“Don't Be So Afraid Of The Dark” Creepypasta Horror Story

I'm going to start out by saying this is probably something I should apologize for I should but I'm not going to my reasons for this are Justified and you'll probably agree with me too once you've heard what I have to say now don't roll your eyes and assume this is another story where I'm passing along the monster from my own head into yours it's really very simple I'm getting very tired I've been awake the past few days and I need to go to sleep and in order to get to sleep I have to explain so

mething to you not some vague undefined you but you the person hearing this story The Very literal and very real you I need your help and you're going to help me by continuing to listen to this I've been giving some thought to monster stories and stumbled across something that I find interesting what are arguably the most common themes in Monster stories Darkness and Light the monsters find you in darkness they lurk in the darkness they live and breed in the darkness the darkness is their elemen

t it allows them to hunt us down sure most of these stories are just scary stories written for the sake of reading in the dark but a few of them are real you never hear how real because when things go bad there's no one to tell us about it you expect a victim of the Slender Man to escape and conveniently come back here to warn us all you think the police are going to report Supernatural causes when they find a body torn apart when there are plenty of bears in the woods the only way to know which

stories are real are to get called CAU up in their retellings it happens this I promise you then there's the light the Escape Route the safe place the weapon to fight back the evil the antithesis of the darkness the light is the one place where the Monsters can't get to us some may use light as a way to surprise or shock us but no one gets killed by a wendigo on a sunny afternoon the light is safe and there are infinite examples to support this you're illuminated By the Light of the screen I ca

n't prove that things are looking out for you as you listen to this but just take comfort knowing that if they were you were looking at the bright screen instead do me a favor and uncurl your legs sit comfortably lean in a little bit you're still shaken from your last story maybe your cold you're not afraid you just really like making yourself as small as possible as you listen well don't do that trust me you're safer if you're closer to the light of the screen it's not just keeping the Darkness

at Bay but you'll see what I mean soon and keep listening this is the kind of story where I help you to see a pattern humans are afraid of the dark for a reason with the absence of light we're easy prey we'll never see a threat coming we sleep at night hoping that in the morning any danger will have passed us by not knowing means having no reason to be afraid we're still vulnerable when we sleep but awareness of a threat really makes the threat worse in my experience now think about this there

aren't many stories in which a monster attacks someone who never knew about it there are some but none of them are true but the true stories share a few common themes of their own the monsters can only find you if you know about them and the more you know about them the more danger you'll be in when has there ever been an ancient scroll that struck you dead after reading the first line you have to read the whole thing before you're in any danger you're only stalked by a ghost after listening to

their Whispers and figuring out what they're saying if you ignore them they can only annoy you the old doll only steals your soul after you've learned about its gruesome Origins there are millions of examples the point is that knowing about the monster allows it to find you it makes you a Target now I got to thinking about this monst moners are all denisons of the darkness but what would it take for a monster to exist in light it's not the dark that kills you it's the facts that you can't see th

em coming and it's very possible to be blinded by light who's to say there can't be a monster that strikes you down the moment your eyes are blinded with sunspots after you say happen to stare at the bright flashing reflection of a fast moving car or see the reflection of the sun in a distant window or stare at a light bulb monsters rarely attack from the side and even from the back they like it when you know they're there they come from the front so you can see their Twisted form before you die

and for that you have to be unable to see them there's another common element monsters are fast they can be slow when they want to but they're generally very quick it could be coincidence that so many are bony thin and limber or it could be an advantageous design fast monsters hunt and fat if any monsters have to trap if our light monster was real it would have to be fast and difficult to see camouflage is easy in the dark but in the daytime what would a monster of the lights look like I felt t

hat natural colors would be the most likely invisibility doesn't seem plausible even by monster standards and a chameleon effect wouldn't work at high speeds if you got a good look at a light monster I bet it would be tan and very very thin like a stick bug now you're probably not interested in my brainstorming or maybe you are I don't care which is true I just need you to keep listening a little bit longer you're not in danger and nothing is on its way to your house if it is it's probably somet

hing you already did not me trust me we're nearly there and I'm very tired there's one more major theme that monsters have in common think again to how they pick their prey you have to know about them before they can be a threat to you they aren't like normal PR and they can't just sneak up on anyone for this we're lucky even more so we're lucky because we love to spread these stories around it's not just fun you're compelled to sit here and listen to these there's a reason deep down in the most

basic part of your brain that you come to hear these stories here we must imagine a moth one moth against against a monster owl when the owl needs to pick its food it has only one moth to choose from if the moth doesn't want to die it has to find other moths to distract the owl so the moth informs another moth of the monster ra and in this way their chances of death went down from 100 to 50% the first moth is no longer the only Target and the second moth won't be the only Target if when he disc

overs how the first moth died if the word spreads enough then all the moths will only have a very small chance of being singled out of the crowd to become a meal safety in numbers that's why you come here and listen to these stories because by adding yourself to the lottery you make it just a little bit safer for everyone else we've always been big on working together as a species which is why I'm glad you're still listening you may be getting an idea of where I'm going with this by now you're a

ctually helping me a lot but I need to explain just a little bit more before I can rest I've been awake for the past few days because I don't think it's safe for me to fall asleep at any time of day at night I felt uneasy total darkness holds something lying in wait for for me and every one of my instincts tells me it isn't safe I sit before the light of my computer screen and I think I run these little intellectual exercises to stay awake and in the process I stumbled across an idea with more t

ruth than I knew and for the past few days I've been noticing some strange things fast blurs of motion in the side of my vision too fast to follow I don't think I'm meant to see them and I think I know why I see them anyway any predator that becomes too efficient faces Extinction if the owl eats all the moths it will starve hell the only reason Ebola hasn't become a global threat is because it kills its victims too quickly for them to spread the virus very far so our efficient Predator no longer

has a pool of prey to choose from anytime new prey is discovered it's killed before it can spread the word to others the Predator is weak and it's getting desperate it can't keep up like it used to but it's still very hungry so I think you can now guess why I should apologize here but I don't think I'm doing anything that I'm not meant to do you can't develop many defenses against a truly efficient Predator even though we've tried we're fast we're strong and we're smart the only thing the moth

can do is increase the size of his flock as much as possible and hope probability does not show in favor and right now I'm part of a very small flock but I think by now you know enough my chances should be going down now or going up depending on how you look at it I'm going to take my chances and get some sleep it's getting bright outside but if I rest up now I can make it through another night safely you shouldn't need to worry anyway but if you see things in the corner of your eyes then I'd su

ggest you try not to look at anything too bright you don't want to be blinded by sunspots before you can spread the word and make the group a little bigger see you in the evening I hope oh and just in case you get the chance let me know what color it is