Welcome to Lore Legends, a subset of lore episodes that explore the strange tales we whisper

in the dark, even if they can't always be proven by the history books.

So if you're ready, let's begin.

You can feel it on the back of your neck.

That sensation that you aren't alone as you walk down a darkened street at night or

through a long narrow alley that someone or something has its eyes on you.

Maybe it's a trick of the darkness, perhaps it's our innate fear of the unknown.

After all, we humans tend to be afraid of what we cannot see.

Maybe that's why our kids often demand a night light, like a luminous barrier to keep

the monsters away.

Then again, maybe we are being observed, that rustling in the bushes outside our house,

the strange sounds coming from behind the trees.

The truth is we never know for sure, at least not until it's too late.

The playwright Samuel Beckett once wrote,

Strange feeling that someone is looking at me.

I am clear then dim, then gone, then dim again, then clear again, and so on, back and forth

in and out of someone's eye.

It seems, at some point in our lives, we're all drifting in and out of someone's watchful

gaze, a character and a narrative that only they know.

In the end, maybe Rockwell was onto something when he wrote his 1984 smash hit, Somebody's

Watching Me.

And that's probably why so many urban legends and whispered rumors feature some sort of invisible

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