Run Now - Read Later (1157 hits)
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Submitted by Snark << snarkk.at.gmail.com (View user info) at 2004-11-04 10:19:36 EST
RUN NOW READ LATER
They're getting close now.
I can hear the furious scraping of their claws on the other side of the door much clearer than before.
They've been clawing at it off and on for about 20 minutes but the house is old and the doors thick. I have a little bit of time left.
Time enough to write this.
Time enough to warn you.
The sound of their talons on the wood is horrible but not nearly as bad as their insane chittering, or the sounds that come when they stop. No, when they stop the room fills with something much worse than splintering wood or their fingernail chalkboard squawking, it resonates with my brother's screams.
God, why don't they just finish him off? Why do they keep tearing into him like that? I know what they're doing to him because they want me to know. I know they're tearing him apart slowly because every time they stop, they stick another piece of him under the door.
Last time it was an ear, the time before that a tooth.
It should be me out there suffering not him. I know this because he isn't like me. It's not fair that he suffers a coward's fate.
My brother, my friend, I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have froze up like that when they attacked. I shouldn't have locked myself in the bathroom shivering and crying, covering my ears against your pleas. I should have stayed by your side and fought!
Fought and died.
I can hear him moaning, even through their efforts on the door. He's getting weaker. The last time they tore into him his cries weren't as strong, even now his moans sound smaller... emptier. Still, I know my brother, he's a stubborn bastard. He'll make it for a long time yet.
Jesus, what have we done? What have we set loose?
Wait! This isn't our fault!
No! I'm not going to blame myself for this!
Am I a coward? YES!
Do I deserve what's coming for me? YES!
I proved it when I deserted the only person that's stood by me through thick and thin. I proved it when I left my own flesh and blood to die a slow gruesome death.
But should I take the blame for setting them free?
No, I cannot. You would have done the same thing.
At least I think you would... I mean... it started so innocently.
We began renovating the basement this morning. Well, more like tearing it apart in preparation for the renovation.
I think it was Randy who found it first.
The hole... the well... the shaft... whatever you want to call it.
Yeah, I remember him pulling up one of the rotting planks that serve as the basement floor and saying "Bro, check this out"
Yes. You would have done the same thing. You would have cleared the rest of the rotting wet pulpy wood out of the way and peered into the gaping black maw beneath. You would have dropped something down it to try and measure its depth, and a little while later, when you noticed that the strange sounds coming out of it didn't really sound like an empty tin can, you might even have lowered a recorder on a rope into it.
800 meters of rope, the sum total of our combined climbing gear, plus the huge spool of utility wire that had been left in the garage by the previous owners.
800 meters and we never hit bottom.
Yeah, I'm fairly certain that anyone would have done what we did.
What I can't say for sure is what you would have done when you pulled the rope back up, only to find the black box hanging from the end of it a smoking half melted ruin. I have no idea what you might have said when you pressed the play button and realized it worked anyways. I can't fucking imagine the look on your face when the room filled with the recently recorded screams of the damned.
We never listened to the whole thing.
A few seconds was enough.
Oh my god, I think we recorded Hell.
I remember Randy took the box from my trembling hands, hit the stop button, placed it on the table in the dining room we had retreated to, then gave me one of his patented "I'm on it. Trust me" looks and turned towards the basement.
I remember I asked him "What are you going to do?" and he replied "Cover that fucking hole up" and then they were on him.
Neither one of us had seen or heard them come up from the basement. I didn't even see them cross the space from the basement door to my brother's muscular frame. One minute he was standing there making ready to be the hero of the day, and the next they were both on him. A blur of teeth and talon, tearing through his clothes and flesh as if they'd been coached from birth to do just that.
I can still see the look of shock on his face as he tried to make sense out of the squat, 3 foot tall, black, charred monsters that looked half primate, half lizard.
I remember his white T-shirt turning instantly red.
God help me, I remember seeing chunks of flesh flying off of him.
I ran when his screaming started. I ran to the bathroom and glanced behind me as I slammed the door shut. One of the pair had tried to come after me but Randy had it by its tawny throat.
My brother saved my life and I repaid him with a deaf ear.
He truly loves me.
It doesn't pay to love a coward.
Very soon it's not going to pay to be one either. There's no fucking window in this bathroom. Go figure.
Cindy,
In a couple of minutes I am going to try to make up for what I've done.
I've shattered the mirror and fashioned make shift knives out of a couple of the larger pieces. I've wrapped my face and head with towels and stuffed more into my clothing.
I don't expect to beat these things in a fight. I've seen what they can do.
It doesn't pay to be a hero either.
Anyways that's not my intention.
I'm going to try and make it to Randy. I'm going to try and stop his pain. Maybe cut his jugular... I don't know.
I'm also going to try and get this note through the mail slot in the front door.
I'm so sorry babe.
Go on living. Find happiness again.
And stick those divorce papers up your fat ass.
Love ya,
Jeff.
P.S.
If you're stubborn enough to go into the house, and lucky enough that they've returned to where they came from...
DON'T PLAY THE RECORDING!!!
I think it calls them somehow.
Now if you haven't already, be a good girl and RUN!!!
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User Reviews
Submitted by UberGirl (user info) at 2005-04-24 03:57:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
that is the most bone chilling scariet thing I have ever heard.
I wish I could unhear that.
