Creepy - Day 8 - The Pastel Man

Episode Date: October 8, 2017

Don't say his name...***Presented by: Campfire Radio Theater (https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/campfire-radio-theater/id492465503?mt=2)***Written by: Vincent Venacava***Sound design by: John Ballentine Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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 our simply fabrications is for you to decide. These stories may contain graphic depictions of violence and explicit language. Listener discretion. is advised. Creepy presents, 31 days of horror. Day 8.

The Pastel Man. Credited to Vincent Vienicava. Consider this a warning. In the event it ever comes to you during a moment of weakness, as it did me all those years ago, say no to the pastel man. It doesn't matter how much you love the person that it promises to help. Nothing is worth what it wants in return.

I tell you this in hopes that you don't make the same mistakes I did that cold winter night, kneeling beside my father's writhing body on the living room floor. It was 1997 when I first encountered the creature and ever since, not a day has gone by where its awful face hasn't haunted my thoughts. I was a teenager then, but I looked at that evening as the night my childhood died, corrupted and violated by a callous hell beast with pale blue skin. Even though it happened years ago, I still remember the events of that faithful first encounter vividly.

I could tell you what my father and I were wearing. The toppings and the pizza we were eating, even the score of the football game playing on the TV. It was around halftime when my father's speech started to become slurred, which I found odds since he'd been nursing the same bottle of beer since kickoff. Stranger Eva, and I'd seen him drink a six-pack to himself in the past without even a peering tipsy. So I was having trouble understanding how single drink could have such effect on him.

I realized it wasn't the alcohol when half his body went limp and he slid off the couch. I asked him if he was all right, but his words had now become incomprehensible. I grabbed the phone off the coffee table and dialed 911. 911, what's your emergency? I think my dad's having a stroke. The thought had only crossed my mind a second before the operator answered the phone. Okay, we have your address. An ambulance is on its way.

It should be there soon. Is he conscious? Yes, he is, but I can't understand him. nonsensical jumbled words were rambling out of my father's mouth. I was afraid. He was all I had. My mother passed away when I was a baby, so I never got the chance to know her. But my dad was always there for me, doing the job of two parents.

If I lost him, I would be alone. That's normal with strokes. It's good that he's awake. And I didn't hear the rest because that's when I dropped the phone. I was having one of those moments where everything. faded into the background while my world fell silent. The football game playing on the television, the operator giving me instructions over the phone, even the sound of my father's voice as he wailed an agony on the carpet became white noise.

Dissolving into the air as I lost all awareness in my surroundings. All of my attention and focus was now on one thing. The horrible abomination that was standing in my kitchen watching me and my father with a twisted spine. across its disgusting face. Its head narrowly mis-scraping against our kitchen's nine-foot ceiling as it shifted from side to side, fidgeting with anticipation like a giddy child in class on the last day of school, waiting for the final bell to signal summer vacation.

The pale blue skin that covered its entire body, from the creature's head all the way down to its horrible, grimy feet looked weathered and wrinkled like leather that been left out in the sun for days, hanging off its long, lanky frame was a pale brown satchel with black stitching. It lightly caressed the strap of its pouch with a long finger while it looked on with eager anticipation on its face. At first I thought I'd gone mad from the sight of seeing my father have a stroke. But the closer the monstrosity slinked toward us, the more I realized it was no hallucination. It ducked its head under the light fixture in the living room and stepped a spindly leg over the couch.

Though the monstrous freak of nature was clearly bipedal, it had moved down to all fours and appeared to be stalking us like some wild animal hunting its prey. I should have been terrified. But the horrible smile on its god-awful face made me feel more anger toward the thing than fear. It was as if it was taking pleasure in my father's misery. Closer still had crapped and I grabbed my father's hand out of desperation in some veiled attempt to protect. him. The creature stopped its face mere inches from mine before shifting its attention down to my father. I can save him if you like. I was taken aback. I had prepared for the terrible thing to take a chunk of flesh out of my neck with its teeth or slash me across the face with its black crusty nails.

