The Cigarette
Go to any high traffic bathroom. It must be a high traffic bathroom; otherwise the room won’t have enough latent residual energy to carry out the task. A hotel bathroom is perfect. Make sure it’s after 12pm, and make sure you have 2 clove cigarettes. The stronger the cigarette, the higher your success rate is. Sit in the dark and begin smoking one of the cigarettes. Make sure there is a mirror present, and that you look at your reflection at all times. The burning cherry should provide just enough light for this. When you’ve smoked the cigarette within a 1/4 in of the filter, the room should be full of smoke. Your eyes will no doubt be watering, but don’t blink. Don’t take your eyes off of the mirror or your reflection whatever you do. To blink will make all you’ve done at this point for naught.
You’ll begin to notice that your reflection will begin to fade into black. The reflection of the cherry from your cigarette will begin to separate into two red eyes. The smoke in the room will begin to condense, and before you even realize it’s happened, a shade will be sitting on the ledge of the sink. He’ll ask you for a cigarette, which is why you’re instructed to bring two. Give the shade a cigarette, which will light itself once he brings it to his withered lips. At this point, you can ask the shade any question you want, and he’ll answer true. You can ask who shot JFK, who was Jack the Ripper. Anything you could possibly think of. Be sure to keep an eye on how much of the cigarette he’s smoked. When it gets to the point where it will only take a few more hits to kill it, the smoke from the other cigarette will begin to define more of his features, making him more material than ethereal.
At this point, stand up and snatch out his eyes in one sweeping motion. He should still be mostly smoke, so your hands should pass easily through his head. If you let him finish the cigarette he WILL attack you, almost surely taking your life in the process. The shade will begin screaming and cursing you and the hand holding his eyes will be burning intensely. DO NOT OPEN YOUR HAND! Even though the eyes are disembodied, they can see if they are out in the open. Run to the light switch and flip it on. This will banish the shades physical form and send him back into the ether. Leave the room and wait until 3:00 am to open your hand. The burning will be unbearable until then, but to do so will blow all the lights out in your house, allowing the shade to return and seek vengeance. You will have 4 burn marks on your palm when you open it. All cauterized of course, and mostly healed.
From then on you can never be in a dark room with a mirror, because the shade will be able to track you through the burns in your hand. He’ll have black hell dogs now, given his loss of sight, and they are far more terrible than the shade could ever be. The number of hell dogs depends on the strength of the shade you made contact with. After this, you’ll always be cold, no matter how warm it is, and you’ll be given the ability to perform minor miracles. Your dreams will always be nightmares, but in them, you will be granted a kind of third sight. You’ll never be able to see anything good, only the most horrific future events. And these events will only be known to you at a point where you can’t do anything to stop them.
A small price to pay for absolute knowledge.
then WHO WAS SHADE?!
Yeowza.
I read this on a different /x/. Not very creepy, but interesting I suppose.
how long can you keep your eyes from blinking? that seems pretty damned tough, i mean, and then you can’t even let yourself near a mirror at night? and burning hurts a lot. i guess you’d better wait until you’re really sure of the right questions to ask to be willing to go through 3 hours of burning hand and an eternity of horrible dreams and being hunted by a demonshade with helldogs…
Everytime I read things like THIS I always want to talk to atleast a few people who have “done” it. They always sounds so terribly fake and it really sucks the good out hahah =P
An eternity of horrible dreams about horrible events I can’t stop?? No, thanks…I’ll stay clueless and happy :->
This is one of my favorites, if only because I think this would be an awesome premise for a movie, or background for a comic book character.
The blinking thing must be painful. I dont think it is possable because everyone has to blink. But it was interesting. I liked it.
i agree with flea; this would make a good movie.
i agree with life; this would make a good movie.
i agree with Icecry0; this would make a good movie.
YES. I love this one. I would totally try it out if I smoked.
This story seems like it would be a part of silent hill. Like right before the last dungeon
Awesome story. It would be a very cool movie. There would have to be more to the story though.
STILL great creepypasta
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I think the time has come. Let’s make a movie.
“small price”? I’d rather not know the meaning of life then have forever nightmares and being cold forever!! O_o Anyway, good story. I like the ones that tell you what to do in order for something to happen. =D
I agree with all of you. It would make a good movie
My first story I read on this site
Omg we can use smiley faces? xD
Well thats something I discovered. . .anyway nice
tests
9, 10, 11, 14 & 15 – Get me a producer, and I’ll get to work.
Wow… not trying that any time soon…
1.) I don’t ever want to smoke…
2.) I don’t want hand burns…
3.) I have a mirror in my room… I’d have to sleep with the lights on…!
I still want my eye back.
…Why do you have to take his eyes if turning the light on already banishes him…? O.O
@Random: Because you want him to haunt you.
Because we would tell him where you live
Uh. 12pm is usually twelve noon… And you have to wait until 3am with eyes burning your hand? Ow.
As sure as Russell Crowe would opt to rip the shade’s testicles off instead of his eyes, I would damn sure ask the nigger what REALLY happened during The Dyatlov Pass Incident.
Who doesn’t thinking smoking in a small, dark, mirrored room won’t cause you to see things?
