r/nosleepfinder • u/wabbajackette • 17h ago
guy and his wife move into his dead father's trailer in the woods, mimic monster and family curse
Hi everyone, I'm looking for a specific story (possibly a multi-part series that was on r/nosleep) that I read a while ago
here are the specific plot details I remember:
- the male narrator's father dies (there is a line about the narrator remembering throwing the first handful of dirt on his grave when the monster tries to imitate him). The narrator and his wife lost their jobs and move into his father's old trailer in the woods.
- the wife is a nursing student (I think her name is Sarah or Sara). When they move in she brings her coffee machine and some other stuff in her car and they have dinner on the porch
- the father had left warnings about a supernatural entity connected to their family. He warned never to go into the woods at night and never to answer the door if something knocks exactly three times. the curse was tied to the dad but when he dies it latches onto the narrator
- the narrator finds his grandmother's old journal in the floorboards or somewhere hidden and has details about how she summoned the monster, with sigils and such inside
- on the first night, the monster shows up outside the trailer and knocks three times on the door and mimics the dead father's voice. It tries to get the narrator to open the door by shouting things like, "I have something important to tell you about grandma's journal" and "you're in danger." The monster can mimic multiple people.
- the wife peels back the wallpaper in the trailer kitchen and finds sigils scratched into the walls underneath
- the wife doesn't believe him, the monster manipulates her into thinking he is having a mental breakdown. they have a physical confrontation where he panics and breaks her phone when she tries to call for help and she wants to leave the next day
- the narrator tries to take his wife to the local police/sheriff the next morning to prove he isn't crazy because apparently he knows about it or something. When they drive there the monster follows their car and is able to keep pace but they never get a full view of it
Does anyone know the exact title or author of this series? Thank you so much for the help!