GH5 13: Vanished.

I couldn't stop thinking about the man in the walls as i slept soundly in bed in my room that night, with Copper asleep in his puppy-basket at the foot of the bed on the floor. Nor could i get the mysterious dude out of my mind. I was shirtless and wore dark gray sweat-pants and white socks. All kinds of questions were racing through my head about who this mystery person living in the walls of the house could be. Like who was he? Why were they here? Was it R.L. Bogman? Had he been secretly living in this house since the night he disappeared on Halloween-1988? Had he been secretly living here since the Dales moved in 2020? Or was had he just come back the other night to retrieve the bodies of the missing young boys? Questions, questions and even more questions that seemed to have no answer to them. I hadn't told everyone about the man living in the walls, as i didn't want to put Isaac, Seth and Harper in danger. I knew the guy would follow through on his threats and take them, so i kept quiet about the whole thing. I decided to keep it a secret until i could find someway to prove that the guy was in the walls of the home. But i had no idea what to do. How was i suppose to prove that there was a man living in the walls of a house?

How?

As i laid in bed asleep and in deep subconscious thought about the man in the walls...i started to dream.

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The corners around Connor's bedroom closet-door were covered with green bog-goo and an orange glow of light was coming from on the other side of the door, as if something were trying to get into his room. It looked like the scene in the 1982 paranormal movie, Poltergeist, where the beast came through the closet and tried to take the children.

"Mom?" Connor said while sitting up in bed. He wore an olive green quarter-length sleeve camo pajama shirt, skin-tight olive green camo pajama pants that stopped at the mid-calf of his legs, and he was barefoot. The 9-year old boy pushed back the covers, got out of bed, and rushed over to the door of his bedroom and grabbed the knob with both hands. "Mom! Mom! Dad! Mom!" He said as he attempted to open the door, to no avail. "Mom! Dad!" He said as he continued struggling to open the door. The door then swung open, revealing the orange bright light inside the closet.

Connor turned to looked at the now open orange-glowing closet and then it turned into this orange gross portal that looked like the one from the first Poltergeist movie and began sucking like a vacuum-cleaner, trying to suck Connor in, with the suction picking the 9-year old up off his feet as he held onto the door-knob with both hands for dear life.

Connor looked back at the orange gross portal and his eyes went wide as it let out a roar. "AAAAHHH!" He screamed. "Mom! Mom, Dad!" Despite his firm grip on the door-knob, the boy soon lost his hold on it. "AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" He screamed as he was sucked into the orange gross roaring portal and then the closet returned to normal and it's door slammed shut.

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My eyes shot open and i sat up in bed, sweating all over. I looked at my surroundings and realized i was in my dark bedroom at the Dale residence. I looked at the electric clock on the night-stand by my bed where my cellphone rested on it's charger and saw that it was 11:00 o'clock PM. "(Sighs)." I sighed with relief. "It was just another nightmare."

"Dad?!" Came the screaming voice of Emma from outside my room.

The 19-year old girl's scream awoke Copper from his sleep and he shook himself, and i quickly pushed back the covers, got out of bed, and ran up to the door, with Copper following. I opened the door and we saw Adam rush out of the master bedroom and head towards Connor's room, with it's door open. Copper and i rushed out of my room and into Connor's room with Adam where Emma was, only to see that Connor wasn't in his bed...or anywhere in his room. He was gone.

"Emma, what happened?" Adam asked.

"What's goin' on?" I asked.

"I had a nightmare about Connor. And then i woke up and came in here to check on him to make sure he was alright, but he was gone." Emma explained with worry and fear in her voice.

Chelsea entered inside the room while Dad, aunt Candace, Layla and Isaac stopped at the doorway. "What's going on?"

"What was the nightmare about?" I asked. What was going on hear? Kids didn't just disappear from their bedrooms without a trace.

"It was about Connor being sucked into his closet that turned into a portal here in his room. And then i got up to check on him, but he was gone." Emma answered.

"What?! How long ago?!" Chelsea asked.

"Just now." Emma said.

Adam rushed out of the room. "Connor! Connor! CONNOR!"

"A dream about Connor being sucked into his closet? Just like in my-" I stopped myself in my thoughts. "Ah, no. Ah, no. No!" I said. That was when i knew for sure. Emma and i had both had the same dream about Connor. I was probably the only person in that house who knew what happened. "No! No! This-this-this can't be happening!"

"Candace, go call 911." Dad said to aunt Candace.

"Right." Aunt Candace said before rushing back to her room to call the police on her cellphone.

...

The sheriff and the cops were there in half an hour and they began a frantic search for Connor throughout the house and property. But they couldn't find him anywhere. He just...disappeared. We were all downstairs in the living-room, waiting for any news on Connor's where-abouts.

The sheriff and the officers, men and women, came back into the house, entering the foyer, and made their way into the living-room.

"Well?" Chelsea asked, standing by Adam and Emma.

"What's the verdict?" Adam added.

"Have you found Connor?" Emma asked.

"I'm sorry. There's no sign of him, he's vanished. And there's no sign of forced entry anywhere in the house either." The sheriff answered. "We'll keep trying. We'll come back tomorrow morning with the towns' people and we'll do a search party."

"You can't be serious." Chelsea said.

"I am." Said the Sheriff.

"You can't just leave him out there in the unknown!" Adam said.

"Sir, we've been searching for four hours. If we were gonna find your son, we would've found him already. It's 4:24 AM, my men are tired, i'm tired, you're tired, we're all tired. The best thing we can do is get some shut-eye and then try again in the morning with the towns' folk. We can cover more ground that way. Understand?" The sheriff explained.

"Okay, fine. Fine. You're right, you're right, we...we don't stand a chance at finding Connor if we're all too tired to focus. The best we can do is try to get some rest and then try again in the morning." Adam said.

"Thank you. And Good-night." The sheriff said before he and the other officers exited the 19th century home and left.

Chelsea and Adam embraced each other with a hug...comforting each other...over the disappearance of their son.

I, on the other hand, was thinking about the dream i had about Connor and the dream Emma had about him. We had the same dream, i knew it. And now it looked like the dream had manifested into a living nightmare while we were having it. If that was the case, where was Connor? Where did that gross orange portal take him? Where did it lead to? Why was Connor taken? Could the man in the walls have taken him? If so, then what were the motives for abducting the young boy? What could this mysterious person possibly hope to gain from all of this?

I know i'm missing something...but what?

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