Jeff Provine Knows Why You Shouldn’t Look Under the Bed
There is a precise age where you stop checking under the bed before turning off the light. It isn’t because you stop believing something could be hiding in the dark. It’s because you reach a silent agreement with yourself: if there is something down there, you’d rather not confirm it. Jeff Provine has never made that agreement. In Never Sleep Again , Jeff takes the modern mythology we tell ourselves, the urban legends whispered at sleepovers, the unexplained noises in old machinery, the stories passed around because somebody swears they really happened, and asks the question you absolutely should not ask when you're alone at night: But what if it's true? So we asked Jeff what supposedly supernatural or unexplained thing genuinely creeps him out. His answer was: the night hag . It’s the shadowy figure that sits on your chest while you sleep, sometimes described as draining your life. There are modern explanations for the experience, including sleep paralysis. Comforting, right? ...