The Story of Her Holding an Orange: Part Six & Link to the End
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The Story of Her Holding an Orange: Part Six & Link to the End

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This story is part 6 of 6 in the The Story of Her Holding an Orange series.

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If you’re just staring to read my experiences with this horror, you should read my other stories first. You can find them here:

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Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Part 5

Okay guys, a lot has happened since the last time I checked in. Lot of you messaged me asking if I was doing ok. Some of you even went as far as sending me you phone numbers and really reaching out. I thank you for that.

We have not encountered Rose since the last time. Also, we decided to move. I got a decent job on the south of the US and we thought it’d be a good idea to get out of here (any Atl folks, holla at me). My father did go see the priest who baptized me and the story actually become more convoluted, if you can call it that.

Anyways, I got baptized in a church called Ostrog, in Montenegro. Here is the pic of it. I don’t believe in god in any kind of way, but this church is amazing. It was built a long time ago. When the Turkish Empire came to take over, people took it stone by stone and moved it up in the mountain where the Turks couldn’t reach it. It is a magnificent building. Many people of different religions, including Muslims and Buddhists, come to that church in search of a spiritual help. That is the only place I ever felt something “more” than just my non-believer reality.

The Church

So, when I was six, my dad decided to baptize me there. Neither of my parents are particularly religious, but my dad fallows traditions, and baptizing kids is one of them. He decided that baptism should be performed at the most famous church in Balkans, Ostrog. You had to schedule it, and demand was so high that I was going to do it with other kids as a part of a group baptism. When we arrived there, and disappointment awaited (at least for my dad, I couldn’t give any less fucks). At the entrance of the church, the priest stopped me.

“You. You cant go in.” He physically stopped me with his hand. Priests in our country wear long black robes and rock long beards. So I was standing there being held by this batman looking dude. My dad jumped in front of me and asked what the problem was.

“You my child (talking to my dad), I know you. I baptized you. I can tell. (He did baptize him 20 years ago or so). But your son, he can not go in here.”

“And why is that?” My dad asked, shocked.

“I cant really tell you, but it is better for us all if he went elsewhere.”

“But why?”

“Son, please, leave. But remember this, don’t dare not baptizing him. You have to.”

“I don’t understand.”

“Nor will you ever. Just do it.”

So my dad took my hand and walked away not knowing what in the fuck was going on. On our way home, he was trying to figure out what happened. He thought that maybe I messed something up, like peed behind the church or something (which sounded like my kind of thing, but I didn’t do it).

When we got home, we got a phone call. It was from that priest. He wanted us to come back. Right away. It was a 35 minute ride back. My dad and I were more confused than ever. We arrived at the church, and all the previous baptisms have been performed already. It was only 3 of us there.

“I decided to baptize your son despite…”

“Despite what?” my dad asked curiously.

“I could not tell you. But it is important we do this fast.”

So we did. I walked in a circle and he went on with his prayers spraying holy water on me. I remember getting bored as hell right before he finally finished. He told us to go away and not to come back unless something out of the ordinary happened to me.

My dad was just glad we got it done. That was 20 years ago. My dad went back there few days ago. Priest was still alive, although retired. He still lived on the church grounds. It took some talking into (and donations) for him to speak up.

I got baptized on February 13th 1992. On the night before my baptism, priest was handling his sheep (back in the day, priests raised sheep and cows and lived mostly off of that) when he saw a figure in the dark. It was strange for someone to stand there that late at night, especially because visits were over and all the clerical staff was already in their designated housing.

“Hey, who is that?” Priest yelled.

“Come, father.” Woman’s voice spoke calmly.

Priest explained that from time to time, he’d get visits from desperate people, begging for blessing or shelter. So he went ahead to see what the woman wanted. He said that when he came there, he saw a woman in white, standing, not moving. She was standing among sheep, but they formed a circle around her, almost like a safe distance. Priest claims that he immediately felt something unholy.

“ What do you want?” he asked in a defensive aggressive voice. At that point he knew it wasn’t a peaceful visitor he was talking to.

“Tomorrow. Tomorrow you will encounter a boy. Just like any other. His name will be Milos. You won’t baptize him.”

Priest told my father that he performed several exorcisms before but he was never actually scared. This time, he felt unsafe.

“You and your kind have no place on this holy ground.”

“My kind, father? What would that be?”

“You, demons.” His voice was cracking in fear.

She laughed. “Demons? I realize you’re a man of cloth, but believing in demons? That takes a lot of faith, father.”

“I want you to leave, now.”

