The Alien. Russia

The story that I heard from my colleague Igor, which passed military service in the Chelyabinsk region. He had a friend Sergei, with him it happened.

Sergey, in contrast to Igor, to serve in the army did not go – the parents, as they say, "sprung". Was they had secured, and then – only son, you know. Sister Helen was born much later and, by the time when our story begins, was still very young – only four years old. Sergei, a well-lived – his parents bought him a separate apartment, arranged for a prestigious job, was always well dressed, worked in the gym, and anything not particularly limited. In General, led a life that many of his peers and could not dream.

But, in fairness I must say that he did not ask and willingly socialized with friends, regardless of their financial situation. And one night he suddenly awoke to the fact that in the hallway behind the closed bedroom door, he heard some strange but very loud noise, as if someone stands there and belches contentedly. Anyway, even so he seemed awake. Sergey opened his eyes and for several minutes listened, but the apartment was silent.

Sergei lived alone, animals have it too, so to understand what woke him up, he could not. Can seemed? You never know – had a dream. But just in case they decided to get out of bed to check the hallway. Gently opened the door, looked out into the hallway – and froze. A few meters away, near the front door he saw the dark silhouette of a man who somehow inexplicably hung in the air, but upside down resting on the head.

In a complete daze Sergei closed the bedroom door, sat on the floor, leaned back against the wall, and stayed until morning, not daring neither to move nor again to look out into the corridor. When the window began to break through the first rays of the sun, Sergei got up the courage again and slowly stuck his head out into the hallway – but no one was there. Courage, Sergei walked around the apartment, checked the door to the balcony – it was securely locked.

What the hell? Maybe hallucinations? It seems that the most reasonable explanation. And not solved this riddle, Sergei went about their usual business. About what happened last night, and he never told anyone – rightly feared that just laugh at him, at best. However, towards night he became more and more frantic. Before you go to bed, Sergey again checked carefully, made sure that Windows and doors are securely closed. Went to bed and, turning from side to side, somehow asleep. However, for a while. Soon he woke up, all off the same sound as last night.

The bedroom door was open, and right behind her from his bed of Sergei saw the human figure upside down. Shaking with fear, Sergei looked at his uninvited guest. Not to say that people really hung in the air, obviously, he relied on his head and was very large, almost fully occupying the doorway As he tried Sergey, he could not see his face. In the end, his nerves gave way, and he with his head covered with a blanket as a child, expecting that this monster is about to attack him. But this did not happen, the room was still quiet, and then that he dared to cautiously peek one eye out from under the covers. Anyone. The doorway was completely empty. Moreover, the door itself was closed.

Sergei didn't want to relive such a night terror, and therefore decided to go to sleep to the parents, however, they did not explaining. After dinner, he took refuge in his old room, and started playing some computer game. Sister ran to him, holding a piece of paper with a picture she just drew and wanted to show him. Without knowing why, without even looking at the picture, Sergey just broke it into several pieces. According to him, in this moment he experienced an incredibly pleasant satisfaction of seeing the little girl little face wrinkled, and his eyes begin to roll the tears of resentment. Sobbing, the girl ran out of the room, and Sergei continued computer entertainment.

When Helen complained to my mother and she came to see what was the matter, he told her that it was an accident. What was it? He could not explain even to himself, he always loved his sister and enjoy fiddling with it. When he went to bed, he was tormented by contrition, but there was nothing he could change. Out of pity for the girl Sergei even cried – and fell asleep. The night passed quietly and the monster appeared.

The next night, Sergei was again left to the parents. Early in the morning he again woke up from some weird feelings of anxiety. What could cause no strange sounds this time in the apartment never went off, there was the pre-dawn silence, only the clock ticked rhythmically. A little rested, Sergei wanted to drink, went to the kitchen and, without knowing why, I looked out the window. And there... In the yard for children's swings, he again saw the same familiar figure, inexplicably held upside down. Sergei barely refrained from in order not to scream. Zadernuv curtains, he rushed back to his room. Then woke up the parents pulled them out of bed and forced to come to the window.

Those not understanding, began to ask him what happened, and when Sergei told them about the inverted figure in the yard, then of course they decided that he had imagined. Especially because the Playground is really nobody.

The next day Sergei returned to his apartment. At the entrance I met an old neighbor, Amalia Ivanovna, she walked into the store, what joy and said to Sergei, who always kept a relationship with her. He didn't know why Sergey, rising to his floor, took from his pocket a match, and inserted it into the slot English castle. Having waited until the old lady came back from the store, he with a strange gloating watched through the peephole as she tries to open the lock.

Later, he again could not explain to myself your despicable act – he's helped a lonely pensioner, and she always treated him with delicious cakes...

What was it? Closer to the night Sergei came prepared. He decided it was enough for him to portray the role of victim, and therefore before bedtime, put it next to the bed a heavy crowbar-the crowbar. Now he waited for this visitor. But he did not appear. Not he came in the night. - Sergei began to happen terrible things.

Day after day he began to commit all sorts of abominations against the people – the freshly painted wall of stairwell paint with black paint, then bus to neighbors will pierce. With friends with all the quarreling parents specially came to scandals, to bring the mother into hysterics. It was strange that he did not like what he does, he would be happy to stay and could not.

When he was fired for the fact that they broke several thermometers and spilled the mercury at the chief's office, Sergey and did started going downhill: first started drinking, then turned to drugs. Parents regularly put him in the hospital for treatment, Yes, but it didn't help. In the end, the guy was diagnosed with AIDS. In rare moments of enlightenment he was terrified of where he rolled, the only thing that pleased, is that he never saw the man. Or was it not man?

One day Sergey called Igor, with whom they have not communicated, and asked to visit him in the hospital. Of course, Igor went the very next day and didn't recognize a former friend. Once athletic guy turned into a dry skeleton hanging limply along the body hands. That's when he told Igor about what happened to him. He added that tonight he again saw the same man: woke up about four o'clock in the morning and saw that he is very near his bed. Only now he was no longer upside down, stood on his feet.

Of course, Igor decided that it is all delirium of a sick imagination. At the same time he was terribly sorry old friend, and he promised that necessarily will regularly visit him. That's the only promise he failed to keep: Sergei died the very next night after their conversation.

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