1 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:05,800 Speaker 1: Welcome to okop Scaries, where we tell you the scariest 2 00:00:05,880 --> 00:00:07,200 Speaker 1: stories on Reddit. 3 00:00:07,320 --> 00:00:10,040 Speaker 2: This is a part of our series counting down to Halloween. 4 00:00:10,400 --> 00:00:13,880 Speaker 2: Every episode, the stories get scarier. 5 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:18,280 Speaker 1: My brother returned after going missing for four years. If 6 00:00:18,280 --> 00:00:22,400 Speaker 1: he really came back, I'm in huge danger. Four years 7 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:25,600 Speaker 1: ago my brother went missing. There was nothing to prompt it. 8 00:00:25,680 --> 00:00:28,680 Speaker 1: At twenty four. He was a good guy. He got 9 00:00:28,720 --> 00:00:32,159 Speaker 1: top marks in school and uni stayed clean, was very 10 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:35,040 Speaker 1: well built, and had only one girlfriend who he was 11 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:37,280 Speaker 1: still dating up until the time he went missing. I 12 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:40,839 Speaker 1: say good quotes because he was horrible to me and 13 00:00:40,880 --> 00:00:44,199 Speaker 1: being a pathological liar and a master at manipulation, he 14 00:00:44,240 --> 00:00:47,080 Speaker 1: got away with practically torturing me for years. He was 15 00:00:47,120 --> 00:00:49,400 Speaker 1: ten years older than me, and it never stopped. I 16 00:00:49,479 --> 00:00:51,960 Speaker 1: got seriously injured from him up until the day he 17 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:54,760 Speaker 1: went missing. He always told me he hated me and 18 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:57,080 Speaker 1: enjoyed every bit of pain he put me through. 19 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:57,960 Speaker 3: Oh my God. 20 00:00:58,280 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 1: Tried telling people when I was younger, but everyone believed him, 21 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:04,560 Speaker 1: never me. Eventually stopped trying. The day he went missing 22 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:08,679 Speaker 1: was the greatest and most satisfying day I ever lived. 23 00:01:08,800 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 1: My brother returned after going missing for four years. If 24 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:17,959 Speaker 1: he really came back. I'm in huge danger. His car 25 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:20,640 Speaker 1: was still parked in the driveway, his wallet and phone 26 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:22,560 Speaker 1: were on his desk, and his keys in the bowl 27 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,959 Speaker 1: by the entrance. Police had very little to go off of. 28 00:01:26,520 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 1: It was like he simply vanished. After a year or so, 29 00:01:29,880 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 1: Everyone but my mom gave up on the search for him, 30 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: figuring him to be dead. She, like any good mother, 31 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:38,840 Speaker 1: remained hopeful. Everyone else knew better. I knew better. He 32 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:40,880 Speaker 1: showed up early in the morning, dropped off by a 33 00:01:40,920 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: mysterious black sedan with tinted windows in the front of 34 00:01:43,480 --> 00:01:46,120 Speaker 1: the house. According to the CCTV, we couldn't catch the 35 00:01:46,120 --> 00:01:48,640 Speaker 1: license plate, and he had no idea where the car 36 00:01:48,720 --> 00:01:51,320 Speaker 1: came from or where it went. My brother came out 37 00:01:51,400 --> 00:01:54,280 Speaker 1: in the same clothes he went missing in four years earlier, 38 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:58,120 Speaker 1: obviously well nourished, with his clothes clean, save for an old, 39 00:01:58,200 --> 00:02:01,840 Speaker 1: blackened stain on his chest, which people assumed was from 40 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 1: the chili he ate the morning he went missing, and 41 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: the dirt on his shoes. The huge mystery came when 42 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:10,240 Speaker 1: he knew absolutely nothing. His memory cut the day he 43 00:02:10,280 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: went missing and resumed the second he stepped out of 44 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:14,840 Speaker 1: the cab of the car. He thought he was still 45 00:02:14,880 --> 00:02:17,880 Speaker 1: twenty four and honestly could have been a time skip 46 00:02:18,160 --> 00:02:21,200 Speaker 1: was not the most outlandish theory of the town. Of course, 47 00:02:21,480 --> 00:02:23,400 Speaker 1: his room was the same. I've all made sure no 48 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:25,639 Speaker 1: one touched it when he left for Uni, and when 49 00:02:25,639 --> 00:02:28,359 Speaker 1: he came back and went missing, she did the same thing. 50 00:02:28,480 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 1: She was so convinced that he would return that she 51 00:02:31,160 --> 00:02:34,920 Speaker 1: allowed no one to move anything. She was devastated and heartbroken. 52 00:02:35,360 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: So my dad just went along with it, so did I. 53 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:40,760 Speaker 1: The first night he came back, he spent it in 54 00:02:40,800 --> 00:02:43,760 Speaker 1: the house. My brother returned after going missing for four years, 55 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:46,360 Speaker 1: and if he really came back, I'm in huge danger. 