But speaking to me was the last thing I expected. He's dying. But I can save him. If you like. I sat there, I'm out of gait. cradling my father's head in my arm and staring into the two pink bulbous eyes that took up more than a third of the fall thing's face. I remember thinking that they reminded me of Easter eggs. A bizarre connection for my mind to make given the situation. It stood back up on two feet and once again I was reminded of just how imposing the creature really was.

It told me its name, which I dare not repeat, because it also explained that speaking it's the best way to summon the beast. For the remainder of my story, I referred to this entity as the pastel man. Just a name I came up with due to the pigment of its skin and the light shade of pink that was the color of its eyes. That, and for some reason giving the creature a silly name, always helped make me feel less afraid of it. Not much, though. Finally, my mind had recovered enough from shock to allow me to stutter out a few words. What do you mean you can save him? What I do is make deals, young man.

Its voice was surprisingly angelic, like a thousand choirs all singing in unison. If one were to close their eyes while the creature spoke to them, they might imagine they were listening to a seraph, not that hideous monster that was sporting a depraved grin in my living room. However, its extraordinary voice only managed to make me feel more uneasy. It wasn't right that something so beautiful would belong to such a repulsive creature. The pastel man gestured to its satchel. I have the ability to save your father's life.

But you have to agree to a deal with me. What kind of a deal? Everything happens for a reason. Even death. It's mischievous smile widened just a bit as if the creature is getting the punchline of a joke. It's true that I can save your father's life. But someone must die in his place. One shall die, so another may live.

That's the deal. I clutched my chest. No, not you. What would be the point? No. I'm giving you the option to choose the person who will be replacing your father this evening. I was stunned by what I was hearing. Are you death?

The pastel man threw its head back and let out a terrible howl. It was only later that I would come to realize that was how the wretched thing laughed. I'm certainly not the grim reaper, although you aren't the first person to ask me that. I'm not the devil either, nor do I work for him. Let's just say I'm an independent contractor, shall we say. Two tiny holes that lay on the center of its face in the absence of a nose, flared in satisfaction of its explanation. Can I choose anyone?

Not anyone. That wouldn't be very fun, would it? I could see a row of shark-like teeth hiding in its mouth as it's separated, it slips to speak. Your father's replacement must be someone else in your life. I'm not a murderer. My voice was tiny. It barely escaped my mouth.

I looked back down to my father. He lost consciousness and his skin was becoming pale. And I don't think I could kill anyone I know. You don't have to murder anyone, young man. The sly creature was moving into its final pitch. All you have to do is tell you. Tell me who it is you want dead and I will do the rest. Surely there must be someone you wouldn't mind out of your life.

A teacher? An ex-girlfriend. Arrival at school, perhaps. There was. I had fantasized about it many times, but never in my wildest dreams would I have ever acted on it. Everyone has that person in their life who's toxic. Someone who makes getting up in the morning more difficult and I was clear. Clearly no exception. Walter Flanagan.

I muttered under my breath. Who? Walter Flanagan. He's the guy at my school who gave me this. I lifted my shirt and showed a hand-shaped bruise on my chest that Walter had given me during one of his infamous hazing sessions in the locker room earlier that week. He's been shoving me into lockers and beating me up since I was a freshman. The faculty doesn't do anything since he's the best football player in the history of our school.

He's a five-star recruit going to a huge college next year. ESPN even did a piece on him. Oh. The pastel man began to snicker to itself. It somehow widened its already enormous pink eyes even more, then crouched back down to get face-to-face with me again. What fun is being a king? Without serfs to torment.

Hmm? Well, I'm tired of being tormented, so just go kill him before I change my mind. The pastelman shot a massive handout. wrapping its long fingers around my face. The grin that it was wearing since I first laid eyes on it and now had been replaced by a skull. You do not tell me what you do. Are we clear?

I nodded sheepishly. The grip it had on my face was so tight. I understood then and there that if it wanted to, the creature could easily snap my neck or crush my skull like an egg. Good. Because it's not so simple, young man. There are steps that must be taken.

