u/TidalRose

If you’re reading this, you need to help me. If something isn’t done about them soon they are GOING to kill me, GOING to keep doing this to other people. I know that sounds ridiculous, but I’m almost positive I won’t be their first victim and if I can’t avoid that then I’d at least hope to be their last. But if someone doesn’t do something to stop them NOW, it’ll be too late not just for me but for everyone.

I’m a freshman student at Ohio University and about two weeks into the first semester I started feeling like I was being watched. I know that sounds like paranoia but I’d never had a history of it. I’d just be walking to the coffee shop and BAM it feels like there’s someone following behind me even though I KNOW no one’s there. I told my friends about it, they just said that this campus is known for being “haunted” but I really don’t think that’s it. Whatever’s doing this isn’t ghosts. Maybe demons, but not ghosts. I don’t know how I can be so sure but I am.

It all started in October. I was walking back to my dorm after dinner and the sun was like halfway through setting when I felt like I was being watched again. So I looked around frantically and then on the roof I saw it. It was a human silhouette just sitting on top of the chemistry building. The only part that wasn’t a silhouette were the eyes, they glowed- two tiny balls of yellowish light. I shook my head, blinked hard, rubbed my eyes, looked through my phone camera at it but it didn’t go away. I took pictures of it but when I tried to show people they thought they were photoshopped. But it was real I promise. It just stared at me, almost staring through me it felt like, and its eyes definitely followed me as I moved. I tried to ignore it but I couldn’t.

I went to bed that night thinking “wow, that was fuckin’ weird, huh?” and hoping it was a one-off thing. But then it happened again the next night. And the next. And every single night after that. It wasn’t always on top of the chemistry building, sometimes it was on the roofs of dorms, or standing on a flagpole somehow, but it was always really high up. And some nights I swear there was more than one of them. They never moved except I could tell they were breathing. Those silhouettes- I could always see them against the night sky even when I definitely shouldn’t have been able to.

They are coming to kill me. I’m sure of that now. I don’t know how to explain why I think that but all I know is that my life is in danger and I need a priest or something NOW. They aren’t human, never will be, never were. Humans can’t get to a lot of the places these things would watch me from. And their eyes- human eyes don’t GLOW. I know you probably won’t believe me and you’ll think that I’m just schizophrenic or something, but this is REAL. It’s REAL. These THINGS are REAL and watching me from rooftops is their way of making it known that they want me DEAD, or worse- though I don’t know what could possibly be worse. Well maybe being one of them is worse and that’s what they’re trying to do, make me a silhouette, but I don’t know. All I know is that I NEED HELP. I’m gonna try to go to one of the churches on campus and see if anayone can do anything to fix this, fix ME. If you’re reading this it means… well you can probably guess. Just please DO SOMETHING ABOUT THEM.

P L e a S e

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The previous document was recovered from the sidewalk in front of the Church of the Good Shepherd at Ohio University, at 9:30pm on Thursday, April 18th, 2024. Beside it was a white cardigan, navy blue pleated skirt, a pair of white Mary Janes, a pair of navy blue socks, and a pale pink t-shirt, all neatly folded and splattered with a black substance. Samples of the substance have been sent to the forensics lab for analysis, but no results have come back so far. The skirt was one with pockets, and in one pocket was the wallet that had presumably belonged to the skirt’s owner. The college ID inside was for one Tara Alfini, a freshman ecology student at Ohio University. An investigation was launched and there are no witnesses to what may have happened to her. Her friends, when interviewed, stated that Tara had seemed slightly more “on edge” than usual near the time of the disappearance, but they figured it was just anxiety, as finals were the following week. None of them have been deemed suspects in Tara’s disappearance, and her family members were also dismissed. Tara’s other belongings- particularly, her cell phone- have yet to be found.