56 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 1: I've always had my fun with you, but never got 57 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:52,120 Speaker 1: to finish the job. You look shit. I woke up 58 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:54,000 Speaker 1: suddenly in the middle of the night to him standing 59 00:02:54,040 --> 00:02:56,079 Speaker 1: at the foot of my bed. He was looking down 60 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,720 Speaker 1: at me with a huge grin on his face. Literally, 61 00:02:58,960 --> 00:03:02,800 Speaker 1: it was a huge curling way to a naturally and 62 00:03:02,840 --> 00:03:05,040 Speaker 1: twice as large as a normal mouth, as if the 63 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:07,799 Speaker 1: corners were cut open with a razor. My lamp was 64 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:10,200 Speaker 1: knocked over by my door and it was under him, 65 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,399 Speaker 1: leaving the light shining up towards him, creating shadows going 66 00:03:13,480 --> 00:03:16,600 Speaker 1: up towards his face, leaving black areas between his eyebrows 67 00:03:16,600 --> 00:03:19,079 Speaker 1: and his cheek bones for both eyes. Although they were 68 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:22,079 Speaker 1: in void, the eyes were still visible somehow, it as 69 00:03:22,120 --> 00:03:24,720 Speaker 1: if they were emitting a soft light underneath the surface. 70 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:29,640 Speaker 1: They were glassy, glazed over, completely lacking of blood in life. 71 00:03:29,639 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: He was still wearing that same shirt and the pants 72 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:34,240 Speaker 1: he went missing in, and the stain in his shirt 73 00:03:34,440 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: looked menacing, and the light looked oozing, pulsing, crolling as 74 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:43,200 Speaker 1: it filled with worms and maggots. His hands and arms 75 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:46,200 Speaker 1: right his side, swaying gently with rage, and his right 76 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,440 Speaker 1: hand was a knife that looked sickly familiar. I knew 77 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:51,880 Speaker 1: that knife all too well. He moved his arm to 78 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:54,600 Speaker 1: hold his knife above his head. He lunged toward me 79 00:03:54,600 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: from the end of the bed before I could form 80 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 1: any words or cries for help in my mouth, and 81 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:02,080 Speaker 1: just as the knife was about to plunge into my chest. 82 00:04:02,480 --> 00:04:03,000 Speaker 3: I woke up. 83 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 1: I jolted in my bed, sitting upright, blood pumping with 84 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:08,840 Speaker 1: icy cold liquid coming from a heart frozen in terror, 85 00:04:08,960 --> 00:04:11,560 Speaker 1: felt cold and hot at the same time, feeling nauseous 86 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: and shaking everywhere. I began to feel bile forming from 87 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:16,599 Speaker 1: my throat, so I moved my feet to the side 88 00:04:16,680 --> 00:04:19,400 Speaker 1: my bed and go to the bathroom. That's when I 89 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:21,800 Speaker 1: noticed it. There was that knife laying on the floor. 90 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,280 Speaker 1: Oh wow, and the lamp at the foot of my bed. 91 00:04:24,400 --> 00:04:26,400 Speaker 1: Maybe it wasn't a dream. At this point, I run 92 00:04:26,440 --> 00:04:28,719 Speaker 1: to the bathroom to do my business and I'm done. 93 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,080 Speaker 1: I'm still shaking, so I splashed water on my face. 94 00:04:31,080 --> 00:04:33,200 Speaker 1: With cool water seems to do the trick for a 95 00:04:33,200 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: little so I head back to my bed. The door 96 00:04:35,040 --> 00:04:38,159 Speaker 1: was closed, which was wrong since I left it open 97 00:04:38,200 --> 00:04:40,240 Speaker 1: to go to the bathroom. Using the light from my 98 00:04:40,320 --> 00:04:42,960 Speaker 1: room to navigate the hall, I walk in to see 99 00:04:43,040 --> 00:04:45,479 Speaker 1: him back in my room, this time sitting on my 100 00:04:45,520 --> 00:04:48,520 Speaker 1: desk's chair next to my bed, twirling that same knife 101 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:51,040 Speaker 1: on his fingertip. My brother returned after going missing for 102 00:04:51,080 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: four years. If he really came back, I'm in huge danger. 103 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:56,320 Speaker 1: I stood there, still frozen before the fight or flight 104 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:58,520 Speaker 1: response kicked in. I was going to kill you the 105 00:04:58,600 --> 00:05:01,160 Speaker 1: night I went missing, he said, with the same unnatural 106 00:05:01,200 --> 00:05:03,359 Speaker 1: grin on his face with way too many teeth. But 107 00:05:03,440 --> 00:05:07,359 Speaker 1: obviously you knew that. Now the response kicked in, I 108 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:09,400 Speaker 1: high tailed it out of there, slammed the door shut 109 00:05:09,480 --> 00:05:11,600 Speaker 1: behind me to buy me some time. As I heard 110 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,600 Speaker 1: something inside the room shuffle to its feet, I bolted 111 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:16,599 Speaker 1: down the stairs to the front door, ready to grab 112 