text: I have been dating this girl for about 8 months. Let's just call her Anna to conceal her identity. One day Anna told me she wanted me to meet her mother. We live in D.C. and her mother lives in Virginia so we had to make a road trip. We got to her mother's house which is secluded about 20 miles away from the nearest town. It was an old victorian style house the ones you know are definitely haunted. Her mom was amazing but a bit eccentric. She cooked us a huge dinner that night ham, turkey, with all the sides it felt like thanksgiving. After dinner, we had a few drinks to celebrate and had a blast. We turned in for the night and I slept like a baby. I woke up early the next morning so early it was still dark out. I strolled to the kitchen to fix some coffee. Her mom is a coffee addict like me so i was glad she had the good shit. As my coffee was brewing I heard some strange noises coming from one of the guest bedrooms. Scratching noises from the room directly across from mine. I open the door and whreeeer! A cat jumped out at me. I almost pissed my pants I was so freaked. Nevertheless, it was just Anna’s old cat Bella. I was walking out of the room when something caught my peripheral vision. A box the cat knocked over near the closet. So the nice guy I am, I go over to put the box back in its original place. I started picking up what fell just a bunch of old electric and gas bills. Until I came across a small red photo album labeled “Bruce.” I remember Anna telling me her father's name was Bruce and he died about 2 years ago. Cancer I believe. Curiously, I looked through the album and there were a lot of pictures of Bruce in a hospital bed that was here in the house. I could tell by the Van Gogh painting in the background. As I flipped through the pictures they just got sadder and sadder. You could see the cancer take a toll on his body, each picture he's looking more like death. I was about done looking until I saw a dvd with “2018” on it. So I peeped my head out to make sure everyone was still asleep and shut the door. I popped in the dvd and it was just a video of Bruce sleeping. Then about 15 seconds in I see Anna’s mother creep in the frame. It was a bit weird because she was standing over bruce watching him sleep. This went on for about a minute. And then shit got dark. She picked up a pillow and placed it over Bruce's face. Bruce was flailing his arms and legs fighting for air. Fighting with every ounce of energy that was left in his body. He was just too weak. His movement then came to an end. Anna’s mother removed the pillow from his lifeless face. She looked back directly at the camera with an evil grin. She picked up the camera laughing hysterically and said “It's finally over!.