Bryan Fall was never able to wake up in time to get ready for work. Every morning, the alarm by his bed sounded loud at 6:00 a.m. M., But Bryan always turned off the alarm and slept much later than he should. His boss, Mr. Dan Dollar of Bluntrust Bank, warned Bryan that if he was late again, he would not hesitate to fire him. Dollar suspected that Bryan needed a reliable alarm clock, one that would wake him up and keep him awake. So he told Bryan about a business he had just opened called “Alarm Beds,” which sold beds built to wake a person at the right time and keep them awake.

Bryan followed his boss’s advice and drove to “Alarm Beds.” As soon as he opened the store door, he was greeted by a cheerful young woman with a squeaky voice, “Welcome to Alarm Beds. My name is Barbara. Can I help you find the perfect bed to wake you up?”

Bryan asked if he could show him some of his models. “We have some bed models that are guaranteed to wake up our customers. Each one is designed with a particular wake-up function. For example, our bestseller is the bed with sharp spikes that lift off the mattress after the alarm goes off. . It’s the most expensive “.

Bryan’s mind went numb. “Spikes?”

“Do you want to see a demo?” Barbara asked.

Bryan agreed. So Barbara set the bed alarm to go off in 2 minutes. When the clock rang, long spikes shot up across the mattress. Bryan’s eyes nearly popped out of their sockets and he thought the bed was too violent.

“What other beds do you have?”

Barbara walked to the back of the tent and showed her a bed with a mattress that quickly folded like a sandwich from head to toe. Bryan flinched when he saw what that mattress could do to a body. Barbara showed him another bed with a mattress whose springs turned it to an upright position, throwing the sleeper to the ground.

Bryan thought these beds could, without a doubt, wake him up in time, but he didn’t want to be killed. Also, they were too expensive. “Do you have any that are less expensive? I really can’t afford that much.”

“Well, we have a single that’s for sale for a lot less, but I don’t know much about it. A young man brought it here a couple of days ago. He said he didn’t mind getting paid for it, which was weird. Besides. He seemed to be in a hurry. Anyway, we took it and put it back here, “Barbara said.

Bryan asked if he could prove it. Barbara told her she could and opened the door for her to try. Bryan walked around the bed examining it. Then, he lay on top of it, trying it on to make him feel comfortable. He got up and said, “I’m taking it! How much do you want for it?”

“Let me speak to my manager.” She walked away and took the manager with her. He shook Bryan’s hand and then asked, “How about $ 50?”

Bryan looked stunned and then said, “What a deal! I’ll take it!”

He left the room, walked over to the counter and reached into his pocket and handed them a fifty dollar bill. He asked for a receipt, but the manager just wrote a bill of sale that said “Bed with alarm – $ 50 no returns.” Then he signed his name at the bottom.

Bryan called some friends who would be in the next 30 minutes to put the bed in his old Ford truck. As soon as they arrived, they returned to the room where the bed was. When they got everything in the truck, they went to Bryan’s apartment and put it in his room.

As soon as Bryan thanked them, the door to his room closed. He did not understand this. Then he turned the handle and the door opened. Then it suddenly slammed into his face, rendering him unconscious for several minutes. When he recovered he heard a low, evil laugh. Bryan thought it might be his friends joking around with him. “Okay. Guys … open the door.”

Then the door opened slowly on its own, but Bryan didn’t think much of it. He went to work until it was time to go to bed. That night he came home, brushed his teeth, and got ready for bed. As soon as he closed his eyes, the bed began to shake so violently that he fell off the bed. Then, he heard the voice of a disembodied woman shouting: “We are going to kill you!”

Bryan suddenly sat up shaking. “Who said that?”

“We did it! We are your friends. We are Legion!” A male voice screamed sarcastically with a growl.

“Who are you?” Bryan said quietly. Then he heard a multitude of evil hisses and curses. All night Bryan was physically and verbally tortured. First thing in the morning, Bryan ran out of his apartment as fast as he could, got into his car, and drove to a friend’s house.

His horrible night reminded him of the terrifying 1973 movie, “The Exorcist,” in which priests were called in to exorcise evil spirits from hell that were inside a girl. At his friend’s house, Bryan found a Catholic church he attended as a child and asked a priest to come and eliminate demons. However, when he spoke to a priest named O’Leary about his problem, he asked if he could come and exorcise his demon-infested bed. O’Leary scoffed and denied that demons existed and told Bryan to speak to a psychiatrist about the problem.

Bryan was enraged and slammed his phone against the wall, smashing it to pieces. Decided what to do to resolve the situation. Cautiously he returned to his apartment and removed the covers from the bed. Although the spirits mocked and insulted him, he went out and called his friends again to help him get the bed out of his apartment.

When they arrived, he told them that he wanted to take the bed to the Catholic Church. After they arrived and took the bed, they went to the church and parked it in front of the church. They unloaded the bed to carry her inside. Most of the church clergy reacted suspiciously when they saw the bed brought to church. Although Bryan heard whispers of wicked laughter coming from the bed, he asked a nun where O’Leary’s office was located.

She said, “Your office is down the hall. Why do you need a bed?” Bryan sarcastically replied, “It’s a donation. I thought I could find a charitable use for it.”