there were EYES in my closet. I wasn't imagining it.

I wasn't going to post this but I've been thinking about it for years and I need people to know.

Spring 2022. I was a broke college student near Kyung Hee University in Seoul, hunting for a place I could actually afford. Tuition plus living expenses, you know how it is. I ended up signing a lease on a semi-basement studio in Hoegi-dong. Yellowed wallpaper. Furniture that looked straight out of 1995. But it was cheap and it was mine.

The room had a built-in wardrobe along one wall. Old thing, hinges that creaked when you touched it, metal rod inside, a few wooden shelves. Smelled like mold when I first opened it but I figured I'd air it out. Fine.

About a month in, things got weird.

Every night around 2am, right when I was drifting off, I'd hear it. A single "tak" sound from inside the wardrobe. I told myself it was the wood contracting. Temperature changes. Normal stuff. Except it kept happening. Every night. Same time. Same interval.

Then one night I heard the door creak open. Just a tiny bit. That little "squeeeak" of the hinge. I sat up, turned on the light. Nothing. Everything normal.

But the second I turned my back to it and lay down again.

Tak... tak... squeeeeak...

I started sleeping facing that wall. Couldn't not.

Then came the night before midterms. Late, I was at my desk trying to study, and I just... looked up. My eyes went straight to the wardrobe.

There were EYES in the gap between the doors.

Human eyes. Just. Looking at me.

I shoved my chair back so hard it hit the wall. Flew across the room and yanked the door open. Nothing inside. Just clothes and that mold smell.

I decided to move out that week.

My last day, I was cleaning out the wardrobe one final time. And on the floor inside, there was a scrap of old paper.

Handwritten.

"I'm still here."

I told the building manager. He looked away when I showed him. Wouldn't meet my eyes.

"That room... it should've stayed empty longer. The previous tenant went missing. Last contact anyone had with them was from inside that apartment."

I did not let him finish that sentence. I left.

The unit is still vacant. The real estate office says it's a mold issue.

But students around Hoegi-dong say something different.

"Something in that room watches you. From the inside."