Reply #15: I read about something 20 years ago that still freaks me out [View All]

[Enraged_Ape]

It was a letter to the editors of a series of books popular in the late 70s called "The People's Almanac", published in the third book.

The letter was from a woman who had been tormented for years by the same dream. In this dream, she is alone in some sort of restroom and a crouched figure, whom she cannot discern as male or female, walks into the room and goes into a stall. Then the woman hears a sick, squishing sound like bandages being torn away, and a voice saying something like "Help me." In the dream, she opens the stall and always, ALWAYS she would then wake up screaming, horrified, yet unable to discern or remember just what it was that was so awful.

After years of having this same terrifying dream, the woman who wrote the letter actually found herself alone in an airport restroom. A crouched figure walked into the restroom and entered a stall. The woman was paralyzed with shock and fear to hear the same squishing, tearing sounds. The sounds then stopped, and there was a long pause of silence as if the entity in the stall was waiting for something. The woman shouted at the stall, "I know what you want me to do, and I'M NOT GOING TO DO IT!!"

This was followed by the strange squishing, tearing sounds again, and the creature burst from the stall and left the restroom, never to be
seen by the woman, in dreams or reality, again.