This is a little story I picked up while I was searching through the channels on television.

I swear, this story ranks as one of the scariest I have ever encountered in my lifetime.

In parts of Seoul, there are relatively old looking apartment blocks that are about 5 to 6 stories high. They are not the prettiest looking estates in the world I assure you. Quite short and stubby for an apartment building in a concrete jungle that is Seoul and the place was just plain ugly with age. The apartment building that housed this incident was one of these apartments. And when you see these small and old apartment buildings in the older parts of residential Seoul, you won’t be able to help yourself but remember this story I am going to tell you today.

At around 2 in the morning, a young high school girl arrived at the entrance to her home. It was exam season and her evening classes were ending later and later by the days. But even at this late hour, she did not fail to have company. A middle aged man, dressed in a tidy suit was also coming home from all the liquor that he had to face during dinnertime. As both individuals were waiting for the elevator to come down to the ground floor, the girl felt an instinctive sense that she was at the wrong place, at the wrong time.

A chime signalled the arrival of the elevator, and both individuals entered as the doors slid open.

The girl pressed the top floor which was ‘6,’ and the man happened to live on the storie below her at ‘5.’

With the girl at one end of the metal box while the man was on the other, the ride was as uneventful as it was awkward. The man looked like he was going to pass out any second.

Another chime signalled the arrival of the elevator on the fifth floor and the man clumsily got off the elevator. However, he did not walk towards the door of his house.

Instead, he stopped. And turned around to face the slowly closing doors of the elevator and the girl. Then he suddenly raised his hand and started to wave at her. However the girl remained still and his farewell was unanswered. The small rectangular window on the elevator doors showed a eerie and twisted grin on the man’s face. The split second before the elevator started moving up again. The man opened his suitcase and revealed… a kitchen knife.

He then ran up the stairs.