“When I was a kid,
I raced to get to sleep
before the sun went down.
If I wasn’t asleep by midnight at the latest,
this ghost thing would come out,
paralyze me,
suck the fear out of my mouth.
I know I sound crazy, honey.
As a kid, my dad saw Shadow Man, too.
He told me the way to get it to go away was to stay awake,
face it.
I was a teen when it stopped.
You saw the video,
a cradle doesn’t just rock itself.
I think it’s back
and feeding on our daughter.”