It was Hiding in the Closet..

"It Replaced Her Father at Night...” is the 26th episode of Strange Encounters.

In this episode, Parker & Chester receive an email from a 53-year-old mother, Kathryn. Kathryn is concerned about the behavior of her late husband Eugene, who recently began to act differently after a meeting with a men’s group.

* Parker
* Chester
* Eugene
* Kathryn (deceased)
* Michelle (deceased)

## Episode

Parker & Chester yet again receive an email from a 53-year-old mother, Kathryn. Kathryn is concerned about the behavior of her husband Eugene, who recently began to act differently after a meeting with an alleged group that specializes in transformation and modification of the human body. She sent a video showcasing him consuming her daughter's hair for proof on the matter, greatly disturbing the protagonists. Eventually, Parker & co set out to understand her situation, and the video kicks off.

After arriving at the house Chester expresses his worries that the house is completely surrounded by woods. Parker dismisses his concern and they knock on the door. A disturbed Kathryn answers and leads them to the living room to discuss the matter of her husband, Eugene. Kathryn explains what has occurred to Eugene and his disturbing new appearance. Kathryn expresses her concern for her daughter, stating that she doesn’t want him around her daughter anymore. She states that their family cat went missing two days ago, and that earlier today she found his collar in the trash. This spooks our heroes, but they continue on and decide to get the daughters' opinion on the situation. After entering her room, Parker and Chester find that the whole room is trashed. The room appears to show where a struggle between Michelle and Eugene took place. On their way out, Chester notices black handprints on the sheets. They think nothing of it and proceed back downstairs.

They tell Kathryn about her daughter’s absence and in shock Kathryn states frantically that her daughter is upstairs. She begins to panic as the basement door swings open and Eugene steps out, giggling and breathing heavily. The duo introduces themselves to the patriarch and explains that his daughter seems to be absent from her room. Eugene’s expression changes and states, “she went on a trip”. This confuses and scares the trio & he goes back down to the basement. Kathryn begins to cry and yell that “she’s gone!” Saying that her daughter was taken by her husband. Parker calms her down stating that they will find out what happened and help her, saying that she’s not alone.

They set up cameras in Eugene's room. They are weirded out by the discovery of a strange bag of skin under the bed and the same black handprints on the sheets. After setting up the camera, Parker begins to leave until he sees Chester peeking into the closet. Chester finds a giant hole covered by blankets, with more familiar black stains. To test how far down it goes, he drops Parker’s watch into the hole, after a while, he doesn’t hear it drop, which deeply scares him. Parker says that it’s rude to snoop and that they should leave. Chester expresses his concern about Eugene & Parker reassures him, and they go to sleep.

During the night a small humanoid without legs crawls out of the hole. It gets on the bed and shuffles into the skin on the bed. It then rises up and sits on the side of the bed before it notices the camera. in reaction to this, it moves in front of the camera before headbutting it to the ground. The camera then cuts to Kathryn's room when the creature is seen stumbling in. It begins to twist at an unnatural angle and do a weird dance. After this, it coughs up what looks like a rat which enters Kathryn's body through her mouth. This seems to make Kathryn possessed, and the creature runs at the camera.

The next morning, Chester & Parker wake up & watch the footage. Chester goes to wake up Kathryn, but she isn't in her room. He becomes concerned about the knocked-over furniture and runs down the stairs to tell Parker. This is when they hear Eugene in the next room giggling to himself and ask him what happened to Kathryn. He replies with "she went on a trip" and begins to giggle louder. Chester thinks Eugene took Kathryn, and Parker agrees. Parker decides to stay another night to see what's going on with Eugene, and Chester very reluctantly agrees. Later when checking the footage, they see that Eugene was in Kathryn's room and most likely took her, they go to set the camera back up. Once inside Eugene's room, they set the knocked-over camera back up, but Chester starts snooping around and finds a drawing labeled "meat husk".

Parker and Chester try to determine the meaning of the drawing when Chester notices Eugene standing in the doorway. They make an excuse & apologize for being in his room. Rather than caring about their snooping behavior, Eugene asks, "What type of meat do you like?" then tries to leave the room. Parker asks him to clarify what he means, grabs his arm whose skin slips right off. Eugene freaks out and immediately shuts the door. Chester freaks out by the fact that Eugene's hand slipped off & asks Parker if they can leave. However, Parker thinks they are closer to solving what had happened with Kathryn and tells Chester that they're staying. They go to bed and go to sleep.

The black creature comes out of the hole once again and enters Eugene’s body. Eugene starts to "activate" and gets up and starts to bite his skin. He walks to his closet and jumps down the hole. Eugene starts to make humming/singing noise waking up Parker and Chester. They go down to the basement to investigate where that noise is coming from. They discover lots of mannequins and Parker tells Chester to split up, but Chester disagrees. They split up anyway. Parker hears a strange humming noise and sees Kathryn, but she got turned into a doll/mannequin by Eugene. Chester stumbles upon Eugene standing there and Eugene chases Parker and Chester out of the house.

In the end, it says that they tried to contact Kathryn's family/friends to see if anyone has heard from her. Luckily, Kathryn's sister answered, and Parker and Chester send the footage to her. Kathryn's sister watched it and said that the man looked just like Kathryn's husband but couldn’t be him since Kathryn's previous husband had a funeral 3 years ago.

## Trivia

* "It Replaced Her Father at Night.." sets up Life of Luxury for a possible series, according to fans.
* Like most videos, "It Replaced Her Father at Night.." received a title and thumbnail change (like most of the time, the title is greatly exaggerated/clickbait).
* This is the first video of 2021.
* Life of Luxury theories
* Men's enhancement club

## Galley

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