Dark Man submitted by Alexandra.

Hi Edy, I love your podcast. I work nights, and I like to listen to your show.

I mostly binge listen, but that's neither here nor there.

I wanted to send you my scary story.

Only one of them actually.

It's really my daughter's story.

She was barely too when this happened.

I don't share my stories lightly either.

We had moved into a cheaper apartment building. to be honest, it was a ghetto ass building, L-O-L, but it was all we could afford as young parents.

Now, this building was weird to me. I'd never seen a building with one big shared balcony in the middle.

Imagine a square missing a side with one square balcony in the middle.

Apparently this is from when the building was a mental hospital and they would take all the patients outside together.

It kind of made sense, but I didn't have any facts to back it up.

No biggie.

Weird, but I'm used to weird. My daughter would be playing in her room and I would hear her talking. She would say it was her friend and point. Now, she was only two, so despite knowing how to talk well for her age, she couldn't comprehend that I didn't see anyone, and I didn't worry.

Figured she was doing the imaginary friend stage early on to.

Then, once a kid that always slept well, she started waking up in the middle of the night

screaming and crying. At first I would cuddle her on the couch and pass out with her. But

after a few nights in a row I got concerned. So when it happened again I

asked her what was wrong.

She said, no freaking lie man, the dark man won't leave me alone.

He wants to play.

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