Introduction
Black eyed kids or BEKs are a supernatural phenomenon that originated in Abilene, Texas. No one knows who they are, what they are, or where they’re from Probably because they were too scared to ask. The black eyed children are children that appear to be between the ages of 6 and 16. They look like normal children with outdated clothes, until you see their eyes- solid black. No iris, no sclera, no pupil, just black. Sometimes the children are seen in old fashion clothes, or with clothing for the wrong season. Some report them as being unnaturally pale. In very rare cases they were reported to have strange webbed feet. They are suspected to be demons, aliens, or bearers of bad news, but no one really knows what they are, or why they target humans.
Brian Bethal
The oldest dated report comes from the late 1980s and a man called Brian Bethal. It was late one night and Bethal had pulled into a movie theater parking lot to fill out a check. Right when he was getting ready to leave two young boys appeared at his car door. The boys appeared to be around 13 years old and they were barefoot. It was strange for such young kids to be by themselves but Bethal opened his window anyway, as the boys looked harmless.
“May I help you?” Bethal asked the children.
“Hi mister,” One said. “We forgot our money at home and we need to get it if we want to see the movie tonight. Could you give us a ride to our moms house?”
Part of Bethal wanted to comply, to help these boys get home, but another part was telling him to get away, to run. Ignoring it, Bethal went to unlock the door but then he saw it. The kids' eyes were solid black. Terrified, Bethal went to scream but the younger boy interrupted.
“Come on mister, we’re just a couple of boys. We can’t come in unless you let us. Let us in.”
“We don’t got a gun,” the other added, almost implying that they didn’t need one.
Scared out of his mind Bethal drove away from the theater. Never stopping there again. That was the first and last time that Brian Bethal saw the Black Eyed Kids.
Cannock Chase
While that was the first known report that referred to them as black eyed children, around the same time a small town in Staffordshire known as Cannock Chase had found a black eyed ghost. 1981 had been a good year for the town of Staffordshire, until the first sighting. A young girl had been appearing in a bar constantly. While a young child in a bar was strange enough, she was also reported to have black sunken eyes. At first she was thought to be a demon, but after she started disappearing through the walls she became known as the black eyed ghost. Cannock Chase had already been known as a paranormal spot. The pigman was found here, and alien sightings were numerous. Really, no one knows about this mysterious black eyed child but in 1982 an 18 year old girl had a very odd encounter with her.
The story was reported by her nephew Lee Brickley and goes something like this: Lee’s aunt had been out for a run when she stumbled upon a dirt trail. While walking it she caught sight of a young girl running in the opposite direction screaming “Help Mummy, Help”. She immediately called out to the girl but the girl continued to run. After running after the girl for quite a while she finally turned back to look at Lee’s aunt. The girl appeared to be around seven years old and she had -you guessed it- stone black eyes. Lee’s aunt ran straight home and never saw the girl again. After a few years the girl disappeared. No more black eyed ghosts - until a few months ago.
A woman and her daughter were walking through Birches Valley when they suddenly heard a child screaming. They ran in the direction desperate to make sure the child was okay. They found nothing. They stopped searching and took a minute to stand where they were. The woman turned around and was startled to see a young girl standing behind her, covering her eyes. “ I asked if she was okay and if she had been the one screaming. She then put down her arms at her side and opened her eyes, which is when I saw that they were completely black.” She reported shakily. The woman grabbed her daughter and rushed home. So… Is the black eyed ghost back?
Come On In
One older couple made the mistake of letting the children in. The couple remained nameless in the report so it’s hard to get more information on the case, but the few articles out there have some pretty scary information on what happened. A woman heard a knock at her door and when she answered it two young kids were there. They had very androgynist looks so she couldn’t quite figure out if they were male or female. The children looked calm as they asked to come inside.
“Hi there Miss, we’re waiting for our parents to come pick us up. Could we come inside?”
When she was about to say no her husband yelled “Let them in. Come in.”
The children smiled and came inside, and once inside removed their sunglasses to reveal those terrible eyes - black as can be. The couple were scared but simply couldn't bring themselves to turn down children in need. While the children were there the power went out and their cats were nowhere to be seen. After around an hour a black van pulled into the driveway and the children left saying “Thank you” and politely smiling. The couple never saw the children again. Their power came back on after the kids left and their cats appeared.
While the children seemed to be gone, the couple still experienced strange things like cats disappearing or terrible bloody noses. The husband even became very sick for an entire week after their visit. The children did almost no harm to the couple though. Why? Maybe they aren’t as even as we thought.
Conclusion
You have to think about this kind of thing before you decide to believe it. I kept thinking and thinking and this is what I ended up with - the children exist. They may have disappeared for a few years but in 2021 the peak in sightings shows that they have returned. Nobody knows what they want. Here I have written about the two biggest cases but there are hundreds more. Some obviously made up but others the kind of thing that can’t be from the imagination. Some people let the kids in. Some people moved away in fear. But what will you do when you hear a knock followed by the words “Let us in”?
Yours,
The girl with no name
