In a small West Virginia town marked by Civil War history, floods, and wakes held in living rooms, a family inherits an old duplex that never quite lets anyone rest. Exposed insulation, unfinished walls, and a room with no windows already make it unsettling—but for two young cousins sharing a bed, the real horror arrives late one night.
As they lie there giggling, a blinding, pulsing light blooms in the corner near the ceiling—impossible, with no lamps on and no windows to let anything in. It shines so bright it cuts through their blankets. When one cousin finally sits up and tells it to go away, the light vanishes… and something else starts.
Their blanket begins to tug. At first, it could be chalked up to slipping, until whatever is under the bed pulls back—hard. The covers rip out of their hands and drag to the floor, halfway underneath the frame. No pets. No siblings. No good explanation.
Decades later, one of them still refuses to let a foot or a hand hang off the bed.
Was it the house’s history bleeding through? Something drawn to two frightened kids? Or proof that every childhood fear about what lives under the bed comes from somewhere very real?
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