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.
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Good, but not gooood. Just, good with maybe only one ‘O’, but not “god.” I can’t make sense…
…internet explorer?
really?
Tbh I’m new to the site, my brother told me a few story’s but the ones he told me are more messed up, I liked it good work!
Cool pasta but not as brilliant as mine…Go to sleep
A bit Creepy, but this can actually happen to computers, but the ending was crazy!
Damn, they are crazy about those no-eyes huh? XD Well, I think the story was okay, I probably won’t favourite it, but I like it.
Nice job dude. X)
Something a little like this happened to me. It was one picture of the tails doll. I tried to save this to make a yugi oh card on a website. It didn’t save. The first thing that happened was that when i scrolled down on google images it came up with searches for the tails doll
Then, whenever i did a google images search it came up with a tails doll search. Things got freakier when all the images were that one image that i tried to save. Finally the images turned into my desktop wallpaper. It was terrifying. This problem resolved when my internet renewed :D
BUT WHO WAS COMPUTER?
This is freaky my life is sorta like the beginning of the story.
Wait that isn’t a normal computer problem?
Try not using internet explorer.
-claps- bravo sir bravo best i have ever read. i havnt given anyone this rating but you deserve it. 9/10
BUT WHO WAS EYES?
FUCK!!! That was fuckin’ awesome! Pardon my language, but that was amazing! People are going to hate me for this, but I think it was even better than ‘Bedtime’. 15/10
good,but when you said futurama the theme song started playing n my head.totally ruined the creepy feeling
It’s because they used Internet Exeplorer..
"Internet Explorer"…. well there’s your problem!
Don’t Blink
I was scrolling down very slowly because I feared a gruesome picture might be included.
And for calling in the Geek Squad.
That’s what you get for using Internet Explorer.
The only scary part of this story was the fact that he used Internet Explorer. No wonder he got a virus….
….Am I the only one around here that finds CreepyPasta funny and not horrifying?
Need to take out eyes? Why not Zoidberg?
Imagine all the trouble the haunting creature had to go through to edit every single frame of that futurama episode. Give it some credit.
eww internet explorer
Shit. OMGAH HE STAYED UP…PAST 12? D: AND SAW SCUUUUUUUUUUUURRY PICTURES. pft.
I watch videos of people getting their heads and hands hacked off on a shock site <.< a scurry pic of a guy in a car wreck would make me laugh.
Not to mention I do generally like stories that are a bit ambiguous, or left hanging. But this? Explains nothing. There isn't even enough for the reader to take something from it.
0/10
not bad, the ending was kinda dumb though. 7/10
… I found your problem. You shouln’t have been using internet explorer. (:
BUT WHO WAS CRASH VICTIM?
Hmmm… I liked this one I think, but I love all the cps that involve computers or games.
Also, Futurama FTW. That episode makes me sad.
I was getting into it, but the ending was stale as hell. I thought he might end up looking in the mirror one day, and see his own reflection with his eyes missing.
Whoever said “We didn’t see anything…EVER” gets all internets forever.
The idea was good, but it was really poorly written. The details made it sound like someone quite young was trying to sound a lot older, there were inconstancies in the tense (mostly past but sometimes present thrown in?), the whole story was choppy and hard to read. With some rewrites after some honest critical analysis from an outside party, it could be creepy, possibly good.
I say, loose the Futurama reference, it\’s too familiar and the small (very small) captivation I had was entirely lost after that.
Also? The commenters on this site really confuse me. Sometimes I read a story that I feel (aside from a few spelling/grammatical errors) is really well written, and it gets completely torn apart. Then something like this, which (perhaps only in my opinion) really needs work, comes along and people love it. I\’m not saying anyone should hate it, or that everyone\’s opinion should be the same as mine, but I feel like people are MUCH harder on the really talented writers than the poor ones.
Er…
Why is there a picture of a girl with her guts torn out in the middle of the story?
Seriously, guys?
hmmm. Might wanna see a therapist about that.
This one was pretty creepy. I wonder if he was actually going insane?
That actually really scared me. lol I spend most of my nights on the computer. I really liked the story, just … something was missing. The end didn’t do justice. Write another one!
As a computer addict, this one really got to me and freaked me out.
I really enjoyed it. It was quite simple but a frightening prospect that wasn’t ridiculous.
10/10, I would eat this pasta again.
Uhm I’m on the computer late everynight and I ALWAYS fall asleep to Futurama… WTF
LOL POOR FRY XDDD
I can imagine him running and freaking out cuz of his missing eyes and everyone’s just going “WTF?!” xDDDD
loved this story. but srsly, 11:00 counts as late? dude…I stay up till, like 3 xD but i did like it. the ending was hilarious lmao. 10/10
he waits behind the walls
Don’t use a mac.
Very yummy pasta, unexpected ending and all. Keep it up x]
whenever I come on here, I play the X-Files theme, it makes it much creepier.
I’m sorry, but I really can’t understand how anyone could have been even remotely creeped out by this.
I thought to myself as I read this:
“Obvious keylogger.”
Yummy pasta although flat and bland.
whats a dog episode? why is it sad?
This is what you get for using IE
dude i had a similar experience except it was with pictures of gary coleman except it was before he died. in fact as of sending this message, it’s may 27 2010.
7/10 Pretty interesting, ending could have been better though.
I do quite like this story. The only complaint I have can barely be called a complaint at all- the fact you chose Futurama.
I like this one, but you shouldnt have used the TV as a twist. Heck, the story could have just kept on going from there, and started happening in the guy’s actual life. But TV…no, and futurama really killed it…(btw, after reading this, I photoshopped a picture of me with my eyes gouged out and made it my facebook profile picture. Gotten quite a few confused comments, and one by someone else who had already read the story.)
