La Nuit

September 10th, 2008 by WHO WAS PHONE?

In France, a young ambient musician by the name of Charles undertook an interesting new project. He was going to record the sound of himself sleeping, and release it under the name “La Nuit” (The Night). Charles lived alone in a rural area, which would remove things like car alarms, traffic, and such from being recorded. He planned his project for many months, acquiring the sensitive equipment to capture all outside noises as well as his own during sleep.

Finally, on the 27th of September, he decided to execute his plan. He set up all his equipment, and fell at sleep at midnight.

The next day Charles reviewed the recording. For the first hour, the recording played his own tossings and turnings as well as some distant dog barks and a few car alarms (So much for his plan to distance himself from cars). These continued throughout the 2nd hour as well, until Charles heard something that horrified him.

For at exactly 3 hours and 24 minutes in, the recording played the sound of his bedroom door opening.

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Posted in Strange & Unknown


57 Responses

  1. Mr. Welldone

    Hello.

    Perhaps this is not a tale of the unnatural, yet it is wondrous nonetheless.

  2. Maran Doll

    OH SHIT.

    Remind me never to do this.

    Ohgod this creeped me the FUCK out for some reason. Ahhhh.

  3. YAHWEH

    Hehe, creepy stuff.

  4. P4INKiller

    I would indeed like to try this.

  5. Xantherian

    Well, this is certainly going to keep me up tonight.

  6. Z

    Creepy, and wonderfully done. Excellent.

  7. Ben

    This is creepy if you think “person a in bed, person b sneaking in” but the first thing I thought of was that the dude sleep walks.

    Doh.

    IN the right context though, nice n creepy. I was half expecting him to hear random tortuous screams though.

  8. Dr.Creepy

    WHO WAS DOOR??

  9. Sigma

    Secret rape man rapes with the stealth of a puma.

  10. Shuriken

    This one scared the shit out of me and I don’t know why… Just unexpected I guess. I was expecting demon screams or something…

  11. Miss Betterdone

    This one was perfect. Just…perfect.

    My heart literally skipped a beat when I read it.

  12. Ma Cherie

    Yeeeeaah.

    Right now, I’m glad I have a habit of locking the doors >.>

    I lol’d at Sigma’s comment.

  13. entropyblues

    I really enjoyed this. I like anything horrific that’s expressed by banal details; the ultra-specific time of the door opening makes it feel all the more real.

  14. Devon

    I did this once, recording myself sleeping. The creepiest thing I got was a few voices that I didn’t recognize. Scared the crap outta me.

    Tasty pasta. If someone entered my room in the middle of the night without me knowing, I would move immediately.

  15. Comment Leaver

    oooooh. Nice one.

  16. The!1one!!!1!one

    shit……. never read these late at night in the dark.

    *switches on all lights in the house and drinks coffee*

  17. TMM

    Nice and simple.

    Scared the hell out of me.

  18. Anonymous

    Lol he sleep walks

  19. The Joker

    Very nice

  20. Anonymous

    Not scary; mostly because I live in a place so windy that doors opening and closing at night are common place during the summer because the windows are open

  21. GwaGwa

    gee… your mom walks into your room in the middle of the night.
    creepy…

  22. N.E.

    Damn, for some reason, this creeped me out more than it should have… O.o

  23. No one

    wow, this one actually scared me. the only other pasta to have this effect on me was white with red.

  24. Anonymous

    @#21: The pasta clearly states he lives alone.

  25. Anonymous

    The wind could have blew the door open somewhat. If you said “the sound of the door opening and
    the creaking of footsteps with a faint sound of one unzipping their pants. Within 10 seconds he began to hear struggling noises as the bed began to pound against his bedroom wall.

    LOL

  26. Ron Teh Awesome

    Maybe he got up to take a shit Lolz

  27. Chinchillazilla

    D:

  28. The Joker

    I gotta agree with other people…

    If the ending had read “The recording played the sound of his bedroom door opening and the creaking of the floorboards as someone entered!”

    DUN DUN DUUUUUUUN!

  29. BonerFruit

    I liked this one. I sleep VERY heavily. There is no way in hell I’d be able to hear this.

    D:

    No sleep tonight.

