The Richard Malice Diaries

I just returned from my brother's funeral. He has been missing for over seven weeks, and the police have given up the search. He has been pronounced dead officially by the state. I know that I am jumping right into the story, and that none of this makes sense, so let me back up and give you more information.

In the past few months before my brother's disappearance, several people mysteriously disappeared. There was a local urban legend about a killer named the 'knocking man', and many die hard believers insisted that it was him who was commiting these kidnappings. Legend goes that the knocking man stalks his victims for days before they disappear, and then finally knocks three times on there bedroom door before entering and stealing the people. Possibly coincidentally, all of the recent kidnapping victims were stolen out of their bedrooms. My brother, an aspiring film maker, was very interested in these disappearances and their connexion to the knocking man legend. He began gathering research on the case, and before too long his personality began to change. He began acting paranoid and even told me that the knocking man was following him. The day before he disappeared, he called me and told me that he had just uncovered the secret of the knocking man, but that he would not be alive for much longer. He told me that, if is was to disappear, that I should go to his house and search for 'an oak box.' I am on my way right now.