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The Time Paradox

A baby girl is mysteriously dropped off at an orphanage in Cleveland in 1945. “Jane” grows up lonely and dejected, not knowing who her parents are, until one day in 1963 she is strangely attracted to a drifter. She falls in love with him, but just when things are looking up for Jane a series of disasters strikes: First, she becomes pregnant by the drifter, who then disappears. Second, during the complicated delivery doctors discover that Jane has both sets of sex organs, and to save her life, they most surgically convert “her” to a “him.” Finally, a mysterious stranger kidnaps her baby from the delivery room.

Reeling from these disasters, rejected from society, scorned by fate, “he” becomes a drunkard and a drifter. Not only has Jane lost her parents and her lover, but he has lost his only child as well. Years later, in 1970, he stumbles into a lonely bar, called Pop’s Place, and spills out his pathetic story to an elderly bartender. The sympathetic bartender offers the drifter the chance to avenge the stranger who left her pregnant and abandoned, on the condition that he join the “time traveller corps.” Both of them enter a time machine and the bartender drops the drifter off in 1963. The drifter is strangely attracted to a young orphan girl, who subsequently becomes pregnant.

The bartender then goes forward 9 months, kidnaps the baby girl from the hospital, and drops the baby off in an orphanage back in 1945. Then the bartender drops off the thoroughly confused drifter in 1985, to enlist in the time traveller corps. The drifter eventually gets his life together and becomes respected and elderly member of the time traveller corps, and then disguises himself as a bartender and has his most difficult mission: a date with destiny, meeting a certain drifter at Pop’s Place in 1970.

Posted in Strange & Unknown 2 years ago at 12:18 am.

109 comments

109 Replies

  1. so it’s a never ending cycle then?
    hm.

  2. Sasuka Sep 10th 2008

    Wtf… This seems so silly and redundant. It’s not even scary or creepy in any way.

  3. Anonymous Sep 10th 2008

    WHHHHY would Jane/Joe even want to continue this cycle? It’s not even like his life is going to get any better, and ‘him/her’ existing in the first place doesn’t make sense because… well, you know.

  4. The person formerly known as 'Noneya' Sep 10th 2008

    Its amazing the problems people make for themselves.

  5. YAHWEH Sep 10th 2008

    PIME TARADOX

    OH SHI-

  6. Amazing? Not really.
    Even if we could travel in time, no such thing would be able to happen.

    She (or he) basically became out of nothing.

  7. Anonymous Sep 10th 2008

    I think it would be better without the last paragraph.

  8. Aspire Sep 10th 2008

    Robert A. Heinlein’s “All You Zombies”. Just paraphrased.

  9. I think the last paragraph wrapped it up a bit.
    Also, my head hurts.

  10. This is actually based off a short story. All You Zombies by Robert A. Heinlein

  11. Comment Leaver Sep 10th 2008

    This is interesting but really wierd. Why would you do this?

  12. MotherPucker Sep 10th 2008

    Strange… Jane, the drifter, the baby and the bartender are all different versions of one person.

  13. she/he had sex with her/himself? thats creepy and disgusting at the same time

  14. Anonymous Sep 10th 2008

    This creepypasta has divided by zero…

    OH SHI-

  15. @ Comment Leaver.

    This isn’t one of those instructional pastas. It’s more or less a mind****. Which it indeed did do to mine :P I thought this was fantastic. Reminded me of that episode of Futurama where Fry becomes his own grandpa. But it’s this X 1000 :P

  16. Kovitlac Sep 11th 2008

    Wow, I like this one. Not all pasta is ment to be scary (whoever thought the Holder series were scary?), and this one is a prime example of a good helping of pasta. Thanks for sharing it.

  17. Colonel Campbell Sep 11th 2008

    Snake? SNAAAKE!

  18. Le sheep Sep 11th 2008

    so many things to remembeeer!

  19. This made my brain hurt.

  20. Manifold Sep 11th 2008

    Good story,however, the title is copyright off Artemis Fowl:The Time Paradox.

  21. All You Zombies.

  22. BonerFruit Sep 12th 2008

    Gah. My head.
    But other than that, it was okay.

  23. DJLoONa Sep 12th 2008

    so, he slept with himself?…that’s totally gross!…and if you were born with both sets of organs wouldn’t it therefore be impossible to have kids?
    it did make my brain hurt a bit, but it was easy enough to follow

    i didn’t get why he bothered to disguise himself as an old bartender…it’s just a bit pointless if you ask me

  24. Reptilian Liar Sep 13th 2008

    omg, self-impregnation!

