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The Hole in My Neighbor’s Garden
Hello to whoever hears this. I’m recording this just to prove I’m not going insane. [chanting from a distance] Please tell me you can hear this. I’ve been living in this hell for a about week now. Here’s my account of the events that took place. My name is [___] I live in [___]. My neighbor, who I’ve never had a chance to talk to in all my 5 years living next door to him, started digging a hole in his garden. All I knew about him from local gossip is that he was a loner. He lost his wife and kid in an accident and now all he had was his alleged pet that never got out of the house. People said he never let his pet outside of the house because he was worried it might run away or get hit by a car and he couldn’t afford losing this one too. Though I never heard a meow or a bark coming from his house during all my 5 years living next to him. Maybe it was a hamster or a rabbit? Anyway, about a week or so, I noticed there was a small rabbit hole in his garden. I thought he was trying to make a playground for his pet maybe, or just working on some project on his garden. I didn’t give it much thought as I always minded my business. This man has been living next to me for 5 years and never once had he come to say hi. I doubt he even knew I moved here after his pervious neighbors left.
But that night, around 1 or 2 in the morning, I heard a great deal of shuffling and digging from outside. I slowly and groggily got up and peeked through the curtains of my window to see my neighbor, still in his pajamas, digging through the rabbit hole more with his shovel. The hole was now wider, I think it could fit a big cat or a small dog maybe. I noticed he stopped digging and stood in his place as if petrified. I don’t know how, but it seems he noticed I was watching him even though he had his back to me. He slowly turned to look at me. He just stood there staring at me for what felt like an eternity. He slowly raised his hand waving at me with a smile. I slowly closed the curtain and returned to my bed. In all honesty, I was very unsettled by this, but I was too exhausted from work and needed to sleep so I didn’t give it much thought and very quickly, I drifted back to sleep. The next day, I woke up still thinking of last night’s “incident”. I got up from my bed and the first thing I did was open the curtains to look at the hole in my neighbor’s garden. My sleepy eyes from last night weren’t imaging things, the hole indeed was now bigger. I tried as hard as I could to focus on work that day, but my mind kept drifting back to the hole. What was he trying to do with all this digging? What was wrong with him, smiling and waving at me like that? I had to stay late for work that day since I was barely productive at all.
I returned home around 11PM and was ready to hit the bed and sleep when I heard it. A faint yet unmistakable sound from a distance, a chanting of some sort. I didn’t know where it was coming from, but my mind immediately returned to the hole. I rushed to my window and slowly opened the curtains to see nothing. But I could still hear the chanting coming from that side. I looked around trying to locate my neighbor, but I couldn’t see him anywhere. Even the lights in his house were off. I thought he was playing some silly prank on me, and I really didn’t like it. The chanting lasted for an hour later before dying out. I stayed in bed trying to fall asleep all the while. The next morning, I was lucky enough to realize it was my day off, so I didn’t have to struggle with unproductivity like yesterday. I got up, a little relaxed and had breakfast. Then, I remembered that damned hole again and the chanting of last night. I looked out my window and realized that the hole has grown even bigger now! It could fit a full-grown man. I went outside to check the hole and I noticed something I hadn’t before. The hole extended down underground, and I couldn’t see all the way down. It was like a tunnel entrance maybe. I decided to knock on my neighbor’s door and ask him about what was going on. I stood there for about five minutes, but no one opened, he wasn’t home.
