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I'm going to tell you a story. I was seven years old and I was camping with my best friend and his family. We laughed and joked around the campfire and eventually we got to the part of the evening where it was time to tell scary stories. I made something up about a serial killer with a hook for a hand and it didn't seem to scare anybody. My friend joked and wouldn't tell any stories. All around it was fun and not all that scary, until his dad told his story. He said In mirrors we see ourselves but we don't. We see another world inhabited by people who look like us but they aren't us, they're simply a piece of us, and when we die they die too and join our soul as we got to wherever we go when we die. This all sounded like a bunch of weird fake stuff that was not at all scary, but his dad continued, "But there's more to it than that". He told us that we could speak to the "others" with a simple ceremony but that it was very dangerous, and that the rules must be followed perfectly or receive a horrible death. First you needed to have a mirror to do it as well as a marker and salt. Step 1: Turn off all the lights and make sure the room is completely dark and that there is no noise whatsoever Step 2: Grab the mirror and draw a line along the border of the mirror Step 3: Sprinkle salt all over the mirror making sure it is only dusted and not completely covered in salt Step 4: say your name in reverse twice and once normally in the order reverse-normal-reverse. Once all these steps are done, he told us, you may ask three questions on whatever you please addressing the entity as your name in reverse, however you must ask the questions immediately otherwise........well have a horrible death. Finally after the three questions the mirror must be smashed and your name said in this order normal-reverse-normal otherwise, and it feels redundant to say this but you will have a horrible death. His dad also made a final note, saying "If these rules are broken no one will remember the one who died except their best friend who will receive a package containing the friends heart with "They have been taken" carved into it and a mask of their friends face next to it and if the mask is shown to anyone other than the best friend they will go insane for the friend will manifest in their mind. We all kind of chuckled at this and eventually a few years went by and I'm telling this story because it's the summer after our eighth grade year and I haven't heard a word from them, or hell even about them, hold on <i><b>there's someone at the door.............................</b></i>