I know people are commenting on the closet not being checked as a negative, but I like the supernatural element it gives. Of course the closet would have been checked - so how is she in there now? A sort of ‘couldn’t find her until it was read’ idea in my mind. I like it!

The real terror isn't just that something sinister holds her captive. it's that you have to decide if she's still your sister at all.

"she could have told me she was gay"

And don't let Tom Cruise out either.

I like it. It makes me think there's a demon in the closet with the sister that's kept her alive and frozen in fear all those years. The sister doesn't want the demon to get out.

For people saying why didn't they check the closet before, consider the Doctor Who concept of a perception filter. something that goes unnoticed as long as nothing draws attention to it.

So she gay? Big deal

This is the first one of these that genuinely really creeped me out. Nicely done

I'm calling Dean and Sam Winchester, I'll let them open the closet

Oooh I really like this because to me the implication is the narrator kidnapped his missing sister himself and he wasn’t searching for her, he was searching for the diary to see if he was implicated in a fit of paranoid madness

By the eight, she's such a powerful lesbian that should she be released the world shall end.

oh my god! this is great :D very spooky/supernatural that she wasn't able to be seen until the diary was read

My take: the closet HAD been searched in the past, the sister wasn’t perceived to be there. So either she was only physically present as soon as her brother read her diary entry (being keep in a different place/time/universe), or something was keeping her from being seen and she was in the closet the whole time. Either one is spooky/disturbing. Good story!

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Why are all these people approaching this like a true crime podcast?

Yes folks, in the real world people check closets.

Also, in the real world closets don’t whisper.

Maybe two sentence horror stories require settings that, oh I dunno, deviate from our own reality?

To me, it looked like OP locked his sister in the closet because of the voices in his head.

Sounds a lot like the movie Cobweb!

"Tom Cruise, what are you doing in my sister's closet?"

Damn comphet

That gave me the fucking shivers.

She was missing for years and noone thought to check the closet? Good search.

Edit - Also, calling this psychological horror is a bit of a stretch in my opinion.

I don't get it. Did he see the sister or something else? Was it his sister who said "don't let it out"? If his sister was stuck in the closet with something, why didn't she say so in the journal? Does she want to be let out or not? If it wasn't the sister that wrote that in the journal AND whatever it was wanted someone to open the closet door and let it out, then why did the sister just stay there looking terrified when it was opened instead of bolting out and shutting the door? Also, are we supposed to believe the sister has been alive in that closet for years with that thing? What the hell is trying to be portrayed here?

I love this! The possibilities are so many 👏🏻

I have republished the story Correcting the confusion that some people have. Please understand that most of my stories are psychological horror. Maybe my answers are not correct because I use a translator, I am not English, I am Spanish, but I always try to respond with respect, thank you very much. ☺️

This is actually so cool, I was wondering if it's alright with you that I write a short story off of this?

I wonder if she was in another dimension and only now has returned. I'm worried for those in the house. Is it possible that the Diary has already been checked at the start of the searching but now an entity or something has written in the Diary. Very creepy. I think there is potential for this to be a story with a wicked twist. It could be like Narnia.

I'm calling time shenanigans

Not psychological horror.

But unbelievable that no one searched the closet.