In a different time and place, young Tim found himself in a peculiar situation when his mother decided to change his bedroom to a small office room. The very first night, sleep eluded him as he suffered from a trifecta of ailments: asthma, diarrhea, and fever. His condition worsened, but an odd pattern emerged. Whenever his mother whisked him away from that room, his health rapidly improved. Puzzled and concerned, his parents couldn’t ignore the strange correlation.
With no other explanation, they resolved to change his room back to its original location. This time, his bed faced the entrance door and had a slight elevation allowing a view of the hallway on the other side. As the family settled into their new arrangement, peculiar occurrences continued to unfold.
One night, while the household slumbered, Tim was jolted awake by the sound of someone ascending the staircase towards their apartment. He heard the ominous footsteps approach the door, anticipating a knock. As he watched, shadows of shoes moved, and he anxiously awaited the visitor. Then, unexpectedly, the unseen guest ascended to the rooftop, where no other apartments existed. Tim rushed to his parents’ room, urging them to investigate, but when his father opened the door and inquired, silence met his query. No one was there.
Throughout their long residency in the apartment, strange incidents and unexplained occurrences accumulated. Tim recalled the eye he once glimpsed in the hallway, which belonged to the former tenant of their apartment, a lady deeply involved in spiritism. The same lady whose face he’d seen on the dog.
In a separate unsettling encounter, Tim encountered her on a trip to the hardware store. Her knowing smile sent shivers down his spine, prompting him to flee inside the store, where he remained in a state of fear until she eventually departed.
As Tim grew older, he developed an unusual ability to predict future events, though it didn’t happen frequently. He also became adept at sensing malevolent forces within people, recognizing that they weren’t truly themselves, but rather lost souls searching for hosts to embody the immoral values of the world.
Throughout his time in the apartment, Tim was forced to confront the abnormality of his existence, learning to navigate a world filled with unknown forces and the complexities of human nature.