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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Obviously, it was tin foil
BUT THEN WHO WAS PENDANT?
The woman is being used as a puppet. It’s obvious. The killer strung her up by her neck with wire. Her dead body has been made into a life-size puppet.
Hmmm, what was by her neck?
@Byzantine and @Mathias
I like the way you both think, considering your posibilities :)
i was thinking that the chain was probly a choking wire of some sore (piano wire?) and the pendant was blood
maybe?
IMO.
It’s pro’lly a scythe, with scthe’s relation to death and all.
I thought the pendant might have been one of the those wires that are meant to strangle people, because like kfnnnp said a knife isn’t very scary, but a wire that could cut through your neck? Sign of a professional killer. But it doesn’t really look like a pendant.
The killer was controlling her. She was a puppet. A dead puppet.
Oh come on people, isn’t it obvious?
Somebody is holding a knife to the woman’s throat, and forcing her to get you to open the door. When she comes up with a crappy excuse for the phone thing, he stops her and whispers the intruder line to convey urgency.
Goddamn. Think like a killer, people.
guys, it was a knife the man behind her was holding to her neck -_-
Then who was DOOR?!
This makes me want to finger myself.
me*
damnit mr. welldone you always make mi LMAO!!! A LOT!!!!
THEN WHO WAS PENDANT?
THEN WHO WAS NEIGHBOR
Why are people so scared of the classic “man with knife”?
If you know he’s there, it wouldn’t be difficult to overpower him. A knife has very short reach.
Woe unto any random murderer who breaks into my house with a knife.
lol CrapCrap !
I did not like this pasta as much, perhaps next time…
Here’s my humble opinion about this totally radical story: The dude behind the chick is a ninja (which is why you didn’t see him until he wanted to be seen. ninja vanish, and all that), and that’s not a pendant, it’s a chinese throwing star.
With that in mind, the story is totally more creepy, because, well, ninja.
Firstly, previous readers, you take this whole comment thing WAY too seriously. Grow up. It’s just a story.
Secondly, I didn’t like this that much. It was predictable and anticlimactic.
D at best.
perhaps the OP’s story just has that as a giant flaw instead of some nuanced item.
Honestly. Yes like earlier comments have said it ‘might’ have been a knife, but along the way i was thinking more neacklace the guy could be choking her with it and that would explain why she’s having trouble explainging her script as well. It would also make more sense because the narrator mistaked it as a pendant and necklaces have bits and pieces on them.
Anyway it is a good pasta :)
Who knows, it could even be a swiss army knife.
Piano wire sounds reasonable though.
THEN WHO WAS KNIFE?
Here’s how I see it:
Just because Mr.Welldone insists it isn’t a knife doesn’t mean the man didn’t have one. The ‘Pendant’ very well could have been blood. Just not hers. Nobody ever said the narrator’s neighbor lived alone. She could’ve been stabbed in the back after the man behind her used her to get the door open.
Though there’s much to be said for the rational explanations regarding a knife, garrote wire, etc., I think that such an approach to the situation really cheats this creepy pasta of some of its terror.
If it is indeed such a device, then the person behind is little more than a common criminal…psychotic perhaps, but nonetheless a mortal being. This takes a considerable amount of the fear out of this, as once the shock value of the occurrence is gone it simply becomes a hostage situation. Add in the fact that, without additional information, this action of introducing more witnesses to his activity would be a BAD idea for a crook…and your continued terror is gone.
No friends, it’s the fear of not knowing what this pendant is, nor what the malevolent intentions of the shadowy figure are, that truly inspire terror. Does he intend to make this new victim another meat puppet under his service? Who knows?
I liked this one, but it’s a little too though provoking. Yes, it’s 3:21 A.M., but that doesn’t change the fact that he saw some sort of pendant. If it was a knife, or some sort of blade she’d be dead right now. I’m thinking it was what the above people said, barbed/piano wire, or some sort of chain.Also, the puppet theory can’t be right, she frowns. Ugh.. this is gonna keep me up all night. And when 3:21 rolls around, I’m not gonna answer the door.
lol I said the blade of a knife is wide and narrow XD I meant wide length-wise and thin height-wise. Shoulda said thin really.
To me, a knife, a scythe, or any other blade wouldn’t make sense. In order for it to actually look like a pendant, there would have to be a ring (chain) around the neck and the “charm” of the pendant would have to be in the center at the bottom of the neck, right? Well think about the blade of a knife. It’s wide, straight and narrow, so attempting to put the tip of the knife at her neck would mean the blade would only be on one side, and thus wouldn’t look like a pendant. And a scythe sounds a little more reasonable, but yet irrational at the same time. The “man” would have to hold it upside down, and the handle of the scythe would be sticking straight up in the air, thus extremely noticeable. Garrote wire sounds most reasonable, as it looks like a chain, and could explain the cutting off of her sentence as explained in previous comments.