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The Elevator



Estimated reading time — 2 minutes

In a dilapidated office building somewhere in Connecticut is one of the few elevators in the Western world that has a button labeled ’13’ amongst its choices of floors. If you enter after midnight, crawling through the loosely boarded up window on the South side of the building, you will find the elevator doors standing open, with soft florescent lighting and muzak spilling from it, even though nothing else in the whole of the building seems to have power.

You can, if you choose, pick through the debris of raucous teenaged parties and office meetings past. The path seems to be mostly cleared through the broken, dirty, stained and vintage office furniture and burned out joints, cigarettes and crushed beer cans, all the way to the light in the door.

All of the buttons work in the elevator, and will take you to its designated floor–despite the creaking of the cables–though there seems to be a layer of grime on their plastic covers. All but the button labeled ’13’, which seems to glow brightly.

No one’s quite sure if that one goes to the thirteenth floor. But there’s a story about a group of high school teenagers who had a party after their prom there, in the early nineties. A dare was made, and four of them piled into the rickety elevator, taking it to the thirteenth floor. When they came back down again, they were pale and shaking, but all of them swore they’d seen nothing more than a normal office floor, covered in dust and shadows. Two of them died in an accident on the car ride home that night. Another, three weeks later, took a bottle of pills from the medicine cabinet, climbed into a hot bath, slit her wrists and dropped her hair dryer into the water with her. The fourth disappeared from the face of the planet two months later. None of them said anything of what they’d seen on the thirteenth level of the building, and when asked, would only ascertain (loudly, if necessary) that nothing had happened.

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But you can, if you so choose, crawl in through the window and see for yourself.

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Credited to Flea.

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102 thoughts on “The Elevator”

  1. this should have a lower rating. not scary at all. over dramatic with the pills plus slit wrists plus a hairdryer. i’m sure one would have sufficed.

  2. … I don’t get the hype, I think this was stupid.

    Very stupid.

    And not creepy at all.

    I get the concept of her ‘making sure’ she dies, but the way it was written was just stupid. she grabbed pills, drew a bath, slit her wrists and then dropped in her hairdryer?

    Sorry, but not only is it not realistic, it’s stupid.

  3. Annabella_Assassins

    Wow. Pills, cutting, and electrocution: It makes you wonder what was so horrible that caused her to make sure she died…..

    Great pasta! The mysterious ring of curiosity it leaves is the “creepy” part of the pasta

  4. I guess this was good. I lol’d at the overkill!

    Kinda reminded me of the 4th floor of the hospital in Silent Hill.

    And at the last sentence it says “crawl in through the window and see for yourself”, but isn’t the 13th floor a bit too high to…

    Wait… The 13th floor is the basement or what?

    1. The Killer Known As Jeff

      No, idiot.

      “…crawling through the loosely boarded up window on the South side of the building…”

      You climb through a fucking window on the first floor.

  5. She was so thorough in her suicide because she needed to be sure. If she’d survived, my master might have taken her, and she’d have ended up like the fourth poor fellow.
    Bear in mind that suicide is a heinous sin, one that results in an eternity in hell, a place she knew existed. Still, better an eternity in hell than dinner with my master.

  6. Yeah, unlike most ridiculous ritual pastas it didn’t tell you to do stupid things like hop on one foot and do NOT even look on the third tile to left xD. It was just press the 13 button. sweet and simple. AND it didn’t tell you to do, it just told the ritual as a story and suggested that it could be repeated. much better pasta than i’ve had for a while, and its nice to see some changes in the ritual category.

  7. Terrible, just terrible. Though nice and original- a bunch of teenagers have a party, get drunk, and dare four of them to go check out room 13/the old abandoned factory/the graveyard/house where no one has ever returned.

    Never heard that before.

    The best bit about this pasta was the amusing overkill the teen did to kill herself.

  8. Fish and chips guvnah

    What was up there, you ask? ME. They saw my massive, rock-hard knackwurst of love. They were so frightened by it\’s incredible girth that they screamed and fled in terror, only barely escaping before it sprung and devoured them. I\’m sorry this is how it turned out.

    I guess there are some things man was never meant to know. My titanic love-colossus is one of them.

