A Room Of Pitch Black - Animated Scary Story



When i was eight
my mother's mother's sister my
great-aunt regina passed away
i barely knew her
but my mother took me and my brothers
and sisters out to indianapolis to
attend her wake there were many
relatives visiting for the funeral
and the accommodations were limited so
he ended up staying in her now empty
house
her husband my great uncle peter had
passed away a few years prior of course
by empty i meant that it was no longer
occupied as for furnishings though the
house was palatial
every room was filled with antique
furniture
antique lamps and all manner of
extravagant decor
we my two brothers and i were directed
to a dusty living room in a small wicker
basket of ancient wooden toys and told
that beyond that basket we were not
allowed to play with anything else
no climbing on the furniture no turning
anything on
nothing
with that one rule in place we were then
foolishly left to our own devices as
everyone else left to attend a reception
before the funeral itself
we were abandoned in a crypt of a living
room with a basket of wooden blocks and
toy trains
so naturally we ignored the baby toys
and started exploring the enormous house
we didn't touch any of the things we
just went from room to room
the place was so big though that we
quickly got separated and we're calling
out to each other
eventually making a game of it
purposefully losing my little brother
until he'd cry
through a foyer i found a set of winding
stairs leading up to the second floor
and followed them
the second floor was just a long hallway
with doors all up and down it on both
sides
all of them were closed
one door in particular caught my
attention because someone had driven two
hooks into the wall on either side of it
and draped a long sash across them
effectively cordoning off the doorway
this made me curious
ignoring the calls from downstairs of my
brothers
i walked down the hall to the door with
the sash
there was nothing that immediately
jumped out at me as being different
about the door itself
just a plain white door with a brass
knob
and a key sticking out of the keyhole
i jiggled the knob
and found it locked
inside me
i fought with myself for all of about 10
seconds as leaving the door alone and
going back downstairs
but i wanted to know what was in there
so i turned the key and tried the knob
again
i pushed and the door opened inward and
there was this long sigh
like it had been holding its breath and
was finally exhaling
the inside of the room was as black as
night
even with the door open and a lamp on a
small table just behind me across the
hall the light stopped at the other side
of the door frame
as if the room was swallowing it
i couldn't even see the door
except for the edges and hinges
it was like i was standing on a
precipice of nothing
and i got dizzy just looking into it
i had to hold on to the door frame to
keep myself steady at first then i took
a step back and i felt the rush of
vertigo fade
at the same time all of the sounds
around me seemed to become muffled
from downstairs i could hear my little
brother crying again but it sounded so
distant
conversely my breathing became loud in
my ears
i wasn't breathing heavily but it just
seemed to thunder
and i started holding my breath
and when i did
and a hush came over me
my ears sensitized
and i heard it
it was coming from inside the room
inside the blackness maybe 15 to 20 feet
into the room moving perpendicular to
where i was standing
i felt dizzy again for a second and had
to let out a ragged gasp of air before i
started turning blue
the tapping stopped for a second when i
exhaled
and then started anew
only now
it was different
whatever was making the sound was now
moving towards the door
i was mesmerized by listening to it and
i just stared into the nothingness
waiting to see what was approaching
i was scared but at the same time i was
frozen in place by my own curiosity
damn it to hell

i noticed that the sash across the door
was moving
fluttering gently in the middle
into the room
out to the hall
into the room out to the hall and as i
watched all i could think was that the
room was breathing
i bumped my back against the little
table with the lamp on it before i even
realized i had started shuffling slowly
away from the door
i reached back and gripped the edges of
the table for support
and still the tapping grew nearer
and nearer
and under it
i detected another awful sound

like somebody gnashing their teeth
together over and over again
i couldn't even hear the first floor
anymore
my breathing had gone quiet
all i could hear was the tapping
and the clacking coming closer and
closer
and at any second
their maker would step into the doorway
and show me its teeth and its claws
it was that insane image of a monster
with long tapping nails and hungry
gnashing teeth that drove my feet
forward
toward the door
i sucked down a deep breath like i was
about to plunge into icy waters and then
leaned across the billowing sash
stretching my arm into the room into
that all and shrouding darkness and
grabbed for the doorknob
i could barely reach it but i hooked my
fingertips across it and pulled
straining my shoulder even as i held the
door frame with my other hand as i
leaned as far as i could go into the
pitch black
i pulled and the door swung slowly
towards me i almost cried i was so
grateful to feel the door moving the
clacking sound was right in my ear
and i imagined hot breath on my neck
as i got a better grip and the door
swung shut it bumped against something
for a moment and the tap that was right
at my feet made a screw for a second
then the door swung shut completely and
i held tight to the knob before
remembering the key
turning it and stumbling back almost
overturning the table and lamp
i was shaking so badly that i ended up
collapsing to my knees they just
couldn't support me anymore
the tapping
had stopped
the clacking
had stopped
the sash was a skew from my draping
myself over to reach into the room
but i didn't care
i wrapped my arms around myself and
rocked for a moment
listening until the world seemed normal
again
i ran back downstairs and told my
brothers what had happened
my little brother didn't like the story
my older brother wanted to see the room
for himself
i told him not to do it but he was dead
set on seeing it
i was in a panic
trying to get him not to go
i even told him i just made it up to
scare them but he wanted to see
i followed him upstairs begging and
pleading for him to leave it alone and i
could tell when he saw the sash across
the doorway that he wasn't going to back
down
but when we got to the door he tried the
knob
and found it locked
he turned and looked at me frowning and
i realized that when i had stumbled back
i had pulled the key out of the keyhole
and i was gripping it tightly in my fist
my brother didn't know about the key
i started to smile and he mistook my
relief a smugness and stormed back
downstairs
my little brother following close behind
i quickly set the key behind the lamp on
the little table and ran from that door
that evening when our parents returned
we were all led upstairs to our selected
bedrooms on the other end of the hall
from the room of pitch black
as we reach the top of the stairs i
asked my mother
mom
what room is that
which one
the one with the thing across the door
that was uncle peter's office
he was a lawyer she said
and when he'd bring home work with him
he'd do it in there
why is it sealed off like that i asked
i'm not sure
i do know that before he passed away
uncle peter spent a lot of his time in
his office
after he died aunt regina locked the
room and wouldn't let anyone go in
so i guess she wanted to keep it just
like it was
when he was alive
i laid awake that night listening to my
brother's snore and imagining i could
hear the tapping coming down the hallway
to my room
when i finally slept
i had a nightmare that i was in the room
of pitch black
blind and something was hugging me to
its chest and clacking its teeth in my
ear
at one point i woke up with the need to
pee but the thought of finding the
bathroom in the dark had me thinking a
wet bed would be preferable
somehow
i held it all night
the next day
we attended aunt regina's funeral
it was rather surreal for me as an
eight-year-old
seeing this dead person in a coffin
even more surreal was the photo someone
had chosen to put up beside her
and hang a wreath around
it was an enlarged color photo of her
and my great uncle peter
standing side by side in the yard in
front of their luxurious house
smiling
despite being in her late 70s she was
permed and pretty wearing a green jacket
her arm entwined with his
uncle peter on the other hand was pale
and sickly looking despite his smile
his eyes were sunken
his hair shot white and his face gaunt
he was hunched over in a business suit
gripping a black cane in his left hand
to keep himself up
and i couldn't help but notice
that he had disturbingly large teeth

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A Room Of Pitch Black - Animated Scary Story

"A Room Of Pitch Black - Animated Scary Story"

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