Monsters Do Exist
Casey's Journal
“Monsters do exist.”
As parents, it’s our job to chase away the monsters. We calm the fear that’s stirred in the shadows of night with fairy tale bedtime stories and lullabies.
But for some of us, those monsters linger, and they’re as real as anything.
And for a few, they follow into adulthood. Names and faces change, but somehow they find us.
Casey thought her childhood monsters could never touch again. But something has moved into the home she shares with her children. Something she can’t see, yet it knows her too intimately.
It lurks patiently.
Watching.
Waiting.
Monsters don’t always appear in nightmares. Sometimes they hide in familiar walls, where they whisper cold drafts that steal your peace and your sanity.
Some monsters wear human faces.
Others stay elusive.
And some are tricksters that play mind games to see how far they can go before you break.
🕯️ Read Casey’s full journal entry, “Monsters Do Exist,” now archived in The Haunting Hourglass.
✨Have you ever felt a place, person, or moment that seemed to carry its own darkness? Share your experience below.
I'll never forget the day I was sorting the incoming mail in the law office, and the moment my hands touched a particular envelope, a profound sense of death washed over me.
I dropped the envelope on the floor and shivered, afraid to pick it back up. The assistant to the attorney the letter was addressed to happened to be near me at the time and came to retrieve it.
Later, when the attorney opened his mail, it was discovered that inside was a suicide note.
The attorney immediately tried to contact the sender to no avail. So he called 911, who sent authorities to the sender's home.
Unfortunately, it was too late. The sender was already dead.