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Him



Estimated reading time — 7 minutes

December the 11th 2012

I need to write this down. I woke up in panic early this morning. A dream, it was only a dream. But it seemed so real. The earth shaking, a loud roar. It’s all blurry in my mind now. I sat on my bed. My alarm clock didn’t show anything. I got up and tried to open the lights. Nothing. A blackout I guessed. I took my cellphone from my dresser. It showed 3:33. I went to the bathroom to drink a glass of water. My face was covered in sweat, and I hadn’t even realized by then. I drank the water, went back to bed and I almost fell asleep immediately.

It was already bright outside when I woke up. I looked at my alarm clock. It was blinking. I totally forgot with last night’s blackout my alarm wouldn’t ring this morning. I quickly got up and looked at my cellphone for the time. It was 10:28. I was supposed to be at work at eight! I quickly grabbed some clothes and hurried to the kitchen. I opened the TV as I was looking for food. I inserted bread in the toaster and the television caught my attention. The news were talking about an earthquake in Iceland of 8,7 on the Richter scale, it was felt up to here in Montreal near three thirty in the morning. Was it that who woke me up? This may be why my dream felt so real. Maybe it wasn’t a dream after all. But that roar, what was it? The toaster ejecting my toast woke me up from my daydreaming. I grabbed the toast as I noticed a blinking light on my answering machine. I quietly listened to my boss telling me it was the last time I was late because I was fired. I didn’t even react, still shocked by the morning news and my troubling dream. I wasn’t hungry anymore. I grabbed my coat and got out. It was a cold morning of December in Montreal, and I shivered as I was going down the stairs of my apartment. It already felt like winter. It was a cloudless day, and the snow blinded me. I walked for a while, thinking about what I learned this morning. I wasn’t even worried about my job. The only thing on my mind was that earthquake. I guessed it was just a coincidence and I walked back to my apartment. The rest of the day went by normally; I just sat in my living room, watching TV all day.

December the 12th 2012

Once again I woke up brutally during the night. I was having a nightmare once again. Someone was talking in my mind. “He woke up. He will destroy everything. You must…” What did all of this mean? I must what? I told myself it was all just a dream and went back to sleep.

My alarm clock woke me at seven this time. I opened the television once again as I was eating. The news were talking once again of the situation in Iceland. They were talking about a group of spelunkers who went missing after yesterday’s earthquake. A rescue team was sent, but only one of them came back. The authorities tried to ask him what happened, but he only kept repeating “He will kill us all, none of us will survive.” It made me think about my nightmare. “He will destroy everything.” Was my dreams somehow related to what was happening in Iceland? In fact, what was actually happening there? Next was a reportage on the “end of the world.” It’s been a long time everyone stopped caring about the Mayan apocalypse on December the 21st 2012. Only a few weird people still believed in it. And there was still
nothing happening. I barely even listened to it and started wondering what I would do without a job. I needed to find another one, and fast. The phone startled me and I almost fell of my chair. I answered only to hear static at the other end.

– Hello?
Still static. I was about to hang up when I heard something.
-He will come…
-What? Who are you?

But there was only a blank sound at the other end. The other person had already hung up. What was that? This whole story was starting to scare me. My dreams, what was happening in Iceland, this phone call; what was happening? As I am writing this I still don’t know what is happening. I will just go to sleep and try to figure this out tomorrow.

December the 14th 2012

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I had a nightmare once again. I didn’t write anything last evening because I was too shocked. How to explain this? Iceland sunk. I know, it just seems crazy. Another earthquake of 10,7 on the Richter scale shook Iceland yesterday near noon and completely sunk the island beneath the ocean. Nobody understands how such a powerful earthquake could have ever happened. And the weirdest part of all this is the last message the world got from Iceland. It’s a small audio clip where we can barely hear anything because of static, which was sent minutes before the earthquake. It simply says: “He roars in the night, He will come for all of you.”

Like I said, I had another nightmare last night. Voices in my head, once again. “He already started, look what He did. He won’t rest until He will have destroyed everything. You must warn everybody, or He will destroy you all…” But it’s just a dream. Or is it? I don’t know what to think anymore. These dreams just seem so real. And they just stick so much to what was happening in Iceland. An earthquake also shook the whole Australian island this morning. I started thinking about that Mayan apocalypse thing. What if it was happening right now? I’m going paranoiac. I need to sleep.