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,360 Speaker 1: my keys and spend the night anywhere else but here. 113 00:05:19,480 --> 00:05:21,440 Speaker 1: As I put my hand in the bowl, I felt 114 00:05:21,440 --> 00:05:25,240 Speaker 1: a lifeless, cold hand already there looking for these little shit. 115 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:25,599 Speaker 3: Yeah. 116 00:05:25,680 --> 00:05:27,760 Speaker 1: Slyly he was dangling the keys in front of me, 117 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:30,560 Speaker 1: and I was briefly left wondering how the fuck did 118 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:32,279 Speaker 1: he get here before me? How the fuck is he 119 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:35,280 Speaker 1: even here? The thought took only one nanosecond before I 120 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:38,480 Speaker 1: ran from the door, Prepared to make the journey on foot. 121 00:05:38,680 --> 00:05:40,760 Speaker 1: I pushed out the door and started to run for 122 00:05:40,839 --> 00:05:43,479 Speaker 1: the woods. Yeah, yeah, I know it's a horror movie cliche, 123 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:44,360 Speaker 1: but that's what I did. 124 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 3: It is. Yeah. 125 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:47,840 Speaker 1: I heard the door open behind me and knew he 126 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,560 Speaker 1: was close on my heels. I felt the familiar dejau 127 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:53,960 Speaker 1: vous feeling as I realized the events were almost exactly 128 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:56,200 Speaker 1: the same as the night he went missing. He chased 129 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:57,960 Speaker 1: me then too. He didn't have a knife then, though 130 00:05:58,040 --> 00:05:59,320 Speaker 1: he thought his fists would be enough. 131 00:06:00,040 --> 00:06:00,559 Speaker 3: He was wrong. 132 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:02,400 Speaker 1: As soon as I stepped into the boundary of the 133 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 1: woods where the fateful event occurred. I turned around to 134 00:06:05,279 --> 00:06:08,839 Speaker 1: see that he wasn't chasing me anymore. Instead, the knife 135 00:06:09,360 --> 00:06:12,520 Speaker 1: lay on the grass in a pool of blood, right 136 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:15,920 Speaker 1: outside the woods. My brother returned after going missing for 137 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:19,279 Speaker 1: four years. If he really came back, I'm in huge 138 00:06:19,360 --> 00:06:22,880 Speaker 1: danger because that night I had the knife and I 139 00:06:22,960 --> 00:06:23,920 Speaker 1: finished the job. 140 00:06:25,880 --> 00:06:28,360 Speaker 3: So a lot of unpack here. 141 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:29,520 Speaker 1: He killed his brother. 142 00:06:30,040 --> 00:06:31,920 Speaker 3: He killed his brother, killed his. 143 00:06:31,800 --> 00:06:35,000 Speaker 1: Brother vengeance for all the cruelty that he had over 144 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:35,919 Speaker 1: the last few years. 145 00:06:36,200 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 2: The question, though, in my mind, is he seemed to 146 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:42,719 Speaker 2: remember it the other way. Why was his brother chasing 147 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:44,479 Speaker 2: him and not him chasing his brother? 148 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:48,080 Speaker 1: Like his brother dealt violence on him right when he 149 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:51,119 Speaker 1: was younger, right, and he thought when he went away, 150 00:06:51,440 --> 00:06:53,000 Speaker 1: like that was the happiest day of his life. It 151 00:06:53,040 --> 00:06:56,839 Speaker 1: was awesome because he didn't have to do it. Yeah, 152 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 1: and then when he came back now it's like reverse. Yeah, 153 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:04,400 Speaker 1: he's looking for that vengeance because he feels like he's 154 00:07:04,400 --> 00:07:06,839 Speaker 1: ready to kill his brother, and so he was basically 155 00:07:06,880 --> 00:07:09,920 Speaker 1: seeing himself as his brother. And so that's why like 156 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,640 Speaker 1: him being like the chasing and actually chasing his brother. 157 00:07:13,840 --> 00:07:16,840 Speaker 2: Right, because he basically switched roles in his mind, like 158 00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:20,680 Speaker 2: he had this probably a much better life. Afterward, he's like, 159 00:07:21,040 --> 00:07:26,240 Speaker 2: I need my life. So he basically became his that. 160 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,040 Speaker 1: He disassociated from himself. And that's actually something that happens 161 00:07:29,080 --> 00:07:32,640 Speaker 1: like when someone some people like there's a in like 162 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:37,480 Speaker 1: the law, this thing where if it's a like a 163 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:41,120 Speaker 1: murder of passion, we actually get less time it's premeditated, 164 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:45,600 Speaker 1: and sometimes in a murder of passion, you disassociate from 165 00:07:45,640 --> 00:07:48,520 Speaker 1: yourself and your own body that you're someone else. So 166 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:49,760 Speaker 1: I think this is what happened to this guy. 167 00:07:50,160 --> 00:07:52,520 Speaker 3: Wow, well I hope this guy's in jail. 168 00:07:54,080 --> 00:07:58,360 Speaker 1: Host he's not living the streets countdown to Halloween. 169 00:07:58,400 --> 00:07:58,720 Speaker 3: Maybe