he visits again, you should not ask him more than
two questions, otherwise he will haunt you”, the
girl said.
After these words, his alarm clock went off and
woke him up. It was nothing but a bad dream. Yet,
he felt weird. He tried to get this feeling out of him
because he had a lot of work to do.
After another tiring day he returned home. He
decided to forget all about the previous night.
After all, it was just a nightmare, a Halloween
nightmare. At midnight he went to his bedroom
and he saw the boy standing at the same spot, just
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a few meters away from him, looking again out of
the window.
“Are you KnownMark?” he asked.
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The story of KnownMark “Yes”, the little boy answered.
I “I was going to school and a drunk driver hit
t was a dark stormy Halloween night. Mike
hadn’t been trick or treating for almost ten years.
He was exhausted. He could barely feel his feet so
when he returned home, he went straight to bed.
He fell asleep immediately. Suddenly a weird
noise disturbed his dreams. He opened his eyes but
he couldn’t move. He was sleep paralyzed. A little
boy was standing in front of him looking outside
the window. He tried to call for help but it was
impossible. He tried to reach his phone; however, it
was too late. The boy was approaching him slowly.
And then he saw the most terrifying thing in the
world: a huge bloody mark on the boy’s head. Oh
no! The boy was so close to him that he could feel his
breath on his cheeks. At the blink of his eye, the boy
disappeared. But then he heard a girl talking to him.
“You saw him, didn’t you?” asked the little girl.
“I don’t know what you are talking about”, he
replied with a trembling voice.
“You saw him! You saw KnownMark. I have to
warn you about something really important. When
“What happened to your face?”
me”.
“And where are your paren…..”, but before he
finished his question, the boy disappeared again.
At first, he didn’t want to go to sleep. He was too
afraid. But after some time he couldn’t help it.
The next morning he had a presentiment that
nothing would be the same again. He told his
boss that he was sick. He locked the doors and the
windows and even bought an app for his phone
that could videotape anything whenever there was
a sound. Then he fell asleep. The next morning he
couldn’t believe that he hadn’t been haunted by
KnownMark. That was until he checked his phone
and he saw that there were 500 recordings. The
first 400 were of breath sounds. But the last ones
were really terrifying. Footsteps were heard from
upstairs, although he was on the highest floor of
the building. His chair was moving. Someone was
opening and closing the window. The last video was
unbelievably shocking. KnownMark was over him
watching him sleep. Then the boy looked directly
at the camera and drew something on Mark’s chest.
Mike terrified went in front of the mirror and took
off his shirt. He saw a huge scratch that was getting
bigger and bigger and bigger …
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