A 1998 powder blue Ford Taurus isn’t anyone’s choice for a vehicle, but it was what I ended up choosing at the lot. It wasn’t a bad car; not too many miles, recently replaced tires, and it was cheap. My only real complaint is that the previous owner had seriously gone overboard with air fresheners; the whole interior reeked of vanilla and pine. The dealer, real nice guy, said he was cutting me a deal. Told me that they were having trouble moving this one off the lot, explained that no one seemed to be interested. I guess I’m less picky than average, because the car looked fine to me, so a check and a handshake later I was driving home. That’s when the strangeness started.
I hadn’t noticed it during the complimentary test drive I had been given, but there was a lump in the padding of the seat, right in the small of my back. It wasn’t enough to make driving uncomfortable, so I assumed the foam was coming loose under the fabric and let it go. The car was a decade old, after all. For about two weeks I drove the car like that, to and from work, picking up groceries and stuff like that. The lump was pushed to the back of my mind, and I had pretty much gotten used to it. Then it moved.
At first I thought I was imagining things; foam padding doesn’t squirm around, obviously, and it had just been the slightest feeling on my back that set me off. But no, as I kept driving it became clear that the seat had shifted, it definitely felt different against my spine. At this point I thought maybe this is what was wrong initially with the seat; that maybe the loose foam had shifted when I first got the car. Once I got home, I decided, I would examine it in more detail.
By the time I got into my driveway the lump was downright irritating, so I hopped out of my seat and began to probe the fabric with my fingers. Whatever was in there, I quickly noticed, it wasn’t foam padding. The consistency was thicker than foam, almost gelatinous, and there was hard pieces inside it that felt almost like stone. I couldn’t make it out at the time, but the shape of the thing was familiar, too. Confirming my suspicions, I also noted for the first time a long seam in the seat that someone had stitched up. The previous owner must have stuck something in there. I hopped back in to take the car to the dealer and complain. This is the sort of thing a salesman should tell you, you know? Maybe they just didn’t know about it; I hadn’t seen it at first, either.
I was about halfway to the dealership when the thing in the seat began writhing around. Not a shift like before, but actively crawling underneath the fabric. If you can imagine the feeling of something worming its way across your lower back, you can probably replicate my reaction. The number on the speedometer doubled.
I nearly ruined those recently replaced tires swerving into the dealership parking lot. It didn’t take long to find the man who had sold me the car, and even less time to grab him by the shirt sleeve and stammer out what had happened. He was surprised by my story but strangely receptive (more than I would be if some punk teenager started rambling about squirming car seats), and came back with me to the car, pulling out a pocket utility knife as we walked. As we cut the fabric of the seat open, the stench that spewed out almost literally knocked us back out of the car, but what we smelled didn’t make either of our stomachs turn nearly as bad as what we saw.
Inside the seat, under the fabric, we found a half-rotten human hand.
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So the hand was moving around inside the seat? Either that makes no sense or it should have caused more to the story explain why it moved. Was it cursed? Guess we will never know.
This had tons of potential. If it had been longer there could have been more detail. Nice job though
ended too quickly. could have made the last part so that when the salesman cut the seat, there wasn’t anything. the thing was hiding. and making it a hand was just too “dafuq”. should have tell us how the hand moved. but overall good climb but climax sucked.
that was good.
that was really good.
wish it was a SHO :'(
It was cool…
If you want to reeeaaaally kill someone in a car, use a Toyota, that’ll kill them from boredom.
I immediately thought of THING from the Addams Family.
These things do come with some whacky surprise gifts eh?
I was expecting the car seat to be either made from human skin or to be made from a human body.
Very nice story, intriguing plot, but kind of a disappointing ending. That being said, I know I would have goosebumps If I were driving and I felt squirming in the seat behind my back.
