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Trauma



Estimated reading time — 2 minutes

Ever since you were a child, you were terribly afraid of your bathroom. You don’t know why, but, whenever you would see your bathroom door during nighttime, you would be invaded by an overwhelming sensation of unease. You developed a habit out of locking your bathroom’s door before going to sleep.

You would never rest at ease until you closed and locked the door, and whispered to yourself:

“It’s locked.”

You never understood your own fears and, as you grew up, though you still felt them, you began trying to overcome them, or at least ignore them as best as you could. Although the feeling lingers, you become bolder and bolder, and feel as if you could forget all about this seemingly unreasonable child trauma.

You then decide to stop locking the door. Rolling around in bed, you try to muster up the willpower necessary not to look or think about the unsettling door. With some struggle, you finally fall asleep.

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You suddenly wake up in the middle of the night. The first thing you realise is that you are not in bed anymore. You lie in a hard and cold tile floor, surrounded by nothing but darkness and silence. You try to feel around yourself, when your hand touches a bathtub. Your bathtub. You freeze. Your heart starts pacing while, in panic, you try to hear any sound indicating the presence of anything else in that bathroom. You can’t hear anything over the sound of your own panicked breath, and the thought that something could hear your breathing instead only deepens your despair. Barely being able to hold yourself together, you rush for the door, as fast as you can. As you try to turn the handle, you realize your mistake. Your heart stops.

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“It’s locked.”

Suddenly, you hear someone else’s breathing coming from behind your back.

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33 thoughts on “Trauma”

  1. This story kinda explains me because I’m scared of bathrooms ( I have some very interesting fears ) and loud noises like the ocean, snoring, toilets flushing, the neighbors taking a bath or shower ( that’s loud in the old building I live in ) and many more things. Oh btw I love the story

  2. I actually really don’t like my bathroom, especially the second door. Through the first door is the main bathroom, and then the second door is where the main bathroom. It’s always nearly closed at night, so I just ninja kick it open. XD but seriously it freaks me out…. THIS IS WHAT I GET FOR WATCHING TO MANY HORROR MOVIES AS A KID.

  3. I like this story.

    I can relate to this story as well. Though i lock the bathroom door no matter what.
    I lock all my doors.

    I sleep with a nightlight.

    Can i do an audio cover(or at least attempt to do one?)

  4. One of rare pastas to give me creeps, but it ended the wrong way.

    As for those who said that bathrooms can’t be locked from the outside… My mother made our bathroom lockable from the outside when I was a kid to keep me and my siblings away from the washing machine. And some people even use keys to lock their bathrooms – and a key can be used from the both sides, unless one is covered.

  5. I have a habit of soaking in my bath tub and reading pastas.
    This was not a good one to read while IN THE BATHROOM. Ugh. And the bathroom is right across my bedroom, so if I lay in bed, I literally stare into the bathroom.

    I liked this a lot. I even listened to your recording on YouTube and,”liked, ” it.

  6. I based this on a habit I have: the one of tightly closing my bathroom door before going to sleep. I have no idea why I do this, but I do. Every night. It was kind of experimental. I’m writing a new one called “Hollow Eyes”. I’m glad some of you liked it. It was my first one. So, yeah. Let’s get on to it.

  7. I gave it a 6/10. Really had potential, but like everyone else said, this would have been much better if the final line was “it’s locked.”

    That’s not to say you should write out Bathroom Monster, but holy moly if it had been more like:

    “Barely being able to hold yourself together, you rush for the door as fast as you can. As you try to turn the handle, you realize your mistake. Your heart stops, and in the silence, you hear someone else’s breathing coming from behind your back. They whisper two words into your ear:

    ‘It’s locked.'”

  8. BATHROOMS DON’T LOCK FROM THE OUTSIDE.

    Also, if you grew up, why are you in the same house alone? Seriously, this isn’t even pasta, it’s like shredded cardboard with marinara spread over it.

  9. This would have been a lot better if the bathroom entity said “its locked”, or your imply didn’t add anything after “its locked”..

    And also, BUT WHO WAS BATHROOM!?!?

  10. creepy and simple. It’s good you found a way to make a short story creepy but the ending should have been left with “It’s locked” instead of adding more.

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