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Headphones



Estimated reading time — 2 minutes

I can tell, how you’re staring there at this screen, finding some enjoyment. You need anything, just anything to keep you awake and entertained. It’s late, you’re dead tired, but you want to use up every moment. I know how it is. This happens to me, too.

Are the sounds on your computer too loud? Don’t want to wake your folks? Don’t want to get complaints from neighbors, even? Whatever, not a problem. Lower the volume on your speakers. Now that doesn’t really work for you. Instead grab some headphones. You walk through the dark with that slight paranoia, the old childhood fear of the dark. It never really goes away, but it’s all in your head, and you know that. You find your room, you dig through your drawers and your junk to feel for some wires. Ah! There they are. Time to head back to the computer.

Drop them on your computer desk, and go grab a drink of water. Come back and sit down comfortably. Throw on your headphones. You hear a dark ambient sound in the background. A liquid dripping sound, even some metallic grinding there, too. Is it from outside? You take off the headphones, and suddenly, the sound goes away. You think for a moment, suspicious and even frightened. You slide the headphones back on. There it is again. There’s some high-pitched frequency you hear as well. You rip them back off, thinking this is just a joke. It’s gone again. You slide them back on and turn the volume on your speakers all the way down, you even break off the switch trying to make the sound disappear. But it remains.

But then suddenly you notice something. Something you feel stupid for not noticing before. Your headphones aren’t even plugged in. But wait. The wire, it’s dangling straight out, stretching into the darkness elsewhere. You try to pull it towards you, but nothing. You must’ve gotten it stuck on something, you think. But when was I even over in that area? You walk blindly into the darkness, using the wire as a guide through. The wire is longer than you once remembered, much longer than how you remember. “What the hell is this?” you say in your head. The further you go, you finally feel something on the wire. It’s a heavy, gooey, mucky liquid-solid matter. You pick up your hand and bring it close to your face to see what the substance is. It’s dark, and it glistens off the glow of your computer screen, which is now a lot farther away from you than it should be. You glance at your computer’s set-up, and back at your hand.

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But in that quick glance at your computer set-up, you noticed something. You saw something there, standing there and staring at the dark and dull light radiating off of your computer monitor. Not only did you see something, but you heard something as well. A heavy, gooey, mucky dripping sound.

You look back at your computer set-up, as the tall, man-like figure there glistens in the light.

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Credited to my favorite anarchistic bastard, Mr. Valiant.

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121 thoughts on “Headphones”

  1. I liked a lot how it started out but felt like it dropped off and made no sense at the end. needs a rewrite!

  2. jeffy's step sister

    ..that’s why I always do this one thing with my headphone behind one ear and rest against my head while the other side covers my ear

  3. It was SOOOOOOOO good at the beginning!!! But it needed a more in depth ending. It should go longer than “You see a slimy figure at the computer screen” Could been good to bad

  4. This makes no sense at all. It seems to just lead from nowhere to nowhere, with no explanation of anything. “Hey, your headphones will elongate and lead you to a dark area of your also unexplainably elongated room where a man made of goo hides.” Wat.

    I legitimately expected this to be a parodypasta, some sort of story about the recurring Internet joke-headphones inexplicably tangle themselves when out of sight. But no. Sad thing is, that would have been a better read.

    1. No, actually “will elongate and lead you to a dark area of your also unexplainably elongated room away from where a man made of goo hides”, since said man of goo is in front of your PC. Guess he just wanted to play and tricked you into leaving the seat to him.

  5. I could have done without the subtle slenderman allusion at the end. Slenderman is pretty overrated now in terms of creepypasta originality.

  6. It seemed really interesting, but the gooey monster just made me think about flubber. The ending was stupid, rewrite and I’d be shitting my pants. (:
    (seriously; great potential.)

  7. heh, too bad for you i’m already wearing headphones. :D
    but it’s not bad, it had me tangled in the story a while. 8/10

  8. Aha! It’s night time. I’m dead tired. I need music to keep my fears from eating my soul, and if I wake up anyone in my house, I’ll suffer a painful death :D, so I have headphones in right now. And I have a bottle of water.

    Too bad I don’t believe in coincidences.

  9. It’s a reasonable story, but the end ruins it.

    There’s a slight inference of having been enveloped by some unearthly womb, wherein a ‘being’ has taken your place.

