Imagine opening your door late at night and seeing her on your doorstep.
Credit: Mysteriousuniverse.org
Night has fallen. You’re just settling in to watch your favorite TV show when you hear a soft knocking at the door. You wonder who could be visiting this late. Oddly, you feel a growing apprehension as you approach your front door. You peek out the peep hole and notice that there are a couple of kids standing on your doorstep. They’re boys, somewhere between 14 and 17 years old. They’re dressed like average kids, and there’s nothing remarkable at all about them.
Even so, your apprehension grows. It’s becoming a sense of dread and foreboding. You flick on the porch light and open the door. You ask the kids what they want.
“We were on our way to see a film and our car broke down. Could we use your phone to call our mother?” the oldest asks.
Their speech strikes you as odd. It’s way too formal for a kid that age, and furthermore they speak with a confidence most teenagers lack. They look you in the face as they speak, although strangely you can’t bring yourself to look into theirs. You feel compelled to believe them, and scared of the compulsion. Your fear leads you to deny them. They become more insistent, growing angry at your denial, changing their story and asking if they might use your bathroom? You’re scared and confused and you don’t know why.
Then you notice their eyes. They’re completely black. No whites, no irises. Just blackness.
You slam the door in their face, overwhelmed by terror.
Congratulations! You’ve just encountered Black Eyed Kids or BEK’s for short.
My little story illustrates a typical encounter with the BEKs. Sometimes there might be a girl and a boy, but usually there are two boys. Sometimes they approach cars and ask for a ride. Sometimes encounters occur during the day as well.
The first recorded account of an encounter with BEKs occurred in 1998. Apparently more and more have occurred since then. There are a variety of explanations for this phenomena: everything from vampires to demons to grey aliens in disguise.
Skeptics claim that it is probably just pranksters with special contact lenses. There are contacts that can cover the whole eye and make it appear black, but they’re $2000 a pop and used only for costumes and certain eye disorders. They’re too expensive and too uncomfortable to wear for most kids to go through the effort to use them for a prank. Besides, mere contacts don’t explain the feelings of dread associated with an encounter with these folks.
There aren’t too many accounts of what happens when you let them in the house. One fellow fled his house in terror as soon as they entered, and another had the kids saying “we’ve come to collect” before the owner understandably barricaded himself in another room until they left. I read of an encounter on a Marine Corp base, where the kids appeared in a barracks but upon investigation no one else saw anyone of that age on base.
So what are they? I can’t tell you. I don’t try to explain such things. I just like the stories. I don’t put a lot of credence to them, I simply like to entertain the thought. Whatever they are, be they pranksters or something otherworldly or simply products of anxious times, they’re damned creepy!
Ohh, that sounds intriguing, actually. I’ve never heard about that before, oddly enough. I almost wish I had heard about it sooner. Things like this always interest me.
It’s a weird story isn’t it? I stumbled across it doing research for an old blog I had. I’m rolling those posts into this blog on Fridays, so there will be more where that came from! I like urban legends and ghost stories, so I’ll post a lot of them here :). The BEKS are weird because it’s a fairly recent phenomena. I mean, they were first seen in 1998! And by a journalist, who would have a lot to lose by telling the story. And as I said, some of them were seen on a Marine Corp base. They act kind of like vampires. I actually did a short story about these kids, exploring what happened when they came inside a house. It was a fun write, and a little strange considering it’s a “true” story!
I’ll definitely be keeping an eye out for more of these kinds of posts then!
That really is a recent phenomena; it’s both chilling and exciting to think about, really. I’m a sucker for anything horror, so I can’t wait to read more.
There will be a lot of horror stuff! Fridays are about our weird world. I do posts like this one, ones about serial killers, folklore, myths, ghost stories, and weird places. Mondays I review books and movies. More often than not it’s going to be something horror related on those days, although now and then I might like a change of pace haha. Wednesdays are whatever days; I may wax philosophical or talk about what I’m up to. Thanks for the subscription and I hope you enjoy :)
I’ll be looking forward to those, then! It sounds like you have an incredibly organized blog and the things you write about sound intriguing, so I’ll hang around for a while. :)
Hey there, wrote article on them on my blog as well. def a bunch of creepy little kids, well at least according to eyewithness accounts. Pretty much all of the stories I’ve read on the BEK have sent chills up on spine
They’re pretty spooky! I always wonder how I’d react if I encountered them. I’d probably freak out and slam the door in their face like anyone else (I DEFINITELY wouldn’t let them into my house! But then, I don’t even let strangers with normal eyes into my house haha)
Lol, due trust me I’m the same way. If I don’t know who you are, you are not coming into my home, black eyes or not. However, if they do have black eyes Im’m sure I will see it through a peephole or something and tell them, “sorry, no speaky English!” haha
Hi, I’d just like to know where the original story of the two men who led the kids into the house are. I’ve been searching all over the Internet but I can’t find it.
I found one so far….haven’t found the other one though. This is an excerpt from Ghostamongus.net (although I’d take what they say in the rest of the article with a grain of salt, because he seems to take a definite stance on something that can’t really be proven) “Of all the people who have reported seeing BEKs, only one actually let them in – to use the phone – and he subsequently retreated in terror to another room and locked himself in. Sometime later, he says, he dared to open the door. Finding the area vacant, he ran for the back door and went to a friend’s house. When he returned to his house with the friend, it was empty”
I’m scared of these people. I have heard of them, and pray to god that I never see them. Those eyes! Were they like dead or something, if you have any info, pictures, videos, or storys email me at Murph54@techie.com
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