A Child’s Eyes
Every child fears under their bed. If they don’t, they fear the closet, or maybe that little crack in the almost closed door.
Scientists know that children are more perceptive, they see things adults don’t. They aren’t yet tethered into only accepting what society wants them to accept. They see what is truly there.
They see the monsters.
If you were to borrow a child’s eyes and see through them for a night, you would go insane. To be able to see what you only dimly remember, burrowing into your covers while wearing those train pajamas, hoping to a God you can barely comprehend that “it” doesn’t see you back…would drive an adult crazy. Because Adults forget the rules.
1) Cover yourself. If you can’t see it, it can’t see you. Even if it makes it harder to breathe.
2) Don’t make a noise. Every whimper can lead to destruction.
3) Don’t move. It attracts their attention.
4) Only light can make them go away. Bright light. Flashlights make it worse.
Teens are caught in the middle. They still feel what’s there, but they cannot see… and they forget the rules….
Why do you think there are so many insomniacs typing at their computers, subconsciously praying the light from their monitor will be enough to keep them away?
It’s not. Now look behind you with a child’s eyes and try not to scream.
Posted in Strange & Unknown
August 4th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
Lol, that’s kinda true, im a teen and I can always feel something behind me.
dunno if it’s everyone or im just a complete paranoiac lol
August 4th, 2008 at 1:33 pm
Hello.
Extraordinary.
I wonder how many will attempt this in earnest.
While there are many who would mock and jeer these wonderful tales, there are so few willing to place themselves in such exquisite circumstances.
Curious, that.
This one.
This one is beautiful.
August 4th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
OH GOD.
I tried to imagine a child’s viewpoint.
And there were dark shapes that hid when I looked at them, and something in the doorway.
I just tried to “see”, and there they were.
August 4th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
OH MY GOSH!! IM SOOO SCARED!
this is probley one of the
scariest creepy pasta ever. I can relate to it so much (I have insomia). But when I was little I dont remember seeing those things.
August 4th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
this shounds stupid, but i totally still see things like that…and i cover my self, dont move, close my eyes tight, leave the tv on all night, all of those things….
damn i sound lame…but i see some scary shit man!
August 4th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
This sounds like something I typically wouldn’t find intriguing or interesting, but I got goosebumps when I read it. It definitely makes one wonder…
August 4th, 2008 at 2:32 pm
I plotzed twice. Oh, for chrissakes, I really don’t need all my fears reinforced like this.
August 4th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
Woah, amazing. o___o
My girlfriend actually wrote some stuff that sounded creepily like this [but it was from a character’s point of view] and she was explaining it to me for like… hours.
Creepy shit, man. I’m only 15, I still see those images in the dark and hide under my covers and don’t move a muscle. X3
August 4th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
this one wouldve been really good, but im sitting in my bed in broad daylight.
its a good one though.
August 4th, 2008 at 8:59 pm
I will be paranoid as hell once I get into bed and attempt to fall asleep.
Whether I like it or not, my subconscious will definitely be searching for something.
However, I do remember the demon from my childhood, swooping to breathe down my neck as I pulled the quilt over my head
I’ll be sure to re-read this when it’s dark.
August 4th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
I guess I am the only one that thought it was corny?
August 4th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
August 4th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
I still see them.
I guess my “child-sight” never really left me.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:44 am
With a pair of not-quite-childs eyes I see shapes lurking beyond the dark. I know they are there, I sense them… But yet I am powerless.
Shame. Perhaps you join them if they get you?
August 5th, 2008 at 6:19 am
Heh, you don’t need to bring out your inner child to behave like that at night.
Reading through creepypasta will do it just fine too…though, since it requires a suspension of reality to enjoy properly, maybe they’re both the same thing.
August 5th, 2008 at 10:05 am
Beautiful.
I looked behind me, thinking about a terrible entity that might be there, and it gave me goosebumps.
August 5th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
I am mad, I read this at noon.
I’m pissed, but I’m sure I’ll reread this tonight. Maybe then bricks will be shat.
August 5th, 2008 at 3:25 pm
Love this, read it before, but I still love it.
