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The Bad Idea



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Yesterday, a friend of mine called me. It was a John, an old buddy from high school. I hadn’t spoken with him for years, and we started to reminisce about all the crap we pulled in high school. A few days later I decided to call him back, and see if we could get together, maybe go fishing or something.

We talked on the phone for a while, and I said to him “Hey, maybe we should get together sometime.” He first said that that was a bad idea, but then he agreed. I asked him for address, copied it down, and told him I’d see him in the morning.

The next morning I arrived at the place he said he lived at. There was nothing but rubble there. It looked like there had been a fire there years ago, but nothing got cleaned up, and the plants never regrew. In the middle of the rubble, I found a old rotary style telephone on the floor, not connected to anything. Hurriedly, I pulled out my cellphone and called his number.

The telephone on the floor rang.

Once.

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Twice.

A third time.

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I dropped my cellphone in shock, and knelt to grab the rotary telephone. A voice, drenched in distortion and hiss, said:

“I told you this was a bad idea.”

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56 thoughts on “The Bad Idea”

  1. What’s stopping them from having a good time? His friend may be dead, but as long as he’s not spiteful ghost/zombie/demon, I’m pretty sure they can chill.

  2. Uh… so, narrator picks up phone even though HE is calling, meanwhile a John ghost sneaks behind him, picks up the mobile phone he dropped and answers from there. Laughter ensues.
    Sorry but he answering the abandoned phone sounds stupid, wouldn’t it have been better if the phone suddenly stopped ringing and at the same time he heard in HIS phone the answer?

  3. I love this story, but because as a hobby I ”illegitimately borrow” things from people in the night, I get freaked out as fuck.

  4. One of the few creepypastas that have given me chills so far. Granted I’m a few years late to this awesome site. I’m sure there will be many more chills to come.

  5. and john wasn’t A phone is soul was talking to him through the phone the phone was on top of where he died and the “who was… ” is stupid it isnt funny everyone does it on here its lame and over played!!!!!

  6. Damn, I wasn’t the first to realize that the author was a prostitute.

    Also, if I found out that my friend was dead but still talking from beyond the grave or that I was talking to a supernatural entity, I’d probably be okay with it.

  7. Don’t you see it?!

    “{Yesterday}, a friend of mine called me.”
    “{A few days later} I decided to call him back”

    If a friend called yesterday, then a few days later is at least tomorrow. THEN WHO WAS TIME WARP?!

  8. In regards to scalepads comment…
    If the author called John yesterday, we would assume he was recalling this memory (Story, persepctive etc) from today. To say it happened a few days later doesn’t make sense from a tense (grammatical) perspective.
    If a friend called me from the grave, I’d dig up his sorry arse just to kick it.

    1. A John is a slang term prostitutes use when talking about clients, since any man asked for his name in an embarassing or compromising situation will inevitably give a fake and nondescript moniker. So the narrator was called by an old friend of his whom he used to have sex with for money.

  9. No one noticed this yet?

    _Yesterday_, a friend of mine called me. It was a John, an old buddy from high school. I hadn’t spoken with him for years, and we started to reminisce about all the crap we pulled in high school. _A few days later_ I decided to call him back, and see if we could get together, maybe go fishing or something.

  10. i knew the end was coming the second john sed it was a bad idea…

    if a friend called me and i found this out, i’d keel over and die from a heartattack right there in the debris n shit
    =S

  11. Yo who cares , if the guy is dead but still is cool, nothing to fear. Matter of fact someone bust out the champagne its a reunion tonight oh babyyyyyyy.

  12. This story pretty much is WHO WAS PHONE?
    Just like “He who should not be named” or whatever was just like Candlejack. I kinda like the memes in my creepypa

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