{"id":2151,"date":"2025-09-12T22:23:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=2151"},"modified":"2025-09-12T22:23:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T22:23:52","slug":"the-night-my-sons-voice-called-me-from-an-empty-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/?p=2151","title":{"rendered":"The Night My Son\u2019s Voice Called Me from an Empty Room"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I woke up at 3 a.m. to get a glass of water. As I walked down the hall, I clearly heard my son\u2019s voice from his bedroom:<br><em>\u201cMom, can you turn off the light?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Without thinking, I opened the door and flicked the switch off. His voice had sounded so normal, so casual, that I didn\u2019t question it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But as I got back into bed, a chill ran through me. My son wasn\u2019t home. He was away on a camping trip with his friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My heart dropped. I rushed back to his room. The air felt icy cold, the kind of cold that seeps into your bones. His bed was perfectly made, untouched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then I noticed the closet door was slightly ajar. From the darkness inside, I heard it again \u2014 the same voice, this time whispering:<br><em>\u201cThanks, Mom.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I froze, every instinct telling me not to move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I woke up at 3 a.m. to get a glass of water. As I walked down the hall, I clearly heard my son\u2019s voice from his bedroom:\u201cMom,&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}