Summary
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A 25-year-old finds a suspiciously cheap studio apartment with strange rules, including not unplugging Wi-Fi or moving a bolted floor mirror. Nights are marked by faint tapping from the mirror, then a handprint appears on its surface. Messages warn the tenant not to unplug the Wi-Fi. The tenant flees, only to discover a previous tenant also disappeared from the same apartment.
Shawn moves into his first apartment and stores a mannequin torso in a creaky closet. Strange occurrences begin: the closet door opens, the mannequin moves slightly. A friend sees a 'man' in the closet that moves. The mannequin disappears, leading Shawn to a hotel. The building manager reveals the unit was supposedly empty for 10 years, and the last tenant vanished, leaving only a mannequin.
A pet sitter takes a job in a remote cabin with no cell signal. The owner gives odd instructions about the cats. The first night, the cats are strangely fixated on the hallway. The second night, the sitter hears footsteps upstairs, the landline is dead, and the doors won't open. Whispers of "You're not her" fill the cabin. The sitter escapes, and the owner's voicemail suggests they 'did fine, better than the last one.' The cabin is later found to have been abandoned for years.
A couple explores a forgotten, semi-abandoned underground tunnel in Sicily. After walking for a long time, they find a makeshift room with recent signs of occupation. They hear footsteps approaching, not their echoes, from behind. They hide as a raspy voice speaks in Italian, then they flee the tunnel, emerging into an old woman's backyard. They never find the entrance again.
Two friends backpacking through Eastern Europe book a cabin in a Romanian mountain town. The owner warns them not to walk the forest trail after dark. They encounter three silent, staring men. That night, whispers are heard outside the window, and three figures stand at the tree line. They flee, and a petrol station attendant confirms the town doesn't always like visitors.
Two friends, Tyler and the narrator, embark on a road trip through rural Montana. While camping by a lake, a black truck pulls up, and a tall, bearded man emerges. He acts hostile, holding them at gunpoint. Tyler throws a flashlight, hitting the man, and they escape in their car. They report the incident but leave their belongings behind, haunted by the encounter.
An electrician receives a late-night emergency call about sparking wires in an old, seemingly abandoned house. He finds no electrical damage but hears footsteps upstairs. He ascends the stairs and sees a tall, thin, shadow-like figure. The figure makes a crackling sound. He flees and later learns the house belonged to a man who went mad and disappeared after his family died in an electrical fire.
A late-night delivery driver gets an order to an abandoned sector. A young girl's voice guides him into a dark house to leave the food. He finds a child's room with 'He always finds me' scribbled on the walls. He hears the girl's voice say 'He's here' behind him, then a dragging sound downstairs. He escapes through a window, and the order is later marked as cancelled, number out of service.
A security guard works nights at an abandoned mall. He notices a light in the children's clothing section, a shopping cart moving, and hears childlike laughter. A small figure vanishes as he shines his flashlight. Dressing room doors slam shut. He locks himself in a breakroom. Security footage later shows a tiny, child-sized handprint on the camera lens, and the figure's reflection is absent from mirrors.
A tenant moves into an apartment, finding the unit next door (4C) empty. Footsteps are heard pacing outside their door nightly at 2 AM. Notes are slipped under the door. The tenant installs a security camera, which captures a man emerging from 4C at 2:07 AM, soaked and twitching, who crouches at their door. The footage then goes blank. The landlord insists 4C is locked and empty. Later, 4C is found gutted with a message in ash: 'You opened too late.' Then, knocks start coming from inside the tenant's closet.
A couple working night shifts notices a man in a red hoodie standing across the street every night at 3:15 AM. When they try to record him, he points at their building. The next night, their peephole is covered. Small things go missing, and a large footprint appears on their rug. The man reappears closer, mouthing 'I found you.' Tapping starts on their bedroom window. A motion detector captures him sitting at their door, and an email from the building reveals the front door lock was disabled.
A couple moves into a top-floor flat. They notice a building opposite with red curtains always drawn. One night, the curtain twitches, revealing only darkness. Later, a camera lens is seen watching from the window. A loud knock and corrupted hallway camera footage follow. They find a dead crow on their balcony. They then see someone on the roof of the opposite building, sitting on the ledge, looking at the sky. The red curtains are replaced by a blood-stained white sheet. One night, a white-masked figure appears in the window, pointing at their door, and their lights go out. They flee.
