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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I’m thinking he’s standing behind her, to the side, where the man can’t see him through the peephole. And I think it’s a little knife that the man saw.
Because if it was blood, and the woman had fought against the man, she’d be screaming and running away, not knocking on the neighbor’s door and asking for help.
its definitely some kind of chain or something that can be used to choke or strangle, if a knife had been stabbed through her chest she would be dead. even if you were in a daze after waking up you wouldnt be stupid enough to not notice the limp body of a woman talking in a mans voice?
well it could b a piano wire tied tight around her neck at first to bring forth blood (pendant) and left there as a threat (necklace aspect)….thus you see a pendant and sumthin that goes around the neck…
Yeah, I think it was probably garrote wire or barbed wire…
But I think we’re all missing something.
BUT WHO WAS KILLER?
eh, what I was thinking is that he stabbed her through the back of her neck, so the tip comes through the front of her neck, possibly having the moon shining off it, therefore it might look like a pendant /if/ you had just woken up.
OH HEY SOMEBODY ALREADY HAD THE PUPPET THEORY.
I need to read the other comments before I post on these. owo;
“You look at your red lettered clock: 3:21.”
321. That’s a new ‘un. Better than the supposed “witching hour,” anyway.
And I think the pendant is supposed to be some sort of item the killer’s using to control the neighbor girl like a puppet, and she’s already dead or something.
Hmmm…Reading the text I thought it was barbed wire as well, as it all makes sense this way. Most of the aeguements are in the comments above. I would like to add that the person behind her probably didn’t want her to tell about the phone, as it’s freaking 3:21 in the morning, who would need to phone anyone at that time?
Though, it also came to my mind that it could have been a sickle, as it would go around the neck, shine, and the hand won’t be seen, as the handle would be behind the neighbour.
THEN WHO WAS KNIFE?
hahaha, and i forgot to say, i like this story!!
when i first read it i thought it was a knife too, but i thought maybe it was through her neck (dont ask why… or how) but anyhow, a lot of those other explanations make sense to me.
i think that the barbed wire one does especially. but a lot i dont think work, but i dont know what it is.
i hate these guess-y type stories!
I believe you Horst!!
SO what the blows was it?
WHO WAS PENDANT?
@ Horst
dead silence much
Guys, guys, guys.
She is a puppet. And first the narrator thought it was a necklace, but it’s the strings of the puppet master standing behind her.
Whatever this puppet master does to people, the dude opening the door is fucked.
it could be a knife, it was my first thought then i figured the guy would notice…
when i thought about it more it said he looked out his window and saw her wearing the pendant, if the window is beside the door your kind of looking over, so if the window is on the right side of the door to her right (to her left side from your prespective) and behind her on her right might be obscured/blocked by the window frame and the door (that might explain why he couldnt see the intruders hand). I was also thinking as an extension to that idea it still could be a knife, a curved knife with a brass jeweled hand guard held so the hand guard is in the middle of her throat and the blade wraps around the side of her neck… just and idea!
I also like the idea that she could just be the neighbors dead body being controlled somehow but that doesnt quite add up…
all in all i didnt think this was a really great creepypasta but it was a really good read, i figure whoever wrote it didnt put all that much thought into exactly whats around her neck just that its a metalic weapon(probably a knife just because it seems like the most obvious choice to me)
What I think is, a garrote wire.
the man behind the neighbor could have been strangling her with the wire, which could have made her bleed.
then the strangler makes her go across the hall, with the garrote wire still around her neck, but not strangling her when she talks, right.
She cuts off because he tightens the wire around her neck when she starts to say her phone is broken. (I have no explanation as to why he doesn’t want her to say its broken, but anyways)
That’s my theory.
OH GOD!!!!
HOW IS SHE LIVING???
What was happening at the end!!??
SHERREN IM SO CONFUSED
GENTLEMEN.
I HAVE A SOLUTION.
It was not a pendant around her neck, nor garrote wire, nor a knife, nor blood…
It was the LHC, and her captor was in fact the black hole.
That is all.
I know what you can mistake for a pendant…A ladel.
This one was really good how do you do it because I cannot:( awesome!!But I love it!:).
mr. well done isn’t so smart when it come to the question of if its not a nife what the heck is it maybe he’s just saying that 2 make us think out side the box as in what other thing could it be because when they say shining it seems like it would b bright so it couldn’t possible be a nife or the writer just wasn’t thinking we would think of the fact that a nife doesn’t shin that much so in dark it wouldn’ shin at all
ohh I want to read on :'(
I also believe it is a metal wire or barb, because a knife, honestly lol no matter how much of a daze you are in a daze you are in it would be hard to mistake a fist holding a knife for a pendant. Also why would the suspect hold a knife in one hand if she could easily escape with a quick movement, he would have to hold her with another hand to restrain her. Thus using a wire so that he would have one hand free to attack the dude at the door.
i think its barbed wire, loox like a necklace with razor bits in it so as to have the effect of a pendant…i don’t think there’s n e thing metaphorical about it.
btw, not all ppl who write a sentence everyline is pretentious ><
but ye, back to this…i think it was a thief or whatever who wanted the neighbor to trick the narrator so that he could get more loot…or whatever. [i agree with 62, the whole make another excuse thing, but DUH who didn’t pick that up?]
if it is a metaphor the pendant i still believe is some kind of weapon, but an unnatural one…something not of this world…perhaps as cryptic as marcellus wallace’s suitcase in pulp fiction…i guess we will never know.
@62
This seems like the best explanation to me. It all checks out.
I just read it over…she WAS being used so the person behind her can get in!!
After she asks if anyone is home it says she mumbles something…this could be her talking to the person behind her!
And when she changes her mind (first she says her phone is broken then she says someone is in her house) it could be that the person behind her squeezed her hand or something so she would use another excuse (because that one might not have gotten her in but having a starnger in your house would always get you in!!
Also: Maybe there was someone in her house who hurt the neighbor so the neigbor came running to you! Maybe the person who hurt her was still in the neighbors house at the time and had just come after you opened the door, so you werent able to see him untill the last minute.