Boy Notices Lights off in Old Lady’s House for Days, Approaches and Hears a Whisper of ‘Help’ – Story of the Day

A little boy named Jacob decided to check on an old lady who lived near him after he realized her lights had been off for days in the middle of winter.

An 11-year-old boy named Jacob lived in a trailer with his parents. They struggled financially, as both his parents were minimum wage earners.

While his parents were at work, Jacob would often walk around their neighborhood, as he had many friends that lived nearby. Every day, he and his friends would pass by the large property of an old woman who lived alone. She lived in a beautiful house, but it was not well-kept as no one would visit the old lady to tend to her house.

After a couple of days of walking and playing with his friends near the old woman’s property, Jacob realized that her lights were constantly off even at night. “Do you notice that Mrs. Jacobson’s lights have been off for a couple of days now? Do you think we should check on her?” he asked his friends.

“Don’t be silly, Jacob! Why would you walk into a big scary house with no lights on? There might be ghosts in there,” one of his friends replied.

“Mrs. Jacobson doesn’t leave her house, and we haven’t seen anyone visiting to pick her up, either. Something bad might have happened to her,” Jacob insisted.

“You’ve gone mad, Jacob. If you want to check on her, do it yourself. I’m not going anywhere near that scary property,” another one of his friends replied, laughing.

At that, Jacob didn’t hesitate to walk towards the door. He knocked, but no one opened it. Suddenly, he saw a letter by the foot of the door and saw that the date was from a few days ago.

He walked back to his friends quickly and said “Mrs. Jacobson hasn’t gone out of the house in days. We have to get help!”

Jacob ran home and told his parents about what he saw. His mom shrugged it off, saying she might have just gone on a vacation. “Maybe she visited her son Adam in New York. Everyone knows he’s a big shot lawyer there,” she explained.

The smart boy wasn’t convinced. He knew that Mrs. Jacobson’s son never visited her, and it’d be difficult for her to travel all the way to New York alone. He decided to...