A person living alone notices a pale, middle-aged man in black staring from an opposite apartment window around 3 AM. The building manager claims the unit is empty and under renovation. The man continues to appear nightly. The narrator closes their blinds but still feels watched. They check the unit themselves, finding it dark and boarded up. They haven't seen him since, but now hears three soft knocks on their bedroom wall, the wall facing the alley, every night at the same time.
Driving home late at night on a desolate highway, the narrator sees a man in a ditch. He is still, dressed in 1940s-style clothes, and staring at the road. The narrator's car stops, and the man shifts five feet closer. Panicked, the narrator speeds off and at a gas station, the attendant confirms seeing 'the man in the ditch,' implying it's a known, ominous presence. The narrator now takes a longer route to avoid that road.
A maintenance worker in an old theater hears rhythmic knocking from underneath the floorboards in the auditorium after closing. It's not a pipe, but a deliberate sound. When he checks the crawl space beneath the building, he finds nothing. As he returns, the knocking is now inside the building, coming from the other side of the locked door he just exited. He flees and quits his job, haunted by the feeling that something under the building wanted him to know it was there.
A self-storage facility employee notices unit 209, rented under a fake name, always slightly ajar despite being relocked. Security camera footage glitches at 3:12 AM, revealing a tall, pale, featureless figure standing outside 209, facing the camera. The employee observes 209's door creak open on its own at 3:16 AM. The next morning, 209 is empty except for a photo of the employee in the hallway, with the pale figure standing directly behind them. The employee quits, and the facility is later shut down. They then begin receiving photos in their mailbox, always of them, with the figure closer each time.
A night shift worker at a 24-hour gym notices a man in a gray hoodie who appears daily at 3:17 AM without scanning in. The man never uses equipment, just walks laps, and sometimes disappears from camera view. One night, the worker finds the man in the breakroom, staring. The breakroom camera feed goes black when he tries to check it. He quits, and later receives a flash drive with grainy night vision footage of him sleeping, shot from outside his bedroom window.
A front desk worker at a hotel encounters a strange guest, Mark Keller, who arrives late with no luggage, a weird grin, and asks if they work every night. After assigning him room 408, the worker receives two silent calls from the room. Security footage shows Keller staring into the lobby camera before walking off-screen, despite no exit shown on elevator logs. His room is found undisturbed. The worker later receives a postcard addressed to 'nightbird' with a smudged fingerprint, and feels watched by a dark, plateless sedan.
A woman and her sister move into a suburban home. The woman sees a man in a hoodie staring at their front door. Later, the doorbell rings at 3:40 AM, but cameras glitch, showing nothing. At night, a figure stands outside their porch light. Their neighbor, Mrs. Lyndon, mentions seeing a man on their porch swing in the mornings, which the cameras fail to capture. Their front door is found unlocked, and a note in the mailbox reads: 'You're up late these days.' Finally, a motion alert shows the man in their front yard, arms stretched out, head tilted, staring. They report it, but the man is never found.
A couple and their dog, Loki, move into an apartment. The apartment across the hall has its peephole taped over, and they hear furniture scraping and scratching sounds at night. Loki growls at the wall. They find a note on their mat saying, 'You're noisy.' Small incidents escalate: a sticky door handle, a bleach-soaked doormat. Loki refuses to pass the neighbor's door. They hear someone trying to open their door at 2 AM. The building manager says the apartment has been empty for over six months, and the hallway cameras don't work. They find a high handprint on their bathroom mirror and a strange string tied around their bedroom doorknob. Their smoke alarm goes off at 3:14 AM, and they hear quiet breathing from the other side of their door. The next morning, muddy barefoot footprints lead away from their door, and a note reads: 'Thank you for not locking the door.'
A couple moves into a top-floor apartment. They constantly hear noises from the supposedly vacant unit above, including muffled humming at 3 AM. Dust rains from their ceiling. They find strange items near their door, including a photo of their door taken from above, with a timestamp from the previous night, though no camera is upstairs. They later hear whispering above their bed repeating, 'Don't lock the door. Let me in.' Knocks start from the ceiling every night at 3:17 AM. The manager shows them the empty, gutted apartment upstairs, but they find long scratch marks on the floor where their bed would be, and a pile of torn blue hoodie fabric. The manager dismisses it. That night, louder knocks and dragging sounds occur. Their front door is found slightly open, and camera footage from 3:16 to 3:18 AM is glitched. A new note reads, 'Don't go upstairs again.' They now hear breathing from inside the wall.