The Tape That Watched Me

I found footage from 1997 that wasn't supposed to exist. My uncle gave me a box of old VHS

tapes before he died, and one was labeled with just a date. November 14th.

When I played it, the screen showed a dark hallway in what looked like an abandoned hospital.

Then I heard breathing. Not from the tape. From behind me. I paused the video and the breathing

stopped. When I hit play again, the camera in the footage turned around

slowly, and standing in that hallway was a figure in a lab coat.

Its face was blurred out, but I could see it was holding something. The same VHS tape

I was watching. Frame by frame, the figure walked closer to the camera until the screen