“Listen to me you pity priest. I know who you are. I know what you think. I know you feel my strength. Deny my request, and you’ll never sleep in peace again.”

Then, she left. Rest of the story you know. He refused to baptize me than he changed his mind. Apparently, he told my dad that he’d rather be tormented by an unholy spirit than deny god’s child a chance to connect to Jesus. He also said that he has been paying for it since the day he baptized me.

Every single night for two weeks after he baptized me, he has been seeing a woman in white appear on his window. She’d just stand there, looking at him with hand tilted. No smile though, but only a face of anger. He’d say many prayers but it didn’t seem to affect her. Then, his sheep started dying. There were no wolf marks, no sign of force. Just laying dead. Finally, number of exorcisms skyrocketed. He claims that this was a direct consequence of him disobeying woman’s orders. He even showed an exorcism videotape (they started filming in the chapel in the mid 90s) to my dad. My dad says it was unreal. Apparently a 13-year-old girl came in the chapel with her mom. Her mom was sobbing in tears begging for help. Priest started performing his ritual when the little girl started throwing stuff around. Priest called two young guys who came in to pray that day and asked them to hold her. She kept walking in circles, with two grown men holding her. And right before she fell to her knees, she said “You shouldn’t have done it father.” She was cured.

My dad had more than enough of information thrown at him, but he wanted to know what this woman was. Priest said that he originally thought it was a demon, but a lack of prayer efficiency and her freedom of behavior on the holy ground was concerning. He then thought it was some sort of a cult, witchcraft maybe. The problem is, she has been visiting him on February 13th every year. All the livestock he’d have would die on that day. Any sick person coming for help to the church that day would get worse. Number of possessed people would skyrocket abnormally on the 13th. And at the end of the day, she’d come to the window, no matter where he was. He tried talking to her many times, asking what/who she was. She never responded. She never aged. Priest was finally broken down to the point where he quit. He remained living at the grounds, but he couldn’t do his job anymore. He lost faith. He claimed that the god should’ve protected him. My dad says he may be mentally unstable at this point. He was mentioning something about Morana, whatever that meant. It appears to be a goddess of death in some cultures, but I really think this man has gone mad.

I think that this whole story was jabber of an old man gone senile. Goddesses? Demons? Hardly.

That would be the disappointing story of my baptism. I have not had any encounters with any of them since the last time. I am moving away, hoping it helps. I also decided this: if I encounter them again, I am taking the orange. I cant go on like this forever. I just… can’t.

For the ending of this story, go HERE – it will not be posted on Creepypasta. I feel that the final part is most effective when left at its original source.

Credit To – Milos Bogetic

NOTE: This is the sixth in a series of several popular Reddit posts documenting some seriously creepy experiences. We are publishing them here with express permission of Milos Bogetic aka inaaace, the original poster. The story is in multiple parts, and will be published completely over the next few days – much like what I did with the ‘Bedtime’ series earlier this year. After the stories have all gone up, I’ll edit each post with links to the other parts.

The OP has finished the continuation book that he promised during his successful kickstarter project.

You can find the paperback and Kindle e-book versions here: The Story of Her Holding an Orange by Milos Bogetic  – full disclosure: our referral link is included.

I know that this will not be new material for all of you, but for those of you who – like myself – don’t use Reddit, I wanted to post it so that you guys could enjoy it as much as I did after having it brought to my attention. Thanks again to Milos for letting me post it, and enjoy!

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259 Comments

  2. Ok, I’ve done a bit of research for you. The color Orange stands for external soul, health, and life. Overall it is a positive color. I could not find anything relating to the fruit, however. To explain Rose’s seeming immortality, I actually practice magick. I specialize in healing and health spells. I can tell you right now, there are spells for extending life. They ALL require sacrifice, however. There is a very real possibility that the oranges are either drugged or poisoned. There is also a chance that Rose has been targeting your bloodline, and your girlfriend’s bloodline. Some life extension spells are blood sacrifices and require specific blood (ie: blood of the pharaohs, ancient rulers, etc.) try to find out your ancestry and I’ll see what else I can dig up.

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  3. Okay so I just realized something…I had read these stories at my grandmothers house and after I was finished and my mom came to pick me up there was a fucking orange on her doorstep…Holy fuck. Help.

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  5. What the hell? That was the end? I stuck with you this whole time through this story and that’s how you end it? Shit, that was a waste of my time.

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  7. They are linked to his family from something, just look in your family tree and you might find something, a theft, a hate, a childhood abuse! Its just im trying to help. try it.

