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Hello



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The doorbell rings, and you get up from where you sat staring stonily into space. You already know who is at your door, and why he is there. You open it, nodding numbly to the man. You make a note in your head that the man looks… sneaky, but you assume that must be because he’s a lawyer. You show him into your living room, dreading what is to come. The man hands you a CD he produces from his briefcase, and sets what looks like a birdcage on your coffee table. You can not see what is inside the cage, as it is covered in a blanket of embroidered silk. The man sits as you put the disc into your stereo and press play.

You hear the sound of stressed breathing from the speakers as you take your seat. The lawyer hasn’t said a word, but you know the breathing to be that of your late friend, the last breathes of your friend. You can hear something in the background, behind your friend’s heavy breathes, as if someone, or something, was scratching at a door. You wonder if you’re hearing things, as the sound is barely audible in the recording. You look up as you hear her voice, as if she was in the room with you, as if she was alive.

“The date is September the first of two thousand eight.” Her voice is shaky, every word she speaks is saturated with fear, “This is my last will and testament. Now, I don’t have much time. They’re almost here, so I’ll dispense the formalities and get on with what I have to say. This is the last day of my life, as you have probably already figured out.”

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“This began with the death of my uncle. I had never known him very well, only a few times at family reunions and Christmas parties, but he had left me something on his will. I sat awkwardly through the reading of the document until at last, my name was called. I collected a small box of knick-knacks and a covered cage. On the cage was a note saying ‘Please do not unveil the surprise until you are home.’ So I hurried home without taking the silk blanket off of the cage. What was inside the box is of no consequence, but underneath the blanket – I warn you do not take the blanket off until this recording has ended – is an old birdcage. Inside of this bird cage , is a parrot.”

“I was indeed surprised, but there were more shocks to come. When I lifted the blanket, the bird’s eyes were immediately fixed on me. Its beady eyes shone wickedly upon seeing a new face, and it said plainly in a squawky voice, ‘hello’. I stared back at it, and it repeated itself, ‘hello.’ I dismissed it as a cute trick my uncle had taught it. I was very wrong.”

“The next day, when I took the blanket off of the cage, I was not greeted with a ‘hello’. No, on the second day the bird didn’t talk at all. What it did do was breathe loudly, as if it was hyperventilating, or at least copying someone who was terrified. On the third day the bird did not speak, but made the sound of a grown man crying. I was very disturbed, and covered the cage for the remainder of the day.”

“The fourth day, in a voice not unlike my recently departed uncle’s, the bird cried ‘Oh god. Oh god!’ I thought the bird had learned it from listening to the television, and I resolved to never let it hear the television again. I didn’t turn o n the TV all that day, but on the fifth day, when I uncovered the cage, the bird screamed. Not a normal scream, mind you, and it was nothing I had ever had turned on the television. It was the sound of a man screaming in terror and pain. It was, I know now, the scream my uncle gave when he was killed. When the bird screams again it will be my scream as they tear me apart, for even now the bird is listening to me. It stares at me coldly where I’ve barricaded myself in the kitchen.”

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“As you life depends on it, do not yet uncover the cage.”

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“The sixth day, yesterday, when I hesitantly uncovered the cage, the bird was quiet. Perhaps ten minutes later it cocked its head to the side, as if it had heard something I could not. ‘They’re coming.’ it whispered, ‘They’re coming’. Over and over again he repeated in a haunting voice. ‘They’re coming’”

“Today is the seventh day, and they are here, just as the bird said. I can hear them scratching at the door and crawling in the walls. The bird is waiting to record how I die, I swear, if it coul d grin it would have been grinning from the moment I uncovered its cage. The noises are getting louder, they’ll get in soon, so I’m saying goodbye now. Take care of the bird; I couldn’t think of anyone else to give it to, I’m sorry. You must take care of him till they come for you. You have seven days.”