  25. Character Vs. Self

  26. So wouldn;t it be considered masterbation? And if this particular case of masterbation impregnated this one person shouldn;t it be possible for anyone?…*puts hand in pocket*

  27. it would be better if the “time maschine ” would be just in bar :D

  28. WHO WAS HERMAPHRODITE?!

  29. Hendetta Sep 26th 2008

    I like this one. Hilarious.

  30. i get up at mdnight to go home Sep 26th 2008

    this story was very sexy

  31. Anonymous Sep 26th 2008

    not creepypasta

  32. elnrith Sep 28th 2008

    i find this story beautiful because unlike most “time travel”stories it shows that time cannot be changed

    in some stories people try to change the past - but this is not possible if we could change the past it would smply become our future and we would gain new memories and probably have never visited the past

    this one sums all that up in a nutshell

    amazing

  33. Pew Pew Laser Gun Sep 28th 2008

    Meh… that wasn’t creepy; more of a your head a splode kind of thing.

  34. egads Oct 1st 2008

    This one made me rofl. I mean seriously…wth? Sex change, betrayal, illegitimate children, sex, and a bar.

    This is a daytime soap opera, not a creepypasta lmao.

  35. an american Oct 4th 2008

    LOL this one was more funny then creepy :)

  36. Anonymous Oct 6th 2008

    This is All You Zombies.

  37. Anonymous Oct 9th 2008

    Jane/Joe divided by zero…

  38. Thinking Too Much Oct 9th 2008

    Isn’t it much pretty impossible for a human to be a TRUE hermaphrodite…the person can have both sets of genatalia, but the chances of them having both testes and ovaries is 1 in 25,000.
    Somehow, the time travel seems more feasible.

  39. blahhh Oct 14th 2008

    this is pretty much my FAVORITE story on here.

    hahaha, i mean where else is someone their own family?

    ive never heard of anyone else being their own mother, father and daughter-son.

    pretty much awesome.

  40. so wait, this person had sex with him/herself, gave birth to him/herself, kidnapped him/herself, then helped him/herself do all that again? GAAAAAAAHHHHHHH *head doesn’t explode*

  41. Snoodle Oct 21st 2008

    Clearly this is what Jack Harkness did in his spare time…:p

  42. BUT WHO WAS…..WAIT…..WAT?

  43. Mr. Grey Nov 2nd 2008

    Long story short, every character in this pasta is the same person.

  44. ehh… this is terrible. nobody cares about how they are all the same person. you should not have paraphrased the book. surely it would actually be interesting because it would be written better than this crap.

  45. Anonymous Nov 14th 2008

    Not creepy, but quite clever. I like the idea of every character being the same guy/girl.

  46. lol, confusing.

  47. LOLLERSKATES Nov 14th 2008

    @42:

    OMIGAWD THAT IS THE FUNNIEST COMMENT I HAVE EVER SEEN ON CREEPYPASTA AND I VISIT IT EVERYDAY

    XDXDXDXDDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD

  48. Roy Cambell Nov 16th 2008

    Jane/Joe! You can’t do that! The future will be changed! You’ll create a TIME PARADOX!

  49. MetalGearBidoof Nov 18th 2008

    It was fine until I read “Time traveler corps.” I knew exactly what was coming from there.
    Fun.
    Jane was the daughter of her future self and her future-er self, making her his own father and mother.

    Deep, but pointless.

  50. BUT WHO WAS X? Nov 20th 2008

    “Not only has Jane lost her parents and her lover, but he has lost his only child as well.”
    um ur doing it wrong. it should have been:Not only has “Jane” lost his parents and his former lover, but he has lost his only child as well. also, the ending was a shat bricks moment, but not in a good way. bricks of disapointment

  51. mugunnnn Nov 27th 2008

    i liek luv mais3lf.

    8D

  52. Another Anonymous Nov 28th 2008

    Good god, my head hurts now. That all made perfect sense but ow. Seriously

  53. Angelo Nov 29th 2008

    @14

    It certainly has.

  54. codypasta Dec 6th 2008

    lol, he impregnates, gives birth to, and screws himself over.
    pwnd himself.

  55. BEST INCEST EVAR.

  56. Snowden Dec 19th 2008

    @ 17
    Fucking communication towers. Now I have to start over. FUCK.

  57. Testler Dec 20th 2008

    Summary : She gets left at an orphanage by her dad witch was also herself with a sex change, then when she grew up she got knocked up by herself with a ‘manhood’. Then she gives birth to herself and gets a sex change and meets up with himself to go back in time. Then he knocks up his past self that hasn’t had a sex change yet, grew up and time travels with himself

  58. Testler Dec 20th 2008

    to get the other himself to knock himself that hasn’t had a sex change yet!