  30. Fund

    Not necessarily paranormal, but he should think about buying a home security system, those rural areas can be rough.

  31. DJLoONa

    i was scared at first
    then i thought about it…wind?
    it never said he always locked his bedroom door…and where is he/she/it that wouldve opened it now?
    it was a creepy creepypasta though, i rather enjoyed it
    just tiny tiny flaws

  32. MV

    It was perfect, until the ending. What, was the tape broken and had the ending on loop?

    Maybe you could change the ending a bit.

  33. P4INKiller

    A lot of people suggest the wind might’ve opened the door.
    Where the hell do you guys live?
    Those are not winds, those are tornadoes!

  34. JENNYCAT? LOL?

    THEN WHO WAS RAPE?

  35. The person formerly known as 'Noneya'

    @MV
    The door wasnt opening for three hours, it was saying how at three hours in to the expirement the door opened.

  36. The person formerly known as 'Noneya'

    Do none of you have door handles? Doors in civilised countries don’t just open by themselves, no matter what the air is doing.

  37. some guy

    lol, that was actually me.

    all the houses in my area look the same so i got lost.

    my door was unlocked when i left, so i walked around looking for mine,
    but i soon found out it wasnt mine when i walked upstairs and saw someone,lol

  38. Havok

    and at exactly 3 hr 25 min he heard a familiar voice - it was….

    his wife, mumbling ‘why the hell is this idiot leave his recording equimpent on?’

  39. Reptilian Liar

    This…is terrifying to someone like me, because I make my own ambiance, too D:

  40. MVO

    One of my favorite creepy pastas, scares the shit out of me and destroys any thoughts of ever recording myself sleeping (I doubt I would even if I never read this).

    I can’t help but picture a huge teddy bear opening the door and giving him a bear hug lmfao :)

  41. Buster Wolf

    But that huge teddy bear would be like the one in movie “Akira” and be weeping… something, outta everywhere and just look gross. Scary Teddybear Suprise Buttsecks, not so great actually!

  42. Ironbuddah

    Hell, first reading it, I was oh noes! Someone entered his house. But reading about sleepwalking and surprise buttsecks has me going from OMG! To roflcopter. Thank you creepypasta commenters. :D

  43. Anonymoose

    Brix were shat.

    I like ones like these that are “normal” per se. That is, ones that give you a sense of “This could happen to me”. Ones that don’t require you to go out to this or that haunted place or perform xyz bizarre ritual.

  44. britt

    So wait, something entered his room and didn’t do anything? Did it just sit in his closet the whole night or something?

  45. G Sus Chord

    Made me shiver.

  46. egads

    @43: Whole heartedly agreed.

  47. Lynzi

    Good idea, but needed a little something extra.

  48. Nylak

    Scary. Ass. Crap. XD

    In my place, it’d probably be one of the animals; they can get into anything, good lord. …Even if not, I’m pretty sure one of said critters would have DONE something. The horses freak out whenever anything comes on the property, and the dogs are loud mouths. God. I could never live alone without them. x__x

    …Especially now. Thank you for that. *shudder*

  49. Midnightgirl

    LOL SUPRISE SECKZ! not rape!
    this sis why people should’nt leave doors unlocked…..*sigh*

  50. Skull Straw

    I’m glad it wasn’t screams, or added creaking floor boards, or anything. This pasta is perfect as is, I think. Definitely one of my favorites. As for what happened after he hears the door open, I find that the creepiest possibility is actually whatever-it-is just staying in his room, silent, throughout the night, watching.

  51. Unknown

    Creepy…

  52. an american

    So then who was door?

  53. McVitie's

    @ some guy
    ¬_¬

  54. fwaa

    if he continued to watch, he would see the six flags guy run in and start dancing. He would then go to said six flags and… yeah, i have no idea what i’m saying either.

  55. Sky

    I live with a family of 5, so this wouldn’t bother me as much.

    But… I WILL have to move out nest year so…

    I’ll just get a room mate, yeah!

  56. POPPAROCK

    WHO WAS DOOR?

  57. BUT WHO WAS X?

    i found the answer
    the guy entering was PEDOBEAR which explains comment 25
    think about it

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