Bizarre Bedtime Stories: Something Is Wrong With Mirrors Ep. 5

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Tonight, we're staring into something that most of us have
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in our homes. Something we walk past every single day
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without giving it a second thought. Until it's dark. Until
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the room is quiet. And until you catch your reflection
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out of the corner of your eye. And, for just
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a split second, something feels off. Mirrors. There's something unsettling
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about them, isn't there? Maybe it's the way they show
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up exactly what's standing in front of them or the
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way a reflection can look just a little strange in
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low light. Maybe it's the thought that if you stare
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long enough, your own face might start to look like
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someone else's. First centuries, mirrors have been tied to superstition, death, witchcraft,
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and the supernatural. People have covered them after someone dies,
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avoid looking into them at night, and believed they could
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act as doorways between our world and something we can't explain.
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Some legends warn that mirrors can trap souls. Others suggest
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that something on the other side might be watching us
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right back. Now, whether you believe any of that or not,
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there's a reason mirrors have become such a staple of
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horror stories. They take something completely ordinary and make it
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feel unfamiliar. You know what you're supposed to see in
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the glass? But what happens when you see something you
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can't explain? So tonight, we're diving into creepy mirror superstitions,
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strange encounters, and stories that might make you think twice
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before glancing at your reflection in the middle of the night.
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Because sometimes the scariest thing about looking in a mirror
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isn't what you see staring back at you. It's the
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possibility that you're not the only one looking. So grab
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your pillow and blanket and get comfortable and settle in
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for the night. And remember... If you happen to look
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in the mirror tonight, try not to stare for too long.
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You never know what might stare back. Happy nightmares. Our
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first story of the night is I Don't Like Mirrors.
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I don't like mirrors. It's not something new. Since I
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was a kid, something about them creeped me out. Maybe
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it's because of an irrational fear of the reflection not
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being exactly like the image it is reflecting. as if
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it would show some sort of doppelganger, or maybe it's
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because they look like doors to other universes. Sounds stupid,
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I know. But let me tell my story. I have
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always felt that what is being reflected is not me.
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I don't know why. There is just something wrong with
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the thing that stands in front of me when I
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stay for a bit looking at my reflection that makes
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me feel extremely uncomfortable. I can perceive evil in that
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piece of glass. But that feeling of uneasiness changed to
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complete horror since that day. It was three years ago
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today in late November. I remember almost every breath I
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exhaled that night. I had just finished dinner after a
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long day in the office and my eyes were almost
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closing by themselves. I needed some rest so I went
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to the bathroom to brush my teeth. While brushing my teeth,
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I looked outside through the bathroom's window. The night was
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as dark as coal and a charming full moon was
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rising from behind the trees in the woods nearby my house.
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I just got lost into my own thoughts and came
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back to reality a few minutes later, realizing I had
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been brushing the same area over and over again during
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my daydream, so my focus returned to what I was doing.
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When I was about to rinse my teeth, I noticed
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something weird. My reflection in the mirror did not turn
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when I stared at myself. It was already looking at me.
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It just happened for a fraction of a second, but
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I can almost guarantee it was staring at me. My
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blood froze. I did not move for a few seconds,
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then decided to shake my head to see if the
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reflection does the same movement, and it did. It must
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be that I'm just too tired, I said to myself
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and went to bed. I thought about it until my
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eyes closed by themselves of pure fatigue a few hours later.
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And that was it for about a year. The memory
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of that night came to my mind from time to time,
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and my body shivered when I remembered that brief instant.
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But sometimes I even question if what I saw was
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real or just a product of my tired mind that
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changed two years ago. I can remember it was also winter,
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but not the exact month. I was dressing up to
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meet some friends in a bar. The night was rainy
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this time, but the full moon was up there watching.
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I was fastening my belt in front of the mirror
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when suddenly it stared directly at me, but that time
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was different. That time it did not stop when I
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looked up at it. Instead, it was looking at me
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in the eyes with a smile whose cruelty is just
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not describable through words. I took a step back, got
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outside my room, and exited my house almost running. When
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I got to my car, I flipped the side mirrors
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and started to cry. After that, I did not know
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what to do. I threw away all the mirrors I
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had in my apartment, and the nightmares did not stop
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for a while. In my dreams, it was coming for me,
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and it was not limited to this universe. The last
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winter was not easy. I still struggled mentally with what happened. Luckily,
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I met a girl that summer, and we started dating
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that same fall. Her company helped me coping with that situation.
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Even though she knew something about what happened, I was
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extremely afraid of what she would think of me. But
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one day, I decided it was the time to share
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the experience with her. I was going to sleep in
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her house that night. And I planned to tell her
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what happened before going to sleep as we used to
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talk a lot in bed. I was brushing my teeth
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after dinner, and the big mirror she had in the
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bathroom really shocked me. What were you expecting? Everybody has
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a mirror in the bathroom, I said to myself. You
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are no longer a kid. Come on. and entered the bathroom.
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It all went normal. I put the toothpaste in the
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toothbrush and the toothbrush in my mouth with a bit
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of hesitation. When I was finishing, I got closer to
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the mirror to properly clean my front teeth. You don't
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want to stink this night, big boy, I thought. And
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then it happened. Its hands stopped brushing and my eyes
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opened wide. That smile was in front of me again.
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It started to tighten its front teeth and to rub
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them on each other. I could perfectly hear the sound
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of his teeth scratching. Its eyes were blood red and
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its teeth started to break. There was blood coming out
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of its gums. I could not move. I could not scream.
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I was almost hypnotized. Its hand came out in the
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mirror and grabbed my shirt. I could feel its cold
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breath in my nose. The smell of that thing is
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almost indescribable. It was like a decomposing corpse opened in half.
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Its bloody mouth opened and a dark, deep voice hit
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me in the face. It came from the other lost
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and long ago forgotten universe and said, If you tell
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her anything, she will be dead by tomorrow morning. And
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it disappeared. I could not stand it. My mind was
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about to break in a million pieces just like the
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mirrors I dumped two years ago. Since that incident, we
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distanced from each other. I did not tell her anything
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and she was pissed off at me with my strange behavior.