  9. hi, dont turn around

    The 13th floor… cliche,
    If you climbed out the window to look, you would fall,
    Obviously the teens saw something that made them more horrified than anything possible.
    the overkill was to make sure she would die, slit wrists, pills, drowning, and electrecution where so she was not… affected…
    I swear nex, carnivorous plants?
    getting off topic, the fact they would not tell is because they didnt want the horror wished upon someone else.

    I go to a proffesional building on saturday, the elevator has two buttons, but the stairwell has 3 doors, the 3rd being blocked with various random items, toilets, drywall… ext. One day curiosity got the better of me and I pressed my ear against the door, and i heard the sound of deep, raspy, animal like, breathing, then the crunch of wood… I havent been to that building in weeks… I go back this weekend!

  10. Humanity’s obsession with the number thirteen is indeed interesting. The only things that interest me more are carniverous plants and death.

    Fear the Darkness

    -Nex

  11. This one hits one of my pet peeves with ritual pasta — instructions that are too vague to ever be carried out. If it were real, wouldn’t the person posting it give directions you could actually follow, rather than starting with something impossibly vague like “in the woods near where I grew up” or “somewhere in Connecticut”?

  12. On a vaguely related note, in the Connecticut Convention Center, if you try to press the button for the second floor in the elevators that go to the hotel, the button just flashes and the elevator doesn’t go anywhere. Also, in the part where the actual conventions are held, from a certain part of the escalator between the landing between the two floors, and the second floor (technically the third floor, I guess) you can see what I gather is the actual second floor. It’s carpeted the same way as everything else, but it’s always dark. The stairs skip by it too.

    Just thought I’d share.

  13. Hello.

    As I read this little tale I had a vague feeling that this has occurred before.

    I remember this. The pitiful younglings. When they took that elevator they had not a clue of what horrors they were about to witness. The ghastly faces they had seen. The room was nothing but a long tunnel stretching out into the darkness. The room was filled with the stench of death. The very stench left the poor teenagers gagging. You see, they had not made it to room 13 at all. They never did. They were in reality deep inside my anus.

  14. Muzak is the mellow music they play in elevators and other such places. Lern2google.

    Good call on the ascertain, tho’.

  15. the suicide overkill ruined the tone and made this seem more comical than creepy.

    and the misuse of “ascertain” made this seem very amateur.

  16. OMG GUYS.
    We should all go there and do it.
    &
    While reading this the song “Elevator” by Flo-Rida came to mind… ROTFL

  17. whats on the 13th floor you ask?? dinosaurs….and zombie dogs AND me *floats* lol scary huh??? oh and i need to leave for awhile anyone want to floor sit?? if you do dant let the dinosaurs eat the zombie food..got that? Good I’ll be back in a hour *waves*

    ~FadedSoul13

  18. I went broke in an abandoned building once, it was sort of offices block or something. The elevators has 13 buttons but the building only has 12 floors o_O

  19. “Another, three weeks later, took a bottle of pills from the medicine cabinet, climbed into a hot bath, slit her wrists and dropped her hair dryer into the water with her.”

    I lol’d

    “face of the planet” :D

  20. Quite good… it sounds like it would make a decent horror movie, if you ask me.

    My theory is that what they saw on the 13th floor was a mob hit. The first two died because some mobsters sabotaged their car (possibly cut the brake lines). The third didn’t actually commit suicide, but was forced into staging it. And obviously, the last was abducted, was forced to dig his own grave, and was killed.

  21. ha…………..i laugh in your face floor 13 i did five times and you did nothing. cause you can’t …I’m death the kid!

  22. 5% of suicide attempts which are wrist slashing work, the other 95% end up in hospital for a while.

    Pills hardly ever do the job properly, they induce shitloads of pain and fuck up your liver.

    The hairdryer kinda sounds like the helpful backup.

    Either way, All of them are fine.

  23. damn i cant get any paler so it probably not worth doing it :\ if i saw my parents doing it id probably feel pretty sick too. It makes you really wonder what was on that floor. VERY VERY good pasta i love it. def fav!

