[ WP ] You suddenly find your doors and windows wo n't open . You log in to Reddit and find the most upvoted thread with over a million comments and just two hours old `` Help , my door is stuck , any tips to get it open ? ''

It started with a sudden blast of that introduction to Pink Floyd's'Money'. I always felt that was the classiest ringtone I could muster but being jolted awake to the sound of cash registers and coins may not necessarily be the most comfortable feeling ever. I groggily brought the phone closer to my face, it's 6:32am, Hayden is calling. The hell would he want from me at this hour? 
 
 `` Dude, so sorry for calling you now at this hour but something is happening and I ca n't think of anyone else who would be awake at this hour, I need your help man!'' 
 
 `` Huh? Whaa..?'' 
 
 `` I ca n't open my doors or my windows, everything outside is just pitch black, at first I thought my clock was broken or something but all the clocks are fine, it's 6+ and the sun is not up yet and I ca n't open the doors or windows, the electricity keeps going on and off... something weird is going on man, can you look outside?'' 
 
 I got up from my bed, still trying to figure out if I was awake or somehow managed to get into another layer of my dream. Did n't help that I watched Inception for the 6th time just 2 nights ago. `` Okay, hold on''. I took a deep breath, letting out an unintentional groan as I got out of bed and my first glance towards the window froze me. 
 
 `` Dude, I'll call you back.'' I hung up. 
 
 I walked towards the window, unhooked it and pushed against the frosted glass only for it to not budge. It felt like someone boarded up the window which would have made sense if not for the fact that I live on the 9th floor of an apartment building. Well, that's strange then. 
 
 I walked towards my living room door, looked through the peep hole and all I saw was black. I unhooked it and tried to open it and all it felt like was a wall. `` Well what now?''. 
 
 I paused for a bit, I'm sure there's an explanation to this. So I did what every confused person trying to make sense of a situation beyond his comprehension would do; I fired up my desktop and decided to Google it. 
 
 The Internet was working fine, pretty good speeds, so it could n't be the apocalypse. Chrome opens up and... what do I search for? Oh right, `` why am I unable to open my windows''? 
 
 The search result come in, I see a million and one results about restarting your computer, troubleshooting your desktop, antivirus software downloads... okay, I'll try this again. 
 
 `` Why ca n't I open my door?'' 
 
 First search result brings me to a site called Reddit with a topic `` Help, my door is stuck, any tips to get it open?''. I've heard so much about this site but never really used it before but wow, this was posted 2 hours ago and it already has over a million comments. 
 
 I should click on this but I really needed to pee and I was hungry. I skipped to the loo and then just grabbed a loaf of bread went back into my room stuffing a slice of bread at a time as a I read the comments, one by one. They all were going through the same thing. 
 
 `` My windows were black, no sun at all'' - GHFStrongMan from Australia 
 
 `` Dude, my doors would n't open too, and I kept hearing this low rumbling sound'' - Ben-Winkle from Hong Kong 
 
 `` Funny how you all have the same issue as me, what's going on?'' - ChaiPratpong from Thailand 
 
 This is weird, no this is freaky, no this is creepy as all fuck but what do I do now? I scrolled further and I come across a post by a PeterPong from Malaysia who said he was going to investigate this. I spent the next 20 minutes clicking `` load more comments'' and really, all it did was load my train of thought with explosive devices ready to detonate at the faintest crack on the rail. 
 
 I tried looking for a few specific usernames and then tried tracking their posts and I noticed a disturbing pattern. They all first started off by mentioning the locked doors and windows, then they talk about enquiring about the phenomenon and lastly, they talk about this low rumbling sound that seems to get louder and within 45 minutes of their first post; they disappear, no more replies, no word from them. 
 
 I was definitely fully awake by now, it's already been 27 minutes and I try to focus, and then I hear it... no, I feel it. A slight rumbling sound coming from a distance, a barely audible low frequency, somewhere between 20-40hz. 
 
 I continue scrolling and I see this post from Audi2309 mentioning how the rumbling sound had been going on for 15 minutes and it got louder and louder, he suspects it could be a message of sorts. The guy claims to be an audio engineer but maybe he does make sense. So he says he is going to record a few seconds of the sound and then time warp it to increase the frequency and he will release the results to us. 
 
 I waited, we waited, the whole of Reddit waited, never saw him again. 
 
 `` Fuck this'', I jumped to my brother's room, I know he has a Zoom H4N recorder somewhere, I found it, went towards the living room, recorded about 15 seconds of the sound, it sure is louder now than it was 5 minutes ago. I then went back to my desktop, opened up Adobe Audition, thanking God I still had that software after using it for school work last time, you know how almost every class project had to come with a video and somehow, I was the only one capable of understanding how post-production worked just because I spent a couple of months trying to become a bedroom electronica musician. 
 
 I loaded the.wav file onto the timeline, changed the speed to 300 % and let it load. Shit, it was now a 5 second clip. I played it back and I swear I heard the word `` coming to'' very slowly in a strange accented, deep low voice. Fuck, Audio2309 was on to something! 
 
 I reinserted the SD card, ran back to the living room and started recording, the sound was much louder, the room was vibrating, whatever it was is definitely nearby. 56... 57... 58... 59... I stopped recording. A 1 minute clip rendered down to 3 times its speed should be able to give me 20 seconds of what the fuck is going on. 
 
 Inserted the clip into the timeline, changed the speed to 300 %, took a deep breath and hit play. 
 
 `` We... see... no... need... for... your...'' 
 
 Suddenly everything turned black. All I hear is now the sound of my own breathing. Nothingness, I am still alive but there is nothing and I've been here the last 6 minutes. The dead silence is killing me, I swear I could already hear the blood flowing in my veins and all I see is black.
