The Tapping
It’s about 9:35 at night. The show on your TV is silent, the volume turned down. Maybe you’re one of those people that has to have a static noise and picture, even when listening to or watching something else.
The living room light is on. Two of the five bulbs have burnt out. The one in the back seems the next to go, but you don’t think much about it as you stretch out in your chair.
Something begins gnawing at the back of your mind. It’s just a normal Monday night, the rain outside a steady drizzle that freezes as it hits the road. Something that makes you want to look out the large pannel window beside you, covered up by a Harley Davidson blanket to keep the warmth in the house.
You try and distract yourself, turning on your favorite band. Maybe it’s Collective Soul, or Rammstein, or anything. Something to take your mind off of it. It’s only 9:37 now, just a few minutes later, and you still have this urge to turn around and look out that window, shrouded by a black and orange blanket. You hear a slight tapping on the glass, like a fingertip trying to get your attention. You turn the music up louder, trying to drown it out. It becomes louder and more insistent now, faster and faster, still trying to draw your attention.
“It’s in my head, I’m just worked up, too little sleep. Last night was crazy.” You tell yourself. The rapping on the window ceases, and you begin to settle back in. It’s 9:41. You turn your attention back to the TV, commercials flooding your brain.
The tapping returns. A simple, sharp tap. Curiosity overwrites fear, and you lift up the blanket with your left hand, expecting to see a stray limb from a tree smacking the window from the wind outside, or maybe nothing at all.
A long, pale white tongue drags across the window, smacking back with another tap. Your heart stops as you look up, seeing two great, white staring eyes bulging from an elongated face, lacerated with boiling cuts and keloid scars, coated with burns, it’s face nearly as long as your window itself. It’s upside down, hanging from your ceiling. It’s mouth is lined with razor-sharp teeth, there may be thousands or millions of them. Several are rotten and pulsating, and it keeps staring at you. It’s cavernous mouth seems to be smiling. Like it knows something you don’t…
Posted in Beings & Entities
July 17th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
So there’s a horrific creature just outside your window, and you’re worried because you think it KNOWS something?
July 17th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
WHAT DOES IT KNOW THAT I DONT?! ITS KILLING ME!!
July 17th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
Maybe it knows WHO WAS PHONE!
…I’m sorry.
July 17th, 2008 at 6:31 pm
This story was getting really good…I just didnt like the ending…
July 17th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
This is good. The story itself I didn’t like, but the description of the monster was very good. It’s hard to write a scary description of a monster, so usually the author leaves it up to our imagination. This one actually spelled out what the monster looked like, and did it well.
The description was the only part I liked though.
July 17th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
It knows WHO WAS PHONE.
July 17th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Remember that creepypasta with the murderer in the reflection? I think that ending would have worked better here in my opinion.
July 17th, 2008 at 11:46 pm
This one made me flip out lol. Verrrry nice.
It should probably tell us who was phone if it does know.
July 18th, 2008 at 1:17 am
it knows pyramid-head-man is behind you fool! prepare for Pain In your ass!
July 18th, 2008 at 11:18 am
i actually enjoyed this one
July 18th, 2008 at 11:46 am
I enjoyed this one. The ending could use a tweak, but it’s a great story overall.
July 18th, 2008 at 11:53 am
It knows…
July 18th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
Meh, the tension built up was great, although the ending was just…really anti-climatic.
July 18th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
I am liking the strange description of the creature from outside the window. Although, would be interesting to see what happens when the lights go out…
July 18th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
The description of the monster is VERY good, but the story itself has been used a lot already. :\ I very much enjoyed the creature, however.
July 18th, 2008 at 8:01 pm
A bit anticlimactic…
July 19th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
wait… it says the creature is hanging from the ceiling. so the monster is INSIDE??? SHIT SON!
July 20th, 2008 at 7:16 am
I noticed that too, but I didn’t really think anything of it.
July 21st, 2008 at 8:07 am
The description of the pictures reminds me strongly of those surreal illustrations Stephen Gammell did for the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series…you can see a few of them floating around the net if you know where to look, by the way. Evocative wordplay indeed…though it could’ve done with another closing paragraph.
July 21st, 2008 at 8:21 am
How can it be inside if it’s tapping the window from outside?
Is this what Lachesis is talking about?
July 21st, 2008 at 3:29 pm
this happened to me when i was recording some singles but i went outside and kicked that faggots ass and then made it suck my dick
July 21st, 2008 at 3:50 pm
I should not have read that.
