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On a June night in 1997, Kathy Peters was asleep at her home in Mirror Lake, a quiet neighborhood of Sarasota, Florida. Around 3.45 a.m., she was startled awake by a strange noise. It was unlike anything

Kathy had heard, a faint, eerie, rattling hiss. After a few seconds, the sound faded, and Kathy tried to go

back to sleep. But now she was too anxious. So she got up and crossed to the window. She opened the

blinds and looked across the lake's glassy surface.

Nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

But then she nearly jumped out of her skin when a loud metallic banging noise sounded right below her window.

Somebody was pounding on her screen door.

Kathy ran downstairs, having no idea who could be bothering her at this time of the night.

She considered not answering, but Mirror Lake was a very safe community.

So there had to be a reasonable explanation here.

So she opened the door.

Through the screen, she could see someone standing in the darkness.

Kathy asked who it was and what they wanted, but the figure didn't say anything.

Now, Kathy was terrified.

So she switched on the porch light.

And when she saw what was in front of her, she reeled back in horror.

But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the Strange, Dark, and Mysterious delivered in story format,

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