Thump, Thump… Drag.
| Published on Creepypasta.com | June 2008 |
|---|---|
| Length | 237 words · about 1 minute to read |
| Story level | Micro |
| Reader rating | 6.7/10 from 452 votes |
| Category | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances |
A teenage baby-sitter put the kids she was watching to sleep in their beds and went back downstairs. The late night news was on the TV — the reporter said a psychopath from a local mental institution was on the loose and that police thought he might be in the area. He cautioned residents to lock their doors and windows because this guy was very, very dangerous.
Well, the teenager checked the locks on the windows and the doors, but she forgot the door on the cellar bulkhead. Needless to say, the psychopath broke in about an hour later, coming up from the cellar, armed with an ax. The children heard some noises downstairs, but thought it was the baby-sitter moving some furniture around. Then it got real quiet.
All they heard for the remainder of the night was this noise: “Thump! Thump! Dra-aag… Thump! Thump! Dra-aag…” Evidently, they were too afraid to get up to see what it was. In the morning, their parents came home and were horrified to find the babysitter at the top of the stairs, dead with both arms hacked off at the elbows. She’d been climbing the stairs on the bloody stumps of her arms, pulling her badly injured body along. Was she trying to check on the children? Was she trying to get help? Or in the madness of her tortured soul, was she planning to kill the children herself?
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greet pasta, (although i like the premise of the last sentence, it could have been better done)
fantastic comments
I laughed out loud for 10 minutes at 45’s comment XD
Ohgod the comments. They totally ruined the moment, but goddammit I love everyone who posted something nonsensical. xDD
@4 kk dude,maybe,shell do the thign that the zombies in house of the dead do whe nyou blow their rms aff and spin theyre heads really fast and hop it will hit you,lol,just blow theyre legs off too :P
i’d probably just piss myself and stay in bed, or lock myself in the bathroom =\
@ christobob,
i wouldn’t hide i would clime out my window and leave the house
i’m a scaredy cat and if i heard thump thump… drag i would be out of that house faster than a cheetah could attack its prey
@ christobob
baby u were clearly smarter than most children…<3
Maybe she was the psychopath killer, and went to chop the kids up. Since she was so psychopathic….she beat herself up and cut off her own arms…
o.O
The maniac did that to Mary. She was trying to warn the children.
EEEEEK!THIS ONE GAVE ME THE HEEBE JEEBIES BUT I DO ENJOY READING IT.
why did the attacker come threw the cellar
She’d lost both her arms? Bah. ’tis just a flesh wound.
you kiddin, DJ?
fuck, man. any screams in my house and i fucking hid.
what kind of fucktarded kids run downstairs?
SWEET YOU DON’T HAVE TO PAY HER!!!
Why didnt she just walk up the stairs?
i don’t care who you are, you’re arms get hacked off you’re gonna scream in agony…and therefore the kids wouldve woken up and wouldve raced down the steps like dumb ass kids and wouldve been sliced n diced along with the babysitter
and lmao at 45
XD
This creepypasta was kind of dissapointing because of the ending, oh yes I want to kill the children because I was attacked by a psycho, yes cause that’s my first reaction after being assaulted by some fucked up dude with an axe. Why even throw in that last sentence lol, it wasn’t needed.
shit there were kids up there? I’ve still got work to do…
What are you going to do, bleed on me?
That’s not fair. All she wanted to do was read them a bedtime story.
Why is the world so cruel to little children?!
That nearly scared me I enjoyed it though. Yet I already new that the hidding in the basment was coming , because of the movies and the baby sitter thing.
hmmmm…so that what happened to my sandwich
37, that was a good laugh, thank for your contribution. 39, here’s a sandwich, it’ll be ok champ.
I was just about to make fun of this story… but then an image of a bloody, armless baby-sitter lunging at me in attempt to eat my face flashed infront of me.
I’m scared now.
I loved this one. I think that she was trying to warn them. This gave me the creeps me out big time too.
She was trying to bring the kids a sandwhich even though she wa sint hat much pain, it was the only thing she ever knew how to do…the kids never got there sandwhich *Sniff*
I found this scary, once I read the comments though I was laughing to death. THANKS FOR RUINING THE MOMENT
#24 & 25 made me laugh xD
i liked this story, even though i think the last sentence wasn’t needed.
Just a girl
your right she shoulda suck it up
man that was weird
anyone find out WHO PHONE WAS yet??
“Besides, not everyone is a Painless Mcgee”
Or Russel.
You know, I actually kind of suspect that she went mad with the pain, because what logic is there in putting so much effort into dragging herself upstairs? Unless she, as readman pointed out, punctured a lung, she could have at least called someone on a phone.
Well, I guess in that case it would make sense to go upstairs and alert the children.
Actually, come to think of it, how can someone be driven mad in such a short space of time? Unless the pain was the worst in the history of mankind. And, of course, unless she WAS driven mad, there would be no reason to kill the children, as they had no place in her maiming.
The ending (more specifically, the last sentence) is too confusing. I, too, think that the author should have left her motives ambiguous, as opposed to listing her possible motives. It would have made the story just a tad more shocking, and spookier.
Overall, thinking about it is making my head hurt.
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