Glitch
I used to use the computer a lot. I would stay up late just surfing the web, playing games I’d beaten long ago. I guess it became an obsession. It got so bad that I would stay up till midnight just doing nothing. I tried to stop. Sometimes I could manage to go to sleep early, but lately I’ve never been in bed before eleven.
It’s weird, I never feel like this during the day. I can handle not being on the computer in the morning. I get lots of stuff done; cleaning up, studying, pretty much being a productive person.
But now things have gotten worse.
I started feeling really bad after going to sleep. It would hit me while I was on the computer that my eyes were really burning. Only when they started tearing up would my gaze be broken from the screen and realize I hadn’t been blinking. Weirder things started happening when I blinked too.
It started out harmless. Web pages would load real slowly. My mouse would freeze. Programs would start ending randomly. Nothing actually out of the ordinary. I would just refresh the page, reconnect the mouse, and press end now.
But it got worse.
I got on the computer one night to find it was completely shut down. I always suspend the computer when I log off, so this struck me as odd. When it started up again, it entered safe mode. After fiddling with the settings, I finally got it working again. For maybe two weeks things went on without a fuss.
I was browsing a blog, just slowly reading and scrolling down when a picture showed up. It was one of those awful pictures of a dead body, like, someone who had been in a car crash or explosion. It wasn’t a pop-up or anything. It was part of the blog. I was a bit concerned, the blog made no mention of this and had never used pictures before. I scrolled down so the picture was gone, and the blog continued like nothing strange was up.
I stopped going on the blog eventually. More and more gruesome pictures were showing up. I commented on one entry about it and was met with confusion. No one else was complaining. I wrote it off as some in joke to get rid of all the noobs.
Other sites I frequent are taking up this shock picture trick. It’s becoming a real pain. I’m starting to fear clicking on every link.
I closed internet explorer today to find my background had been changed to another horrible photo. I couldn’t help but recognize this one. It was one I saw in drivers’ ed of a particularly gruesome drunk driving incident. After resetting my background, deleting the picture I had apparently saved to my hard drive, cleaning up and defragging my hard drive, I opened the recycling bin to get rid of it once and for all.
I was a bit stunned. My bin was full of all sorts of random things I knew I never saved. There were porn sites, illegal downloads, pictures, e-mails, and other files with extensions I wasn’t familiar with. I cleared them all and decided I get some outside help.
I started looking online for any similar incidents. With no results I called Geek Squad, my Dad, and even brought the computer in to major dealers for a check-up. One large bill later, no problems were detected. Most even commented on how well kept the computer was.
The pictures stopped appearing, but I almost wish they were still the problem. My computer now displays everything almost as it should be. But now, whenever a person is displayed, their eyes are gouged out. It looked like a crappy Paint job at first, but they became more and more real. I tried showing it to a friend, but the computer worked fine when he was around.
I finally let my friend have the computer. He always commented on what a great machine it was when he was over. I’m glad to be done with it. I had just bought a much more updated one and after starting it up, I was very happy to see everything working normally. I decided not transfer all the data from my old computer to the new one.
Happy to be done with it, I close the brand new model. It’s only nine thirty and I turn on the television, knowing that I can get a good night sleep after Futurama. I lay back and turn up the volume to hear the opening theme. I recognize the unique little blurb they have, like what they do with the Simpsons; this is the infamous “dog” episode. I get ready to feel sad when my heart jumps.
Fry’s eyes are missing.
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Credited to Rad.
Haha oh wow
Um….what
the ending was so unespected.
I like this story.
It made me smile
2ND?? :p Sorry couldnt’ resist x) Anyhow I’m a hugh fan of the is site, great story I got chills reading it. Funny I always wake up the next morning and find random porn on my pc,, I must “sleep-porn-watch” ;-o
but who was media demon?
Wow, I actually enjoyed this one. It might be predictable and all that, but it was really well written.
LOL
Owned much?
Ah. That actually scared me. Haha. That would scare the hell out of me.
Overall decent.
Oh noes. D:
Noobs on a blog?
^^ seconded ^^
That’s one hell of a virus.
This reminds me of a time when a cartoon network aired all their episodes with little moustaches drawn on everyone.
I actually laughed at this Creepypasta.
I guess now it’s spread to another medium.
Oh dear.
…?
cautionary tales ftw.
i actually like this one, kind of alot, but it’s not exactly what i’d call creepy. stories like this get creepy when characterguy goes off his rocker, which it kind of alludes to happening, but it doesn’t actually show. oh well, still a nice story :]
my heart smiled when i saw creepy pasta had a new story up though.
At first, I thought it was going to be a joke pasta. Then the pictures of the dead people came along.
Eh. The story was completely underwhelming.
