The Man in the Walls

Warning. This actually happened to my neighbor and I still get chills thinking about it.

She kept hearing scratching sounds in her walls every night around three AM.

For weeks she thought it was rats or squirrels. She even called an exterminator who found nothing.

But the scratching kept getting louder and more deliberate. Like something was trying to communicate.

One night she decided to record it on her phone. When she played it back the next

morning she heard something that made her blood run cold. Between the scratches there was a voice.

A human voice whispering help me. She called the police immediately. They tore open her

wall and found something impossible. Her previous tenant who supposedly moved out six months ago