Our second reader-submitted story this month. These are great guys!

Original story:
Some years ago I had a hard time in life, I got in a huge fight with some friends and did some stuff I'm not proud of, so I lost a lot of my friends and was really down. I had trouble with sleeping and one night I went to bed like I usually do, and tried to sleep. After some hours of lying in bed and a little bit of sleep, I heard someone clearly whisper in my ear "Everything is gonna be ok, I got that, everything is gonna be alright" and I'm pretty sure I was awake, because I have a light sleep and I often wake up when someone encounters my room or talks to me. So I tried to ignore the whisper and told myself "this is just a dream or something, there is no one talking to you" I opend my eyes and I saw someone standing in the corner of my room, staring at me with bright red eyes. I closed my eyes to make sure this "thing" is gone after I opend my eyes again, but It was still there, so I screamed at the top of my lungs, my mother heard me and she was running towards my room opening my door, switching the lights on, I looked at here with shock, pointed at the corner and It was gone. Since that day I always sleep with some lights on.