Decent pasta… Palatable.
Didn’t we have one really similar to this one? Like with creepy horrible images kept showing up on the computer?
Either way man this went nowhere. Really boring and the “twist” was incredibly obvious.
Awesome until the very end…just felt kind of flat for some reason.
Good pasta, but surely it could have been something other than Futurama?
Also, I think I’ve been reading too much pasta, when I read “press end now” I pressed end o_o
ahh, i was creeped out until you mentioned futurama. for some reason, that was just anti-creepy.
This is what happens when you use IE.
It’s like it’s reading my personal life.
uh…..what now?
Not trying to say the whole “eye” thing isn’t a bit weird, but this pasta seems to lack a definitive punch to the kidneys, if you know what I mean. Basically what I’m getting is that the guy is suffering from some sort of delusion, psychosis, or haunting of some kind that is causing his computer to do strange and gruesome things. These things get worse, and he can find no cause, so he junks the computer. He turns on the tv and a similar event occurs…..
….seems like this started out as a good idea, but it feels unfinished. On top of that, for an unfinished pasta, it’s very long. I’m going to say 4/10 on this one.
Seriously? This is awful. It’s barely lucid at all and the ending makes me want to punch myself in the face. Whoever you are Rad, I hope you pay for this.
Err, isn’t this almost identical to “I was once fearless”. This is moar copypasta than creepypasta. I wasn’t scared, at all. But, good try. C:
I liked it! Especially the lack of explanation or mention of an evil “entity”–some people don’t like ambiguity like that, but I find it makes the story more enjoyable.
The ending leaves a bit to be desired. I’m not particularly scared of it, but I’m just left wondering why. It doesn’t seem problematic if this person just gets away from technology in general. Then what would happen?
tl;dr needs more elaboration imho.
not creepy but i like the details
There is a fundamental disconnect here, a referent being employed which does not resonate with even me, who spends all but one or two waking hours in front of a computer screen. The conceit of being exposed to horrible images online is not unfamiliar to denizens of the internet in a post-Goatse epoch, but there’s an unfortunate timefulness here which prevents the story from grabbing hold.
I could have done without the specifics (”I contacted the Geek Squad but they informed me after a standard diagnostic — including switching my RAM from Corsair to Kingston, which I’d had bad luck with in the past, etc.”). There’s also a betrayal of lifestyle at work which also would, I suppose, chill me if I blocked out my existence in those terms. (Imagine opening bag after bag of 99-cent Big Grab Sized Cheetos only to find each one was filled with the cold, dank, leaden air found only in some long-forgotten sepulchre! Imagining hearing some golem’s deafening shriek every time you rotated the base on your limited-edition She-Hulk HeroClix… !)
I like the idea of the horrible inserted or overlaid onto everyday existence, but this wasn’t really the mechanism.
Dammit, you brought up the dog episode. That shit is sad.
ooh nifty!
Ah, the future of anon.
Nice, I liked that one.
I accidentally read the ending before I started the story. Shock factor gone. I’m sad.
Ugh. *shudders*
Now I’m spazzing out over slow downloads. T_T
Yummy pasta, would eat again!
I also feel this way when my computer gets a virus.
I KNEW this would end up on the site, I told Rad he should submit it after he posted it on my forums
He never goes to bed before eleven? OOOOH THAT GUY IS SO HARDCORE OBSESSED WITH COMPUTERS
I’d post a meaningful comment, but Vaughn already posted, nearly word-for-word, what I was going to say.
Nice, I actually wasn’t expecting that.
Hmmm, a good story. But the ending wasn’t too good.
I agree: as soon as I saw “Futurama”, all sense of creepiness went flying out the window.
Shoulda made it like the Muppets or something, woulda been a lot creepier. XD
I liked it! I think it could actually continue farther…
BUT WHO WAS MISSING EYES
This part of the dance is used to ask the gods for a favor. Usually a trans-am
I lol’d
Pretty interesting. Poor man, big bill and he STILL can’t get rid of those annoying images. It’s like having a screamer pop up on your screen every two seconds and you can’t get rid of it for the life of you.
Man that sucks.
I think it’s a bit disjointed. I mean, the author should have stuck with one motif - either missing eyes or complete mutilation - not one or the other.
Also, the voice is too casual to build suspense.
this wouldn’t be so scary to me if i hadn’t spent the past week up till 5am on the computer, watching adult swim in the background.
oh god i hope the eyes stay on
THEN WHO WAS EPIC VIRUS THAT EFFECTS TV?
T___T
I stay on the computer for hours as well, and I also have dial-up, making the pages slow.
My eyes have been hurting lately, too!
I’m a-scared!
We didn’t see anything…EVER!
It’s okay, they have stores that sell eyes in the future.
