re: Need to Kill Time: What's a story that you've heard that still gives you chills

Another good one for you married men:

Wife has been staring at me....

Wife staring at me is legit a creepy arse story.

Dear God you are completely broken.

Even in a thread that has nothing to do with Politics, your TDS compels you to write some stupid shite....

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Grandmaaaaa welcome hooooooome

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Have some tea....

Sitting in the office this morning and reading these. Don't know why but a story my Paw Paw told me suddenly sticks in my head. Not so much creepy as just... rough

He never told us adult stories when we were kids, just stories about work, his family, his life growing up as a poor kid in South Louisiana.

About five years after my grandmother passed, and four or five years before he followed, he started to open up about other things he'd seen in his long life. During WW2 he was never deployed overseas, every branch of the military denied him because of a misdiagnosed heart defect. In truth, that was likely best, he was a big man, but kind to a fault. I'm intensely proud of the man for making more applications to serve than the fictional Captain America.

To me he always seemed the oddest combination of warm and cold. He'd smile at every little joke, smile at his grandchildren's achievements, but when his brothers died, he didn't really have any reaction to it. Seemed oddly desensitized to death.



A few years before he passed, he told a story that kind of made me understand why. In the late 40s, one of his friends approached him and told him he found out his wife had been cheating on it. My grandfather didn't believe his buddy's wife would cheat, and said as much.

His buddy disclosed he had been watching her. When he would leave in the morning, rather than go to work, he was parking nearby in the woods and watching his own home. Soon after, their other friend would show up, stay a few hours and leave. He'd been watching for weeks. Guy loved his wife so much he couldn't bear the thought of losing her. Even with what she was doing.

So he asked my grandfather to come with him to confront the other friend. Just to "stop him from doing something foolish". He agreed and off they went to his home. The guy had a house in a clearing in the woods, and he was slowly clearing out more space. Paw Paw said as they bounced around in the jeep approaching the house, he just kept feeling off. A sense of impending doom. He originally figured it was because he knew the confrontation would result in their group no longer being friends.

They pull up and he's outside chopping firewood. Waves them over. And the guy just quietly tells him, I know what you did. Before he can respond, offer a rebuttal, anything, he pulls out a revolver and shoots him in the head.

He turns to my grandpa and tells him "you've been a good friend, go tell the cops what I did"

Grandpa turns and runs, leaves the jeep, leaves everything. Said he was pretty sure his friend was going to kill him too. Looks back as he's running and his friend has the gun to his temple standing over the body. Looks right as the gun goes off.

He essentially browned out, ran the entire 10-12 miles back to his house. Grandma comes out, and he couldn't speak. She called the operator, and operator sent a cop out. Grandpa got in cop car and led cop to where everything happened. Still couldn't speak. The cop figured out what had happened and brought my grandpa back to his house. Called for a coroner.

Doc showed up, and after a brief explanation, my grandmother asked him what's wrong with her husband.

My grandfather told us he distinctly remembers the doctor saying, "he's in shock, he'll either come out of it, or he won't." Then he and the cop took off toward the murder.

He said he sat there for hours just staring at the trees. Couldn't see the kids. Couldn't see his wife. Couldn't see anything by the gun pressed against his friend's head while he stood over the body. Couldn't sleep that night, and for the next 65 years I don't think he ever slept more than 4 hours at a time.

He said after it all happened and he started speaking again, he always made it a point to laugh and make other people laugh if he could.

Thanks for sharing.

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Here’s the link. I’m in sales, not IT, so cut me some slack. Start with “Footsteps” and read through subsequent chapters.

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Finished this in two nights. If you like Stephen King, read. Im convinced this is/was a professional horror fiction writer just doing something not dictated by the publisher.

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It was later turned into a book (called Penpals, IIRC). But in my opinion, it remains the best one in this entire thread still to this day. Just incredible writing and a great story.

I love this thread, but sadly over recent years it hasn't been filled with much new stuff. And now you have somebody like ooga responding to a random post about Trump.......from 2018, as opposed to adding something of value to the thread.

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It was later turned into a book (called Penpals, IIRC). But in my opinion, it remains the best one in this entire thread still to this day. Just incredible writing and a great story.

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It really was phenomenal. I also liked the Cave one until the end. And they had another one I liked that never got finished. Something about an elevator in the guys house. I don't remember too much details on it now.

It’s Halloween! We need to get this thread back on for at least one day.