My Fear Of Water

August 15th, 2008 by WHO WAS PHONE?

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.

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Posted in Dreams & Nightmares


57 Responses

  1. Comment Leaver

    :O

    Most amazing pasta ever.

  2. Jennycat

    oooh.. i like this one!

  3. Skwirral

    I think I’ve heard of this actually happening before. That adds doublepluscreepy to it.

  4. meowmixkid

    O_O and I thought there’d be a happy ending.

  5. Debbie

    Good read…I really didn’t expect the ending. And it’s written in a good style!

  6. deschain

    This is totally reminiscent of pilot episode of Supernatural. Where the main characters have the last name Winchester.

  7. Marie Withie

    I did it for the lulz.

  8. Miss Betterdone

    I suspected that SHE had drowned, but not tried to drown him! How twisted!

  9. Ars Mysteriorum

    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.

  10. Grey Ganado

    Not generally creepy. Just interesting.

  11. life

    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.

  12. Sigma

    I indeed expected along the lines of “She was drowned”, and was a guardian angel, but not trying to fucking kill him.

  13. ScoolyardHero

    man, i think that kids gonna have problems, man

  14. Shuriken

    Have to be honest, kind of saw the end coming. It waws still one of the better pastas posted as of late.

  15. The person formerly known as 'Noneya'

    I liked this one.

    . . .

    That is all, resume your daily activities.

  16. MooMOo

    *sadness*

    scary cuz it could be real

    lol at #7

  17. Darkest

    Love it with a passion. Really quite good, nice delivery, somewhat beleivable, too.

  18. Icecry0

    The psycho mother returns!

  19. Sara

    I saw it coming, but it was still a good pasta.

  20. BonerFruit

    Unexpected ending, mixed feelings, great pasta.

  21. Lauren

    I really didn’t expect that.

    I lol’d at #7.

  22. Boy Withie

    @ ScoolyardHero

    Like hell I am.

  23. Suigintou

    “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?

  24. Manduwala

    suigintou, most of our relationships with loved ones tend to be pretty darn contradictory

  25. Russel Crowe

    I would’ve taken my infantile fist and punched her throat in.

  26. The Tainted Truth

    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.

  27. The Tainted Truth

    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 :

  28. AHHHHHHH

    they have my last name. :(

  29. dark times

    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.

  30. ME

    thats so sad she tried to kill him :(

  31. Foolish

    Brix. I shat them.

  32. Pastamancer

    Subtle and not dumb.

    Good job. I liked it.

  33. The Maroon Mink

    Bri/x/ where shat.

  34. Abbey

    Oh owow I wasnt expeecting that ending! Nice one..

  35. MooMoon

    @ The Tainted Truth-omg! thats awfull :c but your not alone ….i see it too

  36. Someone

    @ 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

  37. Someone

    WHAT A TWIST

  38. Fund

    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.

  39. Anonymous

    THEN WHO WAS HOMICIDAL MOTHER?

  40. Zombie

    Excellent story! Kudos!

  41. MooMoon

    i see soap bars too………

  42. Cyclops

    The best part is that it’s not completely out of the realm of possibility, which does a lot for it.

  43. violet

    oooooooo so so good!!

  44. ARGHHH

    his mom sounds hawt

  45. walter melon

    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.

  46. Anon

    That was AWESOME!!!!! I loved that twist ending!

  47. Kristi

    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.

  48. shortys roc my sox

    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

  49. /b/

    Anyone else notice that is says she drowned TO DEATH? Those partial drownings really gotta suck.

  50. DJLoONa

    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

  51. Obnoxy

    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?

  52. strappy

    @ Marie Withie: YOU BITCH HE’S JUST A BABY

  53. Anon

    : 49 so she killed herself or her husband killed her? :S

  54. Jake

    fucking not scary.

  55. Wears

    nice ending

  56. MetalGearBidoof

    It was set up very well, and for some reason, the last line struck me like a tire iron.

  57. BUT WHO WAS X?

    good job the twist ending was one of my favorites

  58. Aguythathatesrap

    I dont understand the ending, can someone explain it for me?

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