Mr. Purple Man
Do you have a terrifying true story that sounds like something out of a horror movie? Home-made Creepypasta is now accepting submissions!
Do you have a terrifying true story that sounds like something out of a horror movie?
Home-made Creepypasta is now accepting submissions! Share your eerie, unexplained, or downright chilling encounters in the comments below…
Mr. Purple Man
When I was little, I had a friend who lived in my closet. I called him Mr. Purple Man.
He wasn’t like other imaginary friends. He never played games or told me funny stories. He just stood there, deep in the shadows of my closet, watching.
I would talk to him sometimes—mostly at night, when the house was quiet and I could hear the faint creak of the floorboards near my bed. He had a deep, scratchy voice, and he told me things. Strange things. Things I didn’t understand at the time.
One night, I asked him why he stayed in my closet.
"Because I fell," he said.
"Fell from where?" I asked.
"The roof," he whispered.
I didn’t know what he meant, but I told my mom about him the next morning. I remember the way she smiled at first, humoring me, until I mentioned how he wore a purple shirt and how he had died falling off the neighbor’s house a long time ago.
Her smile faded.
I kept talking, telling her how Mr. Purple Man said he had been working on the house when he slipped and hit the ground so hard he couldn’t get back up. I didn’t know what construction work was at the time, but I repeated what he had told me: “I was building it. But I never got to finish.”
Something about my story unsettled her. She didn’t say anything else, but later that week, she went to City Hall to look up records on the house next door.
When she came home, she was pale.
She sat me down and asked me, very seriously, to describe Mr. Purple Man again. I told her everything. The purple shirt. The rough voice. The way he never left my closet.
Her hands were shaking when she pulled something from her purse. It was an old newspaper clipping—a grainy photo of a man in a work uniform, standing in front of a half-built house. His shirt was unmistakably purple.
His name was Sam, and he had been a construction worker.
Thirty years before I was born, he had fallen to his death while working on the house next door.
Exactly the way I had told her.
I never saw Mr. Purple Man again after that. But some nights, even now, I swear I hear faint footsteps in my closet. A slow, shuffling sound.
Like someone trying to step forward...
But never quite making it out.
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