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Our light illuminated the derelict room just as everyone's voices snapped into silence. Across from us stood a familiar twitching silhouette.

Our light illuminated the derelict room just as everyone's voices snapped into a terrified silence. Across from us, a familiar, twitching silhouette stood waiting in the dark.

The air inside the dilapidated room was suffocatingly still, dominated by the towering, unblinking presence of the strange man we came to encounter a few weeks ago. He watched us from the corner with a twitching, rigid, stone-faced stare as my friends' chatter snapped into a horrifying, synchronized, eerie silence.