This recording is part of a self-described audio diary. I have no idea where it came from, it was sent to my house anonymously and I'm not sure what to do with it. I feel like I should give this to the police, but the package it came in specifically said no police on it. I don't even know where the town in question is. Any help would be great.

Transcript:

This town in which I live has had someone on the loose for a while now. What started out as children being scared of the monster in the closet turned out to be something entirely different. Not a monster… a person. Said person would find their way into a person's home, enter a closet and wait for one of the occupants to return to their room.

It started out with the little girls. They’d scream that the big monster was going to get them and, usually, the parents would half-assedly check the closet and proved there was no monster in there. Of course, the parents were so tired with it being the middle of the night that they never truly woke up properly to check. They’d open one of the doors, move one or two things with one hand with an accompanying line such as, “See, there’s no monster sweetheart, now back to bed.” They'd tuck their kid back in and then tuck themselves back in.

It started with the little kids. 5 and 6-year-olds. People thought that one of them had a bad dream and, thinking it was real, told their friends at school and their fellow pupils started copying. It was thought to be typical kids stuff. That was until the Pre-teens and the teens started to say it.

An 11-year old boy complained to his father that during the night he could swear that light from the street lamp was shining between the slats on his closet door… and illuminating the eyes of someone. A 12-year old boy said roughly the same thing… only instead of it seeing eyes, it was a large set of teeth in a huge white smile.

Again, it was just thought to be kids stuff. These kids were double the age of the kids originally complaining about the monster in the closet but, again, they were kids. It wasn’t until the 15, 16 and 17-year olds started to complain that something sounded fishy… and it was when these reported started cropping up that it turned out it might, in fact, be true.

The first incident was reported to the police when a 16-year old boy woke up in the middle of the night to get a glass of water. When he returned to his bed, he moved the covers aside to get into bed and felt something rustle as he lay down. It was a piece of paper. The single sheet of paper said, “You really should check your closet before going to bed. By the way, your parents wouldn’t approve of what you get up to at night you dirty boy!”

He apparently screamed with fear and, once his father checked the closet, they found muddy boot prints. The prints didn’t match a size that belonged to anyone in the house. After that night, many people started checking their children’s closets for monsters. Not of them did though. Some believed it was all just mass hysteria. Some believed some of the kids were playing a big, elaborate prank and some even thought it to be parents playing cruel jokes on their kids. There was a big divide between what people thought.

That was until a 17-year old girl was spooked. Spooked is actually too light of a word. It was more like she had had the fear of Satan seared into her. Apparently, this girl had just gotten home from a night of underage drinking. She wasn’t too drunk but was a bit tipsy. She got into bed and was asleep within seconds. It’s said that the monster in the closet then slowly crept from this girl's closet and sat down in front of her face, he on the floor and her on the bed, her face at a 90-degree angle. The monster then began to sing a song in a soft voice. This slowly woke the 17-year old girl from her tipsy slumber. Once her eyes were fully open, the monster stopped singing and the darkened figure simply whispered, “Boo…”

The girl tore off out of the room, running through the monster from the closet. She ran to get her parents and when they arrived in her room, all they saw was an open closet door… and an open window.

The pattern of escalation continued one day when a 16-year old boy arrived from soccer practice late on a Friday night. It was a winter night so daylight faded rather quickly. He was beaten and was in bed by 8:30. His only mistake was going to bed without checking his closet. Everyone was making a joke about doing that but everyone did it.

The 16-year old boy was out for about 30 minutes before he was awoken by searing pain. He shot bolt up in bed due to a pain in his foot. He grabbed at his foot in absolute agony and he screamed at the sight of his pinky toe… missing. He then looked up to the doorway of his closet and saw the darkened outline of someone standing there. The light from the street light, though, was illuminating the person’s hands. They were holding small bolt-cutters and the missing toe, blood from it slowly trickling out.

The boy ran from the room with a limp as he screamed out in horror. He ran to his father's study for help, but as his father was trying to understand what was wrong, he heard the front door slam. Upon inspection of the other side of the front door, there were little drops of blood leading down the driveway away from the house. At the end of it, right outside the gates to the home, was the missing toe. The monster didn’t want to keep his souvenir it seemed.

I could go all night talking about this lunatic’s escapades. It’s just so fascinating how no-one has caught him yet. It’s definitely weird, but I-

Door is heard slamming.

Oh.... oh, oh, oh, oh, it seems we’ve run out of time. I do hope you enjoyed this audio diary. It’s been most enjoyable.

Creaky footsteps up some stairs can be heard.

I need to whisper now. She’s in the room with me. Remember what I said about a pattern of escalation? Well, how’s this for escalation?

Aaabigaaail… Run!

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Sound of audio device hitting the floor

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Sound of a power tool starting up, possibly a drill

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Sound of a female screaming in agony.

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Sound of power tool powering down.

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Female screams die out.

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A few seconds of silence.

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Sound of a male crying out in laughter.

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End of recording.