December the 15th 2012

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What is happening to me? Am I going crazy? I woke up at four this morning, I was standing up in the hallway, and my fingers were bleeding. It took me a few seconds to realize where I was. I must have been sleepwalking. Then I saw my wall. I had scratched it with my fingers; which explained why they were bleeding. It was written: “He is getting more powerful, soon He will be able to sink continents…” What did that mean? How did I write this in my sleep? I couldn’t fall back to sleep after this. I was just lying in my bed, thinking about all this. Suddenly I felt the ground shaking. An earthquake? It was already six in the morning. I got up and opened the television to know what was happening. I couldn’t believe what I saw. Australia suffered the same fate than Iceland. An earthquake of 11,2 sunk the whole island and cause a tsunami big enough to destroy New-Zealand and all the surrounding islands. Once again, one last message was received from Australia minutes before the earthquake. “His roar is horrible, you can’t stop Him.” What were they talking about? A roar? The last message of Iceland talked about a roar too. And the spelunker did too. And that dream I made a few days ago. I heard a roar in it! What is happening? Is “something” causing those earthquakes? Is that what my dreams are talking about? I don’t know what to think.

December the 17th 2012

The situation got worse. Earthquakes started occurring in South America yesterday. Everybody feared the worst, and it happened. All of South America including a small part of Mexico sunk and the Tsunami that followed destroyed the Caribbean, The south coast of the United-States like Florida and Louisiana, and what was left of small islands in the pacific that weren’t wiped at the same time as Australia. Once again, reports of “roars” came from almost every country in South America, minutes before the last earthquake. Everybody is panicking now. Churches call everyone to redemption; the illuminated who were talking about the apocalypse on December the 21st are starting to be taken seriously. This is not natural. Something horrible is behind all this. I know it. And something is trying to tell me in my dreams. What do They want from me?

December the 19th 2012

Everything is so clear now. The Mayans knew. I had another dream last night. They explained me. I don’t know who is “They”, but They told me what was happening. Something is doing all of this. It drowned Africa yesterday, and It destroyed Europe and Asia all at once this morning. Always the same thing, earthquakes to start with, followed by horrible roars heard everywhere and one final gigantic earthquake that destroys everything. It’s clearly getting stronger. North America is the only piece of land above the sea level now. Everything got wild here. Nothing is under control anymore. I think I’m the only one who knows what is happening. Why did They choose me? I don’t know but I have to do something.

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December the 20th 2012

This will clearly be the last time I write in this journal. We are all doomed. I will explain what happened.

I barely slept last night. And in that short period, I had a last dream. They told me everything. It wakes up every few million years, and It destroys everything. It sinks continents. He actually woke up a few thousand years ago. That’s what happened to Atlantis. But someone found a way to stop It. Well, he only found a way to postpone it, to put Him back to sleep for a few other thousand years. They froze Him in the ices of Iceland. And They told the Mayans about It. That’s why they did the calendar ending the 21st of December. They knew when It would wake up. They tried to warn us. But They gave us one last chance. I am that last chance. I then figured out that It lived underground. It would explain how It sinks continent, shaking them from under, collapsing their foundations. And it would explain what the spelunker from Iceland was saying. They probably encountered It while trying to rescue the others. I heard of a very large cave in the north of Montreal, it’s said to go very deep underground. I am at the entrance of this cave. I will go in. I do not know what I will do or what I will find, but I have to try something. The earthquakes started this morning. We are next. Excepted if I can stop Him.

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The psychiatrist finished reading the small journal. His latest patient was stressing him out. He was brought to him two weeks ago, in the last week of November. He had locked himself up in his apartment until his family finally decided to call the police to force the door. His apartment was a mess and they found him in foetal position in a corner of the living room, a journal next to him. The same journal the doctor just read. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia. He was hearing voices in his head. Once again today he tried forcing through the door of his cell screaming the He would come for them, and that he had to stop Him. The doctored feared nothing could be done for him. Today he brought back the journal of his patient home planning to read it, but fell asleep before. He woke up in the middle of the night, victim of nightmares, and decided to read the journal. Even though the journal left him uneasy, it confirmed his diagnostic. The patient wrote about “future events”, he was hearing things that he thought were real, bringing him into madness. The doctor looked at his alarm clock. It showed 3:33. He remembered what he had just read and wondered what date they were. It struck him as the ground began to shake. They were December the 11th 2012.

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52 thoughts on “Him”

  1. I admit,this is a well written pasta. You can feel the suspense. In the middle of reading this, my computer (long story) crashed. This really pissed me off, so I switched to mobile. Really frustrated me.

