We made the same mistake about letting our eight year old watch the Leprachaun movies. She's okay now, but 27 years old....
it’s way up towards my face. Uh, the rule with apostrophes is that if you take the apostrophe, you substitute with is. So, it's becomes it is. So, in this sentence, you don't use an apostrophe. Just the s. Its.
Oh,-- and I knew you before you were famous with your scary story. How cool!
hopefully you have a camera. If not, get a snipping tool, download one. You can even snip off of a Word document, or paint.
How can we answer that? We can't see your work.
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here's the new one-awoke to a slight pressure on my right leg. It was strange how calmly I reacted, considering I had no idea what was going on, and had snapped awake as if I had not even been sleeping in the first place. There was a moving weight on my right leg, something crawling onto me, with blind hands groping my body as it made it’s way up towards my face.
I heard the voice of my 4 year old son, Will, as my senses focused on what was going on. “Daddy, daddy, daddy, wake up daddy.”
“What is it buddy?”
“I scared daddy dere’s a ghost daddy.”
Over the last week, every night that I laid Will down for bed, he would repeat the same three things as I was leaving the room. A plea for me to leave the light on, followed by a plea to leave the door open. As well as a following explanation that differed between being scared of “booby traps”, “ghosts” or...oddly enough, an “artic fox”. I assured him each night that there was nothing to be afraid of, instructing him to say “Go away ghost/fox/booby trap, or I’ll BEAT YOU UP!”
I figured the best way to tackle the idea of irrational fears in a 4 year old was to instill the belief in him that whatever boogeyman he might be facing, it is beatable. My hope was that if he had the mentality that his fears were capable of being beaten up, they would cease to be fears. It had been a full 5 days of this now, though, and I was getting frustrated.
“There’s no ghost, buddy, I already beat all the ghosts up.”
“Dis ghost say ‘You daddy wrong’ and den ghost flies up over dere” Will pointed up at the corner of my room. “I scared daddy, can I sleep wif you?”
“Yeah buddy, just be still and don’t squirm too much, alright?” I turned my phone over and opened the lock screen to check the time, the brief glare of the screen slightly blinded me as “2:04am” stared back at me. Will slid under the blankets next to me and cuddled close. He squirmed for a solid 30 minutes before finally falling asleep. I eventually fell back asleep shortly after that, leaving thoughts of ghosts for tomorrow morning.
I didn’t consider Will’s irrational bedtime fears as being anything of note, considering how common it supposedly is with kids his age. The past week really wasn’t even bad, with last night being the first time he had woken up scared in a long time. Come to think of it, this might be the first time ever. Sure, like every child everywhere, he had woken up when he was really sick, or really hungry, or for whatever reason infants wake up every couple of hours a night until their sleep conditioning kicks in. I don’t remember him ever waking up scared before.
I got on with my day as normally as possible, but I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I kept asking myself questions I didn’t have any answers to. That night, I laid Will down to sleep and read him a book called “Where the Snowbunnies Play” which featured an an arctic fox as the main antagonist, chasing the innocent Snowshoe Hares away from their home. The Hares get back at the fox by making a “booby trap” that catches the fox and saves the bunnies’ hides.
The book put me to ease now that I knew what was upsetting Will. After the book, I kissed him on the forehead and told him goodnight, but as I was leaving, the same whining demands came forth from my little boy. “Daddy, don’t turn out the light! Dere’s a ghost right ovah dere, it come from da closet and fly ovah dere! Don’t close the door, daddy.”
“Will,” I walked back over to his bed and sat down at the end of it, placing a hand on his little arm as I said “there are no ghosts here to bother you, there are no arctic foxes, and definitely no booby traps. If you get scared in the night, you can always come get me, ok buddy?”
Will still looked scared, but he nodded silently. I kissed him once more on the forehead and left his room, carefully closing the door but leaving it open just a crack to let a little light from the hallway in.
My eyes seemed to have closed just an instant before they snapped open again. I felt no slight pressure on my leg this time, but an overwhelming sense of wrong, the tight balled up feeling in the chest that seems to strike when something inexplicable causes a fearful anxiety that paralyzes all rational thought. I felt so unsettled, I didn’t move for what seemed like an eternity. The bedroom was silent. More than silent...I couldn’t hear ANYTHING. Not the A/C or the slight hum of the ceiling fan, not the normal muffled sound of occasional traffic outside, nothing. I realized that I could not even hear my own shallow breaths into my pillow, and that finally convinced me to move.
I turned over my phone, and once again the screen blinded me as I unlocked it.
“2:04am”
Deja vu hit me like a wave, and I fully expected Will to be crawling on my legs right then and there. I looked up from my phone and at the room.
Nothing...the door was still closed.
No...the door wasn’t closed when I went to sleep, I was sure of it.
