Aired: September 2, 2022
In 1987, ten-year-old identical twins Red and Blue go on vacation at their Grandma Fria's house. While exploring the garden, they find an unusually dark, deep well. Blue jokingly asks Red to jump in, but before Blue gives the go-signal, a shadowy female figure with tattered clothes pushes her in. Much later, the emergency services rescue Red, but she is unconscious.
Red spends the next six months confined in the ICU. Despite Blue's explanations, her family blames her for Red's condition, and her mother Vera even ignores her, making her depressed.
One night, Blue has a disturbing nightmare. Someone knocks on her room, but despite feeling fully awake, she cannot speak or move. She can only watch as the woman that pushed Red enters her room. With an angry stare, the entity chokes Blue and cuts her lips. She tries to scream, but no sound comes out. Thankfully, Vera enters the room, ending the nightmare.
Vera explains that Red has finally woken up, but her memory is fragmented, so they have to stay in Grandma Fria's house for another two months. Every night without fail, Blue's nightmare recurs, making her lose sleep. Her mother decides to return home early to take to her to a sleep doctor. She is diagnosed with sleep paralysis and given medicine, but it has no effect on her nightmares. In fact, they almost seem to get worse.
One night, her nightmare seems to play out as normal — she hears a knock on the door, but she can't scream or get up to answer it — but this time, the entity that appears is Red, looking all nightmarish. She chokes her sister very tightly, angrily shouting "You killed me! I will kill you!" Vera screams at her, making her lose consciousness again.
Thankfully, Red comes to the next morning, but she has no memory of attacking Blue. Suddenly, Grandma Fria places an urgent call. They need to return to the vacation home as soon as possible. When they arrive, they are greeted by a group of albularyos, spiritists, and mediums sent to help them. They explain that the twins have disturbed an evil spirit while playing near the well. They offer prayers and a ritual, and the nightmares finally end.
Tropes:
- Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Red's unconscious body is rescued by firefighters, an ambulance, and Grandma Fria's neighbor.
- Can Only Move the Eyes: As is commonly reported in sleep paralysis cases, Blue can only move her eyes in her nightmare.
- Cassandra Truth: All of Blue's family members believe she pushed Red down the well, even though an evil spirit did it instead. While Vera uses this to shun her, Grandma Fria is more reassuring.
- Dramatic Wind: Happens twice in the story, when Red falls into the well and during the albularyos' ritual.
- Exposition: There is a random detailed definition of sleep paralysis in the middle of the story.
- Fell Asleep Crying: Blue whenever her family blames her for her sister's coma.
- Gratuitous Latin: A single Latin phrase is spoken near the end of the story.
- Joke and Receive: Red is pushed into the well after Blue jokingly dares her to jump in.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: After waking up from her coma, Red doesn't remember her family or what happened on the day she fell in the well. The same happens after she is possessed by the evil spirit.
- Meaningful Name: Red and Blue. Red was named after the birthmark on her neck that was initially mistaken to be undrained blood, while Blue was named because she was a "blue baby" who had to be placed in an incubator. Also doubles as Twin Theme Naming.
- Ominous Knocking: Blue hears three knocks in her nightmares before being attacked by the Sleep Paralysis Creature.
- On Three: Red falls into the well at Blue's "two".
- Or Was It a Dream?: Blue at first assumes Red choking her was just a nightmare. However, judging from Vera's response, it is anything but.
- Plagued by Nightmares: Blue has a recurring dream where she is attacked by an evil spirit, accompanied by bouts of sleep paralysis.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: The evil spirit, as well as the possessed Red, both from the nightmares.
- Sleep Paralysis Creature: The spirit of a woman killed by Japanese soldiers in World War II, turned evil by a desire to hurt, kill, and get revenge on the living.
- Tears of Blood: The Sleep Paralysis Creature. Blood also drips from wounds all over her body.
- Volleying Insults: Red and Blue's favorite pastime as kids.
- When the Clock Strikes Twelve: Blue's nightmares are described as "like a movie being replayed at midnight."
- Would Hurt a Child: The spirit wants revenge on the living, good or bad, young or old.