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A few months later, we broke up. A year passed
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since then. The summer ended and the leaves of the
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trees began to fall. Deep inside of me, I know
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I'm not going to be here to see the next winter.
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It will come for me long before the last full
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moon of the winter rises up in the cold, dark
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night sky. And our next story is called Mirror, Mirror
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on the Wall. Where the fuck has my reflection gone?
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It fucking works, bro, Dave shouted, his voice trembling with excitement.
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Just trust me, okay? Really? I asked before smiling. Come on, man,
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you can't expect me to believe this stupid Bloody Mary shit.
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His voice went up another octave, high-pitched and whiny like
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a boiling tea kettle. But it's not stupid, I'm telling you,
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this shit works. So you really made your reflection disappear? Yes!
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I started laughing. Fuck off, dude. If you think I'm
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falling for this... He cut me off. It's not a prank,
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believe me. It's real and it's gonna blow your fucking mind.
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I rolled my eyes. Just try it, he pleaded. It's
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not like you have anything better to do. Think of
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it as a fun little way to pass the time
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on a boring Monday evening. We're too old to be
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acting like edgy teenagers who are terrified of getting embarrassed.
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He finished my sentence for me, but not in the
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way I had intended. You're right. We really are. I
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looked at his face in my phone, his double chin
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hanging from his jaw like a fat little belly, wondering
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for the uptink time why women choose to go down
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on us when this is what they see. Video calling
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certainly has been a revelation in unforeseen ways. I sighed,
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signaling my surrender. All right, so what the fuck do
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I need to do? Ten minutes later, I stood in
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front of the mirror in my bathroom with the lights
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switched off and lit a candle, placed on the counter,
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frame in the sink. So what next? I asked, wanting
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to get the over with quickly. Now pick up the candle,
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bring it close to your chest, and look into the mirror,
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he replied. I obliged with the candle in my right
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hand and the phone in my left, noticing that Dave
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was doing the same. Now smile, menacingly. What? I snickered. Grin, motherfucker,
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grin at the mirror until you start to get scared.
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I was about to make a smart-ass comment, but then
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thought better of it. No sense in dragging it out.
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I leaned forward, brought the candle closer to my jaw,
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and after a couple of awkward seconds stretched my lips
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into my best impression of an imitating smile. The effect,
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while not immediate, did occur sooner than I had expected.
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The faint light from the candle basked the lower half
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of my face in a dull orange glow. casting long
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shadows on the rest of it, shadows that quivered each
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time the flame flickered under a misplaced breath. The glint
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of my eyes, the way my crooked canine gleaned, the
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malice that I intentionally emanated from my face begin to
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make me uncomfortable, gradually but steadily. And then day begins speaking. Mirror,
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mirror on the wall, now we are in your thrall.
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All we have is this to say, come and take
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our reflections away. It was so stupid, so childish, I
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would have scoffed at the ridiculousness of it all. But
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the condensation caught in my throat, suppressed as it was
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by something else. Fear. My senses had shot up to
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100% functionality. I could hear the wind howling outside, causing
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the creaky branches of the tree outside to groan and
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scrape against my bedroom window. I could smell the melting wax,
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the traces of my soap in the drain, the sweat
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which made my clothes cling to my body. I could
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taste the dryness in my tongue which made it impossible
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to even swallow any spit, something I desperately wanted to do.
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I could feel the chill in the air which made
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my inside shiver, but most of all, I could see
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the silhouette of my face as it was reflected in
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the mirror, grinning back at me with naked malice etched
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upon its face. The sheer hate being directed back at
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me was starting to unnerve me, even as I held
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on to the vicious smile, not wanting to break the spell.
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Was this really what I looked like? Is this really
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my face? My reflection? Tension began to coil around my heart,
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squeezing it and making it pound faster and faster. and
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then I noticed my reflection's eyes flicking off to the
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side mischievously, but mine had stayed put. I shuddered as
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if someone had dropped some ice down the back of
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my neck. The fuck? It was a very subtle action,
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but I noticed, for a moment there, my reflection had
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acted independently. It made me acutely aware of the dark
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corner of the bathroom he had pointed at. I couldn't
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help but think that there was someone else here with me,
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And the more I thought, the more real it felt,
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as if I was trying to will my fears into existence.
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I could imagine it all, the rustling of clothes, the
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tapping of footsteps, the sound of deep, ragged breaths forcefully
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taken from unwilling lungs. I squeezed my eyes shut. Not real.
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Not real. It's all in my head. I tried to
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convince myself that my mind was playing tricks on me,
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then exhaled to calm myself down. I shouldn't have bothered,
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because all thoughts related to it were wiped clean off
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my mind as I opened my eyes and glanced at
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the mirror. I was terrified. The smile had dropped from
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my face and I was trying to make sense of
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what was happening, but not my reflection. He was staring
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at me, his lips still twisted into a grin and
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his face frozen into a menacing rictus. I jumped back, startled.
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It's working, isn't it? Dave whispered. What the fuck, Dave?
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I swore under my breath. What the fuck is happening? Wait,
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it'll only get better. No, I yelled, my eyes fixed on.
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Not my reflection. End this now. Before he could reply,
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something changed. My reflection moved, his pupils rolling back into
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his skull, leaving behind milky white sclera that gleamed under
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the false candlelight. Still smiling, always smiling. Then he disappeared
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with an audible pop, causing the surface of the mirror
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to ripple like someone had dropped a rock into a pond. See,
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Dave screamed. It works. Stop this, Dave. End it. I
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don't know how, he replied. It will end on its own.
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But don't worry. This is the worst that happens. Your
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reflection will be back soon enough. I dropped the candle.
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Jumped at the light switch and flipped it on, feeling
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relieved as light flooded the room, sweeping aside the dark.
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Heart pounding in my chest, I ran my fingers through
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my hair. Holy shit, dude, I said as I stood
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once again in front of the mirror, sans my reflection.
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It really worked. It was like I wasn't even there.
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The light rays falling on the mirror and just passing
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through me as they retreated back. It's some truly freaky shit,
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isn't it? I nodded, feeling pumped as adrenaline began coursing
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through my system. How did you even find out about this? Well,
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I was on the internet and... That's funny, I interjected.