I jumped up from bed and swung the door open, raced down the hall to Will’s room and then slowed...the hall light was out, I noticed as I turned around from Will’s door. My gaze returned to his bedroom door, and fell on the small wooden knob. The door was shut completely. Adrenaline raced through my veins, and I instinctively reached for the handle and slammed the door open.
Will was not in bed.
There was no bed.
There was nothing in the room at all.
All furnishings, all his toys, all his clothes, everything was gone.
I ran into the room, turning about in the center, looking for anything, any sign that my boy was still here.
The light from the closed closet drew my attention, peeking through the cracks at the sides and bottom.
“Will are you in there?! Will!?!?”
Silence.
I ran to the closet, swung it open and saw that it was completely bare, just like Will’s room. The bare bulb was humming quietly as I stepped into the closet to inspect further.
After searching up and down the walls of the inside of the closet, I noticed what looked like small markings in the bottom right corner. I bent down and got on all fours inside the closet to make out what it was.
BUFFY WAS HERE
Indented into the wall by something sharp, written like a small child, Will!?!?”Silence. I ran to the closet, swung it open and saw that it was completely bare, just like Will’s room. The bare bulb was humming quietly as I stepped into the closet to inspect further. After searching up and down the walls of the inside of the closet, I noticed what looked like small markings in the bottom right corner. I bent down and got on all fours inside the closet to make out what it was. BUFFY WAS HERE Indented into the wall by something sharp, written like a small child, with the Es in “here” written backwards. As soon as I had thought to myself “Who’s Buffy?”, I was answered, as I felt a slight pressure on my right leg once again, though this time...it was wrong, malevolent, its hands were sharp and as it crawled up my leg, I realized I could not move, I could not even turn my head to see what was behind me.
BUFFY WAS HERE. BUFFY WAS HERE. BUFFY WAS HERE.
The voice didn’t make noise, it didn’t have any volume or tone at all. It felt like it was being forced inside me, coming from me, emanating from the very walls, the floor, the ceiling, everything.
My body was still paralyzed, my eyes still transfixed on the wall with the marking “BUFFY WAS HERE” as new shapes began to form on the wall. Small, child sized blood streaked handprints, and fingernail markings of countless, overlapping scratches. New words slowly scratched themselves into existence above the previous “BUFFY WAS HERE.” My horror reached its end, my vision and senses blacked out completely, as I watched, cursed with paralysis. I watched while it was etched with wicked, twisted fingers into the closet wall:
WILL WAS HERE
Are you posting this on Reddit? You need to know that if you post your content here, in the forum, and on Reddit, then try to publish it in a hub, it will be flagged as duplicate content. It will not publish.
If you are writing for fun and plaudits, that's fine, carry on. However, if you are trying to kickstart hub building in order to make some money from your work, you have to stop and focus on that.
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Yes it is.
https://www.reddit.com/r/creepypasta/co … _see_envy/
Did you write that? Are you 'See-Envy' on Reddit?
David, the site is more for how to articles for search engine traffic as well as writing about topics people enjoy reading about on social media etc..if you want to make money. You can do stories and fiction though if you want but it most likely will not earn here.
No the people in forums do not do that here..it is a good community of people. They really do go way to help. Think it is a misunderstanding.
By writing informative how-to articles that are useful to readers. Or articles that people will read for interest on a subject.
Fiction and short stories are welcome here as well. It just most likely won't make you much money.
Because that is just how the system works here. You make money off the advertising on your articles and that is the articles they pay for. Searches in Google and social media views things of that nature.
No like a real tangible hands-on interest or hobby. You have to work with me here I'm genuinely trying to help you.
If you have no hobbies or interests you would like to share, you are most likely not going to make much money. Sorry if it sounds harsh, but that is really the honest truth.
well I guess it depends on how you define the word "hobby"
David, go to the top of this page and click on 'Chronological'. Then you'll see posts in a logical order.
Edit. Then when you respond to someone, click on 'reply' right under their post - we can see who you are replying to.
yes I did that and I'm the auther of that story
It's about sharing useful information on topics that people search for or enjoy reading. Which can include a hobby's because we want personal experiences or expertise you can share.
No. We've already found you posting work that wasn't your own, haven't we? Looks like you are doing it again.
Jesse, go check that link. https://www.reddit.com/r/creepypasta/co … _see_envy/
Does it seem like the same person writing as the one making the posts here (not the story posts, the other ones)?
I don't think so.
Because the style of the story is completely different than your own.
You didn't write it, did you? It's obvious.
I might message See-Envy to find out if they've given you permission to post their work here. Is that okay?
What does that mean? You copied and pasted the whole lot.
People have been telling you that you are a good writer and you have accepted the praise. You are a thief.
Oh yes... well I have already messaged the real author. When you repost someone's work 'with permission' you credit them. You say it belongs to them. You don't pretend that you wrote it.
