The Woman Next Door in Mourning Clothes

One day, a strange eyewitness account appeared in the resident group chat and local mom café of a famous newly built large apartment complex in the Seoul metropolitan area.

The post said that a woman dressed in an eerie outfit had recently been seen often around the playgrounds and elevators of the apartment complex, where many young couples lived. Even though it was midsummer, she wandered around the complex dressed entirely in long-sleeved black mourning clothes, or traditional mourning attire, with a white mourning pin in her hair.

Her target was clear: young mothers pushing strollers or walking with children.

The woman would approach the child and speak to them with an almost unnerving amount of kindness.

"My, what a beautiful child. Those eyes look just like your mother's."

When the mothers, feeling uncomfortable or uneasy, tried to hurry away with their children, the woman would toss out a single sentence from behind them in a very low, sunken voice.

"But... when will the wailing begin?"

Rumor had it that tragedy began a few days after that woman visited a home. A perfectly healthy child would suffer from mysterious high fevers every night, scr