It holds true for so many people!
I still make sure my feet are covered and that you can’t see me at night though. Hehe.
August 5th, 2008 at 4:25 pm
where in tha hell am i gonna get childs eyes from?
August 5th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Hello.
Impressive.
As Mr. Welldone said, too bad few shall try it.
This one.
This one is far more than beautiful.
August 6th, 2008 at 12:29 am
You’re in luck! I just so happen to have a live, human child here.. Judging from her skin and scent, I’d say she’s about 5. What is your offer?
August 6th, 2008 at 8:56 am
I Guess my child eyes never left me either…
August 6th, 2008 at 9:50 am
I did it. I spent two hours trying to and I managed to run off with them. So what do I do with them? Replace them with my own? Or just having them is good enough to see the monsters? I wish I had more instructions on what to do :1
August 6th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Bri/x/.
August 6th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
You’d think you would remember seeing monsters as a kid. This is written as if the audience was never young.
August 6th, 2008 at 7:39 pm
Jeez, they’re just lonely.
Instead of hiding try talking to them. They’re actually quite friendly once you get to know ‘em. The one I call Fred has an annoying habit of gnawing on ankles, though.
August 7th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
I really like this one!
It reminds me of a quote from a Terry Pratchett book.
‘Belief is a powerful thing. The stronger the belief, the more real it is. The children werent going to stop believing in the monsters because they damn well knew they were there.’
-Hogfather
August 7th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
Oh crap, i’m sitting in the middle of a dark room with a high-backed chair and my laptop.
and i’m a teenager
August 8th, 2008 at 1:55 am
Voodoo Child, the thing is, a lot of people forget what happened to them when they were young. Not to mention, as we forget the “rules”, we start remembering not a monster but a coat, or a chair, or a family pet.
August 8th, 2008 at 4:37 am
Hello to the author.
This story is kinda true to me. I usually feel something at night when I’m at the computer, and I get paranoid.
This story is very good at catpuring a child’s fear and telling a pasta about it. I like it.
August 9th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
My childhood monster was actually real!
You know that part when the kids calls his mom and she turns on the light and there’s nothing there?
Well, my mom saw the monster. I have a really wierd lamp made of glass. at night with my night light on it makes a shadow that looks like an angry face….
Since then I don’t use night lights.
August 10th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
I must have been the bravest child ever then
August 11th, 2008 at 3:41 am
Wow, after reading this, my hair on the back of my neck stood up, and I got shivers down my spine.
I used to sleep completely under the covers when I was a kid, even though it was really hot.
I’m glad I’m not a kid, I was really scared of paranormal sheet.
August 13th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Everybody, you’re forgetting rule 1.
Not the “cover yourself”.
“If you can’t see them, they can’t see you”
The adult’s eyes make them immune to the monsters which lurk in reality.
August 14th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
I cut out my younger brother’s eyes and implanted them into my skull. They don’t fit quite right, but now I can’t sleep in a dark room.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Holy crap. even with two lamps on in the room…I will NOT look behind me now. even if it’s at a wall…hahahahaha
August 15th, 2008 at 12:01 am
And my g/f wonders, why at the age of 27, I keep an axe at the head of the bed. Yea, I tell her it’s in case someone breaks in, tries to rob us.
It’s not just eyes, either. The sense of hearing will also show you things you don’t want to believe in.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:07 am
Immediantly after reading this, I twirled around in my chair, nearly toppling over. My living room was mostly dark when I read it, but I had to turn on the lights. All of the lights. It really didn’t help that my computer chair has no back. I felt completely exposed.
I’m going to bed, and I’m forcing my kitty to come with me.
D:
August 18th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
I looked and I saw Pedobear.
Creepy.
August 18th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Kay… so last nigt I read this story and decided to go to bed. I was FREAKED out but still I was able to drift halfway inbetween sleep and wake-ness. I then notice a black fluttering, and a screeching sound. I pull the covers over my head and start screaming my head off. My mom runs into my room, and it turns out that there was an acutal BAT in my room flying around.
