It stops right behind you and then you feel it.

Sometimes it's not the shadows outside that haunt you, but what slips inside just when you think you're safe.

The things that follow you home don't knock, don't wait, and don't ask permission.

They linger, patiently waiting, and sometimes you only realize they're there when it's too late to be saved.

I'm Blair Bathory and welcome to the Something Scary podcast.

Thanks for joining us as we descend into the darkness together.

So, want to hear something scary?

It followed me home.

Sometimes it's not the nightmares that follow you in your dreams.

It's the moment something else wakes up with you.

Like in this story by Pita M.

I was really into scary stuff as a kid.

Which doesn't make sense because I was terrified

of almost everything.

Like I'd watch something creepy, then immediately regret it, lying in bed staring at the corner

of my room thinking, yeah, something's definitely there now.

The night before Easter, I watched this video about leaving your body,

like your soul could just step out, walk around, watch yourself sleeping.

I didn't think it was real.

I thought it was cool.

That night, I woke up, not from a dream, not from noise, just awake.

And I had this feeling.

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