🎬 PART 1: "Turn everything off" - Full Story

Arthur’s face was illuminated by a harsh, cold blue light. Cold sweat beaded on his forehead, carving deep lines into his wrinkled, weathered skin.

"You're scaring me," Arthur whispered, his voice shaking with growing dread.

"JUST DO IT!" the voice roared through the receiver.

Driven by pure adrenaline, Arthur sprinted across the dark lawn of the suburban American house. The pitch-black night swallowed everything except for a faint, eerie light casting from the porch. Gasping for air, he rushed up the wooden steps and burst through the front door.

Inside, the house was drowning in shadows. Without turning on a single light, Arthur headed straight for the narrow, wooden attic staircase. His heavy footsteps echoed aggressively through the silent house as he bolted up the steps. Reaching the top, he slammed the attic door shut and locked it tight.

Breathing heavily, Arthur leaned against the door, trying to catch his breath in the suffocating darkness.

Then, a chilling sensation crept up his spine.

Arthur turned around and pressed his eye against the thin vertical gap in the wooden door to look outside. At first, he saw what appeared to be a normal human eye staring back. But within a split second, the eye turned wildly bloodshot and began to glow a vivid, menacing red.

It wasn't human. It was a nightmare entity with pale, distorted skin and an impossibly wide, malicious grin, staring directly at him through the crack.

The attic suddenly turned pitch-black. The cold blue light flickered violently as Arthur backed away, trapped. His eyes widened in absolute terror, his mouth agape. A blood-curdling, desperate scream tore from his throat before the darkness completely consumed him.