Dear David opened the hatch, and it was horrifying
In the most recent update from Adam Ellis, the guy on Twitter who’s being haunted by a child ghost named Dear David, things got super terrifying. As if things weren’t already scary AF, Dear David opened the hatch this week and left Adam some clues.
If you haven’t been totally invested in this from the beginning, let us catch you up.
New York-based Ellis is being visited in dreams by what he thinks is a child ghost. Once, he even saw the ghost sitting in a chair. He’s tried to take photos, but mostly the pictures come out really dark and just add to the creep factor.
Ellis has said that in one dream, Dear David said he was killed in a store when someone pushed a shelf on him. Since then, all sorts of weird things have been happening to Ellis in his NYC apartment.
Here’s what Ellis says David looks like. Not cool, right?
He had a huge misshapen head that was dented on one side. I did my best to draw it: pic.twitter.com/AJizlw7qXe
— Adam ElIis 𓁹𓂏𓁹 (@adamtotscomix) August 7, 2017
And how he appeared in a photo.
— Adam ElIis 𓁹𓂏𓁹 (@adamtotscomix) November 7, 2017
Ellis noted that he’s heard sounds above him, which is weird, since he lives on the top floor. Then, just before Thanksgiving, Ellis noted a hatch in his hallway that he had always seen, but assumed led to the roof.
There's no real way to ease into this so I'll just say it: there's a mysterious hatch in my hallway. I've always known about it, but I just assumed it opened directly to the roof. pic.twitter.com/ttP4r7flKt
— Adam ElIis 𓁹𓂏𓁹 (@adamtotscomix) November 18, 2017
He did some calculations, and realized that there’s a crawl space above him.
First, the skylight is flat with the roof (I checked Google Earth to make sure). The hatch is about 3 feet below the skylight, meaning there's about 3 feet of empty space between the two openings. pic.twitter.com/xuCKpvSZd4
— Adam ElIis 𓁹𓂏𓁹 (@adamtotscomix) November 18, 2017
Skeptics might assume that there’s a raccoon or a mouse or something else more benign in the crawl space. It could maybe be old pipes. But, as one does, Ellis ordered a telescoping pole to check out what’s inside.
This is when things get really, super terrifying.
I'd barely fallen asleep when I woke up to an INCREDIBLY loud crash above me. It sounded like someone had dropped a bowling ball. I bolted upright in bed and immediately felt strange. There was a weird energy all around me. I can't explain it.
— Adam ElIis 𓁹𓂏𓁹 (@adamtotscomix) November 29, 2017
The next morning, he realized there was a bunch of debris on the stairs. RIGHT UNDER THE HATCH.
As I made my way down the stairs, something crunched under my feet. I looked down and noticed a pile of debris on the stairs, directly under the hatch. pic.twitter.com/ApE27uAh08
— Adam ElIis 𓁹𓂏𓁹 (@adamtotscomix) November 29, 2017
He grabbed the telescoping pole and attempted to open it.
Here's the video: pic.twitter.com/aWQMJMnp0c
— Adam ElIis 𓁹𓂏𓁹 (@adamtotscomix) November 29, 2017
AND A SHOE FELL OUT.
I picked it up and realized what it was. It was a small leather shoe. pic.twitter.com/DrT4UYRsky
— Adam ElIis 𓁹𓂏𓁹 (@adamtotscomix) November 29, 2017
A child’s leather shoe. He then called his landlord to come over with a solid ladder and take a peek around. The landlord didn’t see anything — no mice, raccoons, no squatters. And luckily no demon child. But he did find a marble.
A really old marble.
It was so worn that it hadn't registered as a marble at first. Its shape was also sort of weird, with a little bump on one end. pic.twitter.com/gdl0iV1YaZ
— Adam ElIis 𓁹𓂏𓁹 (@adamtotscomix) November 29, 2017
Ellis said that he’s keeping the shoe and the marble in his house for safekeeping (is it us, or is that kinda cray? He’s basically luring David to him!).
Unless, of course, this is just a perfectly woven horror story that Ellis has crafted for us and is faking the whole thing. Either way, stay safe, dude.