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  10. Wow, that’s kinda lame. I’m all for profit but if you start something for free just finish it and make a different story into a book. It just makes people feel tricked into getting invested in a story only to have the ending basically be “well now you gotta buy my book to know what happened”.

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  11. This series was great, but it was all over the place. You kept going back and forth from past to future… And why were you swearing so much? What the fuck was that? Why the fuck did you keep fucking swearing? Are you trying to fucking fuck the whole fucking thing?

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  13. Author has taken the story off of Reddit and I’m broke as fuck. Anybody want to tell me how it ends?

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  17. derpbutt, I’m not good with excuses. English is not my first language and it seems that I misused the word “integrity”. I am sorry. I was also under the impression that the Reddit ending was not the real one, just another nudge from the author to promote the book (which does have a different ending, as I gather).

    So I was mistaken and wrong, and I am sorry for that, even more since you hardly seem like a person who knows how to accept an apology or allow someone to reply without disabling the option for the latter.

    This doesn’t even have to be posted after moderation.

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    1. You’re also apparently not very good with apologies. In the interest of helping you succeed in future socialization attempts, I’ll tell you that if you’re not actually sorry, just don’t say anything. A half-assed apology with another insult inside of it (“since you hardly seem like a person who knows how to accept an apology or allow someone to reply without disabling the option for the latter” – thanks, I’ll take the bait) is pointless at best. I sincerely hope that you refrain from playing that game with your important relationships.

      I’ve also moved this comment to the relevant post, I’m not sure why you felt the need to shit up an entirely different comments section with this nonsense. Know that I wouldn’t ban you or censor you just for this discussion, but if you continue to insist on randomly spreading it across unrelated posts, I’ll probably get annoyed enough to just start hitting the spam button rather than moving your comments.

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  19. I’m fine with the author’s decision to publish a book and all, but I must say, I am disappointed with the website.

    If I had known that I was getting a Trial Version Story, I wouldn’t have started reading it. I don’t know how this is any different from an advertisement and I feel cheated out of my time for reading this. You should definitely attach a message at the beginning if you value your remaining integrity as an otherwise enjoyable website.

    As for the story, I thoroughly enjoyed it and wish the author the best of luck. But after this, I do not intent nor want to find out how the story ends anymore.

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    1. Really? The situation is already explained on every post – that this was initially a popular reddit series on /nosleep/ and the OP was turning it into a book, and that I was posting it because I both wanted to spread the word for his upcoming book and because I legitimately enjoyed the parts he did publish for free. I’m sorry if you decided to ignore that repeated notice for some reason, but I made it explicitly clear what was going on. I will never apologize for supporting authors or for using advertisements (without them, the site simply can’t afford to stay afloat, welcome to how the internet works) but I am always very upfront and honest about when I have a referral code inserted or when a series – like this one – is leading up to a book precisely because I don’t want people to feel like I’ve tricked them into “accidentally” supporting us. In this case, that information WAS freely available and it was entirely your decision to ignore it on all six posts.

      Let me reiterate: you are implying that I am somehow dishonest and have “lost integrity” because YOU chose to ignore a notice that was posted on all six parts of this series. I’m sorry if you feel “cheated” but I have to say – I cannot force you to read notices. All I can do is put them up and hope that people will pay attention. As you’ve proven, though, not everyone will do that. In the future, though, I would recommend that you pay a bit more attention before throwing out accusations.

      I’d also like to point out that not everyone will share the same feeling of retroactively losing enjoyment of the free story because it was later expanded for a novel. I personally found the original six parts enjoyable on their own, and I’m clearly not the only one who felt that way – OP’s book was crowdfunded by people like myself who enjoyed what he had already produced for us, free of charge, and wanted to give him the opportunity to give us more but also get something back in return for his efforts. However, even before that happened, this series had taken off and I had MANY people submitting recommendations for me to see if Milos would allow me to host the series here as well. That’s why I ended up reaching out to him – numerous people had requested that I do so and I enjoyed the reddit series enough – once again, this was before the book was even written – to want to share it with you guys.

      So please, before you try to spin this as some grand advertising conspiracy that was hidden and conceived in the shadows to, I don’t know, trick you into reading an unfinished story because I’m a monster out to ruin your fun or whatever weird motivation you’re imagining – I would appreciate it if you’d actually base your criticisms on reality, not your own laziness and apparent inability to read repeated notes on every single post in this series. Seriously, I am baffled as to how you managed to get through all six entries and somehow still feel it’s reasonable to claim that you weren’t warned that there was a book to finish the series.