The track ended suddenly, and you look around you, startled. You must have been entranced by the disc, for the lawyer was gone. You hadn’t noticed him leave. You stare at the covered cage on the coffee table, and wonder if you had just heard on the CD was real, or just some elaborate hoax. A rustling comes from underneath the embroidered silk. Your curiosity begs you to see what’s in the cage. You slowly raise up the blanket.

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“Hello.”

Credited to apoisonedlogic.

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194 thoughts on “Hello”

  1. It’s titled “Hello” What I imagined: ME: ADELE! ADELE EVERYWHERE!? AHHHHHH (Adele appears out of no where) Hello, it’s me. Me: NOOOO

  2. the second that cd ends i would have gone to the tallest building i could find and toss the parrot and the cage over the edge

  3. Bill The Stripper

    This would be my reaction when the bird started saying creepy things ” Okay bye birdy.” (Throws cage out window)

  4. What really creeped me out after reading this is that there was an ad at the bottom of the story that said walk in bird cage and the picture was a parrot….

  5. Makes. No. Sense.
    Why should the cage be uncovered only after hearing the story/going home/whatever? What would have changed? Why do anyone need to pass the parrot on? They die anyway, so why bother? Who cares if the parrot mimics things that happened to the previous owner?, the parrot is not the problem, the things that come after him are (and parrots, after all, do just that, nothing unusual or creepy about that). Otherwise, just keep the stupid cage covered, the parrot won’t say anything, problem solved (and parrot dead of starvation, probably, but there’s another matter)

  6. What I would do.

    If I got a recording or something like that telling the bird was gonna kill me I would take my revolver or shotgun and put the cage in my shooting range and have some fun. Then it would be the bird’s screaming.

  7. Did anyonw else get a sense that this seems very similar to how a boy can mimic voices and recalls a murder scene in the movie Silent Fall?

    1. Goodbye!

      But no seriously, I wonder why people post stories saying that “you” do what is in the story…

      Like it says “The doorbell rings and you get up…” and I’m just like “uhhh no, the doorbell rings and I ignore it until the person goes away.”

      But overall, this was an interesting read.

      7/10

  8. Utilizing “you” in such stories is always a slim proposition. In this case this story falls into the larger majority if thise that fail.

    Why? Well, it presumes behaivor on the part of the reader. Then bestows characteristics on them. It doesn’t work especially so when the “you” is so at odds with the readers mindscape.

  9. Why did the uncle leave it for her and then the friend leave it for him? Why give it to loved ones because obviously when you get the bird your chosen and you can’t escape death, my theory is that when it says hello. Hello is like a curse word so once it says it your cursed to die a horrible death and why did she say don’t open it until after the recording why don’t you just leave it closed.

  10. This was pretty good and creepy since one of my cousins has the creepiest parrot that says some of the weirdest things like “Go away” and “Behind you”.

    Now I don’t want to see that parrot for a while.

    9/10

  11. parrot, meet shotgun.

    shotgun, meet parrot.

    Shotgun: “Let me play you the song of my people”

    *BANG* chick-chick *BANG* chick-chick *BANG* chick-chick *BANG* chick-chick *BANG* chick-chick

  12. The Lawyer must have been one of the murderous demons! So then he could say the previous victim wanted the next victim to have the parrot then alert the demons to murder the victim!!!!!

  13. After hearing that, the exchange between me and the parrot would have been:

    “Hel-”
    *Whatever noise a fucking flamethrower makes*

  14. 1. Find a cliff overlooking a shark-infested ocean.

    2. Bring still covered bird cage to place mentioned in 1.

    3. Bye-bye birdy!

  15. lol that parrot is nothing a 12gague couldn’t fix

    i find that most creepy situations can be solved with a cleansing and a 12 gauge of rock salt

  16. Mr.Welldone, you are obviously a douchebag trying to appear smarter than you really are. Using a broad range of vocabulary and “trying too hard” to sound philosophical makes you sound like an utter jack ass. People like you make me laugh =] you are not even remotely charming, witty, or philosophical in any way. Just a douchebag trying too hard.

