The Mirror Box
| Published on Creepypasta.com | September 2010 |
|---|---|
| Length | 618 words · about 3 minutes to read |
| Story level | Short |
| Reader rating | 6.8/10 from 255 votes |
| Category | Rites and Rituals |
Though written about in fiction occasionally, the mirror box is quite an old invention. Being inside of one can be enlightening or traumatizing for the witness who bears its burden. The procedure is simple, though finding and preparing the materials required might take some time.
The materials to construct the box are:
-Six square metal sheets, slightly taller than the witness. The length should never exceed the height of a witness with raised hands. One of them should be larger than the rest by at least the thickness of the sheets themselves. The material should preferably be made of graphite or lead alloy for the most prominent effect.
-Five nearly perfect, aligned mirrors, sealed upon the metal plates. Each of the 5 will form the sides and bottom of the inner box. One larger mirror should be attached to the large metal plate, which will be used for the top.
-A simple light source of pure white or bright yellow. The light source should emit in almost all directions. Candles can be used, but carbon dioxide and monoxide poisoning is a problem. The light source should not be planted upon the mirrors or receive any outside energy. Construction techniques are left up to the witness.
-Two or three alarm clocks. An extra alarm clock of any kind is also needed. Watches are alright, but not suggested due to the small type face and hands.
-Wear simple clothing.
-Do not bring any other objects. Witnesses have often crowded the box, causing it to become either useless or highly dangerous. This includes jewelery, food, weapons, or religious materials such as beads and crucifixes.
-An assistant is required to help the witness in and out of the box and get help in case of emergencies. The assistant should be trusting and as strong willed as the witness.
-Two ladders
-Several Blankets, water, medical remedies, and a first aid kit.
When the box is complete and ready to use, prepare the alarm clocks to ring around ten minutes after the witness’ planned entrance. Depending on the material used for the box itself, the time of day will not matter, but a night during a new moon is suggested. Despite intuition, sound does not play a large role in the event. The witness should use a small unattached ladder to enter the box. The top should already be placed upon the box, with an opening large enough for the witness to enter. Once inside, the witness should be handed the light source and the clocks (one should be kept with the assistant). The outside assistant should ask sincerely whether the witness is alright. Once confirmation is given, the top should be moved to seal the box. The witness may turn on the light source once the box is sealed. At any point should the witness ask to leave the box (if soundproof, tapping should be used), ONLY the top should be opened. The witness may do it themselves, since the top of the box should be easily reachable. Once ten minutes are up, ALWAYS remove the top, regardless of what the witness says. Some witnesses may plead to stay inside the box, even suggesting great danger should it be opened. The assistant should never trust those pleas. Suffocation is only one of many concerns should the witness stay too long in the box. Once the top has been slid opened, place the second ladder in the box to allow the witness to leave. If the witness has any serious wounds, or discoloration, call for medical help.
Should you happen to meet a witness, never trust what they say about their experience, and never ask them for the time or where the antumbra meets.
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Df? That had no backstory or anything
Random Creepypasta is… Not as random as you think. This is a real thing that have caused people to go insane! DO NOT ATTEMPT PLEASE!
Not to be rude or anything, but wouldn’t someone question why you needed 6 pieces of metal and 5 mirrors, as well as 2-3 alarm clocks and 2 ladders? I know that if I started to ask for this material and, if I got it, start building it in my house, I would be questioned by family members exactly what I was doing. Also not to be rude, but how would you approach your friend and ask them to help you? “Yes, so I have made a mirror box, I have an alarm clock right here for you if you are willing, but I need someone to assist me in getting me in and out of said box once I am in there for 10 minutes. Wanna help?”
Don’t get me wrong, I love this story, I just like to question things.
I don’t quite understand this, I’d like to know whar the actual purpose of making the box is, and the kind of stuff that supposedly happens to the person in it? I’d also like to know what atumbras are xD
BUT… Even though I don’t get some things, still very creepy, it definitely managed to scare a bit, this is a lot of the stuff that freaks me out, everything in this, small spaces, mirrors, old rituals which almost definitely aren’t true but I would never try myself just because you never really know what could and because I don’t like to play around with that kind of stuff…. But I like to read about to scare myself xD
Dafaq!?!!! Arghh!
Sorry for typos just my IPhone being restated. WHO WAS SOFTWARE DESIGN?!
While irrelevant, I always had a similar idea to get a big mirror room/box and point a laser in it. IM JAMES BOND! Lasers EVERYWHERE. Anyways, I may try this, but communication with the assisstant seems… difficult. I doubt you’d hear knocking through a thick lead wall… Plus, is the lead there to keep something in, or out? That and by knowing what an antumbra is I can tell that with a light source that goes all directions (highly possibly a glowstick) in a mirrored room, that for maybe 6 to 8 mines it will be adjusting unless youre moving the light source then it will probably take longer than ten. I hypothesize that it will be a spectacular show once an eclipse is made of you and the light to create weird shapes. If there was anything magical about it Id say that maybe it would show your true inner self and if a person is bad enough, then it would manifest and hurt them.
Still a cool pasta that I would most defiantly think about. More realistic and vague than most other ritual pasta. 9/10 for legend, but +1 for ring reasonable and possible to accomplish.
Why does everybody say they don’t get it? Its not a story bra. Its like directions and shit. I think there should totes be like a category for directions and stuff like this.
