The Man In the Window
He crawled thru our window
A man with no hair
Standing four feet tall
Every night he was there
We moved to this house
Not knowing of its lore
Not hearing of the evil
That lurked there before
A murder took place
By a man and his mother
A sibling was killed
He stabbed his own brother
He would walk to our bed
Night after night
With evil in his eyes
And our hearts filled with fright
In a lab coat of white
And blood on his chest
He told us he'd kill us
For this was his quest
Only in this room
Would he always appear
To fill me and my brothers
With breathtaking fear
When we moved to another
The room would be clean
Neither mother or her son
Would ever be seen
My mother would tell us
It was only a dream
Til his mother she saw
With a blood curdling scream
The front door was locked
But like a phantom magician
She walked thru the walls
This ghostly apparition
She sat in a chair
And rocked while she laughed
My mother was paralyzed
By this witch and her craft
"You can't move can you dear?"
The woman replied
She said the death smell was sickening
From this woman who'd died
In the middle of the night
Doors would open then close
Who's coming and going?
None of us knows
The neighbors all knew
Of the things that occured
But all were too scared
To utter a word
My father would sit
By our bedside each night
Til we all fell asleep
Then turn out the light
This story is true
I was six years old
The house is still standing
And the story still told
Each Halloween season
This house will appear
In our town's local newspaper
To fill us with fear
Though now it stands empty
Many families passed thru
And all will attest
That what I've told you, is true
For Amy's I saw with my own eyes contest
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