As you had probably guessed (by the “fiction” tag), the story I wrote a while back, It Only Takes Once is fiction. However, as I mentioned in the comments, it does take place in the apartment I’m currently living in. As I sit at my computer, I can look into the bathroom and see the window where the hand appeared. This one:
The following is true, by the way. Just so there’s no confusion. A few minutes ago, as I was sitting at my computer, alone in the dark, the light went on in the hall. The motion-sensor light. I suddenly heard this “squeak, squeak, squeak” over the sound of my music and I looked into the bathroom. Through the frosted glass window I could see my neighbor’s door moving back and forth really fast. Maybe it was just sitting in the dark alone like this, but it reminded me of the rapid, jerky movement of the haunted rocking chair in the movie The Woman in Black.
After about 20 seconds, the door slowly closed and the light went off. I’m sure there is a perfectly natural explanation for it all, but it made me really excited, because what if there wasn’t?
The Green-Walled Tower 
July 20th, 2012 at 10:42 pm
Maybe it really WAS the woman in black 😉
July 20th, 2012 at 10:54 pm
Considering the fact I’m still sitting here in the dark, that’s a really creepy thought. I love it! 🙂
July 21st, 2012 at 10:19 am
Maybe it really WAS something! You shouldn’t be alone, and if you are, not in the DARK! Or, perhaps you would like to be creeped out….
July 21st, 2012 at 2:42 pm
Well, my wife was sleeping, and yeah, I don’t mind being a little creeped out 🙂
July 23rd, 2012 at 7:11 pm
very good question! what if is what scares us most.
July 23rd, 2012 at 7:16 pm
It’s true. The question “what if?” is the source of most of our hopes, fears and regrets, it seems.