Thump, Thump… Drag.
A teenage baby-sitter put the kids she was watching to sleep in their beds and went back downstairs. The late night news was on the TV — the reporter said a psychopath from a local mental institution was on the loose and that police thought he might be in the area. He cautioned residents to lock their doors and windows because this guy was very, very dangerous.
Well, the teenager checked the locks on the windows and the doors, but she forgot the door on the cellar bulkhead. Needless to say, the psychopath broke in about an hour later, coming up from the cellar, armed with an ax. The children heard some noises downstairs, but thought it was the baby-sitter moving some furniture around. Then it got real quiet.
All they heard for the remainder of the night was this noise: “Thump! Thump! Dra-aag… Thump! Thump! Dra-aag…” Evidently, they were too afraid to get up to see what it was. In the morning, their parents came home and were horrified to find the babysitter at the top of the stairs, dead with both arms hacked off at the elbows. She’d been climbing the stairs on the bloody stumps of her arms, pulling her badly injured body along. Was she trying to check on the children? Was she trying to get help? Or in the madness of her tortured soul, was she planning to kill the children herself?
Posted in Murders & Deaths
June 1st, 2008 at 6:16 pm
This was the first ever one I heard ^_^
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:42 pm
This is the first creepypasta I read, and it actually scared me at the time.
June 8th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
how does she plan to kill them without arms or hands?
June 8th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
maybe she intends to bite em to death?
June 10th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Maybe she’s a champion kickboxer.
June 12th, 2008 at 10:26 pm
she wasn’t trying to kill them. I think she was trying to warn them
June 14th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
That’s not funny, my brothder died that way
June 14th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
So if her arms were cut off at the elbows…why did she not just stand up and walk up the stairs to the children? She must not have wanted to drink their sweet goo badly enough.
June 14th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
This is retarded, why couldn’t she just yell or someshit but had to drag drag thump her way up a buncha stairs?
June 15th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Ok ok thats a little freakay and umm why didnt she just walk up the stairs instead of using her arms..or a quarter of an arm……
June 18th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
this is totally my new favorite
June 19th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Bloodloss would make her to weak to walk? Rofl, I dunno. I like this story.
June 20th, 2008 at 4:52 am
Well, it does say she was pulling her “badly injured” body, so maybe she couldn’t have walked if she wanted to.
Regardless, this is one of the few good scary stories I’ve found lately. Kudos, Creepypasta!
June 22nd, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Bitch could have sucked it up and walked. Or kicked the living shit out of the attacker.
June 25th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Why didn’t she beat the attacker with her stumps? or squirt blood in his eyes?
June 30th, 2008 at 3:47 am
I mean no offense, but I think several people are forgetting that she was dragging her BADLY INJURED body by bloody stumps.
She couldn’t walk because her legs could have suffered a whack from the SHARP AXE.
She couldn’t yell because the axe probably PUNCTURED A LUNG.
Why couldn’t she fight back? I’d like to see you fight an axe-wielding madman with your BARE HANDS, an later your BARE STUBS.
Besides, not everyone is a Painless Mcgee. She would have had trouble fighting back after the first hack, let alone however many it took to leave her a crawling, bleeding, armless lump of flesh.
July 1st, 2008 at 9:08 pm
She wasn’t going up the stairs to kill the children, she was going up there to see if they were killed also.
She didn’t yell to them because either she was injured, or she didn’t want the murderer to know that they were there. She simply waited till he left and then went to warn them.
July 3rd, 2008 at 8:20 am
I have an agrument to explain all the plot holes.
The author didn’t think it all the way through.
July 6th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
kind of reminds me of the black knight scene
July 9th, 2008 at 6:50 pm
But..
Who was thump?!
July 11th, 2008 at 7:22 am
More important than how she would kill the children is WHY WOULD SHE DO THAT!? That last sentence kind of seems tacked on in a vain effort to be spooky, but it kind of took away from the whole for me. Otherwise I found it a good throwback to primordial baby-sitter scary stories.
July 11th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Hello.
Nonsensical and mundane, but with a purpose nonetheless.
July 12th, 2008 at 6:44 am
fuck this fucking shit gave me a fucking boner
July 13th, 2008 at 10:42 pm
If I was her and the bad guy went away and I had no arms at the end of my elbows I’d spin so my blood sprayed everywhere and I could pretend to be a sprinkler until I eventually passed out and died from blood loss.
At least I’d die happy =/
July 16th, 2008 at 2:45 pm
Yeah because everyone wants to be a sprinkler before they die. It’s everyone’s life long dream.
July 17th, 2008 at 1:09 am
@ 23
WHAT.
Also, this one was fairly good. Last sentence was totally superfluous, though.
July 18th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
I’ve heard this one before. Read it in a book of scary stories when I was like… 6.
July 24th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Just a Girl, the bitch isn’t hitmonlee.
July 25th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
hahahahah wtfff Ennuyé;
that made me laugh so hard
July 26th, 2008 at 1:51 am
anon 19
I’M INVINCIBLE!
