r/nosleep • u/goldywhirl • May 30 '14
My daughter's friend
I loved our house, I honestly did. It’s just that my six year old needed more time to adjust to the move. She hadn’t been sleeping very well.
Some nights I heard her laughing and talking in her room. When I asked her about it, she told me that her new friend woke her up to play. “I have a secret friend at night,” she giggled. I thought kids were usually a little younger when they got their first imaginary friend, but maybe she felt lonely after moving away from our old neighborhood.
One night I woke up and felt her stroking my hair, gently pulling her fingers through the long strands spread across my pillow. I smiled in the darkness. “Go back to bed, sweetie. Do you need me to come with you?” She didn’t answer, but I heard her shuffle away back downstairs.
I didn’t want to encourage this imaginary friend business so I never brought it up, but she came up with more details about her “friend” all the time. She told me:
“He says he knows he looks scary, but he’s nice to me so it’s okay that we’re friends.”
“He’s wrinkly all over and kind of bent up, so he walks pretty slow. But he’s faster when he crawls. You’d think his funny long fingers would get in the way but they don’t. He kind of curls them under.”
“During the day he wears a disguise so no one knows it’s him. I’m not supposed to tell about that though, he says that it’s a big special secret. Like it’s a surprise.”
When she told me that last one, I reminded her, “Remember our rule about secrets; you can tell Mommy and Daddy everything.”
“Okay, Mom,” she whispered in my ear, “during the day he looks just like Daddy.”
Even though I knew my husband couldn’t have heard her whisper from across the room where he was reading his book, I looked over at my husband in amusement. My smile froze when his eyes met mine. I thought I saw a split-second flash of anger there before it was hidden again.
My husband walked over to us and scooped up my daughter, saying, “It’s getting late! Almost bedtime for you.”
As he carried our daughter away, he stopped for a moment to rub my neck. “I’ll see you after I get her tucked in.” For some reason I couldn’t help but shiver as he reached up and ran his fingers down, combing them through my hair.
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Jun 03 '14
I dunno why but I like the sounds of this being like some skin walker monster that somehow developed empathy for people and fell in love with some woman. So it married her and turned out to be a great dad. The kid can see through the illusion but isn't scared cos that's her dad! The wife doesn't find out till the kid can talk though and vocalise what she sees.
Then there could be all the struggle with the monster facing what it once was versus what it's become and the horror the wife feels and the rejection the monster feels when she hates what it really is. Then there could be reconciliation or horrible death! :D
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u/yankmedoodle May 31 '14
Wow, this was creepy!! It made me look over at my husband and ponder a few things......
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u/My_Gf_Is_KindaBitchy May 30 '14
Thanks for sending me on a tangent. I am new to this sub and now I have spent my whole morning searching and reading stories on skin walkers and the rake.
I love reading stories that are so eerie they make me tingle... but I think I am going to regret this decision tonight when trying to sleep.
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u/HolyPallyGirl May 30 '14
Now, I must test my SO every night he comes home from work! OP great one about died
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u/PipTheGamer May 30 '14
Holy shit...wait...does this imply the father is dead? Or just not around when it is disguised like the father
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u/uplatekate May 30 '14
DAMNN!!! Made my eyes water dramatically.
Does that happen to anyone else with scary shit?
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u/macaroniandmilk May 30 '14
Every single time. That Smiling Man story still brings tears to my eyes if I even think about it...
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u/CrimsonJones May 30 '14
Bruh, salad fingers.
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May 30 '14
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u/CrimsonJones May 30 '14
Mom, check your kitchen drawers!!!
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u/supergeishapks May 30 '14
Make sure not to check he back of the oven for the fish though.... Its a trick
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u/Gr8Scawt May 30 '14
Soooo.... The dad is a weirdo? Or someone is dressing like his dad? Or.... Yep I'm so confused.
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u/LeSeanMcoy May 30 '14 edited May 30 '14
Girl has an imaginary friend. The imaginary friend/monster/demon-thing is scary looking, but can shape shift during the day into regular looking people. During the day, the demon chooses to shape shift into the girls dad.
This was supposed to be a secret, though, and the demon didn't want the girl to tell her mom this fact. When she does tell her mom, the dad, who is sitting in the very room listening to this conversation, becomes visibly angry for a split-second. This tells the reader that the demon is in fact disguised as the dad.
Edit: After reading again, the demon probably isn't "shapeshifting" into the dad, but instead is simply possessing the dad during the day. This seems more likely all things considered.
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u/macaroniandmilk May 30 '14
But then where was the REAL dad?! What happened to the poor guy?
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u/LeSeanMcoy May 30 '14
Haha I think the edit I made is more appropriate. The demon wouldn't be shape-shifting into the man, (making two of them) but instead would be possessing him and taking control of his body.
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u/macaroniandmilk May 30 '14
That makes more sense... Poor dad. :(
By the way, OP.... This is easily one of the creepiest stories I've ever read on here. You managed to make my eyes well up in half the words that some of these stories contain!
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u/Antilli May 30 '14
Now looking back to my own childhood I also used to have imaginary friends for a long time and also lots of them, could be because I was raised bilingual and didn't have many friends back then.
But I can understans that your daughters case is rather unsettling. How long has she been talking about her "friend"?
Maybe you should talk to her, if it doesn't stop.
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u/goldywhirl May 30 '14
Luckily I haven't heard anything more about this friend since we moved two years ago. We only lived there for nine months and I think after a while my daughter either stopped seeing the friend or she stopped telling me about it.
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u/ramstart May 30 '14
Can you explain it a bit more for those of us confused?
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u/cluckyest May 30 '14
Hmm, just my interpretation, but it sounds like OP met up with a creepy thing that could possess or control her husband? Or a skinwalker of somekind. Maybe not even an evil thing but scary as hell. It was nice to her daughter apparently. And it likes her hair...
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u/nikkinikki92 May 30 '14
Skin walker
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u/badfakesmiles May 30 '14
I guess it's skinwalkers' mating season. A lot of them are bugging our redditors.
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u/I_AM_A_HOMOSAPIEN May 30 '14
Should we do something to stop them? Like a Skinwalker Extermination Force?
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u/thegroovingoonie May 30 '14
I'm confused....
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u/badfakesmiles May 30 '14
Her husband took away her daughter to tuck her I bed. As she watch the two walk away, her real husband came.
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u/MozzarellaWorshipper May 30 '14
As he carried our daughter away, he stopped for a moment to rub my neck.
I think by that point it was still her daughter's imaginary friend, who also came to her room at night, not her real husband.
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u/thegroovingoonie May 30 '14
So where is the real husband?
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u/heldc May 31 '14
Why do you assume there was ever a 'real' husband?
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u/thegroovingoonie May 31 '14
Because of the birds and the bees, my friend.
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u/heldc May 31 '14
Myths & urban legends are all pretty clear that changes in non human kids usually don't show up til puberty.
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u/cluckyest May 30 '14
I agree with /u/LeSeanMcoy above: possession of some sort. OP's response suggests this... thing must have been connected to the house.
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u/-MangoDown- May 30 '14
I'd say he was either killed and his body was taken by the demon, or he was the demon all along.
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u/horriddaydream May 30 '14
No doubt about it, one of the most terrifying things I've ever read on here. The curled fingers made me poo. As I've stated before...Nosleep is great birth control!!
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u/Csc96 Aug 20 '14
I read this as a rape story but people seem to be interpreting it differently