I heard this story from my colleague Igor, with whom I did military service in the Chelyabinsk region. He had a friend Sergei, so it happened to him.
Sergei, unlike Igor, did not go to serve in the army - his parents, as they say, “got rid of”. They were wealthy with him, and here is the only son, you understand. Little sister Helen was born much later and, by the time our story begins, she was still quite a baby - only four years old.
Sergey lived well - his parents bought him a separate apartment, got him a prestigious job, was always well dressed, worked out in the gym, and did not limit himself to anything.
In general, he led a life that many of his peers could not even dream of. But, in fairness, it must be said that he did not ask himself and willingly talked with friends, regardless of their financial situation.
And then one night he unexpectedly woke up from the fact that in the corridor, behind the closed door of the bedroom, there was some incomprehensible, but very loud sound, as if someone was standing there and belching full. In any case, that is how it seemed to him asleep.
Sergei opened his eyes and listened for several minutes, but there was silence in the apartment. Sergey lived alone, he had no animals either, so he could not understand what exactly woke him up. Maybe - it seemed? You never know - I dreamed.
But just in case, Sergei decided to get out of bed and check the corridor. Carefully opened the door, looked out into the hallway - and froze. A few meters away, near the front door, he saw in the darkness the silhouette of a man who somehow hung in the air in an incomprehensible way, but upside down, leaning on his head.
In complete numbness, Sergei closed the bedroom door, sat down on the floor, leaned his back against the wall, and sat there until the morning, not daring to move from his place or look out into the corridor again.
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When the first rays of the sun began to break through the window, Sergei plucked up courage and again carefully stuck his head into the hallway - but there was no one there. Plucking up courage, Sergei walked around the entire apartment, checked the door to the balcony - it was securely locked. What nonsense? Maybe hallucinations?
This seems to be the most reasonable explanation. Without solving this riddle, Sergei went about his usual business. He did not tell anyone about what happened at night - he rightly feared that they would only laugh at him, at best. However, towards the night he became more and more uncomfortable.
Before going to bed, Sergei carefully checked everything again, making sure that the windows and doors were securely closed. I went to bed and, tossing and turning from side to side, somehow fell asleep. However, not for long. Soon he woke up all to the same sound as last night.
The door to the bedroom was open, and immediately behind it, from his bed, Sergei saw the same human figure - upside down. Shaking with fear, Sergei looked at his uninvited guest. It cannot be said that the person really hung in the air, obviously, he was leaning on his head and was very large, high, almost completely occupying the doorway
No matter how hard Sergei tried, he could not see his face. In the end, his nerves could not stand him, and he covered his head with a blanket, as in childhood, expecting that this monster was about to attack him.
But this did not happen, the room was still quiet, and then Sergei dared to peer cautiously with one eye from under the blanket. Nobody. The doorway was completely empty. Moreover, the door itself was closed.
Sergei did not want to experience such a night horror again, and therefore decided to go to spend the night with his parents, however, without explaining anything to them. After dinner, he locked himself in his old room and started playing some kind of computer game.
The little sister ran to him, holding in her hands a piece of paper with a picture that she herself had just drawn and wanted to show him. Without even knowing why, without even looking at the drawing, Sergey simply tore it into several pieces.
According to him, at this moment he experienced incredibly pleasant satisfaction, seeing how the little face of the baby wrinkles, and tears of resentment begin to roll from his eyes. Sobbing, the girl ran out of the room, and Sergei continued his computer entertainment.
When Lenochka complained to her mother and she came to find out what was the matter, Sergei told her that everything happened by chance. What was it? He could not even explain to himself, Sergei always loved his sister and fiddled with her with pleasure.
When he went to bed, he was tormented by sincere remorse, but he could no longer change anything. From pity for the baby, Sergei even burst into tears - and fell asleep. The night passed quietly and the monster did not appear.
The next night Sergei again stayed with his parents. Towards morning he woke up again - from some strange feeling of anxiety. What could have caused it - no strange sounds were heard in the apartment this time, the pre-dawn silence reigned, only the clock ticked regularly. After lying down for a while, Sergey was thirsty, went out into the kitchen and, not knowing why, looked out the window. And there…
In the yard, behind the children's swing, he again saw the same familiar figure, incomprehensibly kept upside down. Sergey could hardly restrain himself from screaming. Drawing the curtains, he rushed back to his room.
Then he woke up the parents, pulled them out of bed and made them go to the window. Those, not understanding anything, began to ask him what had happened, and when Sergei told them about the upside-down figure in the courtyard, then, of course, they decided that he had imagined everything. Moreover, there really was no one behind the playground.
The next day Sergei returned to his apartment. At the entrance I met an old neighbor, Amalia Ivanovna, she was going to the store, which she happily informed Sergei, who always maintained good relations with her.
Without knowing why, Sergei, going up to his floor, took out a match from his pocket and inserted it into the slot of the English lock. Waiting for the old woman to return from the store, he watched through the peephole with incomprehensible gloating as she tried to open the lock.
Later, he again could not explain to himself his disgusting act - he helped a lonely pensioner more than once, and she always treated him to delicious pies … What was that?
Toward nightfall, Sergei got ready. He decided that it was enough for him to portray the role of the victim, and therefore, before going to sleep, he put a heavy crowbar next to the bed. Now he was expecting this guest.
But he did not appear. He did not come on the following nights either. And with Sergey terrible things began to happen. Day after day, he began to commit all sorts of abominations in relation to various people - he painted the freshly painted wall of the entrance with black paint, then he would puncture the tires of his neighbors.
He quarreled with friends with everyone¸ when he came to his parents, he specially arranged scandals in order to bring his mother to hysterics. The strange thing was that he did not like what he was doing at all, he would be glad to stop, but he could not.
When he was kicked out of his job for breaking several thermometers and spilling mercury in the boss's office, Sergei completely rolled downhill: first he began to drink, then began to take drugs.
Parents regularly put him in the hospital for treatment, but this did not help. In the end, the guy was diagnosed with AIDS. In rare moments of enlightenment, he himself was horrified by where he had slipped, the only thing that made him happy was that he never saw that person again. Or was it not human?
Once Sergei called Igor, with whom they had not communicated for a long time, and asked to visit him in the hospital. Of course, Igor went literally the next day - and did not recognize his former friend.
The once athletic guy turned into a withered skeleton with arms limply hanging along his body. It was then that he told Igor about what had happened to him.
He also added that tonight he saw the same person again: he woke up at four in the morning and saw that he was standing very close to his bed. Only now he was no longer upside down, he stood on his feet.
Of course, Igor decided that this was all delirium of a sick imagination. At the same time, he was terribly sorry for his former friend, and he promised that he would definitely visit him regularly. Here are just his promise, he did not manage to keep: Sergei died literally the next night after their conversation.
Inna Kondaurova