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      1. Ok, first of all, I complained about you wasting my time, not murdering my family. Plus, nowhere did I imply that you did so selfishly or even on purpose. I’m sorry if my nagging came off as anything more than that, let alone some profit conspiracy for a book that sells for $5. You’d be right in using all those less-than-nice adjectives then.

        However, I did read this in (true) each and every post:

        “The story is in multiple parts, and will be published completely over the next few days(…)”

        Did this happen and I missed it?
        Did you mean to use the term “completely” in a way I misinterpreted?
        Or does the “complete” story ends the way it was posted on reddit and the book only followed from there?

        There is zero sarcasm in my post and although I’m usually an intelligent person throughout any given day, the nature of your reply tells me I misjudged something.

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        1. Yes, the story as posted on reddit is in multiple parts, and I posted the reddit story completely…? At this point you seem to be reaching just a tad to justify your initial passing over of the provided information. I’ve said this before, but when these were posted, the book was not released. The Reddit story was all that existed.

          And yes, you did imply that I was close to losing my “integrity” (“You should definitely attach a message at the beginning if you value your remaining integrity as an otherwise enjoyable website”) and that I “cheated” you somehow by posting this series. It’s right there. I’m not sure how exactly you think that doesn’t carry negative implications beyond “you wasted my time.”

          You’re saying that I’ve already lost integrity (which, unless you don’t understand what ‘integrity’ means and chose the completely wrong word, means you felt I was somehow acting dishonestly) by hosting this story and you feel that somehow – even with the warnings that I put and suspect you simply didn’t read and are now trying to nitpick to cover up that fact – by doing so I mislead and “cheated” you into reading this series. That’s more than just “I feel like I wasted my time reading this” – it’s obnoxious and borderline offensive.

          I’m not in the mood to get into a back and forth with someone who is going to try and argue that they didn’t mean what they said; that’s always incredibly tiring because it results in the person who initially made the offensive remarks trying to present more and more tenuous excuses as to why what they said wasn’t actually what they meant. If you truly did not intend to call me dishonest and cheating, then the onus of responsibility is on you: perhaps choose your words more carefully next time. Don’t pull someone’s integrity into question if you don’t actually want them to feel like, well, you’re questioning their integrity.

          In the future, if you cannot handle someone replying to your inflammatory remarks without feeling the need to try and backpedal, simply don’t make them. People get annoyed when they’re insulted; telling someone that they are dishonest is insulting. You claim to be an intelligent person, so I assume that you should be able to understand this.

          Done now.

  23. I can’t believe I really just wasted an entire hour of my life reading this stupid story. It started out really good, and I was excited to see how it ended… I wish someone would have warned me about how dumb it ended up being before I spent so much time reading it. ugh.

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  24. So what happens after he takes the orange? Is it in the book?! I don’t think anyone realizes how upset I am that it ended like that!!!

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  25. WHY THE HECK WOULD YOU BRING THAT SHE- DEVIL OUT HERE?!?!?!?! I value my life, thank you very much! leave Rose in Canada. ugh!

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  26. I think he did a good job at writing this. I was thinking about Rose the other night before I went to sleep…scared the shit out of me.

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  27. I’m so sorry I started reading this, man. I read scary stories online because they’re FREE and I don’t have the cash to spend on books! So I’m not going to buy this book!!

    I did read a review that [spoilers removed], but unfortunately not much more info was available.

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    1. I dislike this attitude that pops up towards any of our authors that decide to publish – that they’ve somehow done something wrong by wanting compensation for their work. The author is allowed to make money off of all the effort he put into the book, you know? Generating free content for us forever can’t put food in their mouths, and writing books takes a lot of time and effort. I greatly appreciate the authors who let me host their stories here when I can’t pay them, and I’ll support them as much as possible when/if they make the jump to actual publishing. It’s the least I can do for their work.

      Nothing personal, but I removed the spoilers from your comment. Some people may plan on reading the book and not want to see spoilers in this comments section; plus as stated above, I don’t see the issue with the author profitting from his own work and don’t really want to host spoilers that might dissuade people supporting him.

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  28. Well actually there’s more to it than “I took it”.

    The actual book consists of 10 chapters, and are slightly altered compared to this series here. He also actually gives you background into who Rose and the elder man are and also why they are following him around the world.

    However [spoilers removed].

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  29. burn the orange the next time u see rose take a match take the orange mash the orange and burn it in front of her

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  30. dat moment when your country is in the creepypasta… and youve BEEN to the church in the creepypasta.
    Great moment, what can i say ?

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