  17. On the sixth day, I would have poked the parrot quietly, went to my room, locked the door, sat in the middle of the room, in the fetal position, rocked back and forth, and recited continuously “They’re coming to take me away, haha, they’re coming to take me away, hoho, heehee, haha!”

    That said, I think the girl was a bitch. When a parrot says “Hello.” to you, you say “Hello.” back! Poor parrot just wanted to be recognized.

    7/10 for reminding me of the Funny Farm song c:

  18. hi, dont turn around

    this reminds me of an anime “he put me in the body of a bird, he said if i led him to more souls to eat, he’d bring my mother back to life”
    for those saying “kill the bird” it’s just a witness, and i suppose the scratchers wouldnt be human, most likley hell hounds
    and i agree “with curiosity comes stupidity”
    you have to remember, it killed a cat, and that has nine lives
    the curse most likley was that it gets passed on to the one you love the most, I.E. your friend passed it on to you
    well i gotta go open a package my late girlfriend left me, its birdcage shaped though… wierd

  19. I don’t think you needed the parrot at all, it could all be played on the tape recorder and it could have been like “by the time this tape ends, they will be behind you! OOGA BOOGA!@!111”

  20. Seriously? I could complain about the fact that whoever wrote this didn’t bother to spell check or check for tense, as if they wrote it and then simply said “yep, this’ll do.” I think my biggest complaint is that it’s not even remotely creepy because it’s so far-fetched and nothing in the story seems remotely related. What the fuck does a parrot have to do with something scratching in the walls? How does the woman even know she has seven days? Why would she willingly leave a murderous parrot that can summon demons (or what have you) to a friend, when she could have simply just died and left the parrot alone? The pasta is just poorly thought out, and not even remotely creepy.

  21. Curiousity comes hand in hand with stupidity. Some things should not be investigated no matter how your curiousity nags at you.

    And your friend. I must say, she must really hate you to send the parrot to you.

    This reminded me of The Ring and unfortunately was not scary for me. The things crawling and scratching at the door reminds me of bugs and that kinda freaks me out if the bugs are gonna devour and crawl into your insides to eat you alive.

    WOW. Revelation. The parrots are working and cooperating with the bugs to take over humanity. This is evil indeed. Oh no, doorbell. Must be the lawyer who’s going to show me my friend’s will… Be back later.

  22. dude that chick that died and sent the recording and the bird is a bitch! same with her douchebag uncle. gee this fuckin parrot makes people die in 7 days, lets send it to our fuckin neice instead of chuckin that bastard out in the woods! great idea, thanks uncle.

  23. Polly, meet Fork. Fork, meet Polly. >:D
    He already knew there was a parrot under there, so why does the end make it seem like he doesn’t?

    Anyway….DON’T UNCOVER THE FLIPPING CAGE. GIVE IT TO YOUR NEIGHBOR. Don’t let the parrot look at you, thats what it is! XD

  24. i would have jabed the damn thing with a steak knife. then if its still saying creepy shit, shoot its beak off, if it still treis to talk, i will sew the damn things now-beakless mouth shut, if it mumbles. i will fucking stab it in the chest 5 times, leave my house and start sleeping in an office building. so atleast if those little bastards get me, someone will see the shit, :D

  25. lol nobody would let themselves be pwned in a week, they would more likely give it to somebody they hate, thats make moar sense

    Then who were lawyer, parrot and uncle?

  26. I would give the death parrot to someone else the second i got it
    maybe this is the kind of curse that will bypass ppl as long as the bird is passed along to someone else

  27. Thinking person

    Here’s what I think. 1. The bird is a DEMON! So, it can’t die, and it won’t ever leave, no matter what. 2. The lawyer was totally one of the people who was after the friend/main character. I mean, he brings the (DEMON!) parrot, like a good little lawyer, and then after seven days calls in the troops. :-D Anyway, that’s what makes the most sense to me.

    (The new FUN way of population control!)

  28. @ #2:

    It’s more likely than you think. FREE PC CHECK!