I loved this one, it scared the shit out of me so bad that I half expect to see those pictures coming onto my screen lol
>internet explorer
There’s yer problem.
Good idea, but the ending wasnt that great. Futurama? Seriously? Would have been far better if something other than a cartoon characters eyes were missing. Like if he saw it on the news, or started seeing it in real life, or his friend gouged his eyes out after the computer began to torment him as well.
I liked it because it made me a little wary to close my browser and see my desktop. 8/10
I AM COMING
NIGHTMARE FUEL FOR COMPUTER NERDS.
D’:
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.
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 :)
THEN WHO WAS FRIEND?
Ugh… Bad pasta is bad.
But I must ask…
THEN WHO WAS DEAD PERSON?
tasty pasta
omg… the dog episode… was sad as fuck
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
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
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.
TOLERABLE PASTA IS TOLERABLE
I shat bri/x/, since I was reading this in my completely dark bedroom at 1:30 AM
You know what would have made this even scarier? if you had put a picture like the one he described halfway into the story.
Sounds like rad surfs /b/ too much.
HIS EYES WERE MISSING???? HOW UNEXPECTED! DIDNT SEE THAT ONE COMING NO SIR
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”
He who will sing the song to end the world.
He who waits behind the glass wall.
He cometh.
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. ._.
then who waited for you
Scary at first, but after mentioning futurama it got lulzy
i liked it alot, but the ending was quite confusing to me, what was it all along? was it all in their mind?
Tech pasta FOR THE WIN
Futurama gets funnier as you get sleepier
The idea of frys eyes dissapearing was more funny then creepy and kind of killed the mood.
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.
Hah…I read this while watching Futurama….that was bad timing
Reason for failure: Use of Internet Explorer.
Kind of makes me want to get off the computer D:
how could you do that to poor fry!!!! anyway it was a bit repetative but good all the same
If at first you don’t succeed, use pop-culture references.
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
As long as you don’t see Candlejack everything should be alr
There is only one answer.
Gouge your eyes out.
T^T I had to check my background after reading this. That Futurama episode is some sad stuff.
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.
Alright pasta, end was a little predictable but overall good, 6/10.
>internet explorer
You lost me there
LMFAO
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?”
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.
KEWL STORY BREW :D
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.)
I lol’d slightly, OP.
The ending was good. I always wanted to pluck out Fry’s eyes.
imma start drawing pictures like that of me, maybe i’ll get put on suicide watch. lol. yeah that sounds fun :D
Oh man that was awesome.
I toatally minimized the window to check on my background… Yup still Katamari Damaci :3
nice trick guys, putting those pictures of corpses in the story! i wasn’t expecting that, haha.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
man that would be screwed up.. imagine sitting there fapping and suddenly the picture your fapping to, changes…
I like this one.
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
But Who Was 20th/30th Century Fox animated series fuck up!?
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.
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.
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 see what you did there!
Or do I?
Unoriginal, trite bullshit. DIAF.
Very nice pasta. Quite unique :)
YOU SAW IT TOO?!!
OMG!!
jk lol, nice pasta
This one kinda creeped me out since I’m on the computer a lot. o – o;;
Kind of bland pasta. nothing really happened except this guy sees scary pictures. ~onoez.
LOVE THIS PASTA.
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.
I lol’d slightly.
Sorry OP.
Here’s an advice for you, OP — Use Firefox.
Predictable twist, picked it straight away and using Futurama makes the whole thing descend to a new level of shit.
I don’t understand the point.
tis is sooo dumb like omg i’m not even scare
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.
He comes.
Before 11? Seriously? That’s considered late?
How old is the narrator, 8? =__=
It’s okay, they have stores that sell eyes in the future.
We didn’t see anything…EVER!
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!
THEN WHO WAS EPIC VIRUS THAT EFFECTS TV?
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
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.
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 lol’d
This part of the dance is used to ask the gods for a favor. Usually a trans-am
I liked it! I think it could actually continue farther…
BUT WHO WAS MISSING EYES
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
Hmmm, a good story. But the ending wasn’t too good.
Nice, I actually wasn’t expecting that.
I’d post a meaningful comment, but Vaughn already posted, nearly word-for-word, what I was going to say.
He never goes to bed before eleven? OOOOH THAT GUY IS SO HARDCORE OBSESSED WITH COMPUTERS
I KNEW this would end up on the site, I told Rad he should submit it after he posted it on my forums :)
I also feel this way when my computer gets a virus.
Ugh. *shudders*
Now I’m spazzing out over slow downloads. T_T
Yummy pasta, would eat again!
I accidentally read the ending before I started the story. Shock factor gone. I’m sad.
Nice, I liked that one.
Ah, the future of anon.
ooh nifty!
Dammit, you brought up the dog episode. That shit is sad.
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.
not creepy but i like the details
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.
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.
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:
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.
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.
Its not lacking anything now
It’s like it’s reading my personal life.
This is what happens when you use IE.
ahh, i was creeped out until you mentioned futurama. for some reason, that was just anti-creepy.
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
Awesome until the very end…just felt kind of flat for some reason.
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.
Decent pasta… Palatable.
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.
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.
…?
I guess now it’s spread to another medium.
Oh dear.
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.
That’s one hell of a virus.
^^ seconded ^^
Noobs on a blog?
Oh noes. D:
Ah. That actually scared me. Haha. That would scare the hell out of me.
Overall decent.
LOL
Owned much?
Wow, I actually enjoyed this one. It might be predictable and all that, but it was really well written.
but who was media demon?
I think Ben Drowned. But I might be wrong
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
lawl… i KNOW i do that
the ending was so unespected.
I like this story.
It made me smile :-D
I know right! ^.^
Um….what
Haha oh wow
Herobrine