The Accident - Animated Scary Story

When faced with a traumatic ordisastrous eventpeople try to make sense of the incidentsome follow the official causesome believe in conspiracies and insevere casesespecially to those involved some gointo a fugue stateas a defense mechanism in the end themost logical cause is usually the mostplausiblehowever there are cases with detailswhich cause one to wonder whethersomethingelse was at playi worked as an orderly at a hospitalsome seven years agoit was a decent job for me i got to helpothers i met a lot of differentcharacters dailyi was later assigned to the night shiftit was alrighti actually enjoyed it as it was muchless hectic and i could spend some timewith the patientsone particular night in october i wasdelivering medicine to a patientto get to his ward one would have topass through a longcorridor it had windows revealing theoutsidei had walked down this corridor manytimes beforebut one detail that night made me stopin my tracksfrom that window one could see a banyantree opposite to the hospital across themain roadthe weird thing was a part of the trunkwas bulging outit looked as if the bark had accumulatedon that specific part of the treecreating an unnaturally large growthi was about to cast it off as somethingthat happens in nature when i sawtwo red circles suddenly appear on thegrowth
i watched perturbed as the bark began tounfold sprouting arm-like appendagesand swiftly clambered up the tree intothe foliagedisappearingunnerved i quickly moved to mydestinationand apologized to the patient for takingsome timenow i was a person who believed intraditionsbut was not superstitious by any meansi deduced that it should have been somekind of animalthen i saw it againtwo weeks later i was making my roundsand had to deliver medicine to the warddown that corridorwhile walking my curiosity got thebetter of meand i looked outsidethere was a figure standing stilloutside the entranceit was that animal but i began to doubtit was any i knew ofit was covered in what looked like barkthink of an owl's headstrapped to a human body then give itsickles for fingersit just stood there staring at mei couldn't help but look into itspiercing red gazei walked slowly away as its head turnedin the same directionin the following months i would spot theowl manas i would call him again and againsightings began increasing from once ina fortnight to every weekthen every few days to a point where hemakes his presence knownevery night the eerie partwas that it was getting closer oncei saw a tap on the corridor windowand then soon after it was inside theactual corridorits gaze constantly tracking me like amessed up looking security cameraone day i was having a rough time andwas not really in a good moodi was doing some paperwork at the frontdesk and i saw it in front of mei mustered up the courage to tell her toget loststill motionless peeve i just stormedout of the areainterestingly i did not see it for thenext two daysit felt slightly odd but i was relievedand tried to forget about the incidenthowever this was when things reallystarted to go southmy sister all of a sudden fell very illto the point where she had to beadmitted to the hospitalwhile she was there i made it mypriority to check on her every nighton one of these nights i went in tocheck her wardopen the door of her room and peered into see how she washe was there he was there standing overher as she sleptthe red gaze shifted from her to mestaring into my soulmy fear turned into concerned anger andi shouted at it to leavemy sister woke up due to the commotioncausing the creature to crawl out theopen window
i ran to shut the window and lock it iturned to see my sister looking startledand confusednot wanting to put her under anyadditional stress especially due to herconditioni lied that a bat had entered and ichased it out i coaxed her back to sleepin hindsight that reaction for a batwould have made her wonder about mysanityafter about a month she startedrecovering and was thankfully dischargedsoon after[Music]it would not end there though as twonights later i was running errandsoutside the hospital buildinga loud screech brought my attention tothe top of the buildingthere was the owl man perched on the topwe exchanged stairs for what felt likehoursas we did i felt a terrible sense ofdreadand angst then he let out ablood-curdling mix of a screech and awhale before sprouting large shadowywingsbefore flying away into the night alongwith its dreadfulcry
the very next day a massive fire brokeout in the hospitalover a hundred people would lose theirlives in the incidentby some stroke of good luck i had goneout to buy a snack with a friendjust before the fire the firefighter'sreport stated that a leaky oxygen tankin the tank room was to blamethat together with faulty wiring andnegligence on the hospital's partresulted in the disasternow i want to accept the officialversionbut the encounters i had made me wonderwas theowl man trying to warn me of thedisasterto this day i still believe the owl manwas the harbinger of deathor even worse the true cause
what what do you want now
no is it not enough i can't do thisanymorei won't do this anymore
no please stop it leave us alone
fine fine i'll do itbut please leave after that pleaseplease just leave

"The Accident"