Man, I thought there would be, like a Demon fetus inside the seat, or somethin’ like that. I have to say, the ending was a bit disappointing for me. But, it was also written very well. I’d give it a 6/10
WHO WAS CAR
10/10
good pasta yummy :) so did the previous owner murder someone then stuck the hand in the seat? or did the owner get murdered and the murderer put the owners hand in the seat…hmmm
Predictable pasta is predictable.
if the comments hadn’t spoiled me, my guess would be that was was in the back was some rat or something, but that wouldn’t be scary now would it?
kind of good, but dead body in mattress is better
Sorry mate, I give it a 5/10
Had potential but as soon as I read “lump in seat,” I could piece that with the excessive use of air fresheners.
Predictable, but a good pasta nonetheless.
6/10
I was expecting like writhing maggots on a chunk of decomposing flesh, or something supernatural. The end was kind of a disappointment.
Good beginning, got bland as I chewed.
had potential but then it derp’d. all i could think was “HOW DOES A DEAD HAND MOVE” because really…how does it.
:O okay, yeah, that one freaked me out…
predictable pasta is predictable.
how was it moving? thats way creepy
NOOO THIS ISN’T HOW YOU REWRITE CHRISTINE
YOU HAVE TO LIKE MAKE THE CAR HAUNTED, AND MAKE IT BLARE CARPENTERS SHIT AT RANDOM TIMES AND MAKE THE GUY WHO BOUGHT IT A TOTAL DOUCHE.
…Wait, this isn’t Christine? Oh, shit.
3/10 cause I was expecting the Blob and not a hand
I loved this, but I would have liked to have hear more about why it was there! 7/10
wow, predictable as hell.
1/10
did he died?
THEN WHO WAS CUT OFF HAND?
dun dun dun!
Ewww
I liked this one, it was clearly a homage to the old black and white film (The Crawling Hand), in which a couple are murdered by a loose hand in an old car. Would have been better if the car from the story was an old 1960s classic convertible.
But then, who was the first in-car back massage seat?
Meh, not bad. Not great either. Am I the only one surprised that the “narrator” was a teenager? Something ’bout the prose made me think…middle-aged man….
THEN WHO WAS SALESMAN!???
I was honestly expecting a baby corpse or something…
Hand was disapoint
hand shuldve been spiders, snake, basicaly anything other than a hand. and lolz who w4z phone, it sounds like tht after u mentioned it
THEN WHO WAS ARM?!
This pasta gives me another reason to hate Ford.
Am I the only one who was expecting it to be a cock?
i ruined the story for me by mistaking “hand” with “head” and having to read this again. not bad. i couldn’t see the ending coming, and i’m glad there was no “CAR SELLER FROM HELL” unoriginal twist in the ending.
Ew. :o
What a nice back-scratcher.
besides being predictable it was fine ^_^ good work. and @ Shelleh maybe it was a rather ‘plump’ hand from a rather ‘plump’ person? XD
Saw that coming from the title alone. It’s just the Death Car urban legend with 10% more zombie hand. Boring.
I thought it said human HEAD. It was slightly more interesting.
That’s it? A hand? I was expecting a heart or something more creepy.
BTW, hands are not gelatinous.
well, the air fresheners clearly gave it away. pretty disappointing, if you ask me.
and lol OHGODCOCKROACHESTHEYREALLOVERGETEMOFF
Good story, a lot of suspense, but the ending was very disappointing….it ruined the whole story D:…..pretty uncreative….
Pretty good story, creepy but mysterious. :)
was okay but the ending kind of made it seem a bit childish for me
Thing, from the Adams Family?
Would’ve been a lot better if the car had only been on the lot for a couple days and the insides of the seat had been a person, still alive, trapped inside the seat.
Noooo, it had so much potential to expand into a number of things. Why did it just have to end at a rotten hand? In fact, why did it even have to be a hand?
It was a little predictable at the beginning but I was hoping that it would develop into something even tastier than what i was anticipating ]:
The ending killed it though.
is this a joke?