    Onto the pasta:
    I agree with pussybreath. (And I laugh at the name)

  29. If I heard my friend die after three days or so and know that it had happened before then I would instantly take my gun, press the barrel gently through the cage, and take that bird the fuck out. Even if my curiosity got the best of me and I waited until I heard the scratching at the door and I didnt open it to see what was behind it to do mental retardation I would still fucking kill the bird and spare the rest of humanity. Fuck parrots, dude. They’re actually extremely dumb animals.

  30. If you did open the cage to let the bird fly away, what if it didn’t?
    What i don’t understand is why the people leave the bird to people they like and love, personally i’d leave it covered and sell it. :)

  31. BUT THEN WHO WAS UNCLE?

    Sick bastard leaving bearers of death to loved ones. Also, what happens if you kill yourself? Does that like break bird?

    THEN WHO WAS CURSE?

  32. Is it possible that it was the the parrot who convinced her to hand him down? Like honestly no mentally stable person would give someone the bird knowing something terrible would happen, especially their friend or relative. Is he manipulative? Or is it even possible that it was the parrot talking on the tape all along, like he was able to learn her voice over the course of those 7 days?
    Maybe I’m just on crack, or something close to it.

    7 DAYS!!!

  33. @Ian:

    It has gone to meet its Maker! It has shuffled off the mortal coil and joined the Choir invisible!

    No wait, those are its victims. It’s still around. D8

  34. Temporary Wounds

    Marry me, Mr. Welldone.
    _________________________
    And,what kind of a friend would put another in grave danger? BITCH.

  35. Decent pasta there, but at the end when it said “Hello”, my friend showed up and my brother shouted “Hello” at the same time, scared the hell out of me lol.

  36. Heres what I would do. I would watch the tape, here the noise, take out my AK-47, and shoot that bastard into next week… of course first I would staple-gun the silk onto the cage so it couldn’t come off when I shot it…even if I was going to die in 7 days, at least I took the damn bird with me.

  37. “here, have a demon parrot, LIFTING THE SHEET MAKES YOU DIE D:”
    “hmm…that….rustling seems weird…EVIL WERID! and DANGEROUS! I BETTER CHECK IT OUUT!”

  38. Oh, how people lack basic logic in pastas.. it saddens me. Of course you would either kill or just not uncover it- just get rid of it somehow- in real life.

  39. To teh people who asked ‘why did he take the cover off’ He took it off because he was curious, and thinking it was a hoax he didnt think of it as much of a threat. And to the people who asked ‘Why didnt he just kill/get rid of the bird’ Creepypastas lack logic

  40. 1) Obviously you dont take the fucking cover off the cage. Even according to the damn person sending it. If you dont take the cover off, nothing can happen.

    2) If you do because you are a moron, and the bird starts saying shit, dont take the cover off again. All the shit that happens is because the previous person kept taking the cover off.

    3) Kill the parrot if 1 and 2 are much too hard for you.

    4) ???

    5) Im sure you can make money off a killer parrot somehow.

  41. I think ‘they’ were lawyers, cuz the lawyer disapeared and he knew where the narrator and the friend lived. Never trust them sneaky lawyers. Not even if they give you the recorder parrot thingy. I’d have smacked the door in the lawyer’s face. Btw how’s my english, cuz I’m dutch and ppl in my school graded my english slightly below the standard :(

  42. BUT WHO WAS SHEET?

    Maybe the “creatures” were furries and they were trying to yiff. That would explain the bird and the lawyer left cause he hates them furries.

  43. @Skwirral: I think that it was “them” the people who had killed her uncle who were scratching at her door while she was making the CD… mhmm…

  44. The whole time I was reading that i couldnt help thinking bout that one episode of family guy when the star trek kid pops out of peters ass and goes “helllooooo”

  45. Okay, as far as I can tell, no one suggested this, but I did skim. Anyways. I wonder what would have happened if you talked to the parrot? Maybe if you were nice to it and stuff.