Daddy killed it with a tennis racket.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:57 am
>.< ZOh my a somthing hit the window while I was reading this i thought I was gonna freak out D:
August 20th, 2008 at 9:10 pm
This gave me the creeps big time. I am a teenager and I can remember pulling the sheets over my head. I read this one again and decided that I would comment because the last time that I read this I had all that I could do to close my eyes and go to sleep
It’s about time that someone finally came up with something like this. Awsome story.
August 20th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
i have hypnopompia [if u dont kno what it is look up hypnagogia on wikipedia]
so i see stuff like this all the time in my sleep…and i feel stuff and hear stuff too
once i saw a head with a knife in it [he was laughing at me] and i could feel myself being raped…then i heard shrieking in my bead…wen u experience THAT several times a month, or sometimes several times in one night, then you can tell me what’s scary
August 21st, 2008 at 2:08 pm
I’ve never had this problem.
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:26 am
Good story. I remember hearing them, thankfully I never looked.
August 25th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Me, being a teenager, this creepypasta made me shit bricks. xD Since I have really bad eyesight, when I try to sleep at night, the things in my room make shapes sometimes, even human shapes, and it still creeps me out to the point where I do sleep under my blanket. ^^;
August 26th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Thats.. me.. im terrified of the dark cauz when i was small i was locked in a closet and i seriously felt someone grabbing me from behind.. now i have to turn on every light i see :<
August 28th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
….o.O…good thing i didnt read this alone at 3 am. love it>< lol, as looked back when i read the last sentense.
August 28th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Well, I dontlike the part about teenagers. I am a teenager, and I still see the sit.Maybe because I am a young teenager, not like 19. But still, whenever I see some shit(and it always has to be in my fucking bedroom, making sleep hard to achieve) I turn on every light upstairs and it goes away. So besides the teenager part, I wholeheartedly agree with this. You get thumbs up, original author.
August 28th, 2008 at 9:40 pm
some one hold me ….Q.Q
August 30th, 2008 at 3:37 am
Fuck that, I’m not looking behind me.
September 3rd, 2008 at 1:55 am
i feel like this explains my insomnia… my insomnia that previously had no explanation.
SHATBRIX
September 9th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
THEN WHO WAS RIGHT FUCKING BEHIND YOU?
September 10th, 2008 at 12:46 am
This is definitely one of my favorites. I love this one so freaking much.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:16 am
uh.. didnt they make a “horror” movie a couple of years ago about this one little kid who could see monsters but his family couldnt cuz they werent kids? i forgot the name of it.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:34 am
CREEPY!!!
I’m in a dark room…
With only the laptop screen providing light….
But I’ve got two dogs and someone else to make me feel safer!
Yay me.
September 12th, 2008 at 8:19 pm
This was made creepy because as soon as I read the last line, I head something creak. lol.
September 13th, 2008 at 10:43 pm
@Hops Diggins
I think it’s called Fear of the Dark or something like that.
): I hated that movie.
September 14th, 2008 at 11:49 am
At 19, I still wake up in the middle of the night, scared to move a muscle or even to wake my fiancee. I cannot sleep without a blanket (A topsheet isn’t thick enough) and I am afraid of the dark.
So this creepypasta hits home HARD.
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:32 pm
AWH SHIT THANKS LOLOL
Now I am paranoid.
):
AND IM A PUSSY WHEN IM SCARED.
Im scared of dark corners, closets, basements, underbeds, the cracks under doors, the old school keyholes in the doors upstairs.
): I always hide under my blanket at night LOL. I am 13.
September 23rd, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Warning: make sure your lights don’t go out because as you see them they seem to notice you too
September 23rd, 2008 at 6:47 pm
I’d look behind me, but all I’d see is my dumb uncle.
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:51 pm
I hate the dark and I’m 23. I always sleep under the covers, even if it’s 90 degrees out. lol I suck.
September 24th, 2008 at 5:13 am
It’s a pity I’m reading this in broad daylight with pop music blasting from a nearby radio. If not I’m sure I would have been creeped out. Very nicely written.