I turned to leave and I as soon as I turned, I saw him standing in front of me. It was as if he was standing behind me just waiting for me to turn so, I could see him. He just stared at me silently then waved with a smile like the first night. I smiled nervously and waved back at him and left without a word, I couldn’t even remember why I was knocking on his door in the first place. Night came and things got a little more bizarre than before. Around 10PM, I could hear the shoveling and digging noise as the first night, but I paid it no mind. An hour later, I could hear the chanting again followed by wails of pain of sorts. This lasted for about 2 hours, and I tried to ignore the sounds as hard as I could. I didn’t dare to look out the window. After the sounds were done about 2AM, I looked at the window and I swear I could’ve seen some sort of light coming from the hole or tunnel or whatever that madman was making in his garden. It lasted for only a second, like a fire was burning from within. I stammered back in confusion and fright. I then closed the curtains and headed to bed trying to escape this nightmare. When morning came, I decided I didn’t want to spend another day next to this madman. I packed my things and went to a hotel to stay for 2 days to relax. Throughout the 2 days, I was haunted by nightmares about the hole and my neighbor. On the first night, I dreamt I was in my bed paralyzed and my neighbor was standing at the foot of my bed just smiling and waving at me like he did before. I couldn’t move or even scream, and I could barely breathe. On the second night however, I was at his garden, and I could hear the chanting coming from all sides. I looked at the hole and I felt drawn to it as if it was calling out to me. I slowly approached it, and I could see a faint light coming from inside, and the closer I come the brighter the light gets. Then suddenly, all chanting died out and I heard an awful shriek from the hole. I turned to run but my neighbor was standing behind me still wearing that sick smile. He hit me with his shovel, and I fell to the ground. He then approached me and lifted up the shovel to drop it on my head. I woke up in a panic trying to catch my breath. You could say there wasn’t much relaxing as I originally planned, but at least I was spared the weird chanting and the digging sound and that fiery light. I kept wondering what that light was and what caused it. What was down that tunnel he was building? I couldn’t find any answers and I hated how much I was thinking about it. Yesterday I returned to my house, and I saw that the hole was now big enough to fit a small truck. What was he digging all that for? I put my things back in their place, had nice meal and went out for a walk. I began to wonder what happened during the nights I wasn’t home, and whether anyone else in the neighborhood heard any of the chanting of the previous nights.
I returned home around 9PM. I took a shower and cooked myself dinner. I sat at the tv having my meal while enjoying my favorite show. Then I felt it. throughout the week I felt this strange unexplained sense of dread that overtook me before the bizarre occurring of each night began. It was like I saw it coming. I could feel this dread creeping into me, but this time, it was much more terrifying and intense. I could feel it slowly building a panic in me and making it hard for me to breath. Then, all lights flickered, and I felt the house shake. I could hear from outside the chanting again. I ran up to my window and peeked through the curtains. I don’t know how to describe what I saw, but I saw bright fiery light coming from within the tunnel, not just for a second no, it was coming out in a strong blinding aura. I thought this was all very scary and unsettling, but none of it could’ve prepared me for what came next. I saw my neighbor, chanting wildly and holding a cat in his hand, his pet I presumed. He brought the cat into light coming from the hole and held it for a minute while chanting. I heard a child’s crying from within the tunnel then suddenly, a dark huge mass came out of the hole and snatched the cat from his hand. I closed the curtains and hid in my bed covering myself from head to toe like a scared kid. Luckily, the light faded 2 minutes later, and my neighbor stopped his mad chants.
Today I woke up shaken from what I saw last night. I went to the old lady who lived next to us and asked her if I can join her for breakfast. She is a sweet old lady, probably in her late 70s and lives alone. She welcomed me and prepared breakfast for us both. I asked her if she could hear or see anything out of the ordinary for the past few days. I asked her about the hole in our neighbor’s garden and the night digging and chanting. She said she had no idea what I was talking about. She hasn’t heard anything during the night, and she didn’t see any holes or tunnels in his house. I could feel my grip of reality loosen as I heard those words coming out of her mouth. I couldn’t have imagined all this, right? I know what I heard and saw. I thanked her and returned home. I decided to do some research on the chanting I heard, I could make out some of the words he said so I googled them. I wish I was kidding when I say this, but this man was forming a ritual of some kind to a dark being from the underworld to bring back his dead wife and kid. What I read about that ritual made me cry in fear like a 5-year-old. This hole, he was digging a way for the underworld to connect it with ours. What I saw him doing last night, he was offering his pet as a sacrifice. A soul for a soul. I recall hearing a child’s cry. The underworld took the cat and gave him his child again.
I was already horrified and disturbed with that, but then I read something that petrified me. It is said that no one can see the hole or hear the chanting except for the one doing the ritual, and his sacrifices. He’s coming for me; he wants his wife back and he’s throwing me into this dark god forsaken tunnel to have her back. So, here I am. I’m recording this now to have proof of what happened. Either this, or I am going to wake up tomorrow to listen to it and hopefully, the chanting isn’t in the record. Hopefully, I am insane and imaging sounds and lights. Because the alternative is much, much worse. I can feel the dread coming again, but I can’t hear anymore chanting. I can feel presence in the room here with me. I can feel someone’s breathing on my shoulder.
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