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In this disturbing creepypasta we witness a man whose life begins to shatter after he enters a forest and encounters a paranormal creature.... If you like human voiced scary stories, this video is for you!
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Voice actors: @jimmyhorrorsYT as the son and grandson.
@BertCatBoy as Marjorie.
Myself(The Keeper) as narrator, and main character.
Music credit: Morgan Goodman(intro) Myuu (Distant Reminder)
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For bonus content check out my patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/TheKeeperNarrates
story credit: u/m59Gar
Thumbnail credit: the artists of nvrcaredstudio.com
Video images: Sourced from capcut and pixabay.com (in their non ai sections)
Voice actors: @jimmyhorrorsYT as the son and grandson.
@BertCatBoy as Marjorie.
Myself(The Keeper) as narrator, and main character.
Music credit: Morgan Goodman(intro) Myuu (Distant Reminder)
For story submissions or inquiries contact us at thekeeperofficial@proton.me (our story submission email)
#scarystory #reddithorrorstories #nosleep
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00:00This creature has slithered into my mind, and now, my reality is starting to shatter.
00:11I don't know when you're going to read this, but I can tell you when it started.
00:15I was out for a walk alone in the woods when the entity came for me.
00:20It was beyond a blur. It was, for a lack of a better term, absence of meaning.
00:27Where it hid, there were no trees. Where it crept closer, there was no grass.
00:33Through the arc it leapt at me, there was no breeze of motion. There was no air at all.
00:40As it struck, I felt the distinct sensation of claws puncturing me somewhere unseen, somewhere I'd never felt before.
00:48My hands and arms and legs and torso seemed fine, and I wasn't bleeding, but I knew I'd been injured
00:56somehow.
00:57As I fearfully ran back home, I could tell that I was less.
01:01I was vaguely tired, and it was hard to focus at times.
01:05The solution at that early stage was easy. A big cup of coffee helped me feel normal again.
01:11For a while, that subtle drain on my spirit became lost in the ebb and flow of caffeine in my
01:17system.
01:18You could say my life began that week.
01:21Actually, because that was when I met Mar.
01:25She and I got along great, though, to be honest, I'm pretty sure I fell in love with her over
01:32the phone before we met.
01:33It was almost as if the strong emotions of that first week made the entity fight back.
01:39It was still with me, latched on to some invisible part of my being.
01:45The first few incidents were minor, and I hardly had to worry about them.
01:49The color of a neighbor's car changed from dark blue one morning, and I stared at it before shaking my
01:55head and shrugging off the difference.
01:57Two days later, at work, a co-worker's name changed from Fred to Dan.
02:03I carefully asked around, but everyone said his name had always been Dan.
02:08I figured I'd just been mistaken.
02:11Then, as ridiculous as this sounds, I was peering in my bathroom at home when I suddenly found myself on
02:18a random street.
02:19I was still in my pajamas, pants down, and urinating, but now in full view of dozens of people at
02:26a bus stop.
02:26Horrified, I pulled up my clothes and ran before someone called the cops.
02:31I did manage to get home, but the experience forced me to admit that I was still in danger.
02:37The entity was doing something to me, and I didn't understand how to fight back.
02:42Mara showed up that evening, but she had her own key.
02:46Hey, I asked her with confusion, how'd you get a key?
02:49She just laughed.
02:51You're cute. Are you sure you're okay with this?
02:54She opened a door and entered a room full of boxes.
02:58I know living together is a big step, especially when we've only been dating three months.
03:04Living together? I'd literally just met her a week before.
03:08Thing was, my mother had always called me a smart cookie for a reason.
03:13I knew when to shut my yap.
03:14Instead of causing a scene, I told her everything was fine, and then I went straight to my room and
03:21began investigating.
03:22My things were just as I had left them, with no sign of a three-month gap in habitation, but
03:27I did find something out of the ordinary.
03:30The date.
03:31I shivered angrily as I processed the truth.
03:34The entity had eaten three months of my life.
03:38What the hell was I facing?
03:39What kind of creature could consume pieces of one's soul like that?
03:43I'd missed the most exciting part of a new relationship, and I would never understand any shared stories or in
03:50-jokes from that period.
03:51Something absurdly precious had been taken from me, and I was furious.
03:57That fury helped suppress the entity.
03:59I never imbibed alcohol.
04:01I drank coffee religiously.
04:04I checked the date every time I woke up.
04:06For three years, I managed to live each day while observing nothing more than minor alterations.