Steps? Yes. A playful smirk once again returned to the pastel man's face. You will have to be present when this Walter Flanagan dies. In fact, I need you to summon me or else I can't complete my end of the bargain. Get the boy alone and speak my name. You must watch him die by sunrise or else you will be violating the terms of our agreement. So?

I nodded again in the monster release its hold on my face before snatching my hand. Its giant paws swallowed my palm as we shook to cement the deal. Excellent. With this handshake, our deal is binding, young man. I watched curiously as a pastel man reached into its satchel and fumbled around until it found what it was looking for. In between its repugnant fingers, it held a strange-looking insect about the size of a quarter. The bug buzzed its wings in an attempt to flutter away, but could not escape the pastel man's grasp. With its other hand, it pushed down on my father's door.

John order to open his mouth. What are you doing? I asked, but the pastel man didn't answer. It then violently stuck the insect in my father's mouth, jamming it down as esophagus with its filthy fingers. The pastel man rose once more to its feet. Yeah, the deed is done. Your father will recover in full.

Now it's your turn. Remember, eyes by sunrise or the deal is off. It turned its back. to me and began to slither away. What if I changed my mind? I asked. The creature stopped almost mid-stride and twisted around. Again, its smile had been supplanted by an awful sneer.

I felt even less safe than when it was holding my face in a vice grip earlier. Your father's health has already been restored so someone must replace him. One must die so another shall live. That was the deal. If you fail to complete your end of the bargain, then that someone will be... Believe me when I say this young man. I don't need to be summoned once her deal has been broken. I will come for you.

That is a promise. And when I do, you're going to wish you never crossed me. With that, it continued out of her kitchen and through the back door. I chased after it, but by the time I got outside into our backyard, the thing had disappeared. It was then that I spotted the lights at the ambulance as it pulled up across the street from my house. I flagged down the EMTs and led them to my father. It wasn't difficult to find Walter. I knew exactly where he was going to be, but I had completely lost track of time while waiting to hear from my father's doctors in the ICU.

I had to hurry to Eddie Gillen's house. Eddie's parents were out of town and he'd been talking all week at school about the rager he planned on throwing. There were two things I knew about Walter. One, Eddie was his best friend. Two, he never missed a party. It was somewhere around 3.30 a.m. when I pulled my car up to Eddie's. I parked a little ways down the street so I wouldn't be spotted. Because I gotten held up at the hospital, I feared that I missed my chance to catch Walter.

My concerns were alleviated when I saw his raised pickup truck still parked in the driveway. Another thought crossed my mind. What if Walter gotten too drunk and passed out? I tried to think of a way to get into Eddie's and get Walter alone long enough for the pastel man to do whatever it was he had planned. Luckily for me, it wasn't too long before Walter stumbled out of Eddie's front door and climbed into his truck. I let out a sigh, having just escaped a potentially challenging problem. He pulled out and I followed behind, staying far enough away so I wouldn't tip him off. He was drunk.

Even from the distance I was tailing him, I could see this truck swerving in and out of its lane. The pastel man's otherworldly voice played itself over and over like a heavenly broken record in my mind. You must watch him die by sunrise. I wondered if I even had the courage to summon the creature again. Seeing it once that night was dramatic enough. Could I really handle looking into its horrible face for a second time? And what about Walter? Even though he was a huge ass, he didn't deserve to die and certainly not at the hands of that thing.

it will kill you if you don't kill him. Just remember you're doing this for Dad. I'm not sure if it was the little angel on my shoulder or the little devil that was whispering in my ear. I looked out my driver's side window. A pink ribbon lined the horizon, the first signs of sunlight making its presence known in the dark evening sky. In a couple hours morning would arrive

and I'd be too late to complete mind of the bargain. I would see the pastel man again one way or another. Walter lived up to foothills outside of town, where some of the wealthier people owned homes. I'd been there once for a school project, one where I did all the work, and he ended up taking the credit. We had come to a part of the road leading towards his house that cut through a wooded area.

I knew there would be no houses for a stretch, so I decided that was where I would make my move. I sped up until I was tailgating the truck, then started flashing my brights and honking my horn. I was prepared to rear-end him in order to get him to stop driving, but it didn't even take that to get the job done. He must have been panicking. This truck started to swirl.