  59. justthesweetweather Dec 22nd 2008

    MINDFUQ

  60. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz Dec 23rd 2008

    GAHHHH.
    too much thinking.
    BAD CREEPYPASTA!
    BAAAAD.

  61. lulz, Jane divided by zero.

  62. Grangan Jan 8th 2009

    MY GOD! The early comments on this article show that people have no clue how time travel works.

  63. Heather Jan 10th 2009

    … Wow, that’s so awesome. The cycle would be so annoying to do over, and over… and over.

    And they don’t even know they have to mean themself! Amazing! xD

  64. Anonymous Jan 17th 2009

    Wouldn’t that mean she/he gave birth to herself?

  65. Not "VG" but possibly could be Jan 19th 2009

    Well, that was most certainly a brain fuck.

  66. Anonymous Feb 1st 2009

    THEN WHO WAS PENIS?

  67. I’ll tell you, the story is kinda cool. But the undeniable logic breaker here is: how can someone live up to 18 and NEVER realize she/he/it has both sexual organs? Specially when they’re BOTH functional? I mean… Jane would probably realize, someday, that having balls isn’t normal…

    Other than that… not exactly a paradox, more like a stable loop. A cool one, indeed. But the hermaphrodite just blew my mind…

  68. Allie Feb 4th 2009

    The original is a lot better, I must say. Especially the end line, from which the title is drawn.

    “I know where I came from—but where did all you zombies come from?”

  69. Thomas Mar 25th 2009

    I agree, really not a paradox. As far as I can see, they lived a closed loop, where the events do not go back to the start, rather onwe lives them out and continues with life. A messed up, crazy life, perhaps…

  70. Geena Kelly Mar 27th 2009

    Would s/he not have noticed having both sets of sex organs, before the surgery, no?

  71. Stonerule Apr 9th 2009

    he was attracted to a young orphan girl (himself) and despite realizing she was a heraphrodite (How the **** could how not have noticed) after he dropped her panties, banged her anyway, and obviously knowing that he was the one who fucked his ownself over, STILL did it anyway!? After realizing somehow I was the drifter I would have stayed the fuck away from her, just let her get on with her life as a dickgirl and make money in porn. Better than mind****ing yourself into a constant divide by zero with no end or beginning.

  72. adfsdf Apr 21st 2009

    MY OWN CLONE

    NOW NEITHER OF US WILL BE VIRGINS

  73. Hitochii Apr 26th 2009

    This wasn’t really scary, but it gave me chills nonetheless. Great job.

  74. Poor Jane, having to go through life as a woman inside a male body. Must’ve been/is/will be awful for the poor girl.

  75. Confuzzled May 16th 2009

    THEN WHO WAS…

    Wait, what?

  76. Schteve May 23rd 2009

    not creepy in the slightest although i did like it

    BUT WHO WAS DNA

  77. Anonymous Jun 6th 2009

    copypasta.
    seen it 5 years ago.

  78. Nick/Dfork Jun 18th 2009

    Incredibly confusing. Not creepy, but I sort of like it..

  79. WOAHRLY Jun 20th 2009

    People are missing the true disturbing factor of this.

    HE DID HIS/HER MUM

  80. Seriously Aug 8th 2009

    Oh you suck. You stole that from the Robert A. Heinlein story “All You Zombies”. You didn’t even change the names! Goddamn, you suck.

  81. Anonymous Aug 8th 2009

    that first paragraph had just too much medical bull shit for me to be able to enjoy the rest of it.

  82. the girl is her own mother and father.

    not creepy but fuckin awesome

  83. sdsdf1342 Sep 23rd 2009

    This is All You Zombies, by Robert Heinlein

  84. Anonymous Sep 30th 2009

    WE KNOW that it’s All You Zombies by Robert fucking Heinlein, as you may have noticed, every single fucking retard who reads this pasta feels personally obliged to tell us.

  85. Operation? Oct 19th 2009

    What kind of danger was he/she in that removing one set of genitals saved her/his life? It makes no sense!

  86. Enter Enter Backspace Nov 3rd 2009

    HAHAHA I LOL’D SO HARD AT COLONEL CAMPBELL!!!!!

  87. Enter Enter Backspace Nov 3rd 2009

    This story should be called “The Incest Paradox.”

  88. the enigma Nov 30th 2009

    I just divided by zero! OH SHI-

  89. BlahBlah Dec 4th 2009

    –All You Zombies– is one of the BEST science fiction stories I have ever read. This version, albeit paraphrased, still manages to get the gist of it and still accomplish the mental explosion that is sure to follow.

    You people aren’t getting it, though. Jane doesn’t have both male and female external genitalia, she just has both male and female internal organs.