04:13A social fact here and there.
04:15Someone's job.
04:16How many kids they had.
04:18That sort of thing.
04:19The layout of nearby streets, the time my favorite television show aired, you know, that kind of thing.
04:25Always, those changes reminded me that the creature still had its claws sunk into my spirit.
04:31Not once in three years did I ever let myself zone out.
04:36One day, I grew careless.
04:38I let myself get really into the season finale of my favorite show.
04:42It was gripping.
04:43A fantastic story.
04:45Right at the height of the action, a young boy came up to my lounger and shook my arm.
04:50Surprised, I asked,
04:52Who are you?
04:53How did you get in here?
04:54He laughed and smiled brightly.
04:56Ha ha ha.
04:57Silly daddy.
04:58My heart sank in my chest.
05:01I knew immediately what had happened.
05:03After a few masked questions, I discovered that he was two years old, and that he was my son.
05:09The agony and heartache filling my chest was nearly unbearable.
05:13Not only had I missed the birth of my son, I would never see or know the first few years
05:19of his life.
05:20Mar and I had obviously gotten married and started a family in the time I had lost.
05:25And I had no idea what joys or pain those years had contained.
05:30It was snowing outside.
05:32Holding my sudden son in my lap, I sat and watched the flakes fall outside.
05:37What kind of life was this going to be if slips in concentration could cost me years?
05:43I had to get help.
05:44The church had no idea what to do.
05:46The priests didn't believe me and told me I had a health issue rather than some sort of possession.
05:52The doctor didn't have any clue.
05:53Nothing showed up on all of their scans and tests, but they happily took my money in return for nothing.
05:59By the time I ran out of options, I decided to tell Mar.
06:03There was no way to know what this all looked like from her side.
06:07What was I like when I wasn't there?
06:10Did I still take our son to school?
06:12Did I still do my job?
06:15Clearly, I did because she seemed to be none the wiser, but
06:19I still had a horrible feeling that something must have been missing in her life.
06:23When I wasn't actually home inside my own head.
06:26But that night, I set up a nice dinner in preparation.
06:30She arrived, not by unlocking the front door, but by knocking on it.
06:35I answered and found that she was in a nice dress.
06:38She was happily surprised by the settings on the table.
06:41A fancy dinner for our second date?
06:44I knew you were sweet on me.
06:46Thank the lord I knew when to keep my mouth shut.
06:49If I'd gone on about being married and having a son, she might have run for the hills.
06:54Instead, I took her coat and sat down for our second date.
06:58Through carefully crafted questions, I managed to deduce the truth.
07:02This really was our second date.
07:04She saw relief and happiness in me, but interpreted that as dating jitters.
07:10I was just excited to realize that the entity wasn't necessarily eating whole portions of my life.
07:17The symptoms, as I was beginning to understand them, were more like consequences of a shattered soul.
07:23The creature had wounded me, broken me into pieces.
07:27Perhaps I was to live my life out of order, but at least I would actually get to live it.
07:32And so it went for a few years, from my perspective.
07:36While minor changes in politics or geography would happen daily,
07:41major shifts in my mental location only happened every couple of months.
07:45When I found myself in a new place and time in my life, I just shut up and listened,
07:52making sure to get the lay of the land before doing anything to avoid making mistakes.
07:56On the farthest flung leap yet, I met my six-year-old grandson
08:01and asked him what he wanted to be when he grew up.
08:03He said,
08:05Writer.
08:06I told him that was a fine idea.
08:08Then, I was back in month two of my relationship with Mar,
08:12and I had the best night with her on the riverfront.
08:16When I say the best, I mean the best.
08:20Knowing how special she would become to me, I asked her to move in.
08:24I got to live through what I'd missed the first go-around,
08:27and I came to understand that I was never mentally absent.
08:31I would always be there, eventually.
08:34When we were moving her boxes in, she stepped for a moment and said that she marveled at my great
08:39love,
08:39as if I'd known her for a lifetime and never once doubted she was the one.
08:44That was the first time I truly laughed freely and wholeheartedly since the entity had wounded me.
08:50She was right about my love for her, but for exactly the reason she'd consider a silly romantic analogy.
08:58I had known her my whole life,
09:01and I'd come to terms with my situation and found peace with it.
09:04It wasn't so bad to have sneak peeks at all the best parts ahead.
09:09But of course, I wouldn't be writing this if it hadn't gotten worse.
09:13The entity was still with me.