  24. I lol’d…especially at the suicide [must’ve seen some sick shit eh deary?] she just had to make sure =/

    @ 39 if it was a story about a modern snazzy hotel then it’s unlikely that the building has a history or ghosts or paranormal stuff, because well, it’s too new.

    oh and @ last sentence of this pasta…piss off! some bitch did everything but hang herself in the bathtub and you think i want to see for myself?! pffft!

  25. @39

    Because if they weren’t, then the author wouldn’t be following the creepypasta Madlibs anymore, and we all know that original content is always stupid and mundane.

  26. Anonymousity x 2

    @Snazzy Cheese Scarez

    ROFL.
    Dude, I’ve been there and saw the heron. It was making a mess of the kitchen, so I stopped it. Unexpectedly the heron summoned Candlejack and I got the fu-

  27. Snazzy Cheese Scarez

    Ive been there. It was horrid. My librarian was htere and told me to practice my german verbs again. Damn it.

  28. i am a heron. i haev a long neck and i pick fish out of the water w/ my beak. if you dont repost this comment on 10 other pages i will fly into your kitchen tonight and make a mess of your pots and pans

  29. i am a heron. i haev a long neck and i pick fish out of the water w/ my beak. if you dont repost this comment on 10 other pages i will fly into your kitchen tonight and make a mess of your pots and pans

  30. “would only ascertain (loudly, if necessary) that nothing had happened.”

    Inappropriate use of “ascertain” = -5 points.

    I liked it, though.

  31. I don’t consider this to be your ‘typical’ rites/rituals pasta, It does say you can repeat this and how but it mostly revolves around the story of the group of kids who did do it. I kind of hope to see the ritual pastas go more this direction as many of them are just completely ridiculous lol

  32. “all of them swore they’d seen nothing more than a normal office floor, covered in dust and shadows.”
    “None of them said anything of what they’d seen on the thirteenth level of the building, ”

    so did they say anything or not. contradiction…FAIL.

  33. I find most “Rites and Rituals” pastas to be rather silly.

    However, I enjoyed this one. Once again, great job, Miss Flea :3

  34. Wudu, that she was so desperate to end her life is the whole point. Overkill (if you excuse the pun) was her whole point.

  35. shortys roc my sox

    @ 13th floor lol

    this was good pasta but i agree with comment 5 there to much of the whole do this and die or don’t leave something unnlokced on the 31

  36. OMG>< at first I read the last line wrong and i got scared for a sec. i thought it said ¨crawl in through the window and see YOURSELF.¨eek! then… i was like ¨…o no, wait….aw ¬¬¨

    Besides, i know what happens in the 13th floor…ME! lol (no seriously though, i live in the 13th floor. i have to press 13 every single day) i wouldnt get in the elevator if there was no power in the building though. that in real life WOULD be creepy.

  37. Nice story. My theory is that the person who committed suicide used all of those methods to make CERTAIN that she died. Whatever she saw or experienced must have been some pretty bad stuff!

  38. God… it seems like the broken down dormitory at the University of Bridgeport. That school has this one huge ass building… makes me wish I would’ve broken into it.

  39. Wudu & Nathara – the point is whatever she saw was so terrifying she wanted to eliminate any possible chance of still living.

    And because it wouldn’t be creepy pasta otherwise:

    THEN WHO WAS ELEVATOR?

  40. Damn kids wouldn’t stay off my lawn…

    This pasta was okay, but I’ve seen alot of if you choose this and do that, you’ll find x blah blah blah, etc. I still enjoyed it though.

  41. “Another, three weeks later, took a bottle of pills from the medicine cabinet, climbed into a hot bath, slit her wrists and dropped her hair dryer into the water with her.”

    Is that really necessary though? I mean, she could have done only one of those things and died anyway.

    Otherwise, somewhat yummy pasta :)

    1. Well,considering I’ve tried to overdose with 72 aspirins and i’m still here…that does seem a bit necessary,and it’s very unlikely for someone to successfully commit suicide by slitting their wrists, alot of people think it’s gonna work but usually you don’t bleed out fast enough and if her body is already shutting down and she really wants to die… the hairdryer works well then.

        1. Honestly… Are you suggesting that they should try harder to kill their self? You disgust me.

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