The Gurgling
I live in a small apartment by myself, on the fifth floor. One night, a while back, I heard strange noises coming from down the hall. They weren’t shouts and they weren’t banging noises and they weren’t people fucking. They were weird. They sounded like gurgling. Loud gurgling.
Normally I don’t give a damn about what goes on in the rooms around me; my stance changes when whatever is going on pisses me off. These gurgling noises were doing just that. So, I left my apartment and headed towards the door at the end of the hallway, which seemed to be the source of the sound. I banged on the door and shouted at whoever happened to be in there to shut the hell up.
I stayed in front of the door for a little while to see if the noises would stop. They didn’t. I banged again and shouted again.
I heard a door open behind me, but I didn’t turn around. I knew it was some other stupid tenant who was pissed at me for shouting. Well, I was pissed at the gurgling noises.
ENTER
I kept banging and banging on the door. I had given up shouting because if I hadn’t, I would be hoarse for a week.
Ten minutes, at least, after I had left my room, the noises were still coming from the room. By now, a few other doors had been opened. I could feel the people around me. I don’t know if they wanted the noises to stop as well or if they wanted the noises I was making to stop.
Nothing was working, and my hand was starting to get numb. I rested for a minute to let my hand get some blood flow. During that time, someone behind me started talking. “Sir,” the person said (I wasn’t paying attention to the voice, so I don’t know if it was a man or a woman), “I think-”
“I don’t care what you think!” I shouted at the person.
The commentator sent me over the edge. I stepped back a bit, nerved myself, and kicked the door as hard as I could.
The door burst open, and I walked inside.
ENTER
There was nothing. It was a bare room, completely devoid of furniture, curtains, pictures. Everything.
I ran all over the apartment, looking in all the rooms for something, ANYTHING, that could be causing the gurgling noises. All the rooms were the same, with nothing at all inside. I checked the sinks in the bathroom and kitchen, figuring some water problem could be making the noises, but I found nothing. Both sinks ran fine, and the noises didn’t seem to be louder around either sink. In fact, the noises weren’t louder anywhere in the apartment. The noises were the same volume all over the apartment.
I ran out of the room, planning to get on the elevator and check the apartments above and below the one I had just checked, figuring something could be in the ceiling or floor.
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I was stopped by the owner of the building as I ran out of the apartment. Two guys grabbed ahold of me and held me, keeping me from moving.
“What’s going, [name removed]?” the owner asked, a very worried look on his face.
I explained the noises to him, as well as how the entire apartment was empty.
The owner shook his head and turned around. I asked him what was wrong. One of the people who had gathered in the hallway while I was beating against the door said, “What noises are you talking about? There are no noises.”
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My mother and father came to get me a couple of hours later. I was tied to a chair when they came. The other tenants had tied me up so I wouldn’t hurt myself anymore trying to find the “noises.” It turned out that my hand was badly broken from banging against the door so much. I apparently hadn’t registered the pain.
I got started on electro-shock again shortly afterwards. It seemed to be working. I didn’t think of the noises for the longest time.
Recently, however, I am hearing them again. I know that they aren’t real. I remember the incident at the apartment (which I have just told you), and I remember a similar incident which had occurred years before that one. My brain is simply wired wrong. There are no noises.
I can’t get them out of my head though. They are driving me mad. I have to figure out where they’re coming from. I have to stop them. The goddamned things are driving me nuts.
Posted in Insanity & Madness
June 12th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
*twirls finger around ear* nutso cookoo
June 19th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
I know how you feel, buddy.
Beleive me..
June 29th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
@Ahmea
*gurgle* :3
June 30th, 2008 at 12:12 am
I think he might be mildly schizophrenic, or maybe he’s got a choking flea in his ear who puts morphine in his coffee every morning.
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:11 pm
My tummy gurgled while reading this…
July 5th, 2008 at 3:40 am
Whenever I hear THOSE kinds of gurgles, I know it’s time to hit the toilet.
July 10th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
I’m sure I’d have problems too, if my parents gave me a name like [name removed].
July 17th, 2008 at 4:35 pm
LOL @ Person.
Good story, not very creepy though…
July 27th, 2008 at 11:58 am
THE NOISE WAS PHONE.
August 1st, 2008 at 5:45 am
Not creepy, just crazy. I suppose anything that is probable in real life would be not as creepy, especially if it can be explained by SCIENCE.
In this case, SCHIZOPHRENIA WAS PHONE.
August 2nd, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Coming from someone who is equally crazy
Maybe it was something from another world? Making you insane for its own entertainment
Either that or the people in your apartment just like messing with you
August 10th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
When I read “[name removed]” I was laughing through the whole story. Completely killed the moment xD
August 12th, 2008 at 12:54 am
Rofl 6 7 and 12 made me laugh so hard i had tears.
Story was making me think “Wow, That guy must really have some serious diarrea.”
August 17th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Hey, stop making fun of my name.
I can’t help it.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:37 am
Smoking weed and having no food does this to you. /Nod
August 20th, 2008 at 3:31 am
Awh im so disspointed! Damn i was expecting some really good reason why there was a gurgling sound but no..
lol
August 21st, 2008 at 5:33 am
Actually to everyone wrote, ‘He’s crazy, or ‘Nutso’ etcetera he’s not.
Van Goagh (Apoligies if I spelt his name wrong) Cut his ear off because he kept hearing a buzzing in it and for a long time thought it was coming from somewhere else.
Turns out the small bone in his ear (that helps you hear by vibrating) was, for lack of better words, broken.
This guy could have something wrong with the passage in his ear like, say for instance, wax buildup or air trapped in a pocket made by wax buildup.
August 25th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
i thought van gogh lopped off his ear as a present to his dead gf
btw…the story was bogus ><
i lolled at comments 6, 7, and 12 though XD
September 4th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
i lmao’d at comment number 12.
good story, crappy ending.
September 8th, 2008 at 1:31 am
i’m annoyed at having wasted my time reading all that just for “the noise was in my head”, there’s no climax or even a point to this story
September 11th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
ROFL at post 9, and Ranse Truman, awesome name, great Suffering reference!
October 9th, 2008 at 11:51 am
sorry guys,that “gurgling” was me,and it wasnt gurgling,i bin sittin on the throne takin a big ol shit,and i was in the appartment above the one down the hall,its jsut the way our pipes are run.
October 23rd, 2008 at 11:21 pm
PERSONALLY, I don’t think he was crazy, I think that it was a conspiracy, and everyone else just said there were no noises to cover something up.
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:53 pm
WHO WAS GURGLE?
November 3rd, 2008 at 8:17 pm
THEN WHO WAS [name removed]?
November 4th, 2008 at 5:08 am
Whats with the “ENTER” every so often
November 5th, 2008 at 1:37 am
THEN WHO WAS “ENTER”?
November 7th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
BUT WHAT WAS GURGLE???
November 7th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
soz- hueva that bloke is- coz u c, when io eat pot8toes, when my stomach rumbles quite a lot and it usually makes hte apartments shke. if what you herd was a gurgling sound cumin from no where, then yer, it was ma stomach… :S
November 10th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
@26, yeah, wtf was with that? at first i thought it was someone speaking, but it wasnt. Maybe he was hearing that too?
November 19th, 2008 at 2:24 am
As soon as I saw “Apartment” and “fifth floor” I stopped reading D: IT’S SO ACURATE THAT IT SCARES ME ;_;