    However, it is not developed or even remotely touched upon. It simply throws out a detail, leaving several final strands to, pardon the metaphor, run off into the darkness.

  10. Who puts headphones on without knowing where the other end is? By that point, usually you’ve either plugged them in or have the plug end in your hand ready to plug them in…

  11. He better not have plugged my good headphones into his ass.

    This made me take my headphones out, though. No way in hell am I using them after that.

  12. Nondescript, vague, leaves you hanging and wondering what the hell was going on or what might happen next – my FAVORITE form of creepypasta. Some of you guys totally miss the point of this stuff. It’d be LESS creepy if it hinted at impending death.

  13. Jesus christ, after reading this I thought there was some guy in the reflection of the black background of the website standing behind me.

    Was just my Muse poster.

    Fuckin’ hell gave me a jump though.

  14. tall man-like figuere

    noone understands me.

    i just wanted some earphones, but people just shriek and flee upon spotting me.

    is it my underarm odor? oh god it is how embarrising

  15. lol At 51 x]

    This was okay, it had a good start should have elaborated a lot more though.
    The ending was kinda shitty >_>

  16. I think the humanoid figure staring at the computer is the main character himself. Maybe he’s glistening because the gooey stuff is dripping on him? That would mean something’s above him…OH SH-

  17. This pasta might’ve been enjoyable if it had some form of ending.

    Was the eripping sound coming from behind the main character? Was it anything mildly threatening? Did the humanoid thing mean any harm? Was it supposed to be the main character when he was on his computer? It’s just too vague.

  18. Reading this in the dark, late at night, while you’re listening to something with headphones on… is the ultimate mind ****…

  19. You know, I can tell you that with absolute certainty that with more desciption…this would be a hell of alot better. Why did the guy need headphones? What sounds were they listening to? Why would a sound be coming from text on the screen? Why should we be intimidated by this man? Who is this man in the first place? What theat does he pose to the existance of the character? PS, this was not especially scary for me because I am not reading this story while some odd source of music is coming from the computer which is, apparently, what the character is doing for some odd reason and I normally turn the lights on when I look for something as specific as headphones. So the main idea of this comment is DESCRIPTION. You left me hangen there.

  20. I instantly imagined the Tall Man from the Chzo Mythos. Please tell me I’m not the only one who thought that.

  21. Hello.

    I tip my hat to the fine Mr. Valiant.

    I am impressed. To turn a contemporary apparatus of leisure into an umbilical connection to the unknown is wondrous.

    Yes.

    Wondrous.

    1. bro, i agree.

      RANDOM CONFESSION TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!! I use my ipad almost all the time……ofcorce with headphones.

      Tell Slenderman i sid “hi”,ok?

  22. LOL I ALWAYS USE HEAD PHONES ALL THE TIME. NO GURGLING NOISES FOR MEE. AND THE LIGHTS NOT EVEN ON EITHER.
    Good pasta though i suppose.

  23. I really enjoyed this story. It was genuinely creepy most of the way through. The ending felt a little bit flat, though. It might have been better if the author had just left the monster to the reader’s imagination.

  24. Analytic Whoreface

    Great. Now every time I hear radio interference through my silent speakers/headphones, I am going to feel uncomfortable.

    FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUU

  25. GListening dark man? Thats just Bob who has forgotten to shower again. He keeps using my PC without my permission and playing In Slaughter Natives over the headphones.

  26. First of course, normally pastas that seem to know what you do make me shit brix, but this one failed at that because I always wear headphones and keep my stuff near the computer.
    Second, what retard keeps following a wire when it is longer than he remembered, and goes into a dark area he does not know about?
    Other than that, good pasta.

  27. aaaaaah nooo!
    I’m always so paranoid when I put in my headphones, that something is sneaking up behind me that I can’t hear. this didn’t seem scary at first, but whenever I put in my headphones, I’m gonna be constantly looking around, haha.

  28. Mudman…or something worse…

    It might be a bit better if it vaguely describes in what way you die :)

    @-#2 For some reason ‘Miss Betterdone’ was in my name before I even clicked there 0.0

  29. justthesweetweather

    Eh, not bad. Kind of non-descript though. But I think the fear factor is there in the normality and familiarity of what happens.

  30. I kinda like this one
    could have finished better, but good enough
    Even scarier because right when i read the last line I heard that sound…

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