A comfortable suburban existence begins to fracture with a single sound. You may have heard it sometime yourself, but those who have surely possess no need for stories like these to haunt them.

Music: Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

This story has been adapted for film several times:

Neighborhood Watch

The Thing From the Hallway

A Noise That Carries

Staircase

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