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What is? I can still see my reflection in the
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glass screen in my phone. Does this thing only work
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for one mirror? He looked confused. I don't think so.
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But I could see my reflection, a faint outline of
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my face off to the side, of Dave's decidedly clear head,
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an outline that steadily grew darker, like a splotch of
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ink on a napkin. Then the reflection smiled at me. Dave?
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I warned eyes, widening as I realized that my reflection
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was standing behind Dave. Before Dave could so much as
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open his mouth, an arm shot up from behind him,
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wrapped around his neck, and began to squeeze. His phone
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slipped from his hand and went crashing down on the ground.
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I stumbled back, my hand flying to my mouth in
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shock and terror as muffled sounds of Dave fighting off
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my reflection drifted through the phone before falling silent as
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abruptly as I had started. My fingers trembled as I
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held my phone in my hand, wondering what the fuck
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I should do next. A soft tapping drew my attention.
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I looked up and saw my reflection knocking at the
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mirror from my side. Mischievous grins still slapped across his face.
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When he saw he had my attention, he pointed behind me.
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I whipped around and saw Dave, or his demonic reflection,
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standing in the corner, eyes sunken into his skull, smiling
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at me like a madman. I gaped at him. Just
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a second ago, he was halfway across the town, locked
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in a life or death struggle with my reflection. Now
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he was here, right in front of my face. He
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lunged at me, so I chucked the phone at him
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and bolted out of the bathroom, not stopping until I
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had run all the way out of my apartment building.
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After which, I took a cab and went to my
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parents' house, and then dialed 911. The cops found Dave's
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mutilated corpse in his bedroom, entrails ripped out and tied
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around his bluish neck, affirming the fact that what I
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had seen was real, terrifyingly so. To this day, I'm
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petrified of Mears. Our next story is called Behind the Mirror.
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I'm not really sure when I put it together. I
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must have been pretty young. Up until then, I guess
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I just thought it was normal for everybody's reflection to
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look slightly different than they do. See, I always had
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this thing about mirrors. I never liked looking into them.
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They kind of freaked me out. It was like I
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was looking at something I wasn't supposed to see, so
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I did my best to avoid them. Reflective surfaces were
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difficult to avoid completely. They're everywhere. Bodies of water, store windows,
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a well-polished car, and naturally I could catch glimpses here
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and there. Sometimes people's reflections would change dramatically, like sporting
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a different hairstyle, a tattoo that they didn't have, or
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a pair of glasses they weren't wearing. This puzzled me
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for a while, but slowly it began to dawn on me.
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I was seen into the future. Not very far, but
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I was certain of it. I began to document whenever
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I noticed changes in the reflections of people I knew
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until I finally figured it out. I was seeing one
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year into the future down to the very minute. I
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confirmed this many, many times until there was absolutely no
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doubt in my mind. After this revelation, my relationship with
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mirrors began to change. I sort of embraced this weird
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and inexplicable ability of mine, finding it useful in some ways.
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For instance, it was rather thrilling to see an engagement
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ring appear on the hand of the woman I had
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just started dating, and again a couple years later when
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her reflection stomach began to grow round. It was like
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getting a preview of all the things I had to
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look forward to, and for a long time, life was good.
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Up until recently, it felt like I'd been given a gift.
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I never stopped to think about the potential drawbacks. One morning,
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I'd gone to the mirror to greet my future self
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as usual, when it all came crashing down. My face.
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It hardly looked like a face anymore. It was horribly mangled, bruised, swollen, bloody,
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one of my eyes were hanging out by the optic nerve,
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The shock of seeing myself that way brought me to tears,
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and I crumpled to the floor to avoid the awful sight.
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I convinced myself it couldn't be true. I tricked myself
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into thinking that if I just avoided the mirror, everything
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would be okay. But, in evability, I caught a glimpse
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of myself, rotten flesh oozing fluids from my decomposing organs,
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lips and tongue gnawed away by rodents. It wasn't long.
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It happened much faster than I expected before my reflection
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was nothing more than a shriveled skeletal corpse. Only then
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did it fully sink in. I never told my family
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or friends about my ability, so they know nothing of
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my fate, but I hope they know how much I've
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cherished these last 364 days with them. Today, I view
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my reflection for the last time. Next story of the
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night is Bloody Mary is Real. And she's extremely dangerous.
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I was 14 when my best friend went away. David
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told me at a sleepover one night. So, he fidgeted,
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my mom got a new job. It's in California. He
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didn't look up. That's 1,913 miles from here. I googled it.
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I was silent for a long time after that. I
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hear California's awesome, I said with a smile. No snow.
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He smiled back. It was really important to make sure
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he didn't see me cry. We should make my last
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day legendary, David told me with a grin. He hadn't
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told anyone else about his departure yet. He was leaving
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in the middle of February, so people were going to
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notice that he was gone. What if everyone thought that
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Bloody Mary took me away? The plan was brilliant. After school,
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he and I would announce that we would summon the
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ghost in the mirror and he'd slip out the window.
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It was a short reach down to the second floor
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balcony and he would climb onto it, sneak down the stairs,
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and walk home. I would come out and announce that
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Bloody Mary had taken him into the other world and
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no one would ever see him again. We all have
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to leave sometime. Once we accept that, we can control
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the methods. There were at least two dozen people who
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gathered around the bathroom on that Friday after class. No
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one had attempted to summon the ghost since Jimmy Fisher
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tried it in the fifth grade, then went home early
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because he peed his pants. Jimmy still sat alone at lunch.
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David and I were barely able to contain our smirks
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as we went into the bathroom alone. You know, we
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should at least try it, I explained. That way we
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won't be lying when we say we attempted to bring
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forth the ghost. I said the last four words with
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mock drama. He blanced just a little. Um, okay, I
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suppose so. I boldly stood in front of the mirror.
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He tentatively stood next to me. Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary,
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Bloody Mary. I killed your son. His voice echoed mine.
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We stared into our reflections. We blinked. So did they.
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Nothing happened. We both let out a sigh of relief.
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I'd better get out of here, David offered. It's time.
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A hitch of sadness rose in my throat. Yeah, was
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all I could say. He put one leg up on
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the sink and one in the open window before offering
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me a last goodbye. See ya, he said with a smile.