We were violently across the street before running off roadside swiping a tree and coming to a complete stop. I pulled up behind him and then hesitated for a moment. A glimpse of the creatures going flashed through my mind, causing me to shudder. I got out of my car but left the engine running and my headlights on. Hey, Walter! I shouted. Walter's door jerked open and he jumped out of the truck to the ground below. Sean the shithead? He was confused but clearly annoyed.

Sean the shithead was the nickname he'd affectionately given me my second week of school Within a month he had my entire class calling me at You think that was funny? I'm gonna fuck you up, you little bitch He stormed toward me with both fists clench Again doubts crossed my mind about whether or not I could pull the trigger Gil began to pump through my veins

Walter's life was about to end and it was gonna be because of me Memories darted through my consciousness all the after-school beatings I took at the hands of Walter, the pastel man's wicked smile. The look on my father's face as he kicked and screamed on the living room floor. Finally, those words, spoken through that unnervingly angelic voice of that terrible monster, One must die, so another shall live.

Walter was moving closer. It was an hour or never. I had to choose whether or not I was. someone the beast before the decision was out of my hands. I shouted the pastel man's real name out in a burst of emotion aimed directly at the star football player. Walter paused for a moment, looking at me in confusion,

then recollected himself and proceeded towards me again. The pastel man was nowhere to be seen. For the second time that evening, I wondered if I'd gone insane. Could everything that had happened that night been in my head? What was real? Was my father even sick? Again, I repeated the things named in an effort to summon it, but this time it did nothing to hinder Walter's pursuit of me.

He violently shoved me against the hood of my car, grabbed hold on my shirt collar, and spun me around. Walter raised his fist to hit me. I winced and put my hands up in order to prepare for impact, but he never struck me. It was only when I opened my eyes that I realized I wasn't crazy. Walter's face was white. His mouth hung open just as mind had when I first caught sight of the pastel man earlier that evening. I turned my head to see that unmistakable long lanky-potty slink out of the shadows and in front of my car's headlights. Its face still wore the warped smile, and I knew just beyond those thin lips was a mouthful of tiny daggers, capable of tearing muscle from bone.

Neither Walter nor I said a word. I think I might have been almost as terrified as him. My stomach began to feel sick as the pastel man stalked ever closer. I didn't look at Walter's face. How could I? boy was about to die at the hands of this horrible monster, and it was my fault. I didn't have to summon it. I didn't have to shake its hand.

I'm sorry. I truly was. And still am. I hadn't taken my eyes off the pastel man, but I think it had more to do with not being able to look Walter in the face than fear for my life. Walter said nothing. My car's headlights fell on the creature's face, and now we could both see it clearly. The pastel man's large pink eyes seemed to be. glow bright and the light to the headlamps.

Walter let go on me and made a break for his truck, but to help he's pounced on him with a surprising amount of speed and agility that I had not yet seen it demonstrate. His screams were met with only apathy from the creatures that dug those filthy black fingernails into Walter's abdomen. I tried to look away with the pastel man made sure I remembered our agreement. You must watch young man. Don't forget we had a deal.

I forced myself to look back at the massacre. The creatures smiled it mutated from mischievous to depraved. It looked as if it were driving some sort of sick sexual pleasure out of the torture it was put in Walter through. Deeper still it brood its long bony fingers into Walter's stomach. With a jerk, the heinous thing yanked out a handful of his intestines and draked them across the ground as it approached me, flaring those holes on its face that filled in for a nose and clearly pleased with its handiwork. It's over then. I'm not sure if I was asking or begging the creature as the two of us faced each other over the empty street that night.

The pastelman threw his head back and once again let out a revolting howl. Over? We're just getting started. It headed back over towards Walter, who at this point was crawling along the ground still trying to get his truck while he entered his trail behind him. The pastel man cut him off and snatched him off the asphalt. easily lifting him by the head with one hand. I toyed with him for a bit, forcing Walter to look into its hideous face. With its free hand, the creature reached into its satchel

and pulled out a much bigger insect this time. It was different than the one my father had unknowingly ingested, both in size and in appearance. If the bug that the creature jammed on my father's mouth was the size of a quarter, then this one must have been as large as a golf ball. It was slimy, like, mucus-like membrane that encased its body glistening in my car's headlights. The pastel man dangled the nasty bug in front of Walter's face for a few seconds. Now, get good boy and open your mouth.

