🕯️ The Last Voice Note Before She Disappeared
I still have the voice note saved on my phone.
I’ve tried deleting it—more than once. But every time my thumb hovers over the screen, something stops me. Not fear. Not exactly.
It’s more like… a feeling that if I delete it, whatever followed her… might come looking for me next.
It started on a Tuesday evening.
Nothing unusual. Nothing strange. Just another normal day that should have stayed normal.
Her name was Ayesha. She was my cousin, but we were more like siblings. Same age. Same school growing up. Same dumb jokes that only we understood.
She had this habit of sending voice notes instead of typing. Even if it was just “I’m outside,” she’d record it.
That’s why I didn’t think twice when my phone buzzed at 8:47 PM.
A voice note. 0:12 seconds long.
I tapped it casually.
At first, it sounded normal.
“Hey… I think I—”
Then she stopped.
There was a pause.
Not silence… just… breathing.
Then came a faint sound in the background.
Like… something dragging.
Slow. Uneven. Heavy.
And then she whispered:
“Someone’s here.”
The voice note ended.
I laughed at first.
I actually laughed.
I texted her:
“Stop messing around 😂 where are you?”
No reply.
I waited a minute.
Then another.
Then five.
Something felt off.
Ayesha wasn’t the type to leave messages hanging—especially not like that.
So I called her.
It rang.
And rang.
And rang.
No answer.
By 9:15 PM, I was standing outside her house.
Her parents weren’t home—they were visiting relatives in another city. She had told me she’d be alone that night.
The front door was slightly open.
Not wide. Just… enough.
That’s when my stomach dropped.
I pushed the door slowly.
“Ayesha?”
No answer.
The house was dark except for the faint glow of her bedroom light upstairs.
I stepped inside.
And that’s when I heard it.
A sound.
Faint.
Dragging.
The same sound from the voice note.
I froze.
My brain tried to explain it away.
Maybe a chair.
Maybe a window.
Maybe—
It came again.
Closer this time.
Dragging.
From upstairs.
Every instinct told me to leave.
But I didn’t.
I climbed the stairs.
Slowly.
Each step louder than it should have been.
When I reached her room, the door was open.
The light was on.
But she wasn’t there.
Her phone was lying on the bed.
Still recording.
I picked it up.
The screen showed an active recording… 3 minutes long.
My hands were shaking as I pressed play.
At first, it was just her breathing.
Then her voice:
“I think someone’s inside the house…”
A creak.
Footsteps.
Then silence.
And then—
That dragging sound again.
Closer.
Closer.
Then she whispered:
“Who’s there?”
No response.
Just the dragging.
Right outside her room.
Then the door creaked.
Slowly opening.
And she gasped.
I stopped the recording.
I couldn’t listen anymore.
I didn’t need to.
Because at that exact moment…
I heard it myself.
Behind me.
In the hallway.
Dragging.
I turned slowly.
The hallway was empty.
But the sound continued.
Like something heavy… being pulled across the floor.
Moving.
Toward me.
I ran.
I don’t remember how I got out of the house.
I just remember slamming the door and not looking back.
The police came later.
They searched the house.
There were no signs of forced entry.
No footprints.
No struggle.
Nothing.
Ayesha was gone.
They questioned me for hours.
I told them everything.
About the voice note.
About the recording.
About the sound.
They listened.
They took notes.
But I could see it in their faces.
They didn’t believe me.
Until they heard the audio.
The officer played the voice note first.
We all stood there in silence.
Listening.
Her voice.
Her whisper.
“Someone’s here.”
Then he played the longer recording.
The room went cold.
Even the officers looked… uneasy.
Because the dragging sound…
It wasn’t random.
It had a pattern.
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Like footsteps.
But not quite.
Too slow.
Too heavy.
Too… deliberate.
Then something else happened.
Something none of us expected.
At the very end of the recording…
After Ayesha gasped…
After the door creaked open…
After the dragging stopped…
There was a voice.
Not hers.
Not human.
It was low.
Distorted.
Almost… layered.
Like multiple voices speaking at once.
And it said:
“You shouldn’t have listened.”
The officer immediately stopped the audio.
No one spoke.
No one moved.
I remember asking, “Did you hear that?”
One of the officers nodded slowly.
Another one refused to answer.
That night, they took her phone as evidence.
They told me to go home.
To rest.
To “stay calm.”
I didn’t sleep.
At 2:13 AM…
My phone buzzed.
A new voice note.
From Ayesha.
My blood turned cold.
The timestamp was recent.
Just seconds ago.
My hands were shaking as I opened it.
Duration: 0:08 seconds.
I pressed play.
Silence.
Then…
That same dragging sound.
Closer than ever.
And then…
Right next to the microphone…
A whisper.
Not hers.
“Now you know.”
The voice note ended.
I dropped my phone.
The police said it was impossible.
They said her phone was in their custody.
Locked away.
No access.
But I know what I heard.
And that’s not even the worst part.
Because since that night…
I’ve started hearing it.
Not always.
Not constantly.
Just… sometimes.
Late at night.
When everything is quiet.
A faint sound.
From somewhere in the house.
Dragging.
Slow.
Heavy.
Getting closer.
And last night…
For the first time…
I heard something else.
A whisper.
Right outside my door.
Someone’s here.
