routine who hasn't faced this tedious period in their adult life work home homeor there problems you're even worse wife kids when am I going to sleep isn't retirement the only way but fortunately in recent months I have built myself a convenient schedule called work at night it's great you work when everyone is at home and when you come back from a shift everyone has already left the wife to work children in kindergarten in school and so on in a circle what could be better at first I thought I w
as in Paradise you sleep after work no one interferes but in the last 10 days things started to go wrong as soon as I close my eyes someone's old grumbling muttering sometimes coughing and wheezing starts coming from behind the wall and it feels as if the source of the sounds lives not in the neighboring apartment but right here in the other room I've tried everything sleep kits headphones sleeping pills alcohol nothing helps the disgusting old man seems to be in my head and follows me everywher
e I complain to my shift manager at work he asked me what's the matter why do I come to work like a wreck he moed me at first but then he gave me a solution he said he knew a woman who removes spoil and evil eye she says you have a bad aura in your apartment and I think what if it's really from the old owners I don't know if someone died in their apartment or what's the worst someone was murdered anyway I take the phone number of This Whispering grandmother I invite while there is no one at home
I do not want my wife to think that I have gone cuckoo so the grandmother arrives walked around the house and then her eyes as goggle she looked looks somewhere in the void as if she sees something at first she is silent and then she starts swearing in a language that is not ours I said what's wrong she's swearing at me she put on her boots and walked out the door without even taking any money well I think and I live here in time I even got used to the strange sounds in my apartment I never sle
pt a Restless Slumber nothing more my body had worn down to the point where I began to hallucinate I've seen the person who keeps me awake several times it's a nasty old grandfather his skin is wrinkled there's a nasty hump on his back his face is Twisted always disgruntled his eyes are empty his teeth are gone just rotten debris sticking out of his mouth I've never seen a more unpleasant creature in my life the first meeting was painless I opened my eyes and saw the old troll strolling in into
the kitchen I could see him clearly he didn't seem to care about me he was slowly dragging a fixed leg behind him it was perpetually straight and clearly shorter than the other the other leg however he managed quite brisly the old man went into the kitchen gulped down a glass of water and returned to the living room he grumbled some more then snored I thought about finding something heavy to knock the troll out but I couldn't get out of bed it was like I was paralyzed have you ever felt like tha
t my back felt like it was stuck to the mattress I fell asleep before I knew it I only woke up when my wife and children came home the troll had traditionally disappeared I didn't tell my family they wouldn't believe me and they'd put me in The Nut House the next encounter was no less creepy I woke up to someone sniffing me I gingerly opened my eyes it was him the creepy old man he touched my face with his rotten nostrils I jerked but felt a sharp pain in my back and paralysis throughout my body
I couldn't even scream everything was cramped the old man looked at me drooled cursed under his breath and waddled away from my room I had time to study his outfit I recognized the old Mon's clothes as my own only tattered yellowed and in some places ragged the bastard got into my closet I thought at the time turns out it was completely different I got the clue again at work this time it was a conversation with the in-house psychologist I admit I used to laugh at him saying why do men need a ps
ychologist in the shop he came to me himself a young guy thin always in a white shirt and tie Andre he said you're not yourself I've been watching you for weeks what's the matter do you drink a lot and then I told him everything where can I go if he makes a bad recommendation it'll get pissed on anyway he listened to me I thought had laugh he didn't your old troll is nothing more than a figment of your imagination said the psychologist you created him in your head what about in my head he's quit
e real I can see him I can hear the noise he makes and you says the psychologist try to talk to him to your heart's content I wake up again in a cold sweat there's this monster sitting next to me on the bed rocking back and forth that's how skitso calm down I've heard who are you I said to him without moving and then he looked at me and I finally saw his eyes and in them I saw his story and strangely enough it resembled mine but it had a fictional ending the old man is abandoned left all alone h
e doesn't go anywhere he's alone slowly going mad a sad story with no happy ending I felt sorry for the old man I am crying stop I look at his face again is it me the old man sitting on the edge of the bed is my image in the future apparently I am destined to spend my old day alone they love you I shouted to my grandfather he looked up lights of Hope sparkled in them you yourself rejected them I continued why a tear ran down the old Mon's cheek he waddled slowly away from the room hey I called o
ut to him grandfather stopped it'll make it up to you Grandpa didn't even turn around he nodded silently and walked on slowly disappearing behind the wall I fell asleep the old man never came back I wasn't home alone anymore though I changed jobs changed schedules I bought flowers for my wife and cake for my children now I see my family every day I spend a lot of time with them and on weekends we go out of town together I never saw my grandfather again but if he came back I would shake his hand