Walter screamed. That gave the blue beast the opening it needed. It thrust the slimy insect in his mouth and passed his tonsils with its filthy fingers. I watched his Walter gagged, presumably on the oversized megat as it made its way down his throat. Soon he began to turn blue. I could tell he was choking to death, and even though I wanted to save him, there's nothing I could do. A minute later, the pastel man dropped his lifeless body to the ground. It examined the carnage for a moment, pondering over it as if it was a masterpiece in an art gallery.

Then the demon turned away, retreating back towards the shadows and disappearing into the night without saying a word. I stood there in the road, looking at the scene, still feeling sick to my stomach from what I had just witnessed. I don't know what I expected to happen after the deed was done. There was no explosion, no brilliant light show where I would watch Walter's soul either drag down to hell or ascend upward towards the heavens. Just a dead boy in the road. A dead boy and his murderer. The pastel man was the gun. But I pulled the trigger. In a way, there were two dead boys in the road that evening.

I knew I didn't have time to dawdle. At any moment, a car could have come driving down the street and found me standing in the middle of that massacre. I sprinted back to my car and sped down the street towards town. The coroner attributed Walter's death to a drinking and driving accident, although there was understandably a lot of suspicion regarding the odd circumstances surrounding his demise. The autopsy revealed not a lot of the accident.

evidence of the slimy bugged pastel man it placed in Walter's throat. The town was devastated. I remember a candlelight vigil was held in his honor. A couple of big news outlets covered his death because of Walter's status is an elite college football recruit. My father made a full recovery and just a couple of days after a stroke was released from the hospital. I would go on to graduate high school and meet the love of my life the very first semester

at my university. Her name was Diana, and she was the most. most beautiful girl I had ever seen. We married shortly after college, settling down and had a wonderful boy named Matthew. However, I never forgot the hand I played in Walter's death. I have carried that guilt with me since the events of that night. No matter how much I wanted to, I couldn't forget. The pastel man wouldn't let me. It must have seen me as an easy patsy because the creature had come to me again and again every time a loved one had been on the brink of death, offering me the same deal I accepted that for a shameful night. Though the creature had been persistent in its pursuit of bloodlust,

the image of Walter's gruesome death never left my mind and gave me the strength to say no to its propositions. Even years later, on the eve of my father's passing, I was able to refuse its proposal when the pastel man visited me in his hospital room. I've been cursed to have my soul tested till the day I die by the pastel man. A test that for years I was able to persevere through. Until one evening where my life began crumbling down and once more the creature took advantage of me in a moment of weakness. Diana Matthew were on their way back from the airport after visiting my in-laws.

I was swamped at work and had to pull in all nighter in order to finish a project by its deadline so my wife hailed a taxi rather than asking me to pick them up. It was around midnight and I was alone in the office when I got a call from the police department. They told me a drunk driver had collided with their cab on the highway coming back from the airport. My wife and the cabby were killed on impact and my son was in critical condition. I sat there at my desk, unable to move or formulate a coherent thought. It was then I realized that I wasn't by myself in the office anymore.

Perched atop my boss's desk was the pastel man. That abhorrent smile still painted across his nasty, wrinkled face. It didn't need to make an offer. This, I believe, meant the creature already knew. Can you save them? I asked. Yes and no. What do you mean? Just spit it out!

The pastel man smirk disappeared and I can tell it was not pleased by my tone of voice. Memories of the vice grip it had on my face the last time I demanded something from the creature blighted into my consciousness. Perhaps it realized that was past the point of threats because instead of lunging at me, as the creature had done in the past. It decided to clarify its cryptic response. I cannot pull someone back from death's clutches. Only save them before it gets its hold of them. Your wife is dead.