July 30th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
U GUZ R MEEN JFD;A,.K Z KL,.SXZL,.
July 31st, 2008 at 5:56 am
“Besides, not everyone is a Painless Mcgee”
Or Russel.
You know, I actually kind of suspect that she went mad with the pain, because what logic is there in putting so much effort into dragging herself upstairs? Unless she, as readman pointed out, punctured a lung, she could have at least called someone on a phone.
Well, I guess in that case it would make sense to go upstairs and alert the children.
Actually, come to think of it, how can someone be driven mad in such a short space of time? Unless the pain was the worst in the history of mankind. And, of course, unless she WAS driven mad, there would be no reason to kill the children, as they had no place in her maiming.
The ending (more specifically, the last sentence) is too confusing. I, too, think that the author should have left her motives ambiguous, as opposed to listing her possible motives. It would have made the story just a tad more shocking, and spookier.
Overall, thinking about it is making my head hurt.
August 5th, 2008 at 4:37 am
man that was weird
anyone find out WHO PHONE WAS yet??
August 6th, 2008 at 6:25 am
Just a girl
your right she shoulda suck it up
August 6th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
#24 & 25 made me laugh xD
i liked this story, even though i think the last sentence wasn’t needed.
August 10th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
I found this scary, once I read the comments though I was laughing to death. THANKS FOR RUINING THE MOMENT
August 12th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
She was trying to bring the kids a sandwhich even though she wa sint hat much pain, it was the only thing she ever knew how to do…the kids never got there sandwhich *Sniff*
August 15th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
I loved this one. I think that she was trying to warn them. This gave me the creeps me out big time too.
August 16th, 2008 at 2:57 am
I was just about to make fun of this story… but then an image of a bloody, armless baby-sitter lunging at me in attempt to eat my face flashed infront of me.
I’m scared now.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:19 am
37, that was a good laugh, thank for your contribution. 39, here’s a sandwich, it’ll be ok champ.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:25 pm
hmmmm…so that what happened to my sandwich
August 20th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
That nearly scared me I enjoyed it though. Yet I already new that the hidding in the basment was coming , because of the movies and the baby sitter thing.
August 21st, 2008 at 4:54 am
That’s not fair. All she wanted to do was read them a bedtime story.
Why is the world so cruel to little children?!
August 25th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
What are you going to do, bleed on me?
August 25th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
shit there were kids up there? I’ve still got work to do…
August 31st, 2008 at 1:17 pm
This creepypasta was kind of dissapointing because of the ending, oh yes I want to kill the children because I was attacked by a psycho, yes cause that’s my first reaction after being assaulted by some fucked up dude with an axe. Why even throw in that last sentence lol, it wasn’t needed.
September 1st, 2008 at 12:03 am
i don’t care who you are, you’re arms get hacked off you’re gonna scream in agony…and therefore the kids wouldve woken up and wouldve raced down the steps like dumb ass kids and wouldve been sliced n diced along with the babysitter
and lmao at 45
XD
September 1st, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Why didnt she just walk up the stairs?
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:45 am
SWEET YOU DON’T HAVE TO PAY HER!!!
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:30 pm
you kiddin, DJ?
fuck, man. any screams in my house and i fucking hid.
what kind of fucktarded kids run downstairs?
September 2nd, 2008 at 9:30 pm
She’d lost both her arms? Bah. ’tis just a flesh wound.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:59 pm
why did the attacker come threw the cellar
September 6th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
EEEEEK!THIS ONE GAVE ME THE HEEBE JEEBIES BUT I DO ENJOY READING IT.
September 8th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
Maybe she was the psychopath killer, and went to chop the kids up. Since she was so psychopathic….she beat herself up and cut off her own arms…
o.O
September 13th, 2008 at 12:17 am
@ christobob
baby u were clearly smarter than most children…<3
September 17th, 2008 at 8:50 am
@ christobob,
i wouldn’t hide i would clime out my window and leave the house
i’m a scaredy cat and if i heard thump thump… drag i would be out of that house faster than a cheetah could attack its prey
September 25th, 2008 at 12:50 am
i’d probably just piss myself and stay in bed, or lock myself in the bathroom =\
September 26th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
@4 kk dude,maybe,shell do the thign that the zombies in house of the dead do whe nyou blow their rms aff and spin theyre heads really fast and hop it will hit you,lol,just blow theyre legs off too
September 27th, 2008 at 2:33 am
Ohgod the comments. They totally ruined the moment, but goddammit I love everyone who posted something nonsensical. xDD
October 5th, 2008 at 10:43 am
greet pasta, (although i like the premise of the last sentence, it could have been better done)
fantastic comments
I laughed out loud for 10 minutes at 45’s comment XD
October 7th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
@ 45 omk lol
October 31st, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Think of that last sentence this way: If you just got chopped up by some crazy-assed axe-motherfucker just because you were defending some ungrateful little brats for minimum wage, wouldn’t you be a wee bit pissed off at the spoiled twerps upstairs?