  2. I liked the description of Him, really gave me the creeps.
    I’m not sure what his intentions were, why was he so obsessed with Henry, how did he manage living in the house without anyone noticing and above all, who/what was he?
    Somehow I thought maybe he had something to do with Henry’s mom, but I don’t know. Seems weird.
    Story was good, but the ending and explaining of things was rushed and not well thought through.

  3. The concept wasn’t entirely awful. However, the huge blocks of text, the lack of a proofread (any simple editor could have picked up on the poor grammar), and, honestly, the poor writing in general, does not garner this creepypasta-worthy. I’m sorry to say, but it should’ve been on crappypasta.

    It’s not worth fixing up anymore because any potential that it had to be creepy or interesting is diminished by the fact that we are now in the year 2014 and, obviously, the world hasn’t sunk. Nonetheless, here are a few tips:

    1) Be concise. You dragged the premise out too long. If there’s not enough uumph throughout the story, you’re going to lose your readers. They won’t sit through blocks of text in which you describe meaningless actions. Every sentence must have a purpose.

    2) Ambiguity is not your friend. I know that I’m personally one of those readers who gets annoyed rather than scared at the elongated descriptions of the supernatural enemy, however, in this case, “Him” needs, at the very least, a backstory as to why he goes on rampages and destroys everything. And the “They” is admittedly ambiguous. This shows laziness and lack of thought on the writer’s part and you don’t want to be *that* guy.

    3) The ending was cliche. There were no prior indications to suggest that the writer was schizophrenic or otherwise unreliable. We already believed what was happening to him was actually happening. You don’t need to then discredit him so that you can again validate him. I get that that was your creepy factor, but the purpose was redundant and the ending lacked thought.

    In conclusion, just put more thought and care into what you write and decide to submit.

  4. First entry “I need to write this down”, but hard as I try I cannot figure out why from the contents of that entry.
    Then “How to explain this? Iceland sunk. I know, it just seems crazy.” How to explain this to whom? Seem crazy to whom? If it happened (or at least the writer believes it happened), the whole world knows, no one needs explanation and no one will think it’s crazy.
    And it goes on just like that. Definitely no good.

  5. Look i got about half way threw until it said december 12th 2012 how the hell is he in the future?!?!?

  6. Oh, god! This one scared me more than most others I’ve read, probably because me, my mom, and two of my closest friends all have December birthdays! Mine is on the fourteenth, my mom’s is on Christmas Day, my friend Richard’s is on the 16th (same year as me, so i’m only 2 days older than him, lol), and MJ’s is on the 18th, or maybe 19th, I can’t remember for sure which. So if the world really DOES end this year…Richard and I will have been 16 for just a couple weeks or so, MJ will be 20 for only 3 or 4 days, and my mom won’t even GET her birthday!!

  7. there are no earthquakes in australia dumass.
    ps, australia is a continent not an island.
    i swear the world get stupider every day.

  8. Jacksonfitzsimmons

    If iceland or anything bigger than it “sunk” The resulting wave would be large enough to totally cover everything near it. E.G. If S. America sunk, the U.S.A. would be gone.

  9. *head, meet desk*

    Geology. Learn it, love it, and don’t ever write a story that involves geology UNTIL you have even a basic understanding of science.

  10. You do know that Iceland doesn’t have ANY ice at all?
    The vikings named it Iceland so the people from Greenland won’t come because the name is “ICE”land.
    Okay Pasta, kind of a rip-off of the movie of 2012 and the Mayan calendar. :P

  11. BUT THEN WHO WERE CELLPHONE AND ALARM CLOCK?

    On a serious note, this sucked. I could tell it most likely was because of the author having learned English as a second or so language, as mentioned above, but it killed me. I couldn’t finish it. It hardly made any sense grammatically….honestly. And the lack of quotation marks and the fact that he never ate his toast before work bothered me.
    “The toaster ejecting my toast woke me up from my daydreaming.” Then, after the berating from his boss: “I wasn’t hungry anymore.” WHY DIDN’T YOU EAT THE TOAST? And if you did, then why did you only have toast for breakfast if you become starved so inexplicably quickly?? You were already late, you should have eaten more. It’s not like you would have been double-fired, protag.
    3/10.

  12. Why would only a few people still believe in Dec 21st 2012 only ten days before it came to pass?

    There would be the usual panic and build up that happens on any doomsday date.

    Even normally rational people would “prepare for the possibility of a disaster”

  13. Ok im freaked out lol. Not so much that the story was super scary but because of all the numbers mentioned, there are numbers that seem to follow me around everywhere. Those numbers are 10; 28; and 7. It is weird that they were all mentioned very close together in the story. My birthday is october 28, that is 10/28 and i always seem to look at the clock when it is that time, and my life path number is 7. This really creeps me out lol.

