Tommy
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…
Tommy
When I was a child, I was haunted by a man who stood at the foot of my bed every night.
He was tall and gaunt, dressed in faded bib overalls, his face shadowed in the dim glow of my nightlight. He never moved, never spoke—just stood there, watching. I was terrified, but no one believed me.
"Just a bad dream," my parents would say, ushering me back to bed.
But it wasn’t a dream. He was always there.
Every night, I would clutch my teddy bear—my only source of comfort—and bury myself beneath the covers, hoping he would disappear by morning. I named my teddy bear Tommy. Somehow, it made me feel safer.
The years passed, and eventually, the man stopped appearing. I convinced myself it had been my imagination, some childhood fear that had finally faded.
Then, when I was twelve, I was looking through old photos with my dad. We flipped through faded Polaroids and black-and-white snapshots, his voice warm with nostalgia as he recounted old family stories.
And then—I saw him.
A man standing in front of my great-grandmother’s house. Tall. Gaunt. Dressed in worn bib overalls. My blood ran cold.
"That’s him," I whispered.
My dad frowned. "Who?"
"The man. The one who used to stand at the foot of my bed."
His face paled. He stared at the photo, then back at me. After a long silence, he exhaled shakily.
"That’s your great-grandpa, Tommy," he said at last. "He died right after you were born. But before he passed, he said he would always watch over you."
I felt sick. My chest tightened as I thought about the teddy bear I had clung to for protection all those years.
I had named it Tommy.
And suddenly, I wasn’t sure if I had chosen the name…
Or if it had been whispered to me in the dead of night.
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