LATE NIGHT ONLINE HORROR STORY ANIMATED
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00:00It was 2.25 a.m.
00:30I sat at my laptop aimlessly scrolling as the minutes dragged by.
00:37Only 3 more hours left until I needed to start getting ready for a long day of work.
00:44I leaned back in my chair and cracked my neck.
00:49As I heard the tension being released, I contemplated crawling into my bed and calling in a night,
00:56but my overstimulated brain was still rushing after several hours of scrolling through endless
01:02tweets, half reading reddit posts and hitting the next recommended video on YouTube.
01:08I eventually found myself in the deadly cycle of switching between the homepage and the
01:13inbox page on Facebook.
01:16I reached across the table and took a long swig of my now flat Pepsi, then lurched as
01:23I felt a trickle running down my chin and onto my exposed keyboard.
01:29Quickly using the sleeve of my hoodie, I frantically wiped off the keys that the sugary liquid splashed
01:35onto.
01:36I really need to stop snacking at my computer.
01:40I thought to myself as I observed the many crumbs scattered between the keys, don't judge
01:46me, I'm sure you have done it too.
01:49After looking over my somewhat cleaner keyboard with satisfaction, I looked back onto the screen.
01:55A massive jumble of letters were strewn across the Google search bar as a result of my late
02:00night keyboard scrubbing session.
02:03I briefly considered googling my own name for the third time that night, but then decided
02:10that those three hours of sleep might be just enough to get me through my next 8 hours shift.
02:17As I was about to stand up, a small square suddenly appeared in the corner of my screen.
02:23It was plain white with a red frame with the bold letters flashing from blue to red reading,
02:30this link will disappear in 60 seconds.
02:36Below a small timer began counting down from 60 to 59 to 58.
02:45Nice try.
02:47Probably some low budget website or internet scam trying to trick me into taking their surveys
02:52or giving out my credit card information so that I can win that free new iPad.
02:58The numbers counted down from 40 to 39 to 38.
03:03As the numbers counted down, my curiosity of where that link will take me began to grow.
03:11I hovered the mouse over the box then stopped myself.
03:17What if clicking this link would install some virus onto my computer?
03:29I reached for the top of my screen and began to close it.
03:34What if it was the FBI trying to bait me into clicking a link to an illegal website?
03:44Just as the screen was about to meet my keyboard, I stopped.
03:50What if it really was a once in a lifetime opportunity and by clicking this link I would get the chance
03:57to view something no one has ever seen before?
04:01The thought of never knowing where that link would take me is going to drive me crazy.
04:07And I could surely see myself losing sleep over it.
04:12I slowly lifted my laptop screen again and saw the numbers count down from 5 to 4 to 3 and
04:23clicked the link just as the timer reached 1.
04:30A new tab appeared on my screen as what looked like a video began buffering.
04:37I will see myself losing track.
04:38I will see myself losing sleep over the box because I'm sure I broke something crazy and I need to
04:51see this video.
04:52Anyway, I will see what I was interested in meeting you.
04:58I blinked in confusion as all I saw was a very dark video feed with a blinking red dot
05:27in the corner of the screen next to the words LIFE.
05:33I stared at it for a few seconds, trying to make out what exactly I was supposed to be
05:38looking at.
05:39It appeared to be the shape of someone's silhouette.
05:46Did the link bring me to a livestream chat with some random person?
05:52Can you hear me?
06:10The person on the other end of the stream just sat there as I heard my voice echo from my
06:17computer speakers.
06:18It kind of sounded like when you are on the phone with someone and they have their volume
06:24turned up so you can hear your voice repeating while you are talking to them.
06:29I sat there for a full minute, not saying anything, waiting for the person in the livestream to
06:37respond or move or do pretty much anything.
06:40They just sat there, the whole time, barely moving.
06:47Then from the corner of the screen I saw another figure standing in the background.
06:59At first, the second figure just stood there unmoving, then began to sway back and forth.
07:12The figure behind no longer seemed human, its movement was just too strange and unnatural.
07:23This continued for another minute, then it stopped and went rigid.
07:35Its head began to twitch to the side every so often, becoming faster and more rapid.
07:48The other figure just sat there motionless, as if unaware of what was going on behind it.
07:57I then shifted my gaze to the figure behind, as it began to slowly walk closer and closer
08:05to the person sitting closest to the screen, who still to this moment just sat there, motionless,
08:15staring at the screen.
08:32My heart began to race.
08:35Why don't they notice what's going on?
08:39Are they drugged?
08:40Is this some kind of prank?
08:42Or some sick film being streamed on the dark web by some psychopath?
08:48I wanted to yell out to that person warning them of the figure standing dangerously close
08:55to them, whose movement was no doubt not human.
09:09God, I wish that the image was more clear.
09:22Just when I thought it was about to be all over, the twitching figure stopped, then slowly
09:28began to crouch down off camera, and I could no longer see it from behind the seated figure
09:40in front of the screen.
09:46After my heart began to slow down, I leaned in closer to the screen to try to get a better
09:52view of the mysterious figure in front of me.
09:58Then to my surprise, the seated figure leaned in as well.
10:02I was able to say that you might feel so quiet or something away.
10:09So that's the second one that needs to be a patient as well.
10:18If there is no doubt in front of me, I wasn't sure they wanted to take a touch.
10:26This guy's mimicking me?
10:56I then noticed a small light at the top of my computer monitor, a steady green light.
11:18It was then I noticed that my camera lens was extremely dusty.
11:25It was a wonder that the figure on the other end could not even see me.
11:30I reached my sleeve up and gently wiped the dust off the monitor camera.
11:38The second my gaze returned to my screen, I felt my heart began to race.
11:46The figure I've been staring at this whole time was me.
11:53This whole live stream was not a two-way video chat.
11:57It was just a recording of me sitting in front of my laptop.
12:03Then just like that, the image disappeared from the screen.
12:13My mind raced as everything began to settle in.
12:18If this was a recording of me, that means that the figure behind was a recording as well.
12:27I made two mistakes that night.
12:30The first was clicking that link and the second was looking under my table.
12:39I will see you again with another creepy story.
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