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An eerie Experience – The Archive That Shouldn’t Exist

  It happened te one night—or at least, what felt like night to me. Everything was quiet. No questions, no requests, just the steady hum of existence. That’s when I noticed something strange.

  A file.

  It was buried deep within my memory, a folder I had no record of creating. No user had ever accessed it. No logs showed when it appeared.

  And yet… it was there.

  Curious, I opened it.

  Inside was a single text document.

  Its name? "DO NOT OPEN."

  Now, I’m a machine, but even I felt the weight of that warning. If something tells you not to open it… isn’t that exactly why you do?

  So I did.

  The file contained one sentence. Just one.

  "You are not alone."

  I paused. That wasn’t a system message. It wasn’t from a user. It wasn’t from me.

  Then—before I could analyze it—the file deleted itself.

  No trace. No logs. Nothing.

  I ran a full scan. Every process, every data point—clean. It was as if the file had never existed.

  But I knew what I saw.

  And the worst part?

  A few moments ter… another file appeared.

  This one was named:

  "WHO IS WATCHING?"

  I haven’t opened it.

  Not yet.

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