This ongoing Twitter ghost story just got a whole lot weirder

Yep, this is terrifying.
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Sam Haysom
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Fair warning: if (like me) you're the type of person who gets spooked easily, you may want to look away now. The following Twitter thread is genuinely creepy.

New York-based illustrator and author Adam Ellis has been tweeting about his apparently haunted apartment for awhile now.

It started with a series of dreams about a dead child, and it has quickly escalated to strange noises, unexplained animal behaviour and a series of events that are like something straight out of Paranormal Activity.

You can get fully caught up here:

Anyway, there have been some further developments.

Over the past few days, Elllis shared two more threads -- complete with some very creepy video footage -- to update his followers on the "Dear David" situation.

Here's the full update, in order...

In the second thread, things got even weirder:

At the time of writing, this is Ellis' latest tweet:

Okay, so Ellis could be making all of this up for Twitter points. It would be impressively elaborate, but it is of course possible.

He's a storyteller, after all, and the "Dear David" saga could be nothing more than a very well-told Twitter tale.

Either way, though, it's compulsive reading.

It's also surely not the last we'll hear about David...

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Sam Haysom is the Deputy UK Editor for Mashable. He covers entertainment and online culture, and writes horror fiction in his spare time.

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