1 Man outside the window

One cold winter evening, a sixteen-year-old girl was alone at home and was watching TV. Her parents left the house to spend the weekend with their friends. It was snowing all day, but the girl felt good and comfortable sitting on the sofa in the living room, wrapped in a warm woolen blanket. By midnight, her parents had not yet returned, and she began to feel anxious. She did not want to call them, so that they would not think that she could not take care of herself.

TV stood in the corner of the room next to a large window. She wanted to switch the channel, when suddenly she noticed how something was moving in the window with her peripheral vision. In the darkness among the falling snow, she distinguished a silhouette of a man walking in her direction. As he approached, she could see his face. It was covered with scars, and his lips were stretched, making an ominous smile. Frightened, the girl froze, and was unable to move. The man stood there and was silently looking at her through the glass. Then… he put his hand in his coat pocket and pulled something out. It was a knife ...

Unable to stand, the girl grabbed the phone from the top of a table next to the sofa, dialed the police number and held her breath while waiting for an answer.

"I have a man standing outside the window," she whispered, not taking her eyes off the creepy guest.

"He has a knife!!! Please come quickly". My address...

She was barely able to move, minutes passed one after another. The man outside the window was still standing and looking right at her. In the end, girl heard the sound of a siren outside, and police began knocking on the door.

The girl rushed to the front door, and let the police in. They told her that they had not seen anyone near the house and did not find any footprints.

"Impossible…" said the girl, pointing to the window. "He just stood there when you knocked." You could have not missed him…

"This is not possible," said the officer. "There was nobody, and the snow remained untouched. With such snow, even if someone had been there recently, he would have left distinct footprints"

"But I saw him with my own eyes!" - girl insisted.

"You know, your eyes can play a cruel joke with you," the officer said. "Maybe you watch too many films?"

The police were about to leave when, suddenly, one of the officers noticed something…

He walked around the sofa on which the girl was sitting.

Wet footprints and an abandoned knife remained on the carpet behind the sofa.

"You did not see the man outside the window… you looked at his reflection… all this time he stood two steps behind your back."

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