09:15It had not wounded me and departed like I'd wanted to believe.
09:20The closest I can describe my growing understanding was that the creature was burrowing deeper into my psyche,
09:26fracturing it into smaller pieces.
09:28Instead of months between major shifts, I began only having weeks.
09:33Once I noticed that trend, I feared my ultimate fate would be to jump between times in my life,
09:40heartbeat by heartbeat, forever confused, forever lost.
09:44Only an instant in each time meant I would never be able to speak with anyone else,
09:50never be able to hold a conversation, never express or receive love.
09:54As the true depth of that fear came upon me,
09:57I sat in an older version of me and watched the snow falling outside.
10:02That was the one constant in my life.
10:04The weather didn't care who I was or what pains I had to face.
10:09Nature was always there.
10:11The falling snow was like a little hook that kept me in place.
10:15The pure emotional peace it brought me was like a panacea on my mental wounds.
10:20And I'd never yet shifted while watching the pattern of falling white
10:24and thinking of the times I'd gone sledding or built a snow fort as a child.
10:29A teenager touched my arm.
10:32Grandpa?
10:33Eh?
10:34He'd startled me out of my thoughts, so I was less careful than usual.
10:38Who are you?
10:39He half grinned as if not sure whether I was joking.
10:43Handing me a stack of papers, he said,
10:45It's my first attempt at a novel.
10:47Would you read it and tell me what you think?
10:50Ah, of course.
10:51Pursuing that dream of being a writer, I see.
10:54He turned bright red.
10:56Trying to, anyway.
10:57All right, run off and I'll read this right now.
11:01The words were blurry and annoyed.
11:03I looked for glasses I probably had for reading.
11:06Being old was terrible, and I wanted to leap back into a younger year,
11:11but not before I read this book.
11:13I found my glasses in a sweater pocket and began leafing through.
11:18Mar puttered in and out of the living room, still beautiful, but I had to focus.
11:23I didn't know how much time I would have there.
11:25It seemed that we had relatives over.
11:28Was it Christmas?
11:29A pair of adults and a couple kids I didn't recognize tromped through the hallway,
11:33and I saw my son, now adult, walk by with his wife on the way out the door.
11:40As a group, the extended family began sledding outside.
11:44Finally, I finished reading the story and I called out for my grandson.
11:47He rushed down the stairs and into the living room.
11:50How was it?
11:52Well, it's terrible.
11:54I told him truthfully.
11:55But it's terrible for all the right reasons.
11:58You're still a young man, so your characters behave like young people,
12:02but the structure of the story itself is very solid.
12:05I paused.
12:06I didn't expect it to turn out to be a horror story.
12:09He nodded.
12:10It's a reflection of the times.
12:13Expectations for the future are dismal.
12:15Not hopeful like they used to be.
12:17You're far too young to be aware like that, I told him.
12:22An idea occurred to me.
12:23If you're into horror, do you know anything about strange creatures?
12:27Sure.
12:28I read everything I can.
12:30I love it.
12:31Warily, I scanned the entrances to the living room.
12:35Everyone was busy outside.
12:36But, for the first time, I opened up to someone in my life about what I was experiencing.
12:42In hushed tones, I told him about my fragmented consciousness.
12:47For a teenager, he took it well.
12:49You're serious?
12:50Yes.
12:52He dawned the determined look of a grown man accepting a quest.
12:56I'll look into it.
12:57See what I can find out.
12:59You should start writing down everything you experience.
13:02Build some data.
13:04Maybe we can map your psychic wound.
13:07Wow.
13:07Sounds like a plan.
13:09I was surprised.
13:10That made sense, and I hadn't expected him to have a serious response.
13:15But how will I get all those notes in one place?
13:18Let's come up with somewhere for you to leave them.
13:21He said, frowning with thought.
13:23Then I'll get them, and we can trace the path you're taking through your own life.
13:28See if there's a pattern.
13:29For the first time since the situation had gotten worse, I felt hope again.
13:33How about under the stairs?
13:35Nobody ever goes under there.
13:37Sure.
13:38He turned and left the living room.
13:40I peered after him.
13:42I heard him banging around near the stairs.
13:45Finally, he returned with the box, laid it on the carpet, and opened it to reveal a bursting stack of
13:51papers.
13:52Holy crap.
13:53He exclaimed.
13:54But of course, being a teenager, he didn't really say crap.
13:58Taken aback, I blinked rapidly, forgiving his cussing because of the shock.