Before 11? Seriously? That’s considered late?
How old is the narrator, 8? =__=
He comes.
This one scared the shit out of me and I have no idea why. But since I don’t want to surf the web any more tonight, i guess I liked it. Usually I don’t like ambiguous stuff like this, but this one really worked well for me.
tis is sooo dumb like omg i’m not even scare
I don’t understand the point.
Predictable twist, picked it straight away and using Futurama makes the whole thing descend to a new level of shit.
Here’s an advice for you, OP — Use Firefox.
I lol’d slightly.
Sorry OP.
This is a cool creepypasta, IMO. Unlike all of the normal shitty stories in which the protagonist is at a computer then looks to the left and sees their cat then realizes that They Are The Demon After All or whatever, it sticks to familiar computer-related actions, like scrolling through a mostly-text blog, that must be mimicked by the reader in order to continue reading. The usual disconnect between the reader and the main character was greatly reduced and made the story much scarier as a result, to the point at which I was genuinely hesitant to keep scrolling down lest mysteriously inlined corpse pictures appeared.
Oh and also the dog episode of Futurama is dumb you’re dumb.
LOVE THIS PASTA.
Kind of bland pasta. nothing really happened except this guy sees scary pictures. ~onoez.
This one kinda creeped me out since I’m on the computer a lot. o - o;;
YOU SAW IT TOO?!!
OMG!!
jk lol, nice pasta
Very nice pasta. Quite unique
Unoriginal, trite bullshit. DIAF.
I see what you did there!
Or do I?
Meh. I’ve seen too many things like this before. I’m pretty sure I get the message: dead bodies and computers do not mix.
This one was unique, though; there was Futurama.
I don’t get the feeling that it was -supposed- to have some kind of a big WHAM unveiling at the end. This reads to me like it should have started with the word “prologue”. The scary part isn’t the missing-eyes thing; it’s that the shit is -still going on-, and all evidence hints that it’s going to get much, much worse as time goes on. Maybe eventually every person he sees IRL looks wracked and mutilated, too. Something like that.
It just feels to me like the story wasn’t intended to be a one-shot in the first place, which would explain the lack of a big ol’ punch-to-the-head conclusion.
This pasta was well written and clever, but it kind of left me thinking “that’s it?” towards the end. Adding just one sentence of insight from the narrator after the final line would have made this story scarier. I don’t know if that makes sense, just something to emphasize the impact of the ‘thing’s’ forcefulness. Ok, Fry’s eyes appear gouged, what does that mean the narrator?
Essentially, this story was not scary mainly because the narrator was not scared. Remember, we’re in HIS head, we feel what he feels.
But Who Was 20th/30th Century Fox animated series fuck up!?
Really, it started off with a lot of potential
But it seems unfinished
Unexplained
This guy(girl?) randomly finds shock sites and stuff posted on their computer?
Sounds just like some uber-pain-in-the-ass virus rather than a really scary story
“OH NOES EYES MISSING”
Why wouldn’t he/she just watch movies with people then?
Cuz apparently the virus only works when he/she is alone
I like this one.
man that would be screwed up.. imagine sitting there fapping and suddenly the picture your fapping to, changes…
mmm…. this pasta was OK I guess…. it felt a little bland… but its still good. I like the idea of the “virus” instead of infecting the computer it infected the user
This pasta was average.
I like the end. It felt like an inside joke that a lot of people were in on.
Though, I’d imagine it could get really fun if the eyes start disappearing from real people. You could store things in their sockets and they wouldn’t know! It would be marvelous.
I liked it a lot. I think that people don’t enjoy the Futurama reference, it being a comedy show. If it were a more serious show, I think there would be less complaints.
“It got so bad that I would stay up till midnight just doing nothing.”
…is that bad? I stay up long past that doing nothing on the internet.
nice trick guys, putting those pictures of corpses in the story! i wasn’t expecting that, haha.
I toatally minimized the window to check on my background… Yup still Katamari Damaci :3
Oh man that was awesome.
imma start drawing pictures like that of me, maybe i’ll get put on suicide watch. lol. yeah that sounds fun
I lol’d slightly, OP.
The ending was good. I always wanted to pluck out Fry’s eyes.
Gah. I hate, I hate, I hate stories about missing eyes! >_< I think I lost my appetite. (Eating while reading this. Now no longer eating.)
KEWL STORY BREW
Good story. I thought of this once, I bet all creative people who have had a computer thought of it-and you did a great job capturing it in this story. Well done.
Good story. I thought of this once, I bet all creative people who have had a computer thought of it-and you did a great job capturing it in this story. Well done.
If it did spread to the outside world, I think I’d get used to everyone missing their eyes. It would suck staring into your lovers eyes though…’cause you can’t see them. >_> “.What do you like about my eyes?” “..Uh, that..they’re gone?”
