Foot steps, the most natural sound in the world, something you commonly hear especially if you don’t live alone; though if you do and no one is around those steps are the most terrifying noises one could ever hear. I have been plagued with the most dreadful sounds of foot steps walking towards me since I was a teen, it happens at night, when I’m tucked into bed, feeling the gravity of the world forcing my eyes shut; foot steps seem to cautiously appear; the sound slowly creeping it’s way into my mind.
‘thud thud thud’
I try my best to not sleep, I wish I could say I suffer from insomnia or some other sleep disorder but unfortunately I don’t, instead I drink endless amounts of coffee each night not wanting to close my eyes. On average I get about 2 hours of rest and some how I’ve been able to make that work, my friends think I’ve gone mad but they don’t hear what I hear, those monstrous steps, they started off from a distance, slight shuffling like the sounds a kid would make when not wanting to walk forward; just dragging their feet, but eventually the timid steps transitioned into a more profound one, one with malevolence.
The sound usually awakes me sometime in the middle of the night, darkness still shrouding my room in a daze of mystery, as soon as my eyes shoot open there would be nothing; the once bewildering sounds that echoed with such…
