In January of 1998, I was twenty-one years old and sharing an isolated rental house with two college friends in northern Vermont.
The house was nearly twenty miles outside town.
Our nearest neighbor was almost a mile away.
But the rent was cheap, and for months, everything had been fine.
Then a winter storm arrived.
By evening, freezing rain had turned into heavy snow.
The roads were nearly impossible to drive on.
And a large tree had fallen across our driveway.
We were trapped at the house until morning.
Or at least, that's what we thought.
Around ten thirty that night, someone knocked on our front door.
Three hard knocks.
A man stood outside in the snow.
He looked to be in his fifties, wearing a long brown work coat.
He claimed his truck had slid off the road near an old covered bridge.
All he wanted was to come inside and use our telephone.
We refused to open the door.
Instead, I offered to call for help.
But when I picked up the telephone, the line was full of static.
I couldn't get through.
When I told the stranger, he immediately asked us to open the door.
We still refused.
Then he said something that made my stomach tighten.
Caleb. Open the door.
I froze.
I had never told him my name.
Then he said my roommates' names.
Owen.
Mason.
All three of us.
He knew exactly who was inside that house.
And he seemed to know things about the property that only someone familiar with it should have known.
He warned us that something might be wrong with our furnace.
That the air inside could become dangerous.
That we needed to open the door and step outside.
For a moment, I almost believed him.
I even put my hand on the deadbolt.
Then we heard something.
A metallic scraping sound.
Not outside.
From the basement behind us.
A few seconds later, the basement door handle began to turn.
And that was when I realized the stranger standing on our porch wasn't the only person we needed to be afraid of.
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