  46. um guys
    y would the bird not say anything until the blanket was lifted?

    but i guess it would be kinda anti-climactic if the bird had been going “hellohihowyadoin” the whole time…..

  47. ANSWER: Her friend actually thought she was a stupid bitch. She
    made sex with the bird so it would skip her, she made a fake recording of her, and her sex slaves acting as the “creatures”, to prove that her friend was actually a stupid bitch.

    Her friend impregnated the bird and dumped it’s ass later.

  48. lol…

    Guys, you’re forgetting this simple thing…
    Was the “lawyer” really a lawyer?

    Although, the ending could have been written in such a way that he was tricked into checking it, not just because he heard rustling in it…
    :/

  49. Seriously, why didn’t she instruct her friend to kick it into a fucking lake or something? Then the fish would have to deal with it… but we don’t care, cuz they’re fish….

  50. Baby Button Eyes

    That could have had so much potential, the ending was terrible….why the hell did she give it to her friend?? Who are “they” and why did they use a stupid parrot as the murdering messager? And laywer is…?
    So many unanswered questions *sobs*

  51. ok i would have finished the CD and did the following actions in order:
    Stood up
    Gotten a 12-gauge
    loaded the 12-gauge
    cocked the gun
    aim intently at the center of the cage standing approximately 3-feet away
    pulled the trigger
    laughed in triumph
    then hesitantly cleaned up the mess

  52. Everyone keeps on commenting about how the parrot is evil or why she took it home, but noone seems to care about WHY SHE FREAKIN LISTENED TO HER UNCLE!!! It said that she was not supposed to unveil it until she took it home. She could have lifted up the silk before she got home and gotten rid of it!!!

  53. @ 56…so the bird isn’t the curse, but he records what happens when you get the curse…and you can only get the curse by getting the bird?…
    but you say the bird is still not the curse…
    that makes zero sense mate

  54. The bird isn’t the curse, it merely records what will happen, once the will is pass it will happen no matter what in seven days. What a crappy friend to pass this curse.

  55. it leaves a lot for the imagination, but i’d still like to know….what the hell????????????????

    who are “they” and why do they come when you get a bird….????

  56. Like most paranormal animals/babies/toys the parrot probably can’t be harmed.
    And as for leaving it around? You doom another person just to save yourself.
    To finish, the narrator isn’t an idiot.
    An idiot would immediately believe that parrots can summon demons.

  57. Don’t even lift the blanket over the cage- straight in the fucking microwave. Didn’t see that one coming, death-predicting bird!

  58. The Person Formerly known As 'Noneya'

    @Hops Diggins

    Birds eyes dont really change, youre right, but sometimes just based on their beaks, or the way their heads are turned they LOOK like theyre smiling.

    Like how a cat or dog can look like theyre smiling, even when their mouths and eyes dont move.

    *Raises birds*

  59. “It stares at me coldly where I’ve barricaded myself in the kitchen.”

    …can a bird stare at you warmly?

    its always the same expression.

  60. What if this parrot doesn’t die? What if it can’t even be removed from it’s cage?
    What if, when you leave it in a deserted area far from your home, it’s waiting for you wherever you choose to stay, home or not? It’s obviously not a normal bird… chances are it and this fate cannot be escaped.

    But, none of this was brought up. Oh well.

  61. Hmm, I would have to go with Mr. Well done on this one, curiosity is a very powerful tool, and I believe that is more what the story is about. Curiosity killed the cat, aka. Human in this story.

    The curse might be that you give it to your friend, or have you forgotten, the parrot MIMICS! Who’s to say the PARROT didn’t make that tape? If you ask me that tape had a bit too much information from only 1 day of scratching. I’m down in Mississippi, I went to get my car fixed and in the roof of the damn place, I could hear rats crawling around. IT WAS THE PARROT WHO MADE THE TAPE!!!!!!