heartily after all it was he who helped me to rethink my life to realize what really has value in it hey thanks old troll today Mom and Dad have to go to the movies and leave me alone in all my 10 years this will be the first time usually if my parents were going somewhere without me I was taken to my grandmother's house or my mom's friends but now I am an adult I have long dreamed of being home alone to have a party like in the movies or just turn up the the music at full volume yes so that the
neighbors on the heads knocked I am a quiet girl but when parents are not around I can easily become a rebel my classmates at school were convinced of that evening came my mom instructed me for the thousandth time that knives cannot touch turn on the water and leave the room cannot dabble with the light and various techniques to cannot I understood that because I didn't want to burn down the house on such a beautiful evening my dad told me to listen to my mom my parents kissed me on the top of
my head and gave me a big hug and remember don't open the door for anyone those were their last words after which they left the apartment closing the door from the outside behind them finally my hour has come I am all alone in these walls of the house as soon as my parents left the first thing I did was turn on the music and started jumping on the couch throwing pillows and in different directions not even a minute later there was a knock on the front door I thought it was my parents forgetting
something at home so I hurriedly turned off the music and ran to the door when I got to the wooden structure I remembered my mom's words so I looked through the pee pole before I turned the key when I looked through the peole I didn't see anyone I must have heard it I thought it was the first time it ever stayed at home and anything could be heard I didn't turn on the music again instead I decided to turn on my favorite cartoon on the TV while I was looking for my favorite cartoon I heard someth
ing fall in the bathroom from Surprise I turned my head sharply and grabbed at the Plaid that was lying to my left you could read the fear in my eyes I made up my mind and tiptoed into the bathroom there was a cup of toothbrushes scattered on the floor I looked around and saw no one and started picking the brushes off the floor as I bent down to put everything back in its place shampoo started falling from the shelves into the bathtub in the same room I was scared out of my mind Mommy I screamed
in Fright hurriedly I ran out of the bathroom and found myself back in the living room all that evening I avoided that room and to calm myself I went to the kitchen and decided to make myself some tea as I took out a teapot bag from the kitchen range I jerked violent ly and carelessly knocked the entire box of tea over on top of me this happened because I heard the clear angry barking of a dog accompanied by a ferocious growl this caused me to press myself to the floor covering my ears with my
hands when the sound subsided I continued to be in the kitchen suddenly the TV turned on abruptly to an evil satisfying laugh a I screamed as loud as I could my whole head was filled with thoughts of why me why this particular night when I was alone for a couple more minutes there was interference from the iron behind the wall as if someone was playing with the antenna on the roof later there was silence my eyes were wet and I began to remember the days when I stayed with my grandmother with who
m we played warmly watched cartoons and ate her pies rubbing my eyes with my hands I timidly stepped outside the threshold of the kitchen it seemed as if it was all over and had never begun I went to the TV as soon as possible pulled the plug from the socket adjusted the cushions on the couch put the toys in their places and sat on the chair looking around I looked for my favorite toy a plush Bunny with a green bow around his neck looking around I couldn't find him anywhere forgetting about the
whole situation earlier I wanted to go to my room as suddenly behind my back there was a fierce Screech of a cat as if its tail was run over by a car I didn't turn around this time but a couple seconds later I felt a sharp intake of breath on my neck without looking back I flew to my bed and it happened so fast that I forgot to turn on the light I always had a nightlight by my bed and with trembling hands I tried to find a light switch but it wasn't there Mommy Daddy I said it almost hystericall
y but I couldn't cry loud enough to hear all The Sounds please come back was my most important wish which was almost literally ready to save my life under the bed I heard a dog whimpering my body was showered with goosebumps from fear and I clutched at the blanket as if it was my only salvation at that moment I slowly covered myself tucking the blanket under my limbs so that no one and nothing could get under my Fortress covering myself with a blanket I squeezed my eyes shut the dog stopped whim
pering instead it crawled out from under the bed claws clattering on the parquet floor and ran toward the kitchen as if it were about to be fed a fresh piece of meat and indeed at that moment a wonderful Aroma began to smell from the kitchen the aroma of food it was as if Mom was standing at the stove now cooking her signature chicken in the oven pulling the blanket down to eye level I looked out into the hallway hoping to see nothing the light bulb that illuminated the eye-catching area began t
o flicker the atmosphere was heating up as was the bulb itself after a few flickers it burst right before my eyes I reflexively covered myself with a blanket as if the shards of glass wouldn't reach me through the cloth the whole thing looked like a balloon burst before my eyes as I lay under the blanket I could hear the pounding of my racing heartbeat I felt out of breath like I had run a world track and field championship as my physiological rhythms returned to normal my ears began to ring fro
m the silence at that very second that nasty squeak was interrupted by light Strokes on my body a hand approached my head and a woman's voice filled the silence hi my first thought was Mom the sounds of static on the radio spread through the room the woman began to choke me with fear I woke up
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