I woke up in the middle of the night to my phone buzzing on the bedside table. I groggily grabbed it and looked to see who was calling me at such a late/early hour. It read "Blocked," so I let it go to voicemail.
I was intrigued to see what could be so important as to warrant a call to me at that time, so I listened to the voicemail. And then I spent the next hour fighting off nightmares because this is what I heard:
A child's voice. But not the sort that actually comes from a child. The sort that comes from a voice changer. The sort that comes from those freakish twins in the Shining.
This shrill, gasping, childish voice asked -nay, demanded - money from me. And emphasized that when I call back to give that money, to make sure to list all my identifying information: address, e-mail, birth date...
It was at about this point in the message that my sleep-deprived mind started thinking about the Shining and serial killers and how the child-impersonator was probably lurking right outside my window watching me. I quickly deleted the message, but the damage was done. These thoughts were enough to keep me up for the next while tossing and turning in the sheets.
This morning as I relayed the story to Blake over breakfast, I wished I hadn't so quickly deleted the message because it was all seeming a little less scary than it was in the middle of the pitch-black night.
You are very nice not to wake Blake. I'd be just a little creeped out. I promise that it wasn't me. I don't do prank calls anymore.
ReplyDeleteThat is so scary! I'm reading this in the middle of the day and it still freaked me out a little. How bizarre. You have an iPhone, right? Because you can still listen to your deleted messages until you go in to "Deleted Messages" and clear them.
ReplyDelete@Mildred - I would have made him wake up, but he had been up coughing, so I didn't want to lessen his sleep...haha. Otherwise I totally would!
ReplyDelete@Valerie - Blake just showed me how to do that. I re-listened to the message in the daylight hours and it was still freaky. I wish I knew how to get audio files on the blog because you could be freaked out, too!
oh my word. this is beyond freaky. it kind of gave me the willies.
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