Things I learn from horror:

[nilchance]

Say you're a 15 year old kid, and there's a monster living in your closet. Every night, the monster creeps out (it's been living in the crawl-space) and mutilates you while you sleep.

Do you:
a) run screaming from the house after the first incident, never to return?
b) start taking kitchen knives to bed?
c) continue sleeping in room with monster and bandaging wounds so no one can know?

(Hint: the story says C.)

Comments

[nilchance.livejournal.com]

Sadly, no, the adult brother (and his adult friends) can all see the monster. It's a video blog affiliated with Slender Man.

I did go, hey, cutting metaphor. Especially given the visual of the cuts, which are down the arms and look like the cuts I used to make. I hadn't thought about molestation. Hm.

The kid finally got busted by one of the brother's friends, sneaking around with bandages. Friend went into the closet, saw the monster, dragged the kid with him into the hall, and threw a quick chain-lock (like you see in hotels) on the door. But they didn't vacate the house or inform their parents, who must not know!... but will see the lock.

[jellicle.livejournal.com]

Definitely sounds like a child molestation metaphor, where the child molester is a member of the family, and the adults can't/won't believe the kid and/or can't/won't go against the molester.