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Mr. Smile (part 2)

(read first part to know what's happening)

Cameras and baby monitors were placed in the children's rooms so that they could be monitored. Many of the parents simply stopped sleeping altogether, staying up all night staring at the screens that displayed where their children slept. At no point did anyone enter or exit the bedrooms. No sounds except for them snoring or occasionally talking in their sleep were heard over the baby monitors. There was no sign of Mr. Smile.

After almost two weeks of this, many of them began to doubt that Mr. Smile had ever existed. Other psychiatrists since have put the whole thing down to some strange shared delusion that while it couldn't be explained yet did not have any basis in reality. Some suggested that maybe this whole 'Mr. Smile' thing had its basis in a TV show or film that the children had all watched leading them all to dream up something similar.

Then one of the boys went missing.

The camera in his room had gone dead at around two in the morning. His mother had run to check in on him only to find his room empty. It had literally taken her less than a minute to run to his room. There was no possible way for him to leave (or be taken) and be out of her sight in the time it took her to leave her bedroom and run towards his but he was gone.

She said there was a smell like cotton candy in the room.

The search for the boy turned up nothing. No one had seen anything strange or unusual around the home before or during the disappearance and no trace of him was ever found. It was less than a week later that one of the girls who had spoken of 'Mr. Smile' vanished as well. Then another. Then another of the boys. One by one each of them began to disappear, until only four remained.

The four remaining children began to talk about how 'Mr. Smile' and his friends were going to take them away soon. When asked about these 'Friends' they talked about how Mr. Smile lived with the other smiling men in 'The happy place' and that he would take them there soon. They said that there were lots of people there already and that in the happy place everything was beautiful. They said that they knew about it because Mr. Smile talked to them 'In their heads' because he couldn't talk like other people did and that he would show them pictures in their heads of the place they were going.

Things began to get increasingly disturbing. After a few weeks, the children began complaining of headaches and nausea. Their schools reported that they had begun to suffer hallucinations and two of them started complaining that they didn't like the place that 'Mr. Smile' was showing them anymore. One began screaming for half an hour, acting as if they were having a fit and screaming for the colors to stop. That the colors were 'horrible' and that they needed them to go away.

One of the children claimed that Mr. Smile was talking to them in their head all the time now and was telling them things. Terrible things. But that they couldn't talk about it. That they mustn't because then their parents would know about the terrible things too.

The psychiatrist asked them to write down what Mr. Smile was saying, promising that he would show it to no one, managing to gain the trust of one of the boys enough that he agreed. The contents of the book are known only to him and the authorities but whenever anyone involved has been asked about it they just get real quiet. And quickly find an excuse to change the subject.

The children stopped sleeping. Footage from the security cameras showed them sitting bolt upright, their eyes unblinking, just staring at the wall without moving or making a sound. Sedatives did nothing. One of the girls began cutting strange circular marks into her skin while two of the boys ceased communicating in English altogether. The language they spoke was never identified and despite numerous people being asked to listen to them, they could not translate what they were saying.

By the start of 1999, all four of the children had vanished into thin air.

There was no trace of who took them. Searches have turned up nothing to this day, with no indication of where they are or if they're even dead or alive. No suspects have ever been found either...all four of them appeared to simply vanish into thin air, much like the others, all of whom also remain missing, their disappearances unexplained.

(By: Alice Thomson on creepy pasta.com)