Over the next few days, David noticed something frightening. Every time Ethan approached the wall, it was always the same exact corner, the same precise spot. He moved all the furniture, looked for mold, checked for drafts, but found nothing. Something was wrong with this corner. Something cold and disturbing.
David began working in the child’s room at night, just to watch Ethan sleep. But the behavior facing the wall never occurred during the nap. Only when he was awake, only when David wasn’t looking closely.
Then came the frightful scream. It was exactly 2:14 a.m. The baby monitor suddenly burst out with a piercing, horrible scream. David jumped out of bed, his heart pounding.
When he arrived in the room, Ethan was back in the corner, his face pressed tightly against the wall, his little hands clenched in fists, his whole body trembling. David immediately seized him, murmuring:
“You’re safe. You’re safe.
But Ethan was scratching David’s chest, desperately trying to turn around to look at the wall again. That was the first night that David wept because of it. Something was really wrong. The next morning, he called a child psychologist.