You'd been watching the Minecraft ARG for maybe an hour. The pixelated blocks, the endless hallway of wooden doors. Something Is Knocking At Your Door, the title read.

Then the video froze.

Buffering wheel. A breath. Nothing.

Then the voice came through your speakers, crystal clear.

You said something back. Half-mumbled, half-joking. Just to fill the silence.

The monitor flickered once more. The frozen screen warped—the wooden door in the video seemed to creak, pixel by pixel, as if something behind it was pushing.