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"It's them! The Government! They're in cahoots with them aliens! You believe me right?! Ya do right?!"
-Basckus
There was this one time, I never really forgot about it. So I'll post it here.
I was up playing Halo 3 at about 3:00 am last summer of 2011. What was I doing? Well that's simple, I was trying to find all the skulls in campaign so that I could unlock the "ninja armer" for aesthetics in multiplayer. Of course as always I was alone inside my room, lights were turned off, the volume of the TV was at the lowest possible (because I didn't want to wake everyone inside the house to the sounds of gunfire) and only the AC unit was making the faintest humming noise.
Anyways, I was close to completing all of the skulls (only the mythic, famine and fog remained) when I suddenly heard this weird noise outside my door. It sounded like my dog walking inside the hallway (which was strange because my dog never went upstairs). I thought maybe she got scared downstairs and decided to walk upstairs to the family rooms.
So I paused the game for awhile and proceeded to my door when suddenly I noticed something different about these tiny footsteps, I would recognize how my dog walks, dogs have four feet so that's four foot sounds on the wooden floor when she's walking. Instead, this had five, FIVE steps. Four with an extra step after the fourth one. I hesitated and went back to playing the game, I thought maybe the noise was just something else.
A few minutes after I found the famine skull, I heard another noise outside my room. It came from my cousin's room. He opened his door, maybe he wanted to go to the bathroom. So I checked, I paused the game again and went to my door. This time I didn't hear my dog walking outside. Neither did I hear any footsteps from my cousin, "Is he gonna prank me?", was my initial thought. So before I opened my door, I took the stapler from my study table and made sure it was loaded (yes it's a bad excuse for a weapon but it had to do), I opened the door and took a peek outside.
There was no one out there, just darkness. And my cousin's door was locked. I felt kinda creeped out so I closed my door and locked it. I sat on my bed and saved my last mission, "I'll just continue this tomorrow". Then I turned off my xbox. As I was about to reach for my TV's remote there was suddenly a black out. "Oh great" I thought to myself. I wasn't afraid of the dark but those noises outside my room tipped me off a little bit.
So I lied down my bed and closed my eyes. There was no more noises, no hum from the AC unit, and no more footsteps outside my door, Just silence. The time was 3:59 am, as it said on my cellphone. Just as I was about to get some Zs I heard a noise outside my door again. This time it sounded like my grandpa walking outside, except he wasn't wearing his night flip-flops, he sounded like he was wearing boots. HEAVY boots. And he was dragging something on the floor.
The hair at my back started standing up, and my feet became sweaty. Whatever was outside was NOT my grandpa, he never woke up this late in the night. Then to my horror, the footsteps stopped outside my door and started scratching with what sounded like a sharp object of some sort.
Okay I didn't like how this was going. So I took my sheets and my pillows and formed a barricade around my bed, well, if you imagine it. It wasn't really a barricade, just some heavy pillows covered with a thick blanket. I went to prone position and listened in to the sound, and to my horror it was still there. I kept listening for what might've been another 30 minutes before I fell asleep.
The next morning, I woke up and ate breakfast with my cousins. All 5 of us apparently heard the same thing. That night, with the exception of them hearing the scratching and the heavy boots.
True story? Well yes. I just enjoy typing that's all.