September 24th, 2008 at 7:20 am
I took a break creating some zombies for the Halloween Festival coming up soon to pop online and chat with a few friends.
Since I’m a night owl, it’s late here, and I’ve got three nasty zombie corpses in various stages of decomposition, /with/ my back facing them…
Fuck you, Original Author. Fuck you. ;.; Delicious creepypasta read at the worst possible time.
September 25th, 2008 at 2:55 am
I love this! Considering it’s 2 am and I’ve barely got a light on, I live alone, and my animals tend to wander the house making ominous noises, and I’m a nervous nelly, I’m a total spaz half the time.
That was one of MY “rules” when I was little, though. The dogs will scare the monsters away. That’s why I still keep at least one critter in my room with me every night. Preferably one of the brave ones. XD
September 26th, 2008 at 4:53 pm
This is very true, i don’t care who says it isn’t. Because the same thing happened to me tonight not very long ago i hear and feel them but do not see them
September 27th, 2008 at 5:46 am
@26
That really scared me a bit, because from when I was around 3 years old to the time I was about 13, I had a “ghost friend” named Freddy. When I was younger, I was terrified of him. At about 13, I used to brag about him to all my friends. I remember him. And he was real. He followed me every where. In fact, at school, there was a house across the street, I would see a silhouette of a man in the window..
-end life story-
–
I cheated with this one. I didn’t look behind me, instead I woke up my 6 year old niece and told her to look behind me. She said that all she saw were the kittens and puppy playing on the ground. I asked her about monsters, and she instantly shut up and just leaned into me. Scary shit, man, scary shit. (also, thank God she can’t read - she’s sitting on my lap right now.)
September 29th, 2008 at 8:01 am
Tried this, shat bricks when i turned around.
September 29th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
@ #1
im a t een as well,and i do feel things watching me now and again.its not a great feeling,especially wiht this tapping tree at my window,wait a minute…there are no trees by my window…
October 4th, 2008 at 11:33 am
there are ghost in my room and i can c them and i’m a teen not a child
October 7th, 2008 at 2:17 am
Thank god there’s a wall behind me…
October 7th, 2008 at 9:55 am
I find alot of this to be true in some since.
October 7th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
OH SHI-
October 8th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
i thought it was pretty cool, but the end made it a VERY good pasta.
Reading that ending really captured the creepy aspect and, while I obviously knew there was nothing behind me, I kinda didnt want to look
October 19th, 2008 at 3:06 am
………..
I’m going to get working on the construction of a shat-brick cathedral now.
October 25th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
Totally creepy.
I still look at things that way sometimes. I still hide under my covers at night. I still turn all the lights on when I’m home alone. I still try not to make noise while trying to sleep.
Somebody needs to “grow up”. Ha. Haha.
November 6th, 2008 at 4:44 am
“4) Only light can make them go away. Bright light. Flashlights make it worse.”
I got me a floodlight. I know where the damned creepy monsters live.
Fear not.
(btw, this was adapted from Sigma in the article “Jack Black & Infinity”)
November 7th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Oh shiz. Why do I always read these at night, in the dark? D:
-turns light on-
Just because I’m bored and, amazingly, no one’s said it yet: WHO WAS MONSTERS?
November 11th, 2008 at 7:56 pm
This scares the shit out of me.
I’m 15, and I have bad eyesight so in those few minutes before I fall asleep, every little thing creeps me out. The fact that everything is blurry (or not there at all) makes it ten times worse.
I tried it at the end, and right as I turned around, a branch scraped against my window.
Fuck.
November 20th, 2008 at 8:39 am
Too bad it’s very bright right now.
November 20th, 2008 at 12:50 pm
The Boar are coming for you. Will you answer?
November 20th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
The Boar are calling for you. Will you answer?
November 21st, 2008 at 4:53 am
This is the creepiest thing I have ever read in my entire life.
I hate you for making me afraid of the dark again.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:20 am
WAIT.
Is the damned boar the thingy you mentioned in the pasta?
No wonder I looked back and saw entity, and mistook it for a pig.
I feel guilty for killing such a fine specimen of boar using a penknife =\