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He looked down and shifted his way in order to
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position himself for the window escape. He was halfway out
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when I decided that I couldn't resist. Boo! I shouted
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at him as I jumped forward. His eyes shot up
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immediately and betrayed a moment of terror. Honestly, I had
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it meant to make him slip. David fell through the
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window and out of sight before I could react. Oh great,
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I thought, now we'll have to deal with the twisted ankle.
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This will ruin the whole prank. I walked over to
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the window and peeked my head through. David's head was
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impaled sideways on a metal pole that had once been
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part of a chain link fence. He must have fallen
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15 feet It ran temple to temple. The top of
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the pole was coated in blood and the tip of
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it had brain goop resting on it. His legs were
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twitching like he was running in place, but the pole
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held him firm. It wiggled as his legs danced. His
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eyes darted around widely as his jaw flapped open and shut,
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but he was already dead. I think that Bloody Mary
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really did get us in the end. At least, that's
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what I told everyone. I said that David got spooked
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at what he saw after the incantation and jumped out
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the window. And I see David's killer every time I
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look into the mirror. Next story of the night is
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Bloody Mary is Bloody Real. I'm sure everyone has heard
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of Bloody Mary. Say Bloody Mary three times in front
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of a mirror in the bathroom and she'll appear in
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the mirror. Scary, right? Naturally, I'm a skeptic, so I
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thought the whole thing was a sham. This all took
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place six months ago, just for context. I asked my
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best friend, who we'll call Chris, who was a lot
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like me, if he wanted to do Bloody Mary with me.
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And at first, he was skeptical, even going as far
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as calling Bloody Mary a big bloody bitch who's faker
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than Kim Kardashian's makeup. But he agreed. It took some convincing,
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but I managed. We agreed to do the whole thing
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the following night at midnight. He asked if he could
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come earlier just to hang out for a bit, and
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I agreed. The next day comes and my friend arrives
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at my apartment just after 8 p.m. It's a small apartment,
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so the hallway is small, the living room is small,
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and the bathroom is small. If anything bad happened, we
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had an escape plan and we didn't worry about getting lost.
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We ended up having a few laughs and a few drinks,
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but nothing special. Just two buddies hanging out. The clock
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strikes midnight and we both make our way into my bathroom.
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We light up the candle, turn the light off, close
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the door, and take a few deep breaths. This is it.
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This is our chance to see if Bloody Mary is
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real or not. We go in front of the mirror
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expecting nothing, but naturally in the dark, we start to
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feel a little scared, still unfazed and skeptical. We do it.
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Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary. We both said it
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out loud in a convincing loud voice. Nothing. 10 seconds
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become 20 seconds. We stand there and we begin to laugh.
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We're convinced this whole thing is fake. Chris turns around
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to turn the light back on, but a few seconds
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pass and the light hasn't gone on yet. Chris is
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also quiet. He should have turned the light on at
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this point. What's taking so long? Are you going to
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turn on the light or not? I asked. I turn
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around to see when my heart literally jumps. What the
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hell is this? He asked me. I didn't say anything
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out of shock. There was this lady standing right in
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front of our bathroom mirror, smiling at us. But the
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thing was, the door was closed. We should have heard
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it open. Plus, there was nobody in the mirror. Chris
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looks back at the mirror and sees nothing, but turns
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around to see the lady. I do the same, expecting
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this to be some sort of a joke, but it's not.
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Who are you? my friend asks. The lady then lets
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out the biggest scream she can let out as we
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stand there trying to figure out what's going on when
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we really should be getting out of there. Shut up, bitch,
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my best friend says as he pushes her out of
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the way and goes running toward her to the living room.
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I run after him. We both manage to get to
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the living room in time, but then Chris tells me
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to look at the walls. Oh my god, buddy, look,
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he says in a scared way. There was blood all
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over the walls, almost as if someone had committed a
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massacre in my apartment. I just stared at the walls
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when I realized that there's a message written in blood.
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It said, The big bloody bitch is here to kill.
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The last three words were much bigger and all capitalized.
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Chris and I hear the screams again as we turn
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around to see the same lady, this time standing in
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the living room. Like I mentioned, I live in an apartment,
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so the door wasn't that far away from us. Chris
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00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:44.039
goes running for the door when I yell out, Stop!
473
00:28:45.009 --> 00:28:47.430
but it was too late. The lady grabbed Chris by
474
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the head as he ran toward the door and headbutted
475
00:28:50.109 --> 00:28:53.950
him and then smashed his head against the wall. Chris
476
00:28:54.009 --> 00:28:56.990
was severely injured and I was staring down this lady.
477
00:28:58.460 --> 00:29:02.519
Are you Bloody Mary? I asked trying to do in
478
00:29:02.559 --> 00:29:08.700
a polite way. No response. I asked again. Are you
479
00:29:08.980 --> 00:29:14.440
Bloody Mary? Again, no response. It felt like hours passed,
480
00:29:14.480 --> 00:29:17.099
but it was likely only a few seconds. She gave
481
00:29:17.140 --> 00:29:19.920
me the most sinister smile I've ever seen and then
482
00:29:19.960 --> 00:29:22.740
walked closer to me. I began to walk away from
483
00:29:22.799 --> 00:29:29.990
her when she yelled out, Stop moving, bitch. I stopped. Scared,
484
00:29:30.089 --> 00:29:32.450
heart pumping out of my chest and not knowing if
485
00:29:32.509 --> 00:29:35.210
my best friend is alive or dead, she points to
486
00:29:35.250 --> 00:29:38.470
the wall. I look at the wall and then look back,
487
00:29:38.970 --> 00:29:41.500
but she was gone. I looked at the wall again,
488
00:29:41.900 --> 00:29:45.130
looked back, and there was nothing there. I took one
489
00:29:45.230 --> 00:29:48.529
small step forward, not knowing what was going to happen,
490
00:29:48.710 --> 00:29:51.589
and then I take another small step forward. I keep
491
00:29:51.630 --> 00:29:53.789
doing this until I get to where my best friend
492
00:29:53.829 --> 00:29:57.349
was lying, but he wasn't there. What the hell? I
493
00:29:57.410 --> 00:30:00.759
murmured under my breath. Then I look back at the
494
00:30:00.819 --> 00:30:03.289
wall and the blood is gone. Like, all of it.
