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What’s in the Darkness?



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You might be getting yourself ready for bed, hopping out of the shower at night, or running to grab something before a date when you inadvertently find yourself descending a flight of darkened stairs. About halfway down said flight, the urge to go that much faster jolts into your mind and you immediately obey.

What are we running from that dwells in the darkness up the stairs? Is it simply the thought of darkness that causes us to want to leave the situation as soon as possible? Or is there something else? A darker, more sinister force awaiting us to take our time going down the stairs to nab us and take us with them to their hell-hole? Or perhaps is it a force of good, attempting to protect us from the things in the darkness?

Could it be that every time we feel that urge to move faster the very hands of an evil force are grabbing our back, and because of our sudden speed we slip out of its grasp? Who knows. Just remember, next time that you’re going down that flight of stairs, don’t look back and skip some stairs if necessary!

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49 thoughts on “What’s in the Darkness?”

  1. I probably shouldn’t show this to my friend. I should also pull out my nightlight from when i was 4!

  2. *Shudders* screw going down the stairs. Going up is the horrific part, especially considering the fact that there’s an open door that is dark as all hell waiting for me at the top leading me into the bathroom….Yep…better be sure to close all those doors.

    Btw why does this Mr. Welldone guy sound like such a pompous ass?

  3. I flee in whatever direction I was going, and turn on all lights on my way. So when I am going to be a while at the bottom/top, well, I have to turn off the lights behind me. I always bolt from the darkness, even if the dog is behind me

    If he wants to wait around and get eaten, then fine, but I\’m running!

    >.> I also do this in the halls (sans light) when going back to my room. It pisses my dad off. When going to the washroom, however, I go slowly, methodically, with a light source in my hand, ready to lunge at any threat and rip its fucking head off

    Oddly enough, what gets me the most is the darkness plus silence. So the reason I run? I want to get in my room, close the door before some demon hand can lunge in and grab me, turn off the light (I still have a lamp on over my bed), run to the bed, dive under the sheets, and turn on my music all before the toilet stops flushing

    Luckily, the damn thing takes around 2 or 3 minutes to finish flushing, so I don\’t always have to run

    >.> Wow, for an 18 year old, I am a wimp :(

  4. Yeah…
    It\’s always running upstairs for me…
    And I always look back ;)
    Oh and I have experimented and NOT ran very fast… I\’m still here, right?
    RIGHT?!

  5. Other way round for me. Whenever I turn off the downstairs lights at night and everyone else is upstairs asleep, I fly up the stairs like Usain fucking Bolt.

  6. Get it right, noman:

    Yesterday, upon the stair,
    I met a man who wasn’t there.
    He wasn’t there again today,
    Oh, how I wish he’d go away.

  7. as i was walking up the stairs
    i met a man who wasn’t there
    he wasn’t there again today
    i wish, i wish he’d go away…

  8. When you get that urge its normal, I get it all the time when going to grab something in a room with no one else. Sometimes I obey the urge but sometimes I don’t and nothing has happened so far. Or has it….

    Nope nothing has happened its just you being a chicken :]

  9. well…i’m sleeping in the fetal position tonight wrapped and smothered in blankets O_o

    i’m 19 and i’m still honestly afraid of the dark :(

  10. I’ve seen too many pastas about “What’s in the dark?”
    None of them are remotely creepy.

    The reason people have an urge to run is because they’re afraid of the dark. I haven’t seen any ‘eViL s1NisT3r f0rsE’ lurking around.

  11. im typing this from a laptop in the hospital,i bookedit,stumbled,and fucked up my pelvis and legs,wic his not good fora competetive ballet/hip hop dancer…….ill be well soon,but becuase of this i cant dance in our vegas competition

  12. shortys roc my sox

    ever since i was eight years old i have been scared of the dark because i watched darkness fall but i’m sorta over it i mean if i am in a dark room with someone i’m not scared but with out some one i’m terrified and when i’m in the hall way i just lose it and totaly have to run i can’t help it

    1. Your spelling and punctuation abilities are atrocious. Along with it, the fact that you seem unable to help seeming uneducated by the way you express your opinions through writing. I just thought i would be helpfully informative.

  13. I have an at times unreasonable fear of the darkness. I do not know why this is, or how I acquired this fear. Sometimes, I try and conquer my fear. Sometimes, I regret trying.

  14. I always do that. Some nights I’ll stay up and read. (Like tonight.) My computer is in my basement (it’s more of a den) and everytime I walk up the stairs I RUN.
    I know, I’m such a coward of nothing.
    Shit, at least I could get a few extra minutes of survival in a horror movie.

  15. I always do this.
    I look out my hallway window and see shapes that resemble people and the shapes are always pure black.
    Then I get a shiver up my spine and start to sprint.
    It’s good to know im not the only one.

  16. Shit! I had a hard enough time going down stairs to use the bathroom. It’s like going INTO the darkness rather than running from it.

    I’m so screwed..

  17. As a testament to my lack of survival genes, I long ago (well, long for a teenager…) decided to stop when I felt that. So when walking in cathedrals and old buildings in the dark, I do a lot of stopping. I’m still here, aren’t I? Aren’t I?

    Granted, it could be that there’s just enough courage in my actions to ward off whatever’s there, eh?

  18. I don’t even have stairs.

    However, I did used to do this, run out of dark rooms, down dark hallways, up/down dark stairs (back when I lived in a multiple-story house). However, around late puberty, something in my head clicked, and I just don’t run anymore. The demons that haunted my imagination when inside a dark room just went away, I guess.

  19. Ugh god. Wooden backless stairs (like the kind commonly found in basements) creep me out really bad.
    But so does when I walk in my room and my closet light is on. Totally stupid but it creeps me out really abd.

    1. Many creepy pastas are called INERTNET story’s for a reason I’m a Christian and god would never release anything in creepy pastas

  20. Jeezus. I’m already afraid of sleeping without at least a sheet covering me. God help me if I have to get up to go to the bathroom, or wake up to find my leg’s fallen off the side of the bed.

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