  62. *flails*

    my friend has a parrot that says hello to anyone who walks in the house alone but not in groups she has never heard it because it only does it to her friends including me it scared me so bad i refuse to step foot in her house

  63. Some friend! Why the hell would she you the parrot!? I mean seriously! I wasn’t too thrilled with this one.
    Also, why not just kill the parrot?

  64. “you know the breathing to be that of your late friend, the last breathes of your friend. You can hear something in the background, behind your friend’s heavy breathes”

    That is some seriously awkward wording.

  65. i agree with Cracky…
    and if i was the friend [the alive one]
    why would i unveil the bird?
    it would do the same thing to me…let it go or kill it.
    i can’t help but wonder what those things are, they must be following the bird for some reason, but i guess it doesn’t really matter.
    and some friend she is! she knew the bird sort of caused her uncle’s death and sort of caused her own as well and she gave the bird to her friend ><

    i didn’t like this too much

  66. BUT WHO WAS LAWYER?

    It was really good. I liked it a lot, but then again, you know, there’s that giant plothole that Cracky mentioned.

  67. But WHO WAS BIRD?!

    and WHO WAS MAN?

    And why the HECK did the friend decide to leave the bird to ANYONE? Better to die(because it was inevitable) but why kill your friend by leaving it a killer magical birdmonster? The whole thing stinks with stupididty.

    I liked it,though.

  68. @Cracky, I don’t know, but I don’t really like this pasta. There are too many logical things that could have been done to prevent it.

  69. Why did this idiot uncover the cage, even after hearing this recording? Why didn’t he just drive into the middle of nowhere and leave the cage behind?

  70. If the parrot did that to me I would’ve jumped on its shoulders with both of my feet and then swiftly twisting my feet, instantly snapping that fucking birds neck

  71. I would have fucked that bird up before it had the opportunity to say “Hello”, or anything else for that matter. Fuck that bird.

  72. Cracky: Most parrots have the feathers of their wings clipped to keep them from being able to fly away. Also, this is a parrot of evil. It would probably just have perched itself someplace out of reach and waited. Evil, much like Chuck Norris, does not sleep; it waits.

  73. @cracky, the parrot probably wouldn’t have left the cage had they tried, that’s how it works with mysterious death-predicting birds.

    i’m barricaded in the kitchen…may as well make a cd, right?

    WHO WAS SCRATCHING AND WALL-CRAWLING?!

  74. Yeeaaah.

    If this ever happens to me, that little fucker is going back to the pet store >.>

    I really enjoyed this one, though.

  75. so wait…these “things” will come for you just because you have some weird bird? Sounds like the ignorant thought that just because you watched a horror movie, the events in the horror movie will occur in real life…i’m just saying.

  76. Well, I’ve a question.. why not get rid of the bird? And why the hell are people coming after you if you have a bird?

    Sounds like an irritating parrot to me.

    1. they dont kill you because you have the parrot the parrot is just there to add to the fun of the murderers by recording your death screams

    1. Jane the Killer

      I think so Don’t uncover it and give it away tell them it’s a parrot and not to uncover it until they get home but give it away for free because if you make them pay for it they’ll ask to see it

  77. Hello, Cracky.

    Curiosity.

    When viewing a situation, one can freely criticize and speak with the wisdom of an outsider. It is a simple matter to see the errors of another because they do not concern you, thus your mind remains cool and can easily see the folly of the observed.

    When directly involved, matters are no longer so clearly visible.

    Curiosity is a wonderful thing, allowing humanity to stretch its mind to the heavens and become something more than than the sum of its parts.

    It is also damning.

    That is wonderful as well.

      1. little miss black cat

        Oooo I was thinking of bird stirfry mix that thing with veggies and rice roast him and gut him, TA-DAA a delicous parot stirfry with teryaki

        1. 1. Bird greets them
          2. Bird goes satanic and starts making scary noises
          3. Bad guys come

    1. i would have called someone to try to kill it… if that didn’t work i would hide at a friends house so if i did die i would die with a friend. and i know i would be a jerk for doing that…

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