User blog comment:Witnessme/Creepypasta Short Story Contest/@comment-27063290-20151010191854

Detective Michaels looked down at the last entry of Samantha Mills diary. "The answer had to be here," he spoke aloud to himself. Something here to explain what happened in that house. Samantha is dead, her thirteen year old daughter Laurel was dead and her ten year old daughter Lilly was catatonic, she had not spoken a single word since the Detective found her on the floor of her Mother's bedroom covered in blood holding her Mother's lifeless body in her lap. The Detective read the entry again.

'' May 10th, A man came to the front door today, early twenties, scrawny, red hair and wild eyes, He asked for Jackson, the owner of the lake cottage I'm  currently renting. I explained that he did not live here. Then he asked the strangest question, he asked if Jackson was in jail. "What?" I asked. The strange man cocked his head to the side and said "He's a murderer, he killed my sister." He looked behind me into the house and said "Here, it was here!" Behind me I heard a blood chilling scream that made me jump out of my skin. It was Lilly, she must have been eavesdropping. I panicked and slammed the door on the strange man. ''

''It took hours to calm her down even as I write into the late hours she is sleeping next to me, afraid to be alone in her room. Lilly is convinced the dead woman is the reason for all the strange happenings in this house. The kitchen cupboards all standing open when I'm certain I've closed them. My hairbrush found in the freezer, phantom footsteps, flickering lights. I'm scaring myself, I've let the strange man at the door get the best of my imagination. Even now I hea''