The Real Monsters
| Published on Creepypasta.com | November 2008 |
|---|---|
| Length | 192 words · about 1 minute to read |
| Story level | Micro |
| Reader rating | 6.0/10 from 293 votes |
| Category | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances |
When I was a little boy, I was afraid of monsters. They always lurked in the dark places where the light didn’t reach. It didn’t matter how many times my father shone a flashlight into the dark corners of my closet: I knew, the moment that the light was gone, the monsters would come back.
And they always did.
When I grew up, I learned why: the real monsters don’t hide in dark corners and closets. The real monsters are the ones that live behind your eyes, in the darkness of your mind, and it takes more than a flashlight to send them away.
You’ll find what you’re looking for in my basement. She’s still alive, but the others are long dead. (I’ve kept their teeth in ziploc bags in my file cabinet. Maybe you can identify them from dental records.) She hasn’t eaten in days, and she’s lost a lot of blood, but she might still live if you hurry.
All I ask is that you leave the light on when you go. This prison cell is very dark, and I’m afraid that the monsters will come out when you leave.
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Hmm…seems to me that Mr. Welldone’s becoming the V of this corner of the internet. What was initially a singular, rather interesting commentor’s become a mask for every Tom, Dick and Anon to wear.
As for the story itself…it’s somewhat ambiguous makes it one of the better psychological creepypasta out there, though I still prefer a few others over this.
# Mr. Welldone
November 8th, 2008 at 4:33 am
Interesting.
I seem to have a love for cryptic, irrelevant messages and a shallow pedantic rambling.
I think I like to feel smrt.
Interesting.
I seem to have a love for cryptic, irrelevant messages and a shallow pedantic rambling.
I think I like to feel smrt.
I think it means, when the lights are turned off, this guy goes schizophrenic, because the narrator IS the monster.
Basically hes saying to get the person in his basement help, but not to turn off the lights or he’ll kill her.
Okay, for all the dumbasses, he’s talking to a cop or something. so read it in the context that your a cop looking for a missing girl.
it’s creepy when you get to the third paragraph and realise this is the case.
THANK YOU, DANI.
I would never have understood this if you hadn’t explained.
And just because I want to: WHO WAS BASEMENT?
It’s all just your imagination.
But you know what your imagination can achieve.
wow.
this one had a very nice twist to it, I thought it was going to end up like some sort of story that as the father goes away the monster comes and is like whew that was close
or something like that lol
but I
Awesome story, really makes you think.
ahem…since noone has said it yet..”But who was girl!!?”
what girl are you talking about?
i think those of you that don’t get this have not experienced the true fear of dark… even if your scaredof the dark, because you’ve never actully seen what you think could be there
I definitely liked it. Had a chill, kind of, and considerably well-written. Very delicious.
He means that, when the lights go out, the monsters within him come out.
I really liked this one. Not necessarily creepy, but really cool, all the same.
I …. don’t get it at all.
For those who didn’t understand — the narrator of the pasta is in a prison cell. He’s a serial killer who has been caught, and he’s telling the person interrogating him that his last victim (a woman who “hasn’t eaten in days” and has “lost a lot of blood”) is trapped in his basement. He kept the dead victims’ teeth as trophies. The stuff about the monsters is just his craziness, about the monsters in “the darkness of [his] mind”.
A thinker.
Mainly because my brain is running on half power. But srs, lolwut?
what do mean about you don’t understand?
I disnt undastand this one at all. teeth????
wut???
hu doesnt survive???
wt???
please xplain!
Proper grammar, please. Thanks.
Does Not Comprehend..?
._.
I didn’t understand it at first but this is actually kind of creepy.
Although I’m not sure I understand why he was some sort of serial killer….did the monsters have something to do with it?
I quite enjoyed this pasta, really gives you chills when you think about what really lurks in the dark. But I have a feeling what the man in this pasta has is called schitzophrenia(sp?)
Please make more like this :]
wut
I dont understand.
lolwut?
Wait…so he’s the ‘real monster’ (a psycho serial killer) and then there are also real monsters (when you turn off the lights)…what?
Boo, typos. Since*
Sine this is my first comment, here’s the obligatory WHO WAS TEETH?
I like this one a lot. That is all. :)
Hello.
Ah, this is indeed what happens to those whose minds cannot comprehend the potential of the Dark.
Even if such individuals never see, the results are quite fascinating.
Terribly fascinating, indeed.
I just love your comments
shucks. correct the “you might” too “she might”
and just for the sake of it:
WHO WAS MONSTERS?
I don’t understand the “you might still live if you hurry.”
Is the man in a mental institution cell?
The man telling the story is mentally unbalanced and has taken a number of victims to his basement where he has starved and severally injured them, he is the monster.
He is not in a mental institution but will wind up in one or in prison soon as he is most likely telling this story to the police.
there was a typo that has since been corrected she might still live because if she is taken to a hospital they might save her
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