My Fear Of Water
I’ve always had a terrible fear of being submerged completely in water. Not that I can’t swim or anything. My dad made me learn; he said I almost drowned when I was really young.
I was afraid of it because, for as long as I can remember, whenever I am under water and look up at the surface I see a woman reaching down to me with a warm smile, with glowing golden hair and dark blue eyes. Even if its just in a bathtub. It always happened, it was just normal for me, but i never got used to it.
It was unnerving, but also soothing at the same time. She always made me feel like it was okay. I still avoided it, though, because I was just a kid and it was really freaky.
I never told my dad about it as a kid, but I did ask him about my mom. He never wanted to talk about her. Sometimes he even got mad at me for trying too hard to bring it up.
It was only recently that I described this apparition to him. He nearly drove into a telephone pole; obviously he knew something. I asked him, again, about my mom. He still would say much, except that she died when I was very young, and that she loved me very much. He also admitted that her hair and eyes were those colors, just like mine.
So I did some research on my own, looking up her name for myself on my birth certificate and trying to find any references I could, any news clips about a boy nearly drowning, any thing. I mostly wanted a picture, something I could match to my guardian angel.
Today, buried in our town library, I found it.
WINCHESTER: Marie Withie, 28, drowned to death yesterday evening after climbing a razerwire fence and fleeing to a nearby resevoir. A funeral is scheduled by her family for the 25th. Marie was institutionalized just six months ago, after being found “not guilty” of attempted murder on grounds of insanity. Her husband Daniel Withie had acted quickly enough to rescue their infant child when she was found trying to drown him in a bathtub.
Posted in Dreams & Nightmares
August 15th, 2008 at 12:24 am
:O
Most amazing pasta ever.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:05 am
oooh.. i like this one!
August 15th, 2008 at 1:32 am
I think I’ve heard of this actually happening before. That adds doublepluscreepy to it.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:30 am
O_O and I thought there’d be a happy ending.
August 15th, 2008 at 4:34 am
Good read…I really didn’t expect the ending. And it’s written in a good style!
August 15th, 2008 at 6:32 am
This is totally reminiscent of pilot episode of Supernatural. Where the main characters have the last name Winchester.
August 15th, 2008 at 6:51 am
I did it for the lulz.
August 15th, 2008 at 9:45 am
I suspected that SHE had drowned, but not tried to drown him! How twisted!
August 15th, 2008 at 10:42 am
You know, this may be one of the best delivered creepypastas I’ve read.
Importantly, it’s believeable. We’ve all heard stories like this, but the part that really makes it work is the subtle twist at the very end. It lets all the creepiness happen in your mind, which is capable of more terrifying imagery than any amount of writing could ever produce.
August 15th, 2008 at 10:53 am
Not generally creepy. Just interesting.
August 15th, 2008 at 12:00 pm
wow,I liked the twist in the ending like a M. night shamalan movie. I don’t know how to spell his last name. Yes it was very well exicuted.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
I indeed expected along the lines of “She was drowned”, and was a guardian angel, but not trying to fucking kill him.
August 15th, 2008 at 1:41 pm
man, i think that kids gonna have problems, man
August 15th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Have to be honest, kind of saw the end coming. It waws still one of the better pastas posted as of late.
August 15th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
I liked this one.
. . .
That is all, resume your daily activities.
August 15th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
*sadness*
scary cuz it could be real
lol at #7
August 15th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Love it with a passion. Really quite good, nice delivery, somewhat beleivable, too.
August 15th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
The psycho mother returns!
August 15th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
I saw it coming, but it was still a good pasta.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:30 pm
Unexpected ending, mixed feelings, great pasta.
August 15th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
I really didn’t expect that.
I lol’d at #7.
August 16th, 2008 at 12:24 am
@ ScoolyardHero
Like hell I am.
August 17th, 2008 at 2:49 am
“It was unnerving, but also soothing at the same time. She always made me feel like it was okay. I still avoided it, though, because I was just a kid and it was really freaky.”
Contradictory?
August 17th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
suigintou, most of our relationships with loved ones tend to be pretty darn contradictory
August 17th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
I would’ve taken my infantile fist and punched her throat in.
August 18th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Wow this is a great read i didn’t excepect the end this is a good one :3 Teehee supernatrule one of the greatest shows ever.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:48 am
I once had a fear of water…Then my mom just dropped me in a pool but she brought me back up so now when ever I shower I see a shower curtain D :
August 19th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
they have my last name.
August 20th, 2008 at 8:45 pm
I like this one it was really good and I didn’t expect the ending it was tasteful. One of my favorites. I like it.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
thats so sad she tried to kill him
August 20th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Brix. I shat them.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Subtle and not dumb.
Good job. I liked it.
August 21st, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Bri/x/ where shat.
August 22nd, 2008 at 5:23 am
Oh owow I wasnt expeecting that ending! Nice one..
August 22nd, 2008 at 12:23 pm
@ The Tainted Truth-omg! thats awfull :c but your not alone ….i see it too
August 22nd, 2008 at 5:49 pm
@ The Tainted Truth and MooMoon
oh my god! and i thought i was the only one O.O
those shower curtians can make a person go insane
August 22nd, 2008 at 6:06 pm
WHAT A TWIST
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Any student taking psych would connect this to the case of Andrea Yates, however unlike in the story it was 5 children, and they did not survive.
August 27th, 2008 at 1:33 am
THEN WHO WAS HOMICIDAL MOTHER?
August 27th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
Excellent story! Kudos!
August 27th, 2008 at 7:16 pm
i see soap bars too………
August 31st, 2008 at 12:48 am
The best part is that it’s not completely out of the realm of possibility, which does a lot for it.
August 31st, 2008 at 3:54 pm
oooooooo so so good!!
August 31st, 2008 at 9:44 pm
his mom sounds hawt
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:12 pm
shucks thats quite the tale.
ive tried so many times to go to local librarys and do that shit where you look through old newspapers and shit on that slidy thing and i swear to god it doesnt exist anymore. need to write a pasta on that.
September 11th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
That was AWESOME!!!!! I loved that twist ending!
September 12th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Walter Melon- Dude, yes! Write a creepy pasta about how they all vanished…hmm, government conspiracy?
Sorry, I just read the Button Day. Still doesn’t make sense.
And this does sound possible, and is! Which does do a bit for it.
September 19th, 2008 at 10:33 am
you can drown with in a 48 hour period of being in a pool even if your out of the water so he lucky because his dad saved him but hes also lucky that he didn’t die two days later
September 30th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Anyone else notice that is says she drowned TO DEATH? Those partial drownings really gotta suck.
September 30th, 2008 at 10:47 pm
my sister nearly drowned when she was 7.
she said it was agony…
this pasta was ok
nothing to shout about.
and @ 49, yeah i did notice.
that is all
October 1st, 2008 at 2:01 am
I have TOTALLY seen this in a movie before. At least, from what I can recall, a very similar situation happened. It was a fantasy movie, I think, something about “traveling to other lands”, princesses and goblins and stuff. Only thing is, the mother went to the fantasy land and became the evil queen. I think it also had the sub-plot of the prince being turned into a dog. Anyone know which movie I’m talking about?
October 15th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
@ Marie Withie: YOU BITCH HE’S JUST A BABY
October 15th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
: 49 so she killed herself or her husband killed her? :S
November 9th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
fucking not scary.
November 13th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
nice ending
November 19th, 2008 at 10:34 am
It was set up very well, and for some reason, the last line struck me like a tire iron.
November 20th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
good job the twist ending was one of my favorites
November 21st, 2008 at 11:16 pm
I dont understand the ending, can someone explain it for me?