The addition of the helldogs was a subtraction from the story.
…do not…i repeat DO NOT read this while listening to ‘Inside the Fire’ by Disturbed in a dark room by urself with nothing but the computer screen for light…k thanx
btw…brix were shat O.o
Does he know who phone was??
You’re supposed to do this in a “high traffic” bathroom, but if you open your hand; “but to do so will blow all the lights out in your house, allowing the shade to return and seek vengeance” Wouldn’t it kill the lights in the hotel? Plot holes=fail
I work in a hotel too, the late shift, when it’s only me on
Fuck if I’m going to the bathroom in that bitch ever again
it said that it had to b after 12 pm which would b about lunch time so just wait till 11:59 pm then do it that means your hand will only burn for 3 hours and 1 minute
@ random,
you have to take his eyes then turn the lights on so that for that split second he is still there when the lights are on he doesn’t see you. he only knows your shade and the scare so he would only know it was you in the dark but if he sees you he can kill you at any time
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
Phone was zombie dad.
You had me at “minor miracles”. That’s the kind of thing I’d want to damn my life with!
yeah, that whole not being able to blink thing doesnt make much sense…
i mean, having to smoke a whole cigarette in a confined space without blinking?? thats like, impossible…
I.
LOVE.
THIS ONE.
I hope it’s not tied down by any copyrights of any sort, and if it is, I hope I can get permission to use it.
Why? I SERIOUSLY want to make a short film out of this.
By far my favorite pasta.
BUT WHO WAS SHADE???
Really, how long coould you go without blinking, especially in a room filling with smoke.
You’d better be sure what you want to ask before you attempt this one, lol.
is this one REALLY worth it? you get 2-3 minutes of questions, and you’re boned after that.
err what if someone opens the door while your talking to the shade???
Mmm. Scary conversation in the bathroom with a shade, smoking a clove, rip out it’s eyes before blasting it back to hell or wherever after asking it maybe 3 minutes worth of questions tops, then get all “minor miracle” craptastic yet haunted by horrific nightmares of things world ending perhaps but not being able to do jack shit about it, can’t sleep near any mirrors or really be in the dark for the rest of your life cause that there shade wants to keel you. Oh, and your hands got fried. Damn. Ignorance really is bliss. O_O; I liked this pasta.
Why would anyone follow such a terribly dangerous ritual…
…don’t you know smoking causes cancer?
Kinda dumb….
1. Smoking is bad
2. I don’t want to have from 12 PM to 3 AM with fireballs in my hands
3. WTF?! Why would I want to know the apocalypse?!
PS. BUT WHO WAS DOGS!?!?
umm… has no-one yet thought of wearing gloves?
no burning = no burns, and it tracks you through the burns, so you’d be able to get away
I notice no one’s commented on the fact that clove cigarettes have been banned from sale in the U.S. since January (because apparently they count as flavored cigarettes, and everyone knows its all the magical flavors available and not Mommy or Daddy smoking that makes kids wanna try ‘em -eyeroll- )
That, the sudden shift from a hotel to a house, and the fact that the writing was kind of bland at times leads me to personally rate this at a seven out of 10: good idea, would make an interesting short film, but could’ve been executed better. Still enjoyed it though
but WHO WAS HELL DOG?
Hell dog was a minus like someone said.
I was reading this ritual pasta and somewhere at the back of my mind, I was going, “Oh boy, not another one of these pastas that have a horrible reward and too many risks”. As I progressed through it, it turned out to be surprisingly good. Props to the author for that.
But after, all the risks just started to pile up and i felt a little overwhelmed. It’s like I’m doing step 1 as I’m reading and didn’t bother to finish the rest. Then suddenly I get to step 10 or something and it says “You cannot have good dreams!” and “You cannot be in a dark room with a mirror”. At this point, i’m just liek SHET. Y CUDNT U SAIS SO SOONER!/!?!?! cus i in dark roomz all da tiem mangg!!!
But wtf, why did i type all that? No clue.
Good pasta. I enjoyed eating it.
“to do so will blow all the lights out in your house”
I thought we were in a hotel?
…He can track you via the burn marks? Then why not wear some heavy duty leather gloves? Fills the gloves after with some rocks and throw them into the ocean. Heck, add a mirror so that when he “tracks” you he ends up under the water and screwed
Seems way too easy to get rid of the shade
And sure, you can’t do anything to prevent the disasters. But hey, you can ensure that you and loved ones are away from said disaster
Oh, and those saying how hard it is to not blink, maybe wear a pair of goggles?
Why would I want to go through all of that for the answer to ONE question, and the abilty to know horrible things are going to happen and not be able to stop them?
nom nom nom…great flavor but the hell doggies left a bad aftertaste…
I am suddenly reminded of cake.
\"I want a girl with shoes that cut/
and eyes that burn like cigarettes.\"
So… no blinking in a room full of smoke, give some Shade my last cigarette, ask ONE question before he smokes it, grab out his burning eyeballs that scar me for life, can’t be in the dark with a mirror, forever frozen solid, and horrid nightmares about the future that you can’t save… All that just to be able to perform minor miracles and have the answer to that one question? No thanks. (Though, I already have pretty bad nightmares so that’s just whatevs to me)