14:03Did I write those?
14:04He looked up at me with wonder.
14:07Yeah.
14:07Or you will.
14:09You still have to write them and put them under the stairs after this, so you probably shouldn't see what
14:13they say.
14:14That could get weird.
14:16That much I understood.
14:18Right.
14:18He gulped.
14:19There are like 50 boxes under there, all filled up like this.
14:24Deciphering these will take a very long time.
14:26His tone dropped to a deadly seriousness.
14:29But I will save you, Grandpa.
14:31Because I don't think anyone else can.
14:34Tears flowed down my cheeks then, and I couldn't help but sob once or twice.
14:38I hadn't realized how lonely I'd become in my shifting prison of awareness until I finally had someone who understood.
14:46Thank you so much.
14:47And then I was young again.
14:49And at work, on a random Tuesday.
14:51Once the sadness and relief faded, anger and determination replaced them.
14:56After I finished my work, I grabbed some paper and began writing.
15:00While the weeks shifted around me, while those weeks became days and then hours, I wrote every single spare moment
15:08about when and where I thought I was.
15:10I put them under the stairs out of order.
15:13My first box was actually the 30th, and my last box was the first.
15:18Once I had over 50 boxes written from my perspective, and once my shifting became a matter of minutes, I
15:25knew it was up to my grandson to take it from there.
15:27I put my head down and stopped looking.
15:30I couldn't stand the river of changing awareness any longer.
15:34Names and places and dates and jobs and colors and people were all wrong and different.
15:39I'd never been older.
15:40I sat watching the snow fall.
15:43A man of at least 30 that I vaguely recognized entered the room.
15:47Come on.
15:48I think I finally figured it out.
15:50I was so frail that moving was painful.
15:53Are you him?
15:55Are you my grandson?
15:57Yes.
15:57He took me to a room filled with strange equipment and sat me in a rubber chair, facing a large
16:04mirror twice the height of a man.
16:06The pattern finally revealed itself.
16:09How long have you worked on this?
16:11I asked him aghast.
16:12Tell me you didn't miss your life, like I'm missing mine.
16:17His expression was both stone cold and furiously resolute.
16:21It'll be worth it.
16:23He brought two thin metal rods close to my arm and then nodded at the mirror.
16:27Look, this shock is carefully calibrated.
16:31The electric zap from his device was startling, but not painful.
16:35In the mirror, I saw a rapid arcing light silhouette appear above my head and shoulder.
16:40The electricity moved through the creature like a wave, briefly revealing the terrible nature of what was happening to me.
16:47A bulging, leech-like mouth was wrapped around the back of my head, coming down to my eyebrows and touching
16:54each ear,
16:55and its slug-like body ran over my shoulder into my very soul.
16:59It was a parasite, and it was feeding on my mind.
17:03My now adult grandson held my hand as I took in the horror.
17:08After a moment, he asked,
17:10Removing it is going to hurt very badly.
17:12Are you up for this?
17:14Fearful, I asked.
17:16Is Mar here?
17:18His voice softened.
17:20No, not for a few years now.
17:22I could tell from his reaction what had happened, but I didn't want it to be true.
17:28How?
17:30We have this conversation a lot.
17:32He responded.
17:34Are you sure you want to know?
17:35It never makes you feel better.
17:37Tears brimmed in my eyes.
17:39Then I don't care if it hurts, or if I die.
17:43I don't want to stay in a time where she's not alive.
17:45He made a sympathetic noise of understanding, and then returned to his machine to hook several wires, diodes, and other
17:53bits of technology to my limbs and forehead.
17:56While he did so, he talked.
17:58I've worked for two decades to figure this out, and I've had a ton of help from other researchers of
18:03the occult.
18:04This parasite doesn't technically exist in our plane.
18:08It's one of the lesser spawns of Mu Beta Mu.
18:10And it feeds on the plexus of mind, soul, and quantum consciousness reality.
18:16When details like names and colors of objects changed, you weren't going crazy.
18:21The web of your existence was merely losing strands as the creature ate its way through you.
18:27I didn't fully understand.
18:29I looked up in confusion as he placed a circlet of electronics, like a crown on my head, in an
18:35exact line where the parasite's mouth had ringed me.
18:39What's Mu Beta Mu?
18:41He paused his work and grew pale.
18:44I forgot that you wouldn't know.
18:46You're lucky.
18:47Believe me.
18:48After a deep breath, he began moving again and placed his fingers near a few switches.
18:54Ready?
