‘I’M FREAKING OUT RIGHT NOW’

Adam Ellis’ live Twitter updates of a GHOST named ‘Dear David’ haunting his home are the scariest things you’ll read this week

The illustrator claims he sees a child with a huge misshapen head dented on one side who sits in a green rocking chair at the end of his bed

AN illustrator who fears his home is being haunted by a ghost named Dear David has shared live updates throughout the night of strange goings-on.

Adam Ellis claims the ghost of a dead child is haunting his New York apartment - and that it's trying to kill him - in a series of late-night tweets.

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Adam Ellis pictured with his two cats who he claims stand staring at the door at midnight because of a ghostCredit: Adam Ellis/Twitter
Terrified Adam Ellis drew this picture of the child ghost he claims is haunting his New York homeCredit: Adam Ellis/Twitter

The supernatural saga began when Ellis drew a picture of the child ghost, with a "huge misshapen head which was dented on one side" who was sat in a green rocking chair at the end of his bed in a dream he had.

Then suddenly months later, Ellis' two cats stood staring at his front door at midnight for six nights running.

He told his 162,000 followers: "Something strange is happening".

He added: "So, my apartment is currently being haunted by the ghost of a dead child and he's trying to kill me.

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"He started appearing in dreams, but I think he's crossed over into the real world now.

"For a while he just stared at me, but then he got out of the chair and started shambling toward the bed.

"I couldn't move because I was paralysed. (I have sleep paralysis fairly often. It sucks.)

"Right before he reached my bed, I woke up screaming."

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The illustrator said he got a 'strange feeling' of a presence in his New York apartmentCredit: Adam Ellis/Twitter

A few nights later Ellis had another dream in which he asked "David" the ghost how he died.

He replied it was an accident in a store when a shelf was "pushed on my head".

Ellis spent time researching newspaper archives to discover if a child named David had been killed in a store, but found nothing.

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Now, Ellis is having to re-live his terror after getting a "weird feeling" when his cats gathered at his front door at midnight.

He said: "I looked out the peephole, and I'm dead certain I saw movement on the other side.

"When I opened the door and turned on the hall light, nothing was there, but my cats seemed unnerved. Bushy tails, etc.

"And that's where I am right now. Dear David found me, I think. I don't know what to do."

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