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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well, maybe she suffered a blow to the legs and couldn’t walk, and the kller was still in the house, so if she yelled he would have known there was more people, and maybe she was trying to warn them.
I read the same type of story except the kids were playing hide n seek with the babysitter but some psycho stitched her eyes and mouth closed so she was bumping and dragging herself on the wall. The parents came home to find the sitter and the kids in a hugging formation, the kids and sitter stabbed and eyes and mouth sewn closed…
Not really that scary :/
“But who was thump?!”
The babysitter….didn’t you read?
Sorry but this was really bad… The title sounded like it would be cool… Never judge a book by it’s cover or a story by it’s title…
Honestly I think the baby sitter was going to cheek up on the kids before she died. Well this is a result of EPIC FAIL
Fantastic pasta since it was creepy but needs more meatballs (Better writing)the “Thump, Thump…Drag” was scary and the horrifying image of the babysitter is scary but the ending was not good at all why would an armless in pain babysitter try to kill the kids instead of get help and also to you other people:
1.The baby sitter couldn’t yell possibly if you got an axe to the chest, lungs and she would give away the children
2. Can’t beat the killer because unless you are some type of Chuck Norris you can’t exactly kill an axe holding lunatic
3. Even if she did have legs she was pulling her “Badly injured body” along STAIRS and I sure wouldn’t go running if I was horribly injured no arms and half dead
4. She can’t just get out of the house leaving children behind (Gotta get paid)
5. The writer didn’t plan it out very well
6. She was one of those stupid teenagers in horror movies who always die first (Explaining why she was so stupid to go up the stairs)
7. An old tale told incorrectly from this guy and everybody believes it is the original though this might be an old story
That was quite chilling. I rather enjoyed this pasta.
Its me again i gorgot to add to this was the baby sitter a girl or boy and what was the name of her/him.
Girl, it said “She’d been climbing all night……”
Why the heck would you kill your kid if that was in real life you would need help. Im going to tell you the truth it was kind of scary well thats what I think keep the storys up good job.
Sean, that was hilarious.
a GiRl NaMeD *** ToLd ThIs OnE aLoT
aNd ClAiMeD sHe WrOtE iT :oT
Why isn’t the kids killed?
*Imagine what she would look like*
*Really, really wish I hadn’t
@The Black Knight
‘Tis but a scratch.
But.. who was babysitter?
Stumpy. Limbless. Bloody Mary. Any of these above will fit for nick-names at the current moment.
Hmm. Am I the only one making the connection to ‘We Will Rock You’?
Boom, boom, clap. Boom boom clap.
Well that was cheesy and cliche.
The one I saw before went “Click, click, draaaaag.” Made me laugh for the longest time.
I’m sorry… but this was just God awful. It was really exciting to read at first because I love myself an old-fashion creepy babysitter tale but the moment I read, “Needless to say, the psychopath broke in about an hour later” my enticement for the story was gone. Really? No build up? And the fact that she dragged herself up the stairs instead of merely calling out to the kids (she has a mouth), or walking, it’s silly. As for the questions at the end: “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?” It was some pretty bad pasta…
(Why would a babysitter go belligerently mad and want to kill the kids; how else could she if she didn’t have any arms? Curb-stomp them? C’mon now.)
no nomnoms for you. This didn’t scare me at all. “Needless to say, the psychopath broke in about an hour later” ruined the entire story. It was short but so bitterly gross. Sorry, this was just not my cup of tea.
This isn’t really scary at all
If I was the baby sitter this would of been me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF6Jyxc16vU
at least they didnt have to pay her am right?
BUT WHO WAS NEWS REPORTER?
I originally heard a version of this in, like, 1995ish.. but the details of it are foggy now. I do remeber that the Thump Thump Drag was from some kind of murderous corpse, not a babysitter, and the arms and legs hand been lopped off at the joints along with the head.
Even if she had been trying to kill the kids, it’s fine… She was ‘armless.
The ending ruined it for me.
What, multiple-personality disorder? o_o And why didn’t she just get up and walk if she was the murderer and didn’t have to worry about getting her legs chopped off, too? -.- And wait, did she go down into the cellar herself and then switch personalities, then chop her arms off and start going upstairs?
Maybe Im over-thinking it…
darn that was creepy