Narration features an AI-generated voice.

January 2001. Northern Vermont.

Ethan Cole was twenty-one years old when he agreed to spend winter break working at a small college campus surrounded by forest.

Most of the students had gone home.

The classrooms were empty.

The dining hall was closed.

And Ethan was the only person staying in Hawthorne Hall, an old three-story dormitory.

At first, he enjoyed the silence.

No roommates.

No crowded hallways.

Nobody interrupting his work.

But after several nights alone, the building began to feel different.

Then, one night around two in the morning, Ethan woke to something unusual.

Three quiet taps against his bedroom window.

He sat up and listened.

A few seconds later, the tapping came again.

Directly against the glass.

Ethan's room was on the third floor.

Nearly twenty-five feet above the ground.

There was no balcony.

No fire escape.

And no tree close enough to reach the window.

He turned on his bedside lamp.

The tapping stopped.

When he opened the curtains, there was nothing outside.

Only falling snow and dark trees.

The following night, it happened again.

At almost the same time.

Three taps.

Then silence.

Ethan tried convincing himself it was ice or the old window frame reacting to the cold.

But on the third night, he stayed awake to watch.

The tapping returned.

This time, he heard it move from one corner of the glass to another.

There was still nobody outside.

Then Ethan decided to test something.

Without telling anyone, he moved into an empty room four doors down the hallway.

He took his blanket and pillow and slept there instead.

If the tapping came from his original window, moving rooms would settle the mystery.

But shortly after two in the morning...

Three taps came from his new window.

Something had followed him.

And whatever it was seemed to know exactly where he was sleeping.

Then, on another night, Ethan heard the tapping begin farther down the hallway.

One window.

Then another.

Each time, the sound moved closer.

Until it reached the room beside his.

And finally...

His own window.

The building had no exterior walkway.

No balcony.

Nothing that explained how anyone could move between those windows.

Campus security searched the property.

The caretaker inspected the building.

Nobody found anything unusual.

For two nights, the tapping stopped.

Ethan began to believe it was over.

But then, one night, the sound returned.

Louder.

Faster.

And much closer than before.

What Ethan experienced that night would make him leave Hawthorne Hall for good.

And years later, one question would still bother him.

What had been waiting outside his window, three floors above the snow?

🎧 An atmospheric horror story about an isolated college dormitory, mysterious tapping at a third-floor window, an unsettling presence outside, and a terrifying mystery in the Vermont wilderness.

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