Creepy - Day 14 - The Tall Man

Episode Date: October 14, 2017

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This is creepy. A podcast dedicated to sharing the most famous chilling and disturbing creepypastas and urban legends in the world. Whether these stories truly happened, or are simply fabrications is for you to decide. These stories may contain graphic depictions of violence and explicit language. Listener discretion is advised. Creepy presents the 31 days of horror. Day 14. The Tall Man.

I know of an old Romanian fairy tale. Highly unpopular even in its earliest iterations. It might be based on a particular event, or perhaps it's an extrapolation from existing Slender Man stories. The translation I'm most familiar with goes a bit like this. Once upon a time, there were twin girls. Stella and Serena. They were brave little girls and they had no fear of the darkness nor of spiders and other crawling things.

Where other young ladies and even young boys would cower, Stella and Serena would walk with their heads held high. They were good girls, obedient to their mother and father and to the word of God. They were the best children a mother could ask for. And this was their undoing. One day, Stella and Serena were out with their mother, gathering berries from the forest. Their mother bid them stay close to her, and they listened, as they were good children.

The day was bright and clear, and even as they walked closer to the center of the forest, the light barely dimmed. It was nearly bright as noon when they found the tall man. The tall man stood in clearing, dressed as a nobleman, all in black. Shadows lay over him, dark as a cloudy midnight. He had many arms. all long and boneless as snakes, all sharp as swords, and they withered like worms on nails. He did not speak, but made his intentions known.

Their mother tried not to listen, but she could no more disobey the tall man than she could forget how to breathe. She walked into the clearing, her daughter shortly behind her. Stella, she said, take my knife and cut a circle on the ground big enough to lie in. Stella, who was not afraid of the tall man, nor afraid of the quiver in her mother's voice, obeyed what her mother said. Serena, the mother said, take the berries and spread them in the circle and crush them underfoot until the juice stains the earth. Though Serena wondered why her mother asked her to do such a thing,

she obeyed because she was a good girl. Stella, the mother said, lie in the circle. Stella, though she worried she might stay in her clothes, did as her mother asked. Serena, the mother said, and bid Serena cut her sister open with the knife. Serena could not. Would not. Please, her mother said, if you don't, it will be worse, so much worse. But Serena could not.

and she threw the knife away and ran home crying. She hid under her bed, afraid for the first time in her life. She waited until her father came home from the fields and told him the terrible things she had found in the woods. Her father comforted her and told her she would be safe. He went to the woods, his axe in hand, and as he commanded, she stayed by the hearth, waiting for his return. After some time she fell asleep. When she woke it was to the sound of knocking on her door at the darkest hour of the night.

Who is there? she said. It is your father, the knocker said. I don't believe you, said Serena. It is your sister, the knocker said. It cannot be, said Serena. I am your mother, said the knocker. And I told you it would be worse. and the door locked tight before her father left fell open as if it had been left ajar,

and her mother stepped in. Her sister's head clutched in one bloody hand, her father's in the other. Why? Wept Serena. Because, said her mother, there is no reward for goodness. There is no respite for faith. There is nothing but cold, steel, teeth. teeth and the scourging fire for us all.

And it is coming for you now. And the tall man slid from the fire and clenched Serena in his burning embrace. And that was the end of her. For more information, including pictures and videos of the stories told on this podcast, or to suggest stories for future episodes, please visit us. at Creepypod on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, or email us at creepypod. All stories told on this podcast can be found at creepypasta wiki.com and are protected by a Creative Commons license.

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