495
00:30:03.579 --> 00:30:06.819
It's all clear. I start wondering if I'm going crazy.
496
00:30:07.359 --> 00:30:09.309
I look at my digital clock and it's the sign
497
00:30:09.329 --> 00:30:12.569
of the devil, 666, is what was on the clock.
498
00:30:13.509 --> 00:30:16.009
I look back toward the hallway and see red mist
499
00:30:16.049 --> 00:30:18.190
in the air. It's almost like the blood from the
500
00:30:18.250 --> 00:30:22.619
wall transferred to the hallway and became mist. Having had
501
00:30:22.700 --> 00:30:25.220
enough and wanting to get out, I turn back toward
502
00:30:25.259 --> 00:30:28.140
the door but there's someone blocking the door. It's not
503
00:30:28.180 --> 00:30:32.559
the lady. It's not any other figure. It's Chris. Chris
504
00:30:32.630 --> 00:30:34.519
is standing in front of the door, but his eyes
505
00:30:34.599 --> 00:30:39.420
are blood red and his face is all bloody. Chris. Chris,
506
00:30:39.460 --> 00:30:43.099
what happened? I asked. It's here, he said in a
507
00:30:43.140 --> 00:30:47.940
dark voice. What's here? I asked. The big bloody bitch
508
00:30:48.180 --> 00:30:51.339
is here, he said out loud in a demonic, demented way.
509
00:30:52.539 --> 00:30:56.170
What he said was something I was not prepared for. Hell,
510
00:30:56.470 --> 00:30:58.809
after he said that, I pushed him away from the door,
511
00:30:58.950 --> 00:31:01.089
got the hell out of my apartment, and went to
512
00:31:01.130 --> 00:31:05.049
the neighbor's apartment to call 911. I started banging on
513
00:31:05.069 --> 00:31:08.019
the neighbor's door, hoping he'd hear me. The door opens,
514
00:31:08.099 --> 00:31:10.359
but nobody is in the doorway. I peeked to see
515
00:31:10.400 --> 00:31:14.440
if anyone is there. Hello, are you there? I asked.
516
00:31:15.059 --> 00:31:17.440
I turned to my left and I jumped. It's Chris.
517
00:31:17.539 --> 00:31:20.400
How the hell did he get here? The big bloody
518
00:31:20.460 --> 00:31:23.359
bitch is here, he said, but this time yelling even
519
00:31:23.440 --> 00:31:30.009
louder and even more demonic than the first time. Like before,
520
00:31:30.029 --> 00:31:32.269
I turn around to get out when I see another
521
00:31:32.369 --> 00:31:35.589
figure standing in front of me. This time it was
522
00:31:35.670 --> 00:31:38.190
the lady. I turn back to see Chris and then
523
00:31:38.250 --> 00:31:41.509
turn to see the lady. She cracks her head, cracks
524
00:31:41.549 --> 00:31:43.809
her knuckles, and yells at the top of her lungs.
525
00:31:44.509 --> 00:31:47.309
I turn back one more time and expect to see Chris,
526
00:31:47.490 --> 00:31:50.720
but I don't see anything. The yelling also stopped at
527
00:31:50.769 --> 00:31:53.730
the same time. I turned back again and expect to
528
00:31:53.769 --> 00:31:57.450
see the lady, but she's gone. I bolted it out
529
00:31:57.470 --> 00:31:59.809
of there and ran out of the apartment building. I
530
00:31:59.869 --> 00:32:03.509
felt like Forrest Gump. I ran, ran, and ran to
531
00:32:03.549 --> 00:32:06.450
my police station, which wasn't far away, but damn, it
532
00:32:06.490 --> 00:32:09.150
felt like I was running a marathon. I told the
533
00:32:09.190 --> 00:32:11.490
police everything that happened, and they went to search my
534
00:32:11.529 --> 00:32:15.250
apartment building. Police went there right after I let them
535
00:32:15.289 --> 00:32:17.230
know what happened, and they happened to find Chris in
536
00:32:17.250 --> 00:32:21.450
my apartment. He was nude. bloody, and yelling out profanities.
537
00:32:22.009 --> 00:32:24.210
I was told he was taken to a mental hospital
538
00:32:24.289 --> 00:32:25.970
and will be there for the rest of his life.
539
00:32:26.670 --> 00:32:29.759
I don't think I'll see him again. Police also warned
540
00:32:29.779 --> 00:32:32.890
me to move out of their ASAP and so I did.
541
00:32:33.539 --> 00:32:36.160
I moved the following day. I took everything with me.
542
00:32:36.519 --> 00:32:39.579
I didn't bother letting my superintendent know and I went
543
00:32:39.619 --> 00:32:42.359
to stay with my friend until finding an apartment that month.
544
00:32:43.380 --> 00:32:45.819
As of right now, life is normal, but I'm still
545
00:32:45.880 --> 00:32:48.890
fearful she'll come get me at any moment. Don't mess
546
00:32:48.930 --> 00:32:52.009
with Bloody Mary. It's real. It's scary. It will destroy
547
00:32:52.049 --> 00:32:54.809
your life, and it will destroy whoever participates with you.
548
00:32:55.289 --> 00:32:59.950
It destroyed Chris, and it nearly destroyed me. Our next
549
00:33:00.009 --> 00:33:04.049
story is, I never questioned why we had no mirrors
550
00:33:04.170 --> 00:33:09.119
in our house. When you're a child, everything you grow
551
00:33:09.170 --> 00:33:11.759
up with seems normal. You just don't know any better.
