The Wrong CD
| Published on Creepypasta.com | August 2008 |
|---|---|
| Length | 183 words · about 1 minute to read |
| Story level | Micro |
| Reader rating | 4.3/10 from 349 votes |
| Category | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances |
Alone at work late one night, you are putting in a CD to install a program on your computer. The CD is unlabeled though you remember it being labeled like any other mass produced CD.
You put it into the drive, and find it to have no data on it either. Instead of the normal CD spinning sound, it almost sounded like screaming. It’s obviously the wrong CD and you find the real one soon, and continue your work.
Alone again on another night you need to back-up your hard drive on a blank CD, so you put one in. You hear the vaguely familiar screaming noise, but this time your computer screen goes blank for a few seconds, before the entire floor goes dark.
Now the screaming you hear is not coming from a computer drive, it’s coming from down the hall… and it’s getting closer.
ETA: If anyone feels like rewriting this one, give it a shot – I really like the concept, but the execution was really sloppy. If you can do it better, I’ll replace this version with yours.
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Is everyone fucking retarded?
I enjoyed Skwirral’s version, but I have seen way too many comments saying 6:66 o’clock “comes twice a day” – I understand the 666 element, but there is no such thing as 6:66 o’clock for those commenting that a time such as that rolls around twice a day.
Thank god I found this. I am very good at writing, but I am crap at thinking of scenarios. I’m starting on it now.
I like skwirral’s version better than the other ones
Needs work…
by this i’m scared and glad our drive isn’t working :P
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!
You’re alone at work late one night, working on your computer to install a program. The CD you have is unlabled …though, you thought you remembered it being labeled, like any other mass-produced CD.
You put it in the drive, and discover that it has no data on it. Instead of the normal CD spinning sound, however, it …sounds almost like screaming. “It’s obviously the wrong CD” you think to yourself, ejecting it immediately. Soon, you find the real CD and continue your work.
A few nights later, you’re at work late again, alone, because you have to back-up your hard drive onto a blank CD. You pop one into the drive, and hear a vaguely familiar screaming noise. This time, however, your computer screen goes blank for a few seconds, before the entire floor of your work goes dark.
There’s screaming again… only, this time, it isn’t coming from your computer drive. No, this time, it’s coming from down the hall…
and it’s getting closer.
The screaming getting closer reminded me of Doom 3… automatically saw the Lost Souls from the game
It’s good but like you said a little sloppy it could have been longer and gone into a little more detail
does no one read the last paragraph? it’s said that yes, they KNOW it’s poorly written, but that if you can do better, to do so!
now, stop complaining and RE-WRITE IT since you’re all so obviously phenomenal short-story masters!
That screaming was me helping Perseus slay Medusa. I’m surprised you didn’t hear my sword slicing through your wallpapers and hallway vases.
I was shooting a video.
Well this just seems like a cobbled-together mess of screaming and darkness. Intro grabbed me, though. Rest of the story fell completely flat. Did not like very much. 4/10.
Here’s my version of the story. I got a disk. I thought it was porn . I watched it. It was not porn. I threw it away. The end
IMPOSTER @Jace
Computer pastas are just not creepy
Here’s two. One from me, one from my friend.
You are swamped with work, so you decide to stay late at work. It is about midnight, and you still have to install a program to finish your presentation. You reach for what you think is the right C.D, though you aren’t sure since it is unlabeled. You vaguely recall that the disk with the program was labeled.
You don’t care though. You throw the disk in anyway. You find that the disk is without data. You hear a faint sound. Assuming it is just the C.D drive’s normal noise, you go to take the C.D out. However, you think that the sound sounds too much like screaming. Quickly dismissing that notion, you take the C.D out, and eventually find the correct disk, and finish your work for the night.
You wake up with a cold the next morning, and call in sick. Your boss tells you to finish the paper for him. You turn your computer on, and you go to get a cup of coffee. When you get back, the screen says “ERROR_INVALID_FUNCTION” and shuts down. Although the computer is shut off, you hear the C.D drive going. The screaming noise becomes more pronounced, and harsh, and you realize:
The sound isn’t the C.D. It’s around you. Suffocating you in fear. It’s behind you.
(Watch out)
(ahhhHHHHHH)
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You work late every now and then when you can’t get it done during the day. One night you are running late and have a lot of finishing up to do. You get home around 9 PM because it takes about 2 hours to get home. You plug in the computer and look through your bag for your CD. You find it and put it in the disc drive. Suddenly, blank windows open one after the other, filling the screen, there gets to be about 35 windows open, and you hear a faint shrieking from the disc drive. You take out the disc, reboot the computer, and look around in your bag. Eventually, you find the right CD and get to work.
The next day, you oversleep and decide to call in sick. Your boss wants you to get another job done while you’re home. You turn on your computer, and it let out the screeching noise. A screen popped up saying, “THERE WAS A PROBLEM PREFORMING TASK: ERROR 66_E6.” You try to reboot, but the computer stayed on, the error sign started flashing and below it, something was typing up.
“GET OUT”
The screaming became more pronounced and harsh, louder and louder. The computer finally shut off, but the screaming continued. You realized the sound wasn’t coming from the computer at all. You could feel the sound all around you. Closing in on you, you feel the cold weight on your shoulders, crushing your will to live.