Can You Face the Shadow at 3 AM?

 

They say 3 AM is the Devil’s Hour—when the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest. Most people sleep through it. But those who are awake… sometimes see things they shouldn’t.

Aman, a software engineer in Delhi, often stayed up late working in his apartment. One night, at exactly 3:00 AM, he felt an icy chill in the room. The fan stopped. His laptop screen flickered. Then—he saw it.

A tall, black shadow standing just outside his balcony window. No face. No features. Just a shifting silhouette.

Thinking it was a trick of the light, he blinked. But it was still there—closer now. Inside.

Frozen, Aman tried to scream, but no voice came. The shadow crept closer and whispered,
“You looked at me… now I will look into you.”

From that night onward, Aman changed. He stopped going out. He taped all his mirrors. He refused to sleep during the night.

When his friend visited, they found the apartment freezing cold—even in summer—and scribbles on the wall written in Aman’s handwriting:
“Don’t look at the shadow.
It never forgets.
It waits at 3:00 AM.”

Aman vanished a week later. Only his cracked watch remained—stopped forever at 3:00 AM.

So tell me…
If the shadow comes for you tonight,
Will you face it?
Or pray your eyes stay shut?