LMFAO
>internet explorer
You lost me there
Alright pasta, end was a little predictable but overall good, 6/10.
Everyone being all “ooohhh it’s not scary he’s just seeing creepy computer images” needs to realize the implications of the ending, that it’s not just the computer, and it could potentially keep escalating into god knows what.
T^T I had to check my background after reading this. That Futurama episode is some sad stuff.
There is only one answer.
Gouge your eyes out.
As long as you don’t see Candlejack everything should be alr
The way this story started out was cliched and kinda boring.
But it got worse.
At least there wasn’t a whole lot of useless repitition.
But it got worse.
Computers showing me creepy images isn’t particularly a scary event in my mind. Sure, pictures are worth 1000 scary words, but I’ve read plenty of scary stories and seen plenty of gruesome pictures. Said story character loses his mind and sees eyeless people for the rest of eternity. Truly sad, but it’s possible to live with.
BUT IT GOT WORSE..
Sorry, the repeated use of that phrase bothered me to the point where I’d make a point of using it in my halfhearted ready-for-bed review.
Decent story, but not creepy in the end. I’ll generously lend it a 7 out of 10
If at first you don’t succeed, use pop-culture references.
how could you do that to poor fry!!!! anyway it was a bit repetative but good all the same
Kind of makes me want to get off the computer D:
Reason for failure: Use of Internet Explorer.
Hah…I read this while watching Futurama….that was bad timing
Lol, I liked the story, when they mentioned Futurama I got a picture of Fry in my head and then his eyes disappeared and I shat a tiny brick. It’d be fun to organize a raid about on someone’s blog, just get a bunch of people asking about why they put the pictures of the people with their eyes gouged out or something in their blog.
The idea of frys eyes dissapearing was more funny then creepy and kind of killed the mood.
Futurama gets funnier as you get sleepier
Tech pasta FOR THE WIN
i liked it alot, but the ending was quite confusing to me, what was it all along? was it all in their mind?
Scary at first, but after mentioning futurama it got lulzy
then who waited for you
Good god this scared the piss out of me. The poor person in the story isn’t the only one whose heart jumped when they saw “Fry’s eyes were missing”.
Way to caution people against staying up late. ._.
He who will sing the song to end the world.
He who waits behind the glass wall.
He cometh.
I don’t see what the big deal was, I mean, I thought that was Sp2 for Vista was suppose to fix. Well any way, I guess that the moral of the story is: “Switch to Linux”
HIS EYES WERE MISSING???? HOW UNEXPECTED! DIDNT SEE THAT ONE COMING NO SIR
Sounds like rad surfs /b/ too much.
You know what would have made this even scarier? if you had put a picture like the one he described halfway into the story.
I shat bri/x/, since I was reading this in my completely dark bedroom at 1:30 AM
TOLERABLE PASTA IS TOLERABLE
Apparently I’m one of the few people that thinks this story was crap. Not scary, and the ending was stupid as hell. I didn’t think it was well written either. Overall a nasty pasta with bad sauce and rotten meatballs. Blech.
Oh, Gosh…
This one really freaked me out; mostly because I do almost the exact same thing. I tend to play countless games of solitaire, staying up until early in the morning. I hardly ever go to bed before midnight, and my TV is tuned on Adult Swim.
It was so similar, I actually found myself purposefully blinking, just to make sure that I was! lol This is delicious pasta… with the right amount of subtle creep-spices. I like how instead of being in past tense, the narrator makes it seem as though it’s happening; drawing me in. xD
I keep on seeing black eyed kids on all the photos I see
like this one
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/Nina_and_her_Piragua2.JPG
or this
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/82/Kids_shave_ice.jpg
omg… the dog episode… was sad as fuck
tasty pasta
Ugh… Bad pasta is bad.
But I must ask…
THEN WHO WAS DEAD PERSON?
THEN WHO WAS FRIEND?
I got like super freaked when I read this because I do the same thing and now I keep blinking just to make sure.
Good pasta is good
Well…I’ll give the pasta points for not going the predictable route. I figured dude either had a)MPD or b) Would have the same problems with new computer. I think the problem with the ending of this pasta is that it leaves way too many holes in the story: Was it something wrong with his vision? Was it the beginning of a mental breakdown? Did he not watch TV the whole time he was dealing with the “evil computer”? Was there a demon possessing the old computer and just…appliance jumped when he got rid of the old computer?
(See what I mean?)
However…demonically possessed appliances does sound pretty awesome. Dude gets rid of his TV and then his microwave starts burning all his burritos.
NIGHTMARE FUEL FOR COMPUTER NERDS.
D’:
I AM COMING