552
00:33:12.339 --> 00:33:14.920
I became an expert at braiding my hair without looking
553
00:33:15.000 --> 00:33:17.259
and brushing my teeth without being able to check if
554
00:33:17.339 --> 00:33:20.920
I had toothpaste around my mouth. It was a bit
555
00:33:21.039 --> 00:33:23.700
odd with hindsight that we had a special cloth to
556
00:33:23.759 --> 00:33:26.440
cover the TV screen as soon as we turned it
557
00:33:26.599 --> 00:33:29.559
off for the night, and I always understood that cars
558
00:33:29.619 --> 00:33:32.559
were only for daytime use. My dad just didn't like
559
00:33:32.599 --> 00:33:35.619
driving in the dark was all. I knew what I
560
00:33:35.660 --> 00:33:38.990
looked like, of course. There were mirrors at school. Not
561
00:33:39.019 --> 00:33:41.220
that I often looked. I think you just get used
562
00:33:41.259 --> 00:33:44.000
to living life without the vanity of staring at yourself.
563
00:33:45.539 --> 00:33:48.119
Sometimes I'd catch a sight of myself walking past a
564
00:33:48.160 --> 00:33:51.160
shop window next to my mom and do a little
565
00:33:51.220 --> 00:33:53.299
skip as I walk just to see what I look
566
00:33:53.319 --> 00:33:56.470
like to others. Only in the daytime though. The shops
567
00:33:56.529 --> 00:34:00.609
around here don't open late. It came as a surprise
568
00:34:00.650 --> 00:34:02.890
to me then when I found the tiny sharp silver
569
00:34:02.970 --> 00:34:05.329
of mirror glass tucked behind the cereal in the top
570
00:34:05.349 --> 00:34:08.250
kitchen cupboard. I was only eight or nine years old
571
00:34:08.599 --> 00:34:10.519
but even then, I knew that it must have been
572
00:34:10.559 --> 00:34:14.159
hidden for a reason. Every so often, I would slide
573
00:34:14.199 --> 00:34:16.849
a chair into the kitchen and silently open the door,
574
00:34:17.369 --> 00:34:19.809
sliding a hand between the packets to check if it
575
00:34:19.849 --> 00:34:23.269
was still there. The day it disappeared was the day
576
00:34:23.309 --> 00:34:26.409
my dad didn't come home. The police said he had
577
00:34:26.449 --> 00:34:29.070
probably gone to stay with his family back in Romania,
578
00:34:29.469 --> 00:34:32.789
but I never believed them. Mom and I cried for ages.
579
00:34:33.349 --> 00:34:35.489
I remember resting my head on her shoulder as she
580
00:34:35.570 --> 00:34:40.349
sobbed and somehow feeling responsible. I knew the two things
581
00:34:40.489 --> 00:34:42.670
had to be connected and I planned to find out
582
00:34:42.710 --> 00:34:46.269
what happened to the tiny sliver of silver. I never
583
00:34:46.329 --> 00:34:49.110
expected it to appear under my pillow that night as
584
00:34:49.170 --> 00:34:51.690
my fingers closed around the sharp edge as I drifted
585
00:34:51.750 --> 00:34:55.010
off to sleep. Blood began to seep into my pillow.
586
00:34:55.610 --> 00:34:57.909
I wasn't worried. I knew exactly how to get rid
587
00:34:57.949 --> 00:35:00.840
of the stain. After all, I'd watched my mom scrub
588
00:35:00.860 --> 00:35:03.280
the carpet with salt water after I bled all over
589
00:35:03.320 --> 00:35:07.050
the floor last time. The mirror wasn't as sharp against
590
00:35:07.110 --> 00:35:09.050
my hand as it had been in my neck. I
591
00:35:09.090 --> 00:35:10.849
just wished I could tell my mom that it would
592
00:35:10.889 --> 00:35:13.110
be okay, that I forgave her. I just wished she'd
593
00:35:13.130 --> 00:35:15.110
look into a mirror so I could show her that
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00:35:15.150 --> 00:35:19.690
I was still with her and always would be. Okay,
595
00:35:19.730 --> 00:35:22.869
I was a little confused by this story. And so
596
00:35:22.889 --> 00:35:27.139
they said the ending means that the mom covered the
597
00:35:27.179 --> 00:35:29.440
mirrors as she murdered her daughter and could see her
598
00:35:29.480 --> 00:35:33.949
face looking back from the reflections in the house. Okay,
599
00:35:33.989 --> 00:35:38.690
and our last story for the night is called Mirror, Mirror.
600
00:35:41.010 --> 00:35:43.320
I paused while looking at my face in the mirror.
601
00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:47.420
Toothbrush frozen halfway to my mouth. When the hell had
602
00:35:47.460 --> 00:35:50.960
those circles under my eyes gotten so dark? I was
603
00:35:51.019 --> 00:35:54.039
getting plenty of sleep, at least. It felt like I was.
604
00:35:54.639 --> 00:35:57.630
And for that matter, when had my cheeks started getting
605
00:35:57.710 --> 00:36:00.630
so ruddy? With the purple under my eyes and the
606
00:36:00.670 --> 00:36:03.260
red patches on my cheeks All of a sudden, all
607
00:36:03.300 --> 00:36:05.960
I could see of my face was the blotchy patchwork
608
00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:10.280
quilt of my imperfections. I sighed deeply as I stared
609
00:36:10.320 --> 00:36:13.860
at my reflection. I could tell that turning 30 would
610
00:36:13.900 --> 00:36:16.980
be really rough on me. Still, I tried to find
611
00:36:17.059 --> 00:36:19.579
something to like about my appearance today so that I
612
00:36:19.579 --> 00:36:23.019
didn't spend the whole morning miserable in my bathroom. I
613
00:36:23.079 --> 00:36:25.639
finished brushing my teeth and grinned at myself in the mirror.
614
00:36:26.409 --> 00:36:29.530
My teeth were still okay. Still straight from the three
615
00:36:29.550 --> 00:36:32.030
years of braces I'd have to suffer through in high school,
616
00:36:32.329 --> 00:36:34.969
although not quite as white as they could be. I
617
00:36:35.010 --> 00:36:37.559
made a mental note to maybe throw some white strips
618
00:36:37.619 --> 00:36:40.800
in my shopping cart next time I got groceries. Okay,
619
00:36:40.920 --> 00:36:43.900
so my teeth were just okay. How about my lips?
620
00:36:44.420 --> 00:36:47.579
They were smooth and moisturized, not cracked like many others
621
00:36:47.639 --> 00:36:50.139
were in the never-ending winter, but they would never be
622
00:36:50.179 --> 00:36:53.860
the plump, Angelina Jolie-like lips that men went crazy for.