Interesting…I kinda like these, it gives me stuff to do that may cause my possible doom! Fun….
i enjoyed it ^__^
Gotta love the classics, leaves the field open for your imagination & normally, you have to have some common knoledge to truly understand it. haha
I hate all the idiots who call this stupid or badly written. The box shouldn’t be taller than the witness with his/her arms up so he/she can remove the lid if he/she needs to! The clocks are a timer to prevent suffocation. As for the creepy factor… Obviously you’re unfamiliar with the disorientation of the mind that mirrors can cause. Or, for that matter, the demons that inhabit them…
pretty creepy to me. It is err mysterious and leaves me asking questions.
I’m kind of guessing something happens inside the mirrorbox where when the person comes out they aren’t the same person. I don’t know the consequences of asking time and things or what exactly happens though.
I find this hard to masturbate to…
One of my favorites. Loved it and will ever do. If anyone ever tries it, post results! I’m way to scared… Maybe those of you saying “that wasn’t scary at all” and “2/10” should do this, since this seems to you not terrifying…
I’m gonna try it, it fuckin scares me but really lures me too. This creepypasta’s just amazing
I think I want to build one of these now.
Hey i am a WITNESS this before and its very scary…You cant trust your eyes…not even your mind….
I was in a funhouse like a profesional 3 floor one and there was one section on the second floor called the MIRROR MAZE…only all lights off except for the one by the begining and end….it was pretty big and not the kinda mirrors where you look like you can walk thorugh with an actuall path but just find your way through…..i was with my cousins and we where all looking for the exit but They forgot me and left me in there,,,,,i was trying to find the way out when I ended up in a corner where 3 mirrors encased a small opening……….I ended up thinking there was a path in front of me and ran straight into a mirror………strugling to get out i rubed my hands on the mirrors and skipped the small opening………i thought i got stuck so stood there thinking ill wait till another person comes then scream………..I was looking at one mirror when i thought i saw a shadow behind me…i turned around and it was behind me again….then to the side of me and then all around me……………………………..i was really scared because soon the shadow started to move…………….i turned around quick thinking i would run the oppisite way because i thougt i found the path when the shadow/my dark reflection was right infront of me……………i was terribly scared and my herat jumped and i ran back into another mirror and started to cry…………………………..If you want to know more email me>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.>>>>>>>>>>> [email protected]
Hey i am a WITNESS this before and its very scary…You cant trust your eyes…not even your mind….
I was in a funhouse like a profesional 3 floor one and there was one section on the second floor called the MIRROR MAZE…only all lights off except for the one by the begining and end….it was pretty big and not the kinda mirrors where you look like you can walk thorugh with an actuall path but just find your way through…..i was with my cousins and we where all looking for the exit but They forgot me and left me in there,,,,,i was trying to find the way out when I ended up in a corner where 3 mirrors encased a small opening……….I ended up thinking there was a path in front of me and ran straight into a mirror………strugling to get out i rubed my hands on the mirrors and skipped the small opening………i thought i got stuck so stood there thinking ill wait till another person comes then scream………..I was looking at one mirror when i thought i saw a shadow behind me…i turned around and it was behind me again….then to the side of me and then all around me……………………………..i was really scared because soon the shadow started to move…………….i turned around quick thinking i would run the oppisite way because i thougt i found the path when the shadow/my dark reflection was right infront of me……………i was terribly scared and my herat jumped and i ran back into another mirror and started to cry…………………………..If you want to know more email me>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.>>>>>>>>>>> [email protected]
@Pandar I’m sure your explanation was very enlightening, but when you say Umbra my mind immediately fills with physics puzzles, glow sticks, and nude zombies.
This was lovely. Very interesting idea, building a box like that.
It wasn’t spooky, but very interesting, until the very last line.
“Never ask them for the time or where the antumbra meets.”
The possibilities are so-very-vaguely unsettling. It’s delicious.
I swear 95% of you a just pure retarded.
All I can say is…
“What?”
I’m disappointed. Curious as always to see what it’s
like in a mirror box, but at the same time now losing interest.
…this sounds like a job for the mythbusters.. wanna see wtf would happen if someone did this
I’d try it, but I am scared D:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01KSxc1mvJ8
I think it’s worth for all of you to explore this link a bit. Don’t worry, it’s not a rickroll, and no decent troll would link to a rickroll and announce that it’s not. If you want, insert it into google before you go to it.
Anyway, it’s a link to a video demonstrating the “mirror cube” concept explored in this Creepypasta. I want you all to use your imagination and try imagining being in the box in the video yourselves, but with only one lit bulb instead of a light coming down from above filling all the portions of the box.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbra
Now that we know what a mirror box is, explore that link. This describes the astronomical concepts of the “Umbra,” “Antumbra,” and “Pentumbra.”
Basically, by being in a lightless box with only one spherical source of light, you’ll generate a similar effect to that described on that page. A “shadow self” will appear, and it will be distorted and (if aligned right) even three-dimensional.
Imagine the chaos as your eyes search the box, and no matter where you move the light there will always be a lurking shadows scattering all around and behind you. You’ll begin to become disoriented, paths will seemingly form in the box where there are only mirrors, if you’re standing and moving you’ll find yourself bumping into walls upon trying to follow these paths. Sound will echo. Your mind will start forming images in the mirrors that aren’t there.
This is the creepy part, the fact that the mind can be rendered so helpless and the things you can only imagine you’ll see in that box that may haunt you forever. There’s no “Vampire Bigfoot” at the end of this story, like KingPenguin said.
This is meant to look like something similar to a psychologist’s ledger or a magician’s personal notes. That’s why the writing is the way it is.
What having a chronometer and asking about the antumbra does to further the illusion and mystery is one of the finer parts of this creepypasta, that brings it beyond just a simple haunting illusion.
I think this is a brilliant idea, for a creepypasta and actual execution in real life. 10/10 for the author.