Submitted by Jo_of_the_golden_P (user info) at 2004-11-29 21:30:18 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by MandaPanda (user info) at 2004-11-19 21:42:36 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
The story was great.
The recording, however, just didn't scare me at all. It sounded like a some kinda Southern church sermon. I could very faintly pick out a voice that sounded like it was coming from a muffled microphone. And as for the other voices, they just sounded like screaming. Which gave me the image of a church.
Go figure.
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2004-11-19 21:18:47 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2004-11-19 20:53:36 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I heard that sound byte once.
It scared the ever lovin shit out of me.
Submitted by Timmah (user info) at 2004-11-07 12:42:45 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I laughed, I cried, I shit my pants a little bit. Awesome story.
ATL part 5 is up. No reviews as of yet except Fetish's sad attempts to annoy me.
Submitted by Circe (user info) at 2004-11-05 23:33:28 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
And here I was just about to dig an 800 foot pit.
Who knows what horrors you've saved me from?
I owe you my life, Snark.
We'll work out some sort of mutually beneficial payment arrangement.
....I have leather things.
Submitted by AshK (user info) at 2004-11-05 12:25:15 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I know, I know. If the cell...er room wasn't so dank it would help. Unfortunately, a dehumidifier really destroys the whole image.
Submitted by Cryopaul (user info) at 2004-11-05 09:38:48 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Thank god I'm not at home when those little bastards come looking for me. Ha fuckers, I'm in a hotel, hundreds of miles away.
I hope we don't dig a hole to hell in the field today.
That sounded like a recording from a mall or something.
Submitted by LadyPlural (user info) at 2004-11-04 16:24:52 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I listened to the sound file, and several hellspawn appeared and killed me.
Thanks a lot, asshole.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2004-11-04 15:04:08 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
AshK,
Is it the harness?
It's the harness right?
You have to oil the pulleys.
TiggerLilly,
Thanks hun.
Submitted by AshK (user info) at 2004-11-04 14:54:19 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
My basement sounds like that on occasion.
I hesitate to expound on which occasions that would be.
Submitted by TigerLilly (user info) at 2004-11-04 14:11:43 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Snark, I LOVED this!!!
Submitted by Xena (user info) at 2004-11-04 13:27:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
You were right again....
I got a huge kick out of this post! AWESOME!
~I'll have to wait and listen to the sound clip at home though~
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2004-11-04 13:17:05 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Heya Sis,
Don't jump to conclusions. I picked the name out of a hat.
Submitted by Sis <sismo12345.at.hotmail.com> at 2004-11-04 13:12:42 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Hey Snark, pretty good story. Randy??? Where did you get that name from, or should I guess.Sound Byte I didn't get no stinkin sound byte. I guess you could e-mail that for me. Talk to you soon stranger. I haven't seen you in awhile. Your true fan Sis.
Submitted by Stin (user info) at 2004-11-04 12:21:13 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2004-11-04 12:00:15 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Lojope,
You need Real Audio Player for it to work.
Submitted by lojope (user info) at 2004-11-04 11:53:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I can't play the sound. SOmeone tell me how to make it work. :o(
Submitted by HowardRoark (user info) at 2004-11-04 11:43:32 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2004-11-04 11:41:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
I should mention that the sound file was originally on Bell's website as well.
It was originally reported to be a recording taken by a bunch of miner's or something.
I'm sure it's a hoax...
Submitted by Falconer (user info) at 2004-11-04 11:33:54 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Dude. You rule.
Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2004-11-04 11:21:38 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
liked it
Submitted by jme7551 (user info) at 2004-11-04 11:00:36 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by titmouse (user info) at 2004-11-04 10:59:59 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
good story, bonkers recording
Submitted by MyNameIsTim (user info) at 2004-11-04 10:54:11 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Luckylacquer (user info) at 2004-11-04 10:53:24 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Reminded me of a demonic version of Signs for some reason...and stupid sound byte won't play here @ work. And this would make a great movie.
Submitted by knucklesnelson (user info) at 2004-11-04 10:53:01 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Damn adam did you really get fired for that?
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2004-11-04 10:44:46 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Adam,
I warned you bro.
Now not only did you lose your job, those little fuckers are coming for you.
Submitted by Adamdidit2u (user info) at 2004-11-04 10:40:59 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I played the soundbyte
and then got fired.
Submitted by Monarch (user info) at 2004-11-04 10:31:37 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I know they're tearing him apart slowly because every time they stop, they stick another piece of him under the door.
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That line instantly got my +2. Very vivid.
Submitted by DeathJester (user info) at 2004-11-04 10:30:40 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No time to read. Too busy running
Have +2 anyway... It's bound to rock.
Submitted by wookie (user info) at 2004-11-04 10:30:24 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by knucklesnelson (user info) at 2004-11-04 10:26:05 (#)
Ranking: 2
Great story, I can't tell you if the soundbyte work's though. The stupid computer fuckwads here at work took out everyone's sound card.
Submitted by knucklesnelson (user info) at 2004-11-04 10:26:05 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Great story, I can't tell you if the soundbyte work's though. The stupid computer fuckwads here at work took out everyone's sound card.
Submitted by Snark (user info) at 2004-11-04 10:20:45 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
The idea for this story comes from stuff I saw on Art Bell's website years ago.
I haven't tested the sound file. Hope it works.