Black-eyed child encounter, Kings Cross station - October 4th

I know how this sounds before I start, so please just hear me out. I've been lurking on this forum for two years and never posted anything. This experience has genuinely unsettled me enough that I need to share it.

I was waiting for a Northern Line train on the platform at King's Cross around 7 PM. Quite crowded. A small child - maybe seven or eight - walked past me three times. Each time he looked directly at me. His eyes were completely black. Not dark brown. Completely, uniformly black, like pupils dilated to fill the entire iris. No whites at all.

The most unsettling part: I couldn't look away once he made eye contact. It was like a compulsion. He walked past a third time and smiled. I felt cold all over. When I finally broke eye contact and looked away, I was the only person around him - the crowd had shifted somehow. He was gone thirty seconds later.

Has anyone else experienced something similar? I've tried to rationalise it as contact lenses or a trick of the light but I can't shift the feeling that something was very wrong.

Classic black-eyed child encounter. There's a cluster of reports in London over the last five years. Most in the Underground actually. No satisfactory explanation. Do you remember anything unusual about his clothing or whether he seemed corporeal - like, did other people physically respond to him being there?

Mate, this reads like creepypasta. Not saying it didn't happen but BEC stories are the most common folklore claim we get. Doesn't mean it's not real, just means healthy skepticism is warranted. Could be a medical condition (aniridia, melanosis) combined with a crowded station making you nervous. Not supernatural but not nothing either.

I couldn't look away once he made eye contact.

That's the bit that gets me. Sounds like hypnotic suggestion or some form of psychic manipulation. Have you experienced any side effects since? Dreams, deja vu, odd compulsions?

Please please file this with the Quirk Reports database. We're tracking these encounters more formally now. The increase in London sightings since September is significant and we need primary accounts. Email the mods.