The Grinning Man: Indrid Cold

They told us Indrid Cold was a myth. A traveler in a navy-blue suit

who appeared on lonely Ohio highways in 1966. He didn’t have a nose,

and his mouth was locked in a smile that was physically impossible for a

human. Witnesses said he didn’t speak with his voice; he spoke directly into

their minds. But the sightings didn't stop in the sixties. Last Tuesday,

a woman in a high-rise downtown saw him standing on the sidewalk, twenty stories below.

He was staring straight up at her window. When she blinked, he was gone

from the street. But then she heard it—a voice inside her head, cold as ice,