The Forever Light

You never got around to replacing the bulb in your closet, the darkness of the closet creeps you out, but you always just seem to forget to pick up light bulbs on your trips to Wal-Mart. It's a childish fear, really, but you feel like there might be someone or something lurking inside. The thoughts send shivers down your spine, so you decide to get your mind off the matter by watching YouTube. You pull out your phone open YouTube, deciding to type the name of your favorite content creator into the search bar, however, instead of getting results related to their channel, you are instead greeted by one search result, with no other options to click on. "The Forever Light" is the name of the video, the video is two minutes long, the view and like count seem to be glitched, showing a mess of white pixels instead of a number, and the thumbnail is of a rather unsettling liminal space that you haven't seen before. Intrigued, you decide to click on the video.
Before watching the video, you decide to pause and scroll down to the description, which seems to be a random assortment of word salad and random emoji spam with no rhyme or reason, and the video's only comment is just a random string of numbers and letters. It completely slips your mind to look at the uploader's username, instead opting to get around to watching the video. The video seems to be a slide show of liminal space images while a pitched-up version of "Just a burning memory" by the Caretakers plays on loop. However, in some of the images, you can see glimpses of some skeletal humanoid creature. Shrugging it off as some weird ARG, you decide to keep watching, both anticipating a jumpscare and making a game out of trying to find the creature in every image. You never see the whole creature, you catch an arm, a leg, what seems to be the top of it's head, but you never see the creature's entire body. The video has a seemingly supernatural hold on your attention span, and you feel like you want, no, need to finish the video, despite it's repetitive content. 
As the video hits the one minute mark, you start to feel like you are being watched, you shrug it off as the creepy music combined with the hints at some sort of monster hidden in the images getting to you, that is, however, until about 15 seconds after getting that initial feeling, when the images switch from being liminal spaces to being images who's subjects really freak you out. There are multiple creepy images, from a group of three people being chased by a floating sanguine ball with a human-like face that strikes at the uncanny valley, a close up of a man with no eyes and razor sharp teeth, a teenage girl being attacked by a tall furry creature with a lamprey-like mouth, and a pack of dogs who all had rotting flesh and exposed bones tearing flesh off a dead body. All of these images feel a little too realistic to be simple photoshop jobs, these images are all disturbing you to the core of your soul, but for whatever reason, you can't bring yourself to look away from the screen. You're shaking, and tearing up a little, a scream tries to escape your mouth but it doesn't even make it past your throat, however, like a moth to a flame, you are attracted to this video.
As the disturbing images appear on your screen, the feeling of being watched just gets worse and worse, the video is only thirty seconds away from being completed, yet it feels like an eternity. The video reaches it's conclusion, however, the last image is the most disturbing, not because of the subject, but because of the background. The last image shows the skeletal creature inside of your room, except this time, you can see it's facial features, it has sunken eyes, skin similar to stone, and a creepy smile on it's face. A sense of impending doom fills your body, and the feeling of being watched now feels justified, you put down your phone and look around the room, you don't see anything out of place until you look inside the closet. There it is, a skeletal humanoid with sunken eyes, and a creepy smile, the last thought that goes through your head before your untimely demise is that your fears were justified.
Category:YouTube
Category:Youtube
Category:Curse
Category:Monsters
Category:Paranormal
Category:Second Person