Mr. Ballin

They can go to bed when they want to.

And so she told the kids to, you know, don't stay up too late and go to bed soon.

Then she left, you know, leaving them on the couch.

She went to her own bedroom and she turned out her lights.

A few hours later, Bonnie woke up and looked over at the clock and saw it was near 3 a.m.

And she also could still hear the TV on out in the living room.

And so Bonnie cracked open her door and yelled down the hallway to the kids to turn off the TV and go to bed.

And then as Bonnie got back in her bed, she heard the sound of the TV turning off and she heard footsteps walking down the hallway.

And then the house was quiet and she drifted back to sleep.

But sometime before dawn, when it was still dark out, she woke up again.

And when she rolled over in her bed, she opened her eyes and she saw there was a large figure standing over her bed.

Later that same morning, around 10.45 a.m., 10-year-old Brandon woke up to a eerily silent house.

Normally, his mother would have already been awake, making breakfast or getting started on chores.

But when he went out in the hallway, he didn't hear her.

He went into the kitchen and he checked to see if she was there, but she wasn't.

And there were no dirty pans or plates in the sink and no coffee in the pot.

It looked like his mom hadn't even woke up yet, which was weird for a Saturday morning.

So he went to ask his older sister, Candace, if she knew where their mom was.

But Candace said she hadn't seen her, so Brandon and Candace both went down the hallway to their mother's bedroom.

They knocked on the door, and when she didn't answer, Brandon pushed the door open and looked inside.