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.
Posted in Rites & Rituals
August 10th, 2008 at 6:48 am
then WHO WAS SHADE?!
August 10th, 2008 at 6:59 am
Yeowza.
August 10th, 2008 at 8:17 am
I read this on a different /x/. Not very creepy, but interesting I suppose.
August 10th, 2008 at 8:30 am
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…
August 10th, 2008 at 12:52 pm
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
August 10th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
An eternity of horrible dreams about horrible events I can’t stop?? No, thanks…I’ll stay clueless and happy :->
August 10th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
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.
August 10th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
The blinking thing must be painful. I dont think it is possable because everyone has to blink. But it was interesting. I liked it.
August 10th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
i agree with flea; this would make a good movie.
August 10th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
i agree with life; this would make a good movie.
August 10th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
i agree with Icecry0; this would make a good movie.
August 10th, 2008 at 7:42 pm
YES. I love this one. I would totally try it out if I smoked.
August 11th, 2008 at 2:14 am
This story seems like it would be a part of silent hill. Like right before the last dungeon
August 11th, 2008 at 4:54 am
Awesome story. It would be a very cool movie. There would have to be more to the story though.
STILL great creepypasta :D.
August 11th, 2008 at 11:42 am
I think the time has come. Let’s make a movie.
August 11th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
“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
August 11th, 2008 at 5:33 pm
I agree with all of you. It would make a good movie
August 11th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
My first story I read on this site
August 11th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Omg we can use smiley faces? xD
Well thats something I discovered. . .anyway nice
tests
August 11th, 2008 at 6:24 pm
9, 10, 11, 14 & 15 - Get me a producer, and I’ll get to work.
August 11th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
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…!
August 14th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
I still want my eye back.
August 14th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
…Why do you have to take his eyes if turning the light on already banishes him…? O.O
August 15th, 2008 at 10:57 am
@Random: Because you want him to haunt you.
August 18th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
Because we would tell him where you live
August 19th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Uh. 12pm is usually twelve noon… And you have to wait until 3am with eyes burning your hand? Ow.
August 21st, 2008 at 6:16 am
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.
August 22nd, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Who doesn’t thinking smoking in a small, dark, mirrored room won’t cause you to see things?
August 22nd, 2008 at 11:10 pm
The addition of the helldogs was a subtraction from the story.
August 26th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
…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
September 1st, 2008 at 12:37 am
Does he know who phone was??
September 6th, 2008 at 4:23 pm
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
September 9th, 2008 at 2:52 am
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
September 28th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
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
October 8th, 2008 at 8:44 am
IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII
Phone was zombie dad.
October 11th, 2008 at 9:11 am
You had me at “minor miracles”. That’s the kind of thing I’d want to damn my life with!
October 12th, 2008 at 7:21 pm
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…
November 10th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
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.