In the dark past before
history began, humanity learned to fear. Huddled in the darkness on the plains of Africa, our earliest ancestors listened as lions stalked through the
night around them.
Deep in the caves of Europe, later
men kept watch around their fires in the snowy winter, telling stories of horrors living hidden in the gloom
outside. In the Middle East, just as the Sumerians began to
scratch cuneiform on
stone tablets, farmers sacrificed their livestock to demons they believed lived in the desert.
Over
time, we’ve learned to control our fears. To take them down to size. The lions in Africa were held back by fences of barbed plants, then hunted down with guns to near extinction. The horrors in the snowy winter of Europe were cast aside by the retreat of the glaciers and by the flaming torch of human progress. The demons living in the sand lost their sacrifices as
time went forward.
In the twenty first century, we have the internet, we have half-mile high buildings, we have networks of roads spanning continents and
air traffic going around the world. We look to horror stories, thrill rides, and late
night television gore-fests to satisfy our psychological need for fear here in the western world. It’s almost like fear is a toy for us now; we only know
true fear a few times in our adult lives.
But all of those terrifying stories our ancestors told around fires? All of the things they saw when they looked out into the blizzards of the ancient past? They aren’t gone. Where the lights don’t reach, where the shadows dominate, they still live. They crawl in their eternal crypts, dreaming horrible, dark dreams as the ages pass them by.
Outside of the range of cell phones, away from all the commercial flight paths and shipping lanes, where no one can see, they build their kingdoms. Underground, they feast on whatever crawls by them. Nightmarish masses of twisted flesh and muscle, dark even against the darkness, they wait.
Because one
day, the lights are going to go out again, and they aren’t ever going to come back on.
Guy 1: God dammit, well I can't get to sleep now.
Guy 2: What the
hell. I just pissed myself . . .
Guy 3: Worst. Creepypasta. EVER
