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It all started after the car crash with my wife and my unborn child. Cliche as it may sound but She died along with our baby while I survived miraculously without a scratch, after that event I started seeing supernatural things. I started seeing the 'Wraith', It wasn't really a pleasant sight to see. They got these hollow black eyes with their lips sewn shut. I often see them in my dreams, if that's what I should call it. More often than not I always have episodes of Sleep Paralysis wherein I wake up in the middle of the night to have this wraith looking at me from the ceiling, it has blood dripping from it's hollow black eye and it's usual sewn mouth forms a smile from ear to ear which shows it's sharp black teeth.

I try to focus my energy into waking myself up, I try to ignore it but eventually it escalated into something more sinister.

There wasn't a night were I wasn't woken up by this sleep paralysis and what I noticed was, everytime I wake up it gets closer, closer and closer. I started noticing the small changes at first, misplaced things, doors opening on their own, footsteps on the ceiling, shadows following me in the corner of my eye. Soon it turned into something more, often I wake up with this wraith watching me, with a malicious grin wider than before it would often attack me then I'd wake up but then I started seeing scratches all over my body that results to bleeding, I started researching about it.

I found out it was an omen of death, then I realized I escaped death when I shouldn't have. It was an error, I shouldn't be alive. I started accepting that sooner or later I'd be taken by this wraith, later that night I drank a whole bottle of sleeping pills and after a long time this dream was blissful. I woke up in a field of flowers, I saw my wife happy wearing her favorite white dress I given to her as a gift on our first anniversary. I ran towards her estatic then I held her in my arms, I wouldn't ever let her go.

The moment was short lived however, I suddenly felt a pain, her hands turned into talons which pierced through my heart, her angelic features turned into nightmare as I stared at the wraith in front of me. It just stared at me with the same smile on it's face as if enjoying the agony I'm going through. I started drowing in my own blood till I can no longer breath, eventually darkness consumed me.

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*click* *click* The sound of the cameras clicking and reporters was heard all around. "No entrance at the crime scene please back down." The police tried to control, the growing crowd in front of the dead man's house.

Police found the body in an unidentifiable state. It seems like the injuries were self inflicted, the skin was literally peeled off with fingers and then was used as a cover on the glass window. The house was trashed and there was no signs of forced entry. The police found sketches of victim about a wraith and a warning that said "It's coming" written on the wall with fecal matter. Police found traces of methamphetamine on the deceased body, police also concluded that the victim suffered from schizoprenia.