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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i agree with oldkid; i heard this back in the 60s where the babysitters legs and tongue were cut off and she dragged her self up the stairs; this is too scary for a little kids!
i agree with oldkid; i heard this back in the 60s where the babysitters legs and tongue were cut off and she dragged her self up the stairs; this is too scary for a little kids!
I was scared a bit at first… but then the Monty Python skit entered my head… And now I can’t stop laughing…
“Your arm’s off!”
“No it isn’t.”
“Then what’s that, then?!?”
“”Tis but a scratch.”
“A SCRATCH?”
I know if I were about to die, I’d try to traumatize some children first.
she should of call the police
i dont think any of the reasons on here as to why she wanted to go up the stairs are right.
i think she waited until the psyco was gone so he wouldnt know there were kids in the house, and then she went upstairs to use the bathroom, those blood stains are fricken hard to get out!!
OhEmGee! haha this pasta was really weird…and impossible everyone has good points! haha but as soon as i read thump thump draaaaag all i could think of was like music like the new dance move you stomp your right foot twice as you move over and then draaaag your left foot over haha and go back and forth amazing plot though ahah Soulja Boy’s new dance and song. Come on everyone do the thump thump draaaag! eeep i love my new dance!!
I heard this as “Thrut Thrut Thrush” back in 1968! If it was published, I would love to know where, because it was told to me by a school friend, and I would like to know where she got it. I have remembered it all these years.
The version that I heard is a lot more logical though – the legs were cut off at the knees, and therefore the person was dragging themselves by the elbows, as you would. Also the tongue was missing somehow, which is why the other person in the house couldn’t be called out to. And of course back then it was very easy to say that the phone lines had been cut, and there were no cell phones, so the victim couldn’t dial.
@ Foolish
Yes Foolish, dialing up 911 on a phone with stumps for arms is as easy as 123.
scary shit
To my understanding, she still had legs.Why not GTF out of the thouse instead of try to get up the stairs? Was she expecting the children to do something?
She didn’t yell because she did not want the attaker to know the 2 boys were there & she did not want the man to know she was alive D:
she would scream,and why didnt she fight back?
jump out the window!!!
I was a tad scared until the last sentence and the comments.
Yeah, CrapCarp has a point. People who are almost raped don’t want to rape everyone.
They piss and whinge on YouTube about it instead.
I don’t get why they thought she was moving furniture, or why it’d include the line “or was she trying to kill the kids?” Since when does being almost murdered make you suddenly want to murder everyone?
Yeah. I conquer with all of the people who said (in some form or another) that the last sentence was unnecessary.
I give it a B. Good job.
This story always gets me no matter how many times I read it! However, I find it to be 10X creepier when the babysitter gets her jaw snapped, which would make sense of the fact that she didn’t scream. :/
Overall —> yummeh!
Wait to the people who said y didn’t she just ring someone what with, her tongue? :S And door locks do real good against a guy with an axe :P
the idea of all that flesh and bits and bobs on my stairs made me want to vom.
Good thing my mom never liked baby-sitters..
THANKZMOMZ.
roflmfao @ everyones comments!!!
i was actually freaking out before i read them…
Oh noes o.O
Mutilated babysitters dragging their arms are gonna come to me at night :(
Almost slightly scared till the last sentence. Then the comments >_< My God, I can’t stop laughing.
Okay, now that’s just fucked up.
Scared the shit out of me.
i tink the killer might have somehow found out that there were hildren in the house and began playing with her corpe in order to scare theliving shit out of them. he was crazy, he would get plesre out of it.
@katie: Theblack knight would ot drag himsef, for he is always upright and bows to no man.
IT WAS ONLY A FLESHWOUND DAMMIT
Think of that last sentence this way: If you just got chopped up by some crazy-assed axe-motherfucker just because you were defending some ungrateful little brats for minimum wage, wouldn’t you be a wee bit pissed off at the spoiled twerps upstairs?
@ 45 omk lol :)