@moby_dickhead / TwitterThe ‘Dear David’ ghost child has been pictured in what are the scariest posts in the whole saga so far.
Adam Ellis, a New York-based illustrator, has been documenting ghostly goings-on from his home for quite some time now and has people hooked on what’s going to happen next.
It all started when he began dreaming – or having nightmares, rather – about a dead child called Dear David – it escalated to his cats acting strangely, peculiar noises and now this…
I made a Storify of all my Dear David threads for easier viewing. I'll keep it up to date. https://t.co/NcZm0ZXXTJ
— Adam Ellis (@moby_dickhead) August 16, 2017
The illustrator now has 711,000 followers on Twitter who’ve been following every thread.
Adam started his latest posts by apologising for the ‘long break’ since his last updates and explained to his followers:
There also wasn’t much to say for the most part. I wasn’t sleeping well and I was having weird dreams, but they were vague and hard to describe. I’m sleepy all day long, and I’ve been getting sudden bouts of dizziness.
I chocked it up to always having earbuds crammed in and made a mental note to get my ears checked. Other than that, things were pretty quiet. I sort of fooled myself into thinking that finding those items in the attic somehow ended all this.
Not that that would make much sense.
I chocked it up to always having earbuds crammed in, and made a mental note to get my ears checked. Other than that, things were pretty quiet. I sort of fooled myself into thinking that finding those items in the attic somehow ended all this. Not that that would make much sense.
— Adam Ellis (@moby_dickhead) December 13, 2017
But last week something started to happen. Late on Wednesday, I woke up with a start and felt something strange, like something had just been watching me. I turned on the light but I was alone.
— Adam Ellis (@moby_dickhead) December 13, 2017
He continued:
But last week something started to happen.
Late on Wednesday, I woke up with a start and felt something strange, like something had just been watching me.
I turned on the light but I was alone.
Still, there was this a tangible feeling of… badness? Everything felt wrong, sort of like when you have the flu and you wake up at night and can't really tell where you are for a minute.
— Adam Ellis (@moby_dickhead) December 13, 2017
It was a feeling I'm used to—it always accompanies David. People tweet at me a lot saying he might just need help, but I'm certain that's not the case. Every time he shows up, I feel a palpable sense of malice.
— Adam Ellis (@moby_dickhead) December 13, 2017
There's what I felt that night. Malice. Dread. But still, I was alone. And I was so tired, I wound up just going back to sleep. I've been so exhausted recently I can barely function.
— Adam Ellis (@moby_dickhead) December 13, 2017
The next night, the same thing happened. I woke up suddenly, feeling like I had just missed seeing something. Like a candle had just gone out and I could still smell it.
— Adam Ellis (@moby_dickhead) December 13, 2017
I thought about using the pet cam from the living room to monitor my bedroom while I slept, but the cord was too short to get the camera high enough to see the entire room. So I improvised.
— Adam Ellis (@moby_dickhead) December 13, 2017
He revealed:
I downloaded an app that takes a photo every 60 seconds and set my phone on top of a bookcase (it’s almost 7 feet tall, so it had a pretty good view of my bed and the surrounding room).
Then I went to sleep.
I downloaded an app that takes a photo every 60 seconds and set my phone on top of a bookcase (it's almost 7 feet tall, so it had a pretty good view of my bed and the surrounding room). Then I went to sleep.
— Adam Ellis (@moby_dickhead) December 13, 2017
Just like before, I jolted awake hours later, feeling the same unease. I turned on the light and hurried out of bed to get my phone from the bookcase. There were probably 350 photos to scroll through.
— Adam Ellis (@moby_dickhead) December 13, 2017
And then it all got really weird:
The vast majority of them were me sleeping in an empty room. It's sort of dark but you can see me sleeping. I'd left a couple night lights on just in case anything showed up, but for the first hundred or so photos it was just me in an empty room. pic.twitter.com/yDwR7to8xA
— Adam Ellis (@moby_dickhead) December 13, 2017
— Adam Ellis (@moby_dickhead) December 13, 2017
Then, suddenly, he was there. Standing on the chair at the foot of the bed staring at me.
— Adam Ellis (@moby_dickhead) December 13, 2017
In the next photo, from a minute later, he seems to be staring straight up at the ceiling? Just staring. pic.twitter.com/MoW6CPcKoD
— Adam Ellis (@moby_dickhead) December 13, 2017
The next tweet Adam wrote says:
But then, in the next photo, he’s gone.
The room it totally empty again. He’s gone in the next several photos, too.
I figured maybe that was it, but I kept swiping through the photos.
About 15 photos later, he was back, standing next to the bed. It was just like the last time I saw him. pic.twitter.com/gxAbepRKUG
— Adam Ellis (@moby_dickhead) December 13, 2017
Adam said:
That’s when my heart started to race. I didn’t want to look at the rest of the photos, but I knew I had to.
I swiped to the next photo and my heart sank into my stomach.
Here’s what he saw:
He was on the bed. Inches from me, staring down at me sleeping. pic.twitter.com/MOtQEgTLma
— Adam Ellis (@moby_dickhead) December 13, 2017
The next one was worse. In the next photo, he's staring right at the camera. pic.twitter.com/WhmuAr9DcQ
— Adam Ellis (@moby_dickhead) December 13, 2017
Adam then finished off his thread with a tweet saying he was speechless, writing:
I’m at a loss for words. That malformed ear, that stringy hair. I didn’t even know what to think.
I looked all over my room but couldn’t find anything and honestly, I’ve been so exhausted I didn’t know how to process it?
Even now, all I wanna do is just go to sleep.
Hold up – he wants to go to sleep? Adam, get out of there.
