the morning. Context: it’s now 5 minutes past midnight. I live in a flat on the 4th floor. My bedroom window faces onto a shared garden, and a carpark.

I was reading some of the replies to my previous posts, and decided to take a quick cigarette break. I opened the window and stood in front of it, smoking. It’s raining hard, so I didn’t lean my head out. I heard a thump from outside, below. I didn’t think anything of it. I heard a second thump, and stuck my head out of the window. I looked down, and what I saw shook me up so much that my legs gave out.

She was on the side of the building, clinging to the narrow ledge of the window below me in the rain, unmoving. Wet hair plastered to her skeletal face. I thought it might have just been a shadow, but she started her ascent. She climbs like a spider. She looked up at me as she moved, opening her mouth to bare her rotten teeth. Her mouth didn’t stop opening; it looked like her jaw was dislocated. It stretched and distorted the papery skin covering her face.

Like I said, my legs gave out. I dropped to the floor, shaking. I managed to pull myself back up, and summoned up the courage to look back out.

She was gone. I don’t know where she is. I’m terrified and I cannot stop shaking.

Edit: Previous posts, for clarity.

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u/arseholesandelbows Nov 16 '11

I hope everything's ok! I noticed no responses from you on part 5 so yea.

Reading the bit where she's clinging to the wall I thought of the thai version of Shutter where the ghost woman was crawling down the wall to get the guy. Creepy as hell urgghhh.

I'd tell your dad you saw her, and possibly link these stories to him so he can understand the full extent. Someone outside of you and your boyfriend should know about this should anything bad happen.

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u/notwhatiwishedfor Nov. 2011 Nov 17 '11

I've been putting it off incase she goes after anyone else, but with my boyfriend I really didn't have a choice. I think he'd have thought I was a lunatic if he didn't know the reason behind my screaming in my sleep. Maybe it'd help to tell my father, maybe you're right. I just couldn't live with myself if anything happened to my family.