The One Door His Family Never Locked | After Midnight

For nearly fifty years, one family owned the same historic building in the middle of town. Over the decades they repaired it, protected it, and passed it from one generation to the next. Along with the building came one strange family tradition that no one could fully explain.

The attic door was never supposed to be locked.

When the newest owner modernized the building, he ignored the old rule. It seemed like common sense—every other door had a deadbolt, so why should the attic be any different?

Within days, he began hearing so...