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  Supernatural phenomenon at grandpa's house :






The story I'm about to tell happened to me when I first stayed over at my grandpa's house.

I was about to turn off the light, when a sound reached my ears.

Plop Pat

It sounded like big droplets of water, though it wasn't raining at all.
It came from inside the house, surely nothing more than the faucet leaking again, I thought.

It wasn't. The source of this sound was closer than that. It came from inside my own bedroom.

Pit Plop Pit

The sound grew louder and more frequent, to a point that it now sounded like actual rain.
I could hear droplets falling from the ceiling to the tatami all around me, completely surrounding me.

Plop Pit Pat Plop Pit

"This has to be the work of a ghost! And not the friendly type!" I thought.

My grandpa's place had seen many lives come and go, so it wouldn't be too far-fetched if spirits or ghosts of sort were to live here as well. 
Though my gut feeling made sure to let me know that I would probably be better off not meddling with anything supernatural.

I feigned ignorance, and went back to sleep, pushing my ears closed so I wouldn't hear this sound anymore.

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I woke up the next day, my entire body red and swollen save for my ears.
I was itching. Itching like never before.

"Ahahah! I see how it is...looks like I was last night's dinner."

My grandfather started laughing when he saw the state I was in.

"I guess they must have been happy to have a new visitor. They sure ate to their heart's content, though. I'm not sure how many there are living in the ceiling, but there has to be more than a hundred."

"Say, grandpa. There's some nasty stuff living here, isn't it?"

"Oh, so you didn't know about them... Bedbugs did this to you. They're small bugs no bigger than a centimeter and feed on human blood just like mosquitoes.
They spend their life in the ceiling, but when comes nighttime..."



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Story: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n2246hi/
Picture: https://unsplash.com/photos/M-AG-A7wPBw

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