La Nuit
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.
Posted in Strange & Unknown
September 10th, 2008 at 1:22 am
Hello.
Perhaps this is not a tale of the unnatural, yet it is wondrous nonetheless.
September 10th, 2008 at 1:35 am
OH SHIT.
Remind me never to do this.
Ohgod this creeped me the FUCK out for some reason. Ahhhh.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:13 am
Hehe, creepy stuff.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:19 am
I would indeed like to try this.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:29 am
Well, this is certainly going to keep me up tonight.
September 10th, 2008 at 6:37 am
Creepy, and wonderfully done. Excellent.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:47 am
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.
September 10th, 2008 at 10:48 am
WHO WAS DOOR??
September 10th, 2008 at 1:14 pm
Secret rape man rapes with the stealth of a puma.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
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…
September 10th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
This one was perfect. Just…perfect.
My heart literally skipped a beat when I read it.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Yeeeeaah.
Right now, I’m glad I have a habit of locking the doors >.>
I lol’d at Sigma’s comment.
September 10th, 2008 at 2:57 pm
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.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
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.
September 10th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
oooooh. Nice one.
September 10th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
shit……. never read these late at night in the dark.
*switches on all lights in the house and drinks coffee*
September 10th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Nice and simple.
Scared the hell out of me.
September 10th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Lol he sleep walks
September 11th, 2008 at 2:02 am
Very nice
September 11th, 2008 at 4:14 am
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
September 11th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
gee… your mom walks into your room in the middle of the night.
creepy…
September 11th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
Damn, for some reason, this creeped me out more than it should have… O.o
September 11th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
wow, this one actually scared me. the only other pasta to have this effect on me was white with red.
September 11th, 2008 at 6:51 pm
@#21: The pasta clearly states he lives alone.
September 11th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
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
September 12th, 2008 at 1:16 am
Maybe he got up to take a shit Lolz
September 12th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
D:
September 12th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
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!
September 12th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
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.
September 12th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Not necessarily paranormal, but he should think about buying a home security system, those rural areas can be rough.
September 12th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
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
September 13th, 2008 at 3:25 am
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.
September 13th, 2008 at 10:51 am
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!
September 13th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
THEN WHO WAS RAPE?
September 13th, 2008 at 2:23 pm
@MV
The door wasnt opening for three hours, it was saying how at three hours in to the expirement the door opened.
September 13th, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Do none of you have door handles? Doors in civilised countries don’t just open by themselves, no matter what the air is doing.
September 13th, 2008 at 6:42 pm
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
September 13th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
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?’
September 13th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
This…is terrifying to someone like me, because I make my own ambiance, too D:
September 14th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
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
September 17th, 2008 at 5:20 am
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!
September 18th, 2008 at 2:16 am
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.
September 18th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
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.
September 20th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
So wait, something entered his room and didn’t do anything? Did it just sit in his closet the whole night or something?
September 21st, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Made me shiver.
September 24th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
@43: Whole heartedly agreed.
September 24th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Good idea, but needed a little something extra.
September 25th, 2008 at 2:21 am
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*
September 26th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
LOL SUPRISE SECKZ! not rape!
this sis why people should’nt leave doors unlocked…..*sigh*
September 27th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
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.
October 3rd, 2008 at 10:18 pm
Creepy…
October 4th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
So then who was door?
October 10th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
@ some guy
¬_¬
October 19th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
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.
November 5th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
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!
November 7th, 2008 at 7:51 pm
WHO WAS DOOR?
November 20th, 2008 at 9:41 pm
i found the answer
the guy entering was PEDOBEAR which explains comment 25
think about it