…I for one, am wondering how a half-rotted hand could move. Or maybe I’m misunderstanding, and author meant it was just moving around in the foam like it was squirming.
I agree this is pretty old school and predictable. Still, not badly written.
Anyone who has seen Se7en probably knew what was going on since the air fresheners were mentioned.
Not bad….tasty pasta…it’s been done before with other body parts….very descriptive
It was pretty predictable, as it was said before, but it was still good. Sometimes stories don’t need to have a crazy twist to be creepy. I mean, seriously, buying a car and finding a rotting limb sewn into the seat? It’s the stuff of nightmares – because it could really happen.
wat.
wouldn’t the car dealer of noticed the lump?
and wouldn’t he of noticed the seam as well?
and why would you put the hand in a car?
couldn’t you just track back to who had the car first and arrest his ass?
and who was phone?
i like this, it’s pretty old school. seems like something they would put it those “scary stories to tell in the dark” books in elementary school.
Awesome! Also WORST MASSAGE CHAIR EVER.
I love this. It reminds me of scary stories, like the hook and such.
that’s what you get for buying a ford
I think I’ll go read Christine instead.
It was an OK pasta but I knew right away that it had something to do with a disposed body right after the air fresheners were mentioned. May order again.
I liked it but I was expecting spiders. o.o
D:<
And i mean my little addition is not well written, the story was done fairly well, just wanted to clairify >_> <_< ^_^
As others have mentioned, it was far to predictable from the earlier detail of the air fresheners. “Theres allota air fresheners, i think they are trying to cover up a smell. OH, a lump in the seat, hmm, i bet its not a body part, in fact im SURE its not a body part.” I didnt like the ending, feels like the original ending was erased and a crappy one was tacked on. I really feel like a dead hand was on the bottom of the list of good things that it could have been. This would have been much better, “Inside the seat, under the fabric, we found a half-rotten human hand. It had clearly been in the car for quite some time, but in the few seconds I had stared at it, i could have sworn i saw it twitch.” Not very well written, but if you reference its moving, the creepy factor would have gone up 2 fold, at least.
Classic.
I prefer this type of story when it turns out it was full of bugs.
Bed is advertised as having “magic fingers”!
Oh hey, heres a seam. I wonder why it’s kinda ripped and let-OHGODCOCKROACHESTHEY’REALLOVERGETTHEMOFF
Old pasta is old. I’ve definitely read this one before
Awesomesauce.
Very predictable as soon as I read about the air freshener, gave it all away and made it quite boring.
holy shit.
THEN WHO WAS FUCKING HAND
lolwut?
Great story!!! ^^ Loved it.
mediocre pasta is mediocre
seriously it had a nice build up but the ending was just bland and predictable.
TRY HARDER
Good short story, but the twist was given away with the mention of the over abundance of the air fresheners. Still a fun read though.
My first reaction: “Ewwww o.o”
I’m never buying a 1998 powder blue Ford Taurus.
It’s probably just Thing from the Addams family. No need to panic.
It’s probably just Thing from the Addams family. No need to panic.
BUT WHO WAS HAND?!
Air fresheners in the first paragraph gave the ending away. 3/10.
Nice twist at the ending – it’s unexpected, even though it fits the possibilities of what the “lump” could be.
This is weird, it’s like the urban legends about The Death Car and Mr. Evil Hook-Hand had a baby. It is kind of creepy, but I’d say it would work better as a setup to a larger story than as a straight pasta.
THEN WHO WAS BODY?
Awesome.
It was an ok pasta. From the way they first described what was in the seat, i figured it was going to be a hand, so the ending wasn’t such a wow factor as i hoped. However, it was still decent.
THEN WHO WAS HAND?
way too predictable to really be enjoyed.
who would want to put a person’s cut off hand in a car seat?!
that didnt make much sense- but it was still moving?
EWWW ahah nice story written well not too creepy. ;)
but who was hand? had potential– was working up to something, but the ending was disappointing.