  14. Australia is a continent, it is almost the same size as the united states, it would take more than an 11.2 magnitude earthquake to sink it.

  15. I think this story started with a good idea but it didn’t translate well into the written medium. It needs to be longer and more grammatically succinct in addition to staggering logical errors.

    It also shows a distinct lack of basic physics. Continents aren’t just islands floating on the water, learn some plate tectonics. An entire continent being pulled beneath the ocean would displace enough water to flood the entire world many times over.

    1/10

  16. GooD story. Very good. Being Canadian and all, I can understand the grammar mistakes and such, but this was just fantastic. Very good story. Keep at it

  17. LOL @ Pyromania. North America is a continent and the United States of America is a nation. Canada isn’t just CONNECTED it’s PART OF the North American continent….god have U.S. school really sunk this low? Even better that s/he trashes posters grammar but doesn’t understand elementary geography.

    Although why would N.A. stay above sea level when other places (the Himalayas for one) are much higher?

    Otherwise I thought it was ok story. 6/10, perhaps a bit too direct and rushed at some parts and superfluous details at others.

    The parts that really got me was switching from the first person to third person omniscient at the end and especially the “Thats what happened to Atlantis and they told the Mayans about it too,”

  18. The OP must really be French because “turn on the lights” in French directly translates to “open the lights” in English

  19. Besides the grammar this story was pretty good. I can tell that the grammar is not up to par because English is not your first language. I used to babysit two refugee kids from Thailand and they used to say open the lights/TV, close the lights/TV as well. But besides a few mistakes that kind of distract you from the story I feel that this was very good. It was very creepy and a cool concept. I hope you continue writing and improving

  20. @PyromaniaI’m sorry could you please just go shoot yourself right now? Seriously, you make me want to gauge my eyes out. Canada IS part of North America. Honestly, no wonder people think there is no hope for our generation.

    Anyway, besides the grammar this story was pretty good. I can tell that the grammar is not up to par because English is not your first language. I used to babysit two refugee kids from Thailand and they used to say open the lights/TV, close the lights/TV as well. But besides a few mistakes that kind of distract you from the story I feel that this was very good. It was very creepy and a cool concept. I hope you continue writing and improving :)

  21. @Pyromania
    Canada is IN North America. North America consists of the United States, Canada, Mexico, etc.
    Anyways, for a story relating to the 2012 apocalypse, this wasn’t so bad. I normally can’t stand stories of that kind. Bravo.

  22. The grammar burns my eyes.. o_O
    It was a nice idea but not a very well written one.
    “I heard of a very large cave in the north of Montreal, it’s
    said to go very deep underground.” HOLD UP, didn’t the narrator say ONLY North america was left? I’m aware Canada is connected to NA but by saying only North america is left doesn’t that rule out the possibilities of Canada still been around?

    1. Canada is part of North America (the continent, not Northern America, a region of the country), so if only North America is left, then Canada would be untouched.

    2. As a resident of Canada, I am highly concerned for your lack of knowledge towards what North America is. North America is Canada, then the United States, and under that is Mexico. Therefore, in the story, Canada, the United States and Mexico are still in existence.

    3. I’d like to point out that you said that the grammar burns your eyes, the you said ” I’m aware Canada is connected to NA but by saying only North america is left doesn’t that rule out the possibilities of Canada still been around?”
      I know what you meant, and there are other grammatical errors in your comment, but I found it ironic and hypocritical.

    4. ThisIsANameForAComment

      Wow, as a Canadian, I’m actually offended at this comment for some reason. That is not something that usually happens to me. I am thoroughly impressed.

  23. Lmao. I only caught him opening the TV twice, not the light. Maybe he really is from Québec and bilingualism is responsible. (?) It was interesting nonetheless.

  24. didn’t read the whole thing; I was too put off by the narrator “opening” the lights and the TV…

    I feel like a terrible person, but I seriously couldn’t even finish it after that.

    1. It would be really funny if he “opened” the lights. But I found it kind of normal because I have a TV in an old fashioned TV stand type thing(don’t judge) and you have to open an close it. Maybe so the TV doesn’t get dusty?

    2. I was indeed wondering if there is any English-speaking country where “open” is used instead of switch/turn on, but at this point I guess the answer is no.

  25. It was pretty good for the most part , but it sounded like it was a sequel to “The Cave” on this website, but in a different person’s perspective.

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