18:55This is carefully tuned to make your nervous system extremely unappetizing to the parasite.
19:00But it's basically electroshock therapy.
19:03I could still see Marr's smile.
19:05Even though she was dead, I'd just been with her moments ago.
19:09Do it.
19:10The click of a switch echoed in my ears, and I almost laughed at how mild the electricity was.
19:15It didn't feel like anything, at least at first.
19:19Then, I saw the mirror shaking and my body within that image convulsing.
19:23Oh, no, it did hurt.
19:25Nothing had ever been more painful.
19:27It was just so excruciating that my mind hadn't been able to immediately process it.
19:31As my vision shook and fire burned in every nerve in my body, I could see the reflected trembling light
19:38silhouette of that parasite on my head, as it writhed in agony, equal to mine.
19:43It had claws, six clawed lizard-like limbs under its leech-like body, and it cut into me in an
19:49attempt to stay latched on.
19:51The electricity made my memories flare.
19:54Marr's smile was foremost, lit brightly in front of a warm fire as the snow fell past the window behind
20:01her.
20:01The edges of that memory began lighting up, and I realized that my life was one continuous stretch of experience.
20:09It was only the awareness of it that had been fragmented by that feasting evil on my back.
20:14I'd never managed to be there for the birth of my son.
20:17I'd jumped around it a dozen times, but never actually lived it.
20:21For the first time, I got to hold Marr's hand and be there for her.
20:26No, no!
20:27That moment had shifted seamlessly into holding her, as she lay in a hospital bed for a very different reason.
20:34Not this!
20:35God, why?
20:36It was so merciless to make me remember this.
20:39I broke down in tears as nurses rushed into the room.
20:43I didn't want to know.
20:44I didn't want to experience it.
20:46I'd seen all the good parts, but I hadn't wanted the worst part, the inevitable end that we would all
20:52face one day.
20:53It wasn't worth it.
20:54It was tainted.
20:56All that joy was given back ten thousandfold as pain.
20:59Then, the fire in my body and in my brain surged to sheer white torture, and I screamed.
21:10My scream faded into a surprise shout as the machines and the electricity and chair faded away.
21:17Snow was no longer falling around my life.
21:20I was out in the woods on a bright summer day.
21:22Oh, God.
21:24I turned to see the creature approaching me.
21:27It was the same absence of meaning, the same blank on reality.
21:31It crept forward, just like before, but this time, it hissed and turned away.
21:37I stood, astounded at being young again and freed from the parasite.
21:42My grandson had actually done it.
21:44He had turned me into an unappetizing meal so that the predator of mind and soul would move on in
21:50search of a different snack.
21:51I returned home in a daze, and while I was sitting there processing all that had happened, the phone rang.
21:58I looked at it in awe and sadness.
22:01I knew who it was.
22:02It was Marjorie, calling for the first time for some trivial reason she'd admit thirty years later was just made
22:09up to talk to me.
22:10But all I could see was her, lying in that hospital bed, dying.
22:15It was going to end in unspeakable pain and loneliness.
22:18I would become an old man, left to sit by myself in an empty house, his soulmate gone long before
22:26him.
22:26At the end of it all, the only thing I would have left, sitting and watching the falling snow.
22:32But now, thanks to my grandson, I would also have my memories.
22:36It would be a wild ride, no matter how it ended.
22:39On a sudden impulse, I picked up the phone.
22:42With a smile, I asked,
22:44Hey, who's this?
22:46Even though I already knew.
22:48Author's note.
22:50Together, my grandfather and I did set out to write the tale of his life.
22:54Unfortunately, his Alzheimer's disease progressed rapidly, and we were never able to finish.
23:01He's still alive, but I imagine that, mentally, he's in a better place than the nursing home.
23:08I like to think he's back in his younger days, living life and being happy.
23:13Because the reality is much colder.
23:16Snowing today.
23:18He loves the snow.
23:20When I visited him, he didn't recognize me.
23:24But he did smile as he sat walking out the window.
23:27Did you guys see that twist coming?
23:30Let me know in the comments.
23:32Also, I'd like to thank Jimmy Horrors, who voiced the son and grandson, as well as Bert
23:38Catboy, who voiced Marjorie,
23:41U slash M59gar, who supplied the story, and Morgan Goodman, who made the intro music.
23:49If you are looking for another immersive horror story with a twist, you can check out this
23:54one featuring Natinator, Mr. Fear, and Creepy Kavitoppy.
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