I just got over that whole zombie-on-the-outside-of-my-window thing from when I was a kid.
just when I finally can leave my window open at night THIS is what you do to me. D:<
July 21st, 2008 at 5:43 pm
muhahahahaha!
July 23rd, 2008 at 1:09 pm
You know what it knows? It knows that it’s on your CEILING, which means it’s on the INSIDE of your house, not the outside.
…
NOW WHAT?
July 24th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
marry me, Russel!
July 25th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Who the hell is this “phone” person? Is it that guy from the DS game? Oh I forget the title…something about the world ending? Oh bugger, forget I even asked.
July 26th, 2008 at 1:58 am
Q.well… if its on the inside…Then Where am i?
A.im on the inside.i have a room connected to the rest of the house with a glass window and door separating me from the monster…wait…for once in my life did i make sense?
July 27th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
The revelation that the monster is INSIDE the house makes it much creepier, but I agree that it could have done with a better ending. Another paragraph or so.
…evenifIamtheonewhosubmittedit.
July 28th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Great story, but the part where it seems like it’s on the inside of the house…that really doesn’t make too much sense (if it was on the inside, then how was it tapping the whole time?), and it’s been done half to death by everyone else.
Just fix the end, and this could be one of the most awesome stories on here.
July 29th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Ceiling monster watches you fap
August 1st, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Any other day, I’d have said something along the lines of “It knoez tihz pasta iz bad hurrrrr.”
Due to the fact that I have to change my pants, I’m going to hold off on that.
LMLYUT, you didn’t really make it clear that the creature was inside. Now that I know that, I’m a bit less afraid as I can just pull out a shotgun surprise and shoot it.
August 2nd, 2008 at 5:23 am
Oh wow. The description of the creature was damn scary. It literally gave me the chills.
I won’t be able to sleep tonight, that’s for sure.
August 13th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
Dammit! Usually the author doesn’t describe the monster, so I can just think to myself, “Hey! Maybe it’s just a puppy,” and then I can have a good night’s sleep. Now I have to lay awake all night long imagining this thing hanging from my ceiling!
August 17th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
It knows that it doesn’t have to come in after you. you’re already damned.
August 17th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
@Miss Betterdone
AND IT’S WATCHING YOU MASTURBATE
August 19th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
The description of the monster sounds a lot like my dog. But it was a very detailed and very good.
August 20th, 2008 at 2:52 am
Wow the part when it said its hanging upside down scared the shit out of me!
How do people make up things like this?
August 27th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
1. russell crowe has 2 Ls in his name no?
2. the thing is INSIDE!!! hello people, ceiling…and since it’s inside how is it licking ur window AND staring at you?
3. WHO WAS WINDOW?
4. i didn’t thing the description of the creature was all that good
5. my fave band is interpol
that is all
August 27th, 2008 at 6:00 pm
i didn’t think* soz
August 30th, 2008 at 2:15 am
its ceiling cat
August 31st, 2008 at 9:42 pm
If it is outside your window how is it hanging from the ceiling? How do people find this shit creepy when it is just stupid?
September 1st, 2008 at 12:14 am
Perhaps it’s just the heroin speaking, but this is one of my favorites.(however, I’m still making my way through all the pastas on this website)
A tad anti-climactic but the way you described it was terrifying. Especially since my house is very much like you described…
Aww WHO WAS PHONE, if you were going to stalk me, you didn’t have to hide!
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:14 pm
this EXACTLY described what happened to me once
but i didnt look D=
September 9th, 2008 at 1:22 am
This happened to me once
Only it was in an old toy factory
And it was a giant bat
September 11th, 2008 at 12:45 am
This reminded me very much of a story I read where a woman buys a puzzle, takes it home and begins putting it together. As she is doing so, she realizes the picture is her own kitchen, and the last two pieces are her window. She closes the blinds, puts the pieces in, and sees this disgusting face staring at her.
Guess what she sees when she looks to the kitchen window.
Scare the HELL out of me. I couldn’t sleep at night, just thinking about my damned bedroom window! Anyway, I read it in a book, but it would make a great pasta story.
September 20th, 2008 at 3:47 am
it’s simple…
it knows what you did last summer.
September 27th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
maybe the person has a porch out side with a roof over it so it could still b hanging from a celling and still not b inside
November 10th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
ok
ok
how did he no???
i didnt tel anyone about it!
how wud fluffy the moster find out about us????
i mean- me and alvin the chipmunk were SO DAMN SNEAKY!