623
00:36:57.079 --> 00:36:59.639
After forcing my gaze up from the dark circles, I
624
00:36:59.679 --> 00:37:02.199
had to admit to myself that my best features were
625
00:37:02.280 --> 00:37:06.099
probably my eyes. I had my mom's eyes, green, with
626
00:37:06.159 --> 00:37:10.159
tiny little specks of gold in them. In fact, that
627
00:37:10.199 --> 00:37:12.469
had always been my little test in the past to
628
00:37:12.510 --> 00:37:14.590
tell if someone was really looking at me in the
629
00:37:14.769 --> 00:37:17.610
eyes or not. If someone said that I had blue eyes,
630
00:37:17.710 --> 00:37:20.949
which many had, then I knew that, really, they were
631
00:37:21.010 --> 00:37:24.860
barely making eye contact with me. On the other hand,
632
00:37:24.980 --> 00:37:27.239
if a guy I was dating looked into my eyes
633
00:37:27.360 --> 00:37:30.039
and commented on how beautiful it was that I had
634
00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:32.599
little flecks of gold in them, then I knew that
635
00:37:32.619 --> 00:37:37.039
we were starting to fall in love. I leaned in
636
00:37:37.079 --> 00:37:39.739
closer to the mirror, staring into my own eyes to
637
00:37:39.760 --> 00:37:43.099
try to see the flecks for myself. My reflection blinked.
638
00:37:44.550 --> 00:37:46.949
I jumped back from the mirror, knocking lotions and a
639
00:37:46.969 --> 00:37:50.070
lipstick into the sink as I flailed backwards. My heart
640
00:37:50.110 --> 00:37:54.139
was pounding. What had just happened? I tried to convince
641
00:37:54.199 --> 00:37:56.760
myself that I had indeed blinked and the mirror was
642
00:37:56.820 --> 00:38:00.099
just reflecting what I was doing, same as always. But
643
00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:03.679
deep down, I knew that that really wasn't the case.
644
00:38:04.300 --> 00:38:07.039
My eyes had been wide open, staring, while the eyes
645
00:38:07.099 --> 00:38:10.809
in the mirror had closed. I had jumped so far
646
00:38:10.909 --> 00:38:14.050
back that I was practically inside my tiny stand-up shower.
647
00:38:14.570 --> 00:38:17.570
The plastic shower curtain rustled against my back as I
648
00:38:17.650 --> 00:38:22.380
hesitantly stepped back toward the mirror. This was stupid. Clearly
649
00:38:22.420 --> 00:38:25.800
I had imagined it. Reflections don't blink. That is, not
650
00:38:25.840 --> 00:38:29.780
unless you do. Cautiously, I raised my left hand up
651
00:38:29.820 --> 00:38:33.320
to the shoulder. My reflection lifted her hand too. I
652
00:38:33.340 --> 00:38:35.739
did the same thing with the right hand. So did
653
00:38:35.780 --> 00:38:38.250
the girl in the mirror. I waved my hands back
654
00:38:38.309 --> 00:38:40.550
and forth as fast as I could. I jumped up
655
00:38:40.610 --> 00:38:42.869
and down. I shook my hair until it felt like
656
00:38:42.909 --> 00:38:46.690
my brains were about to fall out. Every single movement,
657
00:38:46.750 --> 00:38:50.349
no matter how fast or frantic, was perfectly mirrored across
658
00:38:50.389 --> 00:38:53.800
from me. Finally, I stopped, my heart pounding both from
659
00:38:53.860 --> 00:38:58.500
nerves and from the impromptu workout. I eyed my mirror warily.
660
00:38:59.940 --> 00:39:04.659
Everything seemed totally normal. Maybe I had imagined that blink. Sighing,
661
00:39:04.760 --> 00:39:06.519
I turned on my heel and stalked out of the
662
00:39:06.559 --> 00:39:09.369
bathroom toward my bedroom. I had to get to work.
663
00:39:09.690 --> 00:39:13.269
I didn't have time to deal with my own overactive imagination.
664
00:39:13.570 --> 00:39:15.829
I pulled on my dress pants and buttoned up my blouse,
665
00:39:15.929 --> 00:39:18.800
then hurried down the hallway toward the front door. As
666
00:39:18.860 --> 00:39:21.030
I crossed back into the front of my bathroom door,
667
00:39:21.170 --> 00:39:24.429
I paused. There was definitely a strong urge to examine
668
00:39:24.469 --> 00:39:27.550
the mirror one last time, just long enough to switch
669
00:39:27.610 --> 00:39:30.280
on the light, check out my reflection, and then leave. leave.
670
00:39:30.940 --> 00:39:34.320
But that would be stupid. The whole day at work,
671
00:39:34.380 --> 00:39:37.730
I felt stressed and oddly jumpy. When I had to
672
00:39:37.809 --> 00:39:40.610
use the bathrooms at the office, I tried to subtly
673
00:39:40.789 --> 00:39:43.329
time it so that I would enter and leave the
674
00:39:43.369 --> 00:39:46.690
washroom at the same time as at least one of
675
00:39:46.750 --> 00:39:50.070
my co-workers. and when I washed my hands afterwards, I
676
00:39:50.110 --> 00:39:52.510
tried my best to avoid looking in the mirror at all.
