The Pendant
| Published on Creepypasta.com | July 2008 |
|---|---|
| Length | 193 words · about 1 minute to read |
| Story level | Micro |
| Reader rating | 7.7/10 from 347 votes |
| Category | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances |
You jolt awake to some noise off in the distance. You look at your red lettered clock: 3:21. You hear it noise again. Someone’s knocking on your door.
There’s no reason to be afraid, you remind yourself, but you can’t imagine any reason why
someone would be up this late. You quietly walk over to the door.
“Hello?”
Knock, Knock, Knock
“H-hello? Are you home?”
Knock, Knock, Knock
“I… Please be home… Hello?”
She mumbles something
“I need your help!”
Knock, Knock, Knock
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You recognize her voice and look out the window. It’s your neighbor, she’s wearing her pajamas and some shining pendant around her neck. She sees you.
“Oh!”
She looks afraid at first, and then puts on a worried smile.
“I.. can I use your phone? I need to come in.”
Why can’t you use your phone?
“Mine is Brok-”
She pauses.
“…I think someone’s inside my house”
You pause for a moment to look at the fear on her face.
When you open the door it slowly dawns on you…
Whoever it is isn’t inside her house, he’s behind her, and what’s shining by her neck isn’t a pendant.
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Ok: It cant be a puppet since the neighbor still made facial reactions and as for the person behind her; it would be obviouse if he was making them.
I first thought it was a knive but that would be too obviouse!!
I think either she is being choked (but then her voice would be weird and he would be able to tell) or her htroat got slit (making blood come out) and she was being forced to say the lines so the person behind the neighbor could get in.
Any questions??
Although I agree with most of the theories, I believe the two most believable would have to be 55 and the one about the garrote string as the blood would drip off the string giving the appearance of *Shining*.
Puppet idea, very good, very creepy, BUT, it has a flaw. He recognized her voice, so although you idea works, that right there throws it off. As for a tape recorder that wouldn’t quite work as well hence the killer wouldn’t know how he wouthe person would react.
All good ideas, just thought I’d throw in my two sense.
*Sorry for grammear, I can’t see what im tyhping, I ran out of space >.<
@r
Dude, whats a shank? I thought i wz describing a TOOTBRUSH!!! >-<‘ now im confused!
@25
i thought it was blood too. xD
@Kait’s Corpse
That, my friend, is a shank.. or a variation of it.
It could be a toothbrush! Think about it, if you rip off atoothbrush’s britsles and sharpen the end it could be a deadly weapon!
SHES A PUPPET RTARDS
GOD!
“I think someone’s inside my house.” Metaphorical — someone is in my body. Why OP didn’t notice it before could be because it was inside her body but is now retreating from it to take OP’s. As for the shining object by her neck, maybe that’s metaphorical too, or maybe it’s a literal weapon that’s part of the possessor’s disembodied form.
I say she was a lifesize puppet and the shining thing was the barrel of a gun sticking out of her fake chest
Piano wire makes sense. It’s confusing as hell and scared me shitless. ‘Sup. I’m itchy. Butchea. Scary.
I thought it piano wire.
The only reason for that was because the writer said around her neck then from behind.. so suggested to me that with all that shineness and the stuttering – she was being chocked.
u guys still dont get it wow thats amazing and i bet u dont even know who was phone but i do
I don’t think it’s a knife. That was my first guess, but when I thought about it, you can’t really mistake a knife for a pendant. Maybe it was some sort of wire, but idk. Part of me thinks it is blood. On other creepypasta stories, there are living/talking dead people. This one could be another.
i still think it is a knife
@The Unnamed
You mean like piano wire? Hm… I can see that.
Other possibilities of not knives:
screwdriver
razor wire
a nail
a metal nail file
If used correctly, there are any number of small objects that could be used as a deadly weapon.
Anyone got any more ideas for what it could be?
I agree with Foolish.
I also think Mr. Welldone is correct with what he said.
“A body can walk.
A body can breathe.
A body can talk.
The spark of life is not essential.”
I think the pendant or wire or something could also be hiding some on the womans neck.
A cut, perhaps?
“It could be those strangling weapons, you know, like metal wires or somethung like that.”
I agree. The author initially mentions that the “shiny pendant” is not just by her neck, but around it. So perhaps when he then indicates that it’s “by her neck”, he thus discovers that it’s being held up by the person behind her.
i lol’d
I spat drink all over myself.
It could be those strangling weapons, you know, like metal wires or somethung like that.
okay research time
this is as big as WHO WAS PHONE?
I was thinking of piano wire, you know, but that would have been a necklace, and not a pendant
@Kite The way I read it is that he was referring to the reason he was standing behind her-he was holding a knife. But I guess that doesn’t matter.
I didn’t mean any disrespect towards the owner of the website. It just pisses me off when people say that others are wrong and don’t explain why or how they’re RIGHT.
I DONT UNDAHSTANNNND!
well now we have two cases here WHAT WEAPON WAS IT? and WHO WAS PHONE?
I was thinking more of the lines of a metal choke string.
Some guy and ??? – I thought he was referring to Poster’s question; “why else would he be standing behind her?” rather than Poster’s opinion of the creepypasta. He didn’t say that Poster was right.
Even so, that’s no reason to throw insults around. In turning comment boxes into flamewars, you’re insulting the owner of the site, rather than Mr.Welldone. He’s not the one who has to pay for its upkeep.
agreed. Mr.welldone you are a dick.
earlier you said “hello some guy you are wrong” then later wrote “I like the way you think to Poster” and Poster wrote it WAS A KNIFE.
oh and the way you write every sentence on a different line doesn’t make you sound creepy, it just makes you look like an asshole that’s full of himself.
mr well done youre a dick
a DICK
Hello, Poster.
I like the way you think. I like it a lot.
A lot.