Scary Facts

The digital glow of your laptop screen cast a pallid light across your face, illuminating the lines of exhaustion etched beneath your eyes. It was past 3 AM, that notorious hour when the veil between worlds supposedly thinned. You scrolled through another list, a collection of bizarre and unsettling trivia you'd stumbled upon, your heart giving a familiar, morbid little flutter.

"Creepy Fact #1: If you wake up at 2-3:00 am without knowing why, there is an 80% chance that someone from somewhere is staring right at you..."

A chill, entirely unrelated to the cool night air seeping through your window, snaked up your spine. You glanced around your darkened room, the shadows seeming to deepen in the corners. Nothing. Just the familiar shapes of your furniture, distorted by the lack of light. You told yourself it was the power of suggestion, a trick of the mind. Yet, the air felt heavy, as if someone had just exhaled beside you.

You continued scrolling, a nervous habit you couldn't break. Your eyes scanned the next entry, a half-formed thought about turning in for the night vanishing as the words pulled you further into the rabbit hole.