Japanese 2ch Creepypasta｜Binoculars🔭

This is a short creepypasta that appeared on the Japanese 2ch forum '洒落怖' (Sharekofu - Scary Stories) back in 2004. (The original '双眼鏡' just means binoculars~) The poster had a peculiar hobby: climbing onto his rooftop late at night and observing the quiet city through his binoculars. One night, as he was looking at the distant streets like usual, he suddenly noticed something running down the top of a long slope at an incredible speed. He looked closer with his binoculars— It was a naked, emaciated, childlike humanoid figure. As it sprinted towards his house, it had a wide smile on its face and was... Waving at him. The poster suddenly realized that the thing knew he was watching it. Terrified, he immediately rushed down from the roof and locked the door. Not long after, he heard the sound of rapid footsteps on the rooftop stairs. It had arrived. The entity seemed to search the roof for a while, then ran downstairs and began frantically banging on the door and ringing the doorbell, accompanied by eerie moaning sounds from outside. The poster could only grip an iron and tremble inside the house. After a few tens of seconds, everything suddenly went quiet. He endured it like that until dawn. All that was left was one question— 'What on earth was that thing?'