    As for Joe not noticing that the girl he’s fallen in love with is actually the past version of himself, well, he just traveled backwards through time. I don’t think he would notice that small detail.

    And, technically, this wasn’t incest. For it to be incest, he would had to have had sex with one of his relatives. But, technically, he did have sex with his mother and daughter at the exact same moment, so maybe it was incest. But wait! She was a past version of himself! So he wasn’t having sex with a relative, he was having sex with himself! And everyone does that. But wait! If those past versions of himself were also technically his mother, daughter, grandmother, granddaughter, great-grandmother, and great-granddaughter, then it must’ve bee–oh no ive gone crosseyed

  90. teejayandjon Dec 5th 2009

    This isn’t incest!
    It’s masturbation!

  91. What happened to the original bartender in the story? He just disappears…

  92. teejayandjon Dec 7th 2009

    Also, how can you have sex with yourself, kidnap yourself, and…Wait, how is this even possible? Where did the DNA of that baby come from? Is she/he a hermaphrodite because she only has one set of chromosomes?

  93. The universe explodes when you touch yourself…

    wait, no, I said that wrong…

    I meant coming in direct contact with yourself in the past…

    if you need me, I’ll be here digging a hole.

  94. PaperPasta Jan 2nd 2010

    HOLY SHI-

    Although I’ve read this somewhere before, it’s still mind blowing.

    And to everyone who’s trying to nit-pick the story apart, just stop. Just take it as it is and enjoy it imploding your brain.

    Now i’m off to read “All You Zombies”.

    On one last note: This is why we shouldn’t own a time traveling machine. I do not want to be my own mom, dad, lover, child, and random bartender. Me does not equal whole family.

  95. FaerieInCombatBoots Jan 6th 2010

    I kind of saw a mindfuck coming, and yet I was still not prepared for it…

  96. OhMyGosh this is probably the best CreepyPasta I have ever read! It’s creepy in an amazing way! This could not be any better!! My friend (Author of We Danced here on CreepyPasta!) introduced me to this website and i immediatly fell in love i now go on everyday and look for some delisious pasta! Thanks for a wonderful dinner! <3

  97. nightlight please? Feb 2nd 2010

    so kind of like asexual reproduction? :/ lol I am confused

  98. Jay Autumn Mar 12th 2010

    Wait, id seriously hit that, tap that, its not rape and its not incest because its yourself (for the idiots who dont know the meaning of incest, look it up before you hurt yourself) apart from that, not creepy, but freaky.

  99. This person is remarkably narcissistic.

    Fear The Darkness

    -Nex

  100. Dont look behind you May 9th 2010

    gkjvrbskg vrekagao boagerthgABGBA B-B-B-B-BAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWW *face implodes*

  101. ZOMBEH GOASTS May 15th 2010

    OH MY GOD. SHE/HE HAD SEX WITH HER/HIMSELF?

    HOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLYYYY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

  102. hi, dont turn around May 26th 2010

    both he, and the author of “all you zombies” must not realize that, the bartender, the most futer version of himself, would realize what he did and take the “drifter” (jane becomes john you twits) to the futer, breaking the cycle and erasing both of them from the time stream, obviously one would speculate that after doing this that part of time keeps looping yet the rest continues on, remove the link of the chain you have two chains, toss the removes link and attach the two chains.
    light thinks itself the fastest thing, yet darkness is always their first - unknown author

  103. Interferio May 27th 2010

    MIND = BLOWN.

    MIND = STILL BLOWN.

    See what the f_ happens when you mess with time travel? You get pregnant with your own baby, kidnap yourself, meet yourself in a bar, get yourself’s baby kidnapped by yourself’s self, and… and… and…
    Pretty neat.

  104. Impossible! Jun 20th 2010

    So, she screwed herself so she could be born, all so she could screw herself again and then subsequently allow herself to screw herself again and again?

  105. MIND BLOWN

  106. anonymouseisanon Jul 19th 2010

    Why, Robert A. Heinlein! I didn’t know you were on this site!

    Seriously, I recognized “All You Zombies” by like, the second paragraph.

  107. Abadax Jul 26th 2010

    Guys its simple.

    He met herself to fuck herself and then gave birth to herself then had to have a sex change then went back in time to fuck herself. Then went forward in time to meet himself to lead himself to have sex with herself and then give birth to herself. Time travel is so easy as long as you have it written down.

  108. AlixeTiir Jul 29th 2010

    So Jane had sex with himself, captured himselfed, and then helped himself capture himself?

  109. Anonymous Aug 25th 2010

    So the time travel agency is trying to break the universe?


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