I have also reported you to HubPages staff with the link to Reddit, so you can explain it to them.
Bye.
Oh no, just signed up ..
Btw am i doing the right thing answering this ?
I'm from Europe
Yes, you are free to post and reply in forums. Just don't do what David did.
Unless of course you're actually david with a new HP account. If that's the case then I'm going to make a new batch of popcorn.
From the writer:
"No I have not. I wrote this for a Fiverr order, and after sending it to him I posted it here and on my facebook, he never mentioned that he would try to post it anywhere before making the order...
Guess I should be more careful."
No. You are a fake. No-one is going to take you seriously.
then how do you explean this message-Nothing in your order said anything about commercial use. There is an option on my gig to add commercial use. You didn't ask my permission before posting, only after you already posted and were called out for it.
Commercial use allows you to post wherever you wish without attribution to the author (ME) but if you want to post it without the commercial license, you can, as long as you put MY name on it, aka attribution.
-See Envy
How do you explain it? Didn't you know that HubPages is commercial?
HubPages is for writers, not pretend, fake 'writers'.
Have you misunderstood?
He's talking about the message he's received from the Fiverr bod who wrote the content. Who looks as if he has two rates - one for commercial use/use on a commercial site (like HubPages) and one for personal use.
I'm guessing there's a fair few people who are members of HubPages who don't think of it as a commercial site. Strange but true?
I understood perfectly, thanks. I was replying to this...
"then how do you explean this message-Nothing in your order said anything about commercial use. There is an option on my gig to add commercial use. You didn't ask my permission before posting, only after you already posted and were called out for it.
Commercial use allows you to post wherever you wish without attribution to the author (ME) but if you want to post it without the commercial license, you can, as long as you put MY name on it, aka attribution.
-See Envy"
if you look in the message it says I got permission
Did you ask for permission for commercial use?
If you didn't then you do NOT have permission for commercial use (i.e. on a site like HubPages)
That's irrelevant.
1. You posted material that you didn't write. More than once.
2. You pretended it was your own.
3. You violated HP Terms of Service.
4. You violated Fiverr's Terms of Service.
5. You lied to us.
Therefore you are a fake. Go away.
have you even heard of fiverr before this thread?
Bev's summary seems to the point.
Not only heard of Fiverr but known of other websites which have risen on the back of Fiverr and then dropped like a stone when Google realised what they were
....and I've never even visited their website. No need with their reputation.
Aw you missed it. Further up the thread someone named Arleekin suddenly weighed in. Something about his syntax sounded familiar:
"Oh no, just signed up ..
Btw am i doing the right thing answering this ?
I'm from Europe"
This has been a very long thread. I thought I had read all posts, but apparently not. I don't know if I have it in me to go back and look for posts I missed.
Yeah that would be pretty exhausting. It's entertaining and everything but at the end of the day I have learned exactly zero.
That is what we have all learned.
Or maybe at least we have learned not to let a thread which should have been a couple of pages get up to 11 pages.
edit: Oops make that 12.
This must almost be as long as that thread from Football Nut guy who went stark raving mad over panda updates and seo for those that remember..or choose to forget.
Well holy sheet, 2 weeks and 237 posts later he got something published.
Of course, at the top of the story it says it was written by someone else, so behold the wonder while it lasts folks. LOLOLOLOL
LOL.
I can hardly believe this is STILL going on..this thread is one for the record books! Have you ever encountered someone so incorrigible? His relentless plagiarism finally paid off..
IGNORE the above I've reported it - and you can too (click "more" and then "report")
It has brightened my days as well. Sad to think it might be over now that The Hub is published. Whatever else the OP may be, he is without a doubt a great builder of community.
I am wondering if it's a mental health issue. There's no understanding or perception of what he's done.
The hub will be unpublished soon, I expect.
listen there are things you don't know about -could you let me explain
You do know he didn't write it?
Your praise should be directed at: https://www.reddit.com/r/creepypasta/co … _see_envy/
Definitely a great story. I keep coming back for it.
Oh, that hub you didn't write?
Do what you like with it. You should post the whole story on FaceBook and Google+. And don't forget your blog.
This could be a prank Bev..starting to get that vibe.
Yes, there are three possibilities for me so far:
Troll - I'm not convinced of that.
Joker - He's not clever enough.
Mental health issues - I still feel it's along those lines, but I hope it isn't.
Then, of course, it might be just as it seems. Someone who is so desperate to earn money here that they would pay someone else pennies to do the work... or simply steal it off the interwebs.
Did anyone mention to David that fiction doesn't do so well on HubPages? Especially when it's in the wrong category.
It's all highly entertaining.
By the way, David, why did you post the photo of the girl? It was kind of random, don't you think?
Not sure, it's just a feeling.
And the fact you can't write your own articles.
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