677
00:39:53.130 --> 00:39:56.280
I felt silly, like a little girl, still afraid of
678
00:39:56.300 --> 00:39:59.480
the boogeyman, but something inside me was still convinced that
679
00:39:59.539 --> 00:40:03.300
I hadn't imagined that blink at all. The rest of
680
00:40:03.340 --> 00:40:05.699
the week was odd. I tried to do as much
681
00:40:05.760 --> 00:40:08.440
of my morning routine as I could right after I showered,
682
00:40:08.880 --> 00:40:11.360
brushing my teeth and combing my hair while the mirror
683
00:40:11.420 --> 00:40:14.070
was still fully fogged up by the steam. I would
684
00:40:14.090 --> 00:40:16.530
throw my hair into a ponytail and swipe on some
685
00:40:16.550 --> 00:40:19.369
mascara in my bedroom. I tried to tell myself that
686
00:40:19.389 --> 00:40:22.139
I wasn't avoiding my reflection, that I was just so
687
00:40:22.219 --> 00:40:24.840
rushed in the mornings, that I was trying to streamline
688
00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:28.599
my routine. Even though deep down I knew that wasn't
689
00:40:28.659 --> 00:40:31.260
the only reason I was avoiding getting ready in front
690
00:40:31.280 --> 00:40:34.300
of the bathroom mirror. I had started keeping a spare
691
00:40:34.360 --> 00:40:38.199
toothbrush and some face wash by the kitchen sink, thankful
692
00:40:38.280 --> 00:40:40.769
that I didn't have a roommate to judge my increasingly
693
00:40:40.869 --> 00:40:45.659
odd behavior. But one night, all of that changed. It
694
00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:47.940
was a gloomy, rainy night, the kind that seems to
695
00:40:48.000 --> 00:40:50.880
wrap you inside your house, and with nothing better to do,
696
00:40:51.460 --> 00:40:54.320
I had decided to paint my toenails. Not in the bathroom,
697
00:40:54.360 --> 00:40:57.260
of course. I knelt down to gather the nail polish
698
00:40:57.300 --> 00:41:00.820
base and top coat, file, nail clippers, and polish remover
699
00:41:00.909 --> 00:41:03.650
so I could polish my toes while watching a movie
700
00:41:03.670 --> 00:41:06.710
in the living room. As I stood up, arms full
701
00:41:06.750 --> 00:41:10.130
of nail paraphernalia, I caught sight of my reflection in
702
00:41:10.170 --> 00:41:15.500
the corner of my eye. My reflection wasn't holding anything. Stunned,
703
00:41:15.619 --> 00:41:18.360
I dropped my arms to the side. The tiny glass
704
00:41:18.440 --> 00:41:21.550
bottles clattered loudly into the sink. The girl in the
705
00:41:21.610 --> 00:41:25.079
mirror flinched so faintly that I almost didn't see it.
706
00:41:25.710 --> 00:41:27.989
I ran into the hallway and slammed the bathroom door
707
00:41:28.030 --> 00:41:30.909
as hard as I could behind me. I leaned trembling
708
00:41:30.969 --> 00:41:34.409
against the door and slid down onto the floor. This time,
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I was absolutely sure that my reflection wasn't reflecting me
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at all. This time, it wasn't just a quick flutter
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of an eye movement that I may or may not
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have seen. No, a second ago, I had been holding
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half a dozen little things in my arms, and that,
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that thing in the bathroom that looked so much like me,
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had absolutely nothing. I had to get out of this house.
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I had to find somewhere else to stay, somewhere that
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didn't have some weird evil haunted mirror that was probably
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trying to harm me somehow. I could call my sister Kate,
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have her come out here and pick me up, I
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lived 20 minutes outside of the city, so it was
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a bit of a hike for anyone to come and
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get me, but hopefully she would understand. I reached into
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my pocket to get my phone and then froze when
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I discovered it was empty. My phone was in the bathroom.
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I gulped. There was no other way around it. To
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get out of my house, I needed to get my phone,
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call someone, and get out of there. And that meant
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going back into the bathroom. I fought back panicked tears.
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It's okay, I can do this. All I had to
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do was open the door, shoot my hand in, grab
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my phone, and then slam the door and get to
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where I could call my sister. Easy, easy, easy, right?
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It would probably be easier if my hands weren't shaking
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so badly, but that was just something I would have
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to work with. I threw open the door and darted
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my hand over the floor. There was nothing but bare tile. Shit, shit, shit, shit.
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Whipping my head around the doorframe, I glanced into the
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bathroom and saw my phone on the other side of
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the room, against the far wall. There was no way
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I could reach it from where I was in the hallway.
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I couldn't avoid it. I would have to go into
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the bathroom. Taking a deep breath, I launched myself into
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the bathroom toward my phone, careful to face away from
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the mirror. As my fingers reached out and brushed against
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my phone, I heard the bathroom door slam behind me.
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I stood up and whipped around standing face to face
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with the girl in the mirror that I had been avoiding.
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But the girl in the mirror wasn't looking back at me. Instead,
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she was staring at the closed bathroom door. An expression
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of pure terror on her, my face. Finally, she turned
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her head until she was facing me. Slowly, silently, she
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lifted one shaking finger up to her average non-Angelina Jolie lips. Bang.
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Something heavy thudded against the bathroom door. I jumped in
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my phone, flew out of my hand and into the toilet. Bang. Bang. Bang.
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I stumbled back into the shower, huddling against the tiled wall.
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A low, snarling growl rumbled from the hallway. I tucked
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my knees into my chest and wrapped the shower curtain
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around me. As if a flimsy layer of plastic could
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somehow protect me from that... that thing outside the door...
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I dared to glance up and saw my reflection, if
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you could still call her that, standing up and staring
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at the door as if willing it to stay strong
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against the repeated onslaught. Squeezing my eyes shut, I wrapped
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my hands around the shower faucet, expecting at any second
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to be ripped away by the creature in my hall.
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After what seemed like hours, the pounding and snarling finally stopped.
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I forced myself to stand on shaking legs and looked
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at the girl in the mirror. She looked at me,
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and after a moment, nodded one small slight nod. I
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nodded back, the same almost motion that she had just made. Then,
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in perfect synchronicity with me, my reflection reached for the
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door handle and switched off the bathroom light. I still
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have no idea what exactly was in my hallway that night,
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other than a faint smell of wet fur and charcoal
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that lasted a couple days. My house has been completely normal.
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Believe it or not, though, things have actually been better
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since that night. I moved my toothbrush back into the
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bathroom and I've started wearing makeup again. Sometimes I worry
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about what other strange guests might visit my house, but
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I'm not afraid. I know that I have the girl
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in the mirror looking out for me. In fact, last
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night when I was brushing my teeth, I could swear
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I saw her wink. And that last story concludes Bizarre
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Bedtime Stories. Thanks for joining me, and again, if you
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want ad-free, either on YouTube or the podcast, you can
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find them on patreon.com slash weeklybazaar. And we will see
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you on the next one. Bye!