Now, make your peace with that. Your son's life, on the other hand, can be salvaged. For a price. I racked my mind. I couldn't think of a single person in my life who deserved to die at the hands of that pale blue monstrosity. Even someone as awful as Walter didn't deserve that gruesome fate he received that night due to my poor decision. But my son was all I had now.

And he didn't deserve to die either. Not because someone else had made a poor decision that evening and got behind the wheel of a car they were too intoxicated to drive. The pastel man's glorious voice filled the room again. I seemed to be hearing it from all directions. The drunk driver that crashed into your family's cab is still alive. I'm in the very same hospital as her son. Why not him? For the first time that evening, I looked into the large pink eyes of the creature.

You said it had to be someone I know. Semantics. It just needs to be someone who's directly impacted your life. The moment he drove his car into your wife and son's taxi, he became a candidate. The past woman flared the tiny holes on its face with glee, the way it always did when it was content with itself. Fine, let's do it, I said. I shook its giant hand to make the arrangement.

an official, and with that the pastelman gave me the instructions to complete our deal. When I met with the doctors at the hospital, they updated me on the condition of my son. We've done all we can, but he's a fighter. The doctor's feigned optimism, but I could see in their eyes that they didn't expect him to make it through the night. They led me to his room and gave him some time to be alone with them. The pastel man was already there when I entered, smiling down on his broken body. Quickly I shut the door behind me and nodded to the creature. It reached a gang.

angly arm into its satchel and pulled out the same type of strange-looking insect it had shoved down my father's throat. I opened Matthew's mouth. With two grubby fingers, the creature crammed the bug deep into his oral cavity. He will make a full recovery. Now it's your turn. The pastel man waltzed behind the hospital curtain in my son's room. I knew I didn't have to check to see if it had disappeared. If we were to make another appearance at the hospital that evening, then it would be because I spoke at the same. name. When I agreed to the bargain at my office, the Bastille man had told me what room the driver

was being kept in. His injuries were far less severe than Matthews, so he was in a different wing of the facility. I could feel my heart pounding as I made my way towards his room. With each step, the beating on my chest grew louder. Already the same feeling of guilt I had felt while I looked down at Walter's corpse lying in the middle of the road washed over me. I was about to take another person's life. Who was I to decide? whether someone deserved to live or die. I felt just as ugly and horrible as the pastel man looked. Maybe I didn't have pointed teeth or wrinkly blue skin,

but I knew that if I went through with Ardeal, then I was just as big a monster as it was. I stepped as stealthily as possible through the door, hoping no one would notice me sneak in. As I looked down at the face of the driver lying unconscious and as bad, I instantly felt a familiar sickness in my stomach. He was a boy. No older than Walter that night, the pastel man and myself unfairly snuffed out his life before

truly had a chance to shine. Walter could have become someone different when he matured. Someone capable of doing real good in the world, but he was never given the opportunity. This driver was just a stupid teenager who'd made a mistake, one that he'd never get a chance to atone for. I saw Walter in the boy's face and my stomach began to churn more. I tried to call it to pastel man's name. But I couldn't. Perhaps that little angel on my shoulder wouldn't allow it. I would not be responsible for the death of another boy.

Not this time. I refused to pull the trigger. I broke my deal with the pastel man, and in doing so, my fate now rests in its filthy hands. Hands that it likely plans I'm burying into my abdomen. On the plus side, my son will recover in full. It will be hard for him growing up without his parents. but he's always been close with his aunt.

My wife's sister is a wonderful woman with a caring family. She's his legal godmother and promised us the day he was born that she would always be there for him. Her husband does well for himself and they've never had a problem with money. The life insurance policy Diana and I took out, combined with the money we've been putting away from Matthew to go to college, will ensure that there should be no financial issue while he's under their care. It's only a matter of time before the pastel man comes for me. I've accepted that my death is near, but I'm not scared.

In a way, I look forward to it. It's almost as if the boy that died within me on that terrible night had been given another chance. When I die, all the guilt and hate I've had for myself dies with me, wiped away so my soul can cross over to a new plane of existence, pure and innocent the way it was before I ever met that monster

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