If You Hear One Bell at Midnight, Don’t Celebrate

Every New Year’s Eve, one bell rings that isn’t celebrating. It hangs in a forgotten

church no one uses anymore. The rope was cut decades ago. The doors are sealed.

But at exactly midnight… the bell still rings. Not twelve times. Not for joy. Just once.

Locals say the bell isn’t marking the new year. It’s counting someone who won’t survive

it. Every year after the bell rings, one name disappears from the town registry.

No obituary. No explanation. Just an empty space where a life used to be.

Old records show something worse. The bell always rings from the same direction.

Closest to whoever hears it the clearest. So if you hear a single bell at midnight tonight…