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Thump, Thump… Drag.



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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.

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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?

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147 thoughts on “Thump, Thump… Drag.”

  1. Yes, because after getting dismembered by done crazy, you all of a sudden have urges to kill children……i enjoyed the story but i feel the ending kind of killed it

  2. well, maybe she suffered a blow to the legs and couldn’t walk, and the kller was still in the house, so if she yelled he would have known there was more people, and maybe she was trying to warn them.

  3. I read the same type of story except the kids were playing hide n seek with the babysitter but some psycho stitched her eyes and mouth closed so she was bumping and dragging herself on the wall. The parents came home to find the sitter and the kids in a hugging formation, the kids and sitter stabbed and eyes and mouth sewn closed…

  4. Sorry but this was really bad… The title sounded like it would be cool… Never judge a book by it’s cover or a story by it’s title…

  5. Fantastic pasta since it was creepy but needs more meatballs (Better writing)the “Thump, Thump…Drag” was scary and the horrifying image of the babysitter is scary but the ending was not good at all why would an armless in pain babysitter try to kill the kids instead of get help and also to you other people:

    1.The baby sitter couldn’t yell possibly if you got an axe to the chest, lungs and she would give away the children

    2. Can’t beat the killer because unless you are some type of Chuck Norris you can’t exactly kill an axe holding lunatic

    3. Even if she did have legs she was pulling her “Badly injured body” along STAIRS and I sure wouldn’t go running if I was horribly injured no arms and half dead

    4. She can’t just get out of the house leaving children behind (Gotta get paid)

    5. The writer didn’t plan it out very well

    6. She was one of those stupid teenagers in horror movies who always die first (Explaining why she was so stupid to go up the stairs)

    7. An old tale told incorrectly from this guy and everybody believes it is the original though this might be an old story

  6. Why the heck would you kill your kid if that was in real life you would need help. Im going to tell you the truth it was kind of scary well thats what I think keep the storys up good job.

  7. I’m sorry… but this was just God awful. It was really exciting to read at first because I love myself an old-fashion creepy babysitter tale but the moment I read, “Needless to say, the psychopath broke in about an hour later” my enticement for the story was gone. Really? No build up? And the fact that she dragged herself up the stairs instead of merely calling out to the kids (she has a mouth), or walking, it’s silly. As for the questions at the end: “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?” It was some pretty bad pasta…

    (Why would a babysitter go belligerently mad and want to kill the kids; how else could she if she didn’t have any arms? Curb-stomp them? C’mon now.)

  8. no nomnoms for you. This didn’t scare me at all. “Needless to say, the psychopath broke in about an hour later” ruined the entire story. It was short but so bitterly gross. Sorry, this was just not my cup of tea.

  9. I originally heard a version of this in, like, 1995ish.. but the details of it are foggy now. I do remeber that the Thump Thump Drag was from some kind of murderous corpse, not a babysitter, and the arms and legs hand been lopped off at the joints along with the head.

  10. What, multiple-personality disorder? o_o And why didn’t she just get up and walk if she was the murderer and didn’t have to worry about getting her legs chopped off, too? -.- And wait, did she go down into the cellar herself and then switch personalities, then chop her arms off and start going upstairs?

    Maybe Im over-thinking it…

  11. i agree with oldkid; i heard this back in the 60s where the babysitters legs and tongue were cut off and she dragged her self up the stairs; this is too scary for a little kids!

  12. i agree with oldkid; i heard this back in the 60s where the babysitters legs and tongue were cut off and she dragged her self up the stairs; this is too scary for a little kids!

  13. I was scared a bit at first… but then the Monty Python skit entered my head… And now I can’t stop laughing…

    “Your arm’s off!”
    “No it isn’t.”
    “Then what’s that, then?!?”
    “”Tis but a scratch.”
    “A SCRATCH?”

  14. i dont think any of the reasons on here as to why she wanted to go up the stairs are right.

    i think she waited until the psyco was gone so he wouldnt know there were kids in the house, and then she went upstairs to use the bathroom, those blood stains are fricken hard to get out!!

  15. OhEmGee! haha this pasta was really weird…and impossible everyone has good points! haha but as soon as i read thump thump draaaaag all i could think of was like music like the new dance move you stomp your right foot twice as you move over and then draaaag your left foot over haha and go back and forth amazing plot though ahah Soulja Boy’s new dance and song. Come on everyone do the thump thump draaaag! eeep i love my new dance!!

  16. I heard this as “Thrut Thrut Thrush” back in 1968! If it was published, I would love to know where, because it was told to me by a school friend, and I would like to know where she got it. I have remembered it all these years.

    The version that I heard is a lot more logical though – the legs were cut off at the knees, and therefore the person was dragging themselves by the elbows, as you would. Also the tongue was missing somehow, which is why the other person in the house couldn’t be called out to. And of course back then it was very easy to say that the phone lines had been cut, and there were no cell phones, so the victim couldn’t dial.

  17. To my understanding, she still had legs.Why not GTF out of the thouse instead of try to get up the stairs? Was she expecting the children to do something?

  18. She didn’t yell because she did not want the attaker to know the 2 boys were there & she did not want the man to know she was alive D:

  19. Yeah, CrapCarp has a point. People who are almost raped don’t want to rape everyone.

    They piss and whinge on YouTube about it instead.

  20. I don’t get why they thought she was moving furniture, or why it’d include the line “or was she trying to kill the kids?” Since when does being almost murdered make you suddenly want to murder everyone?

  21. Yeah. I conquer with all of the people who said (in some form or another) that the last sentence was unnecessary.

    I give it a B. Good job.

  22. This story always gets me no matter how many times I read it! However, I find it to be 10X creepier when the babysitter gets her jaw snapped, which would make sense of the fact that she didn’t scream. :/
    Overall —> yummeh!

  23. Wait to the people who said y didn’t she just ring someone what with, her tongue? :S And door locks do real good against a guy with an axe :P

  24. Sir Shoop Woopington

    i tink the killer might have somehow found out that there were hildren in the house and began playing with her corpe in order to scare theliving shit out of them. he was crazy, he would get plesre out of it.
    @katie: Theblack knight would ot drag himsef, for he is always upright and bows to no man.

  25. 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?

  26. 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

  27. @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 :P

  28. shortys roc my sox

    @ 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

  29. 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

  30. 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

  31. 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.

  32. 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.

  33. 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.

  34. 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*

  35. “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.

  36. 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 =/

  37. 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.

  38. 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.

  39. 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.

  40. 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! :)

  41. 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……

  42. This is retarded, why couldn’t she just yell or someshit but had to drag drag thump her way up a buncha stairs?

  43. 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.

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