Creepy stories
The Long Face
The Long Face is a scary story about obsessive compulsive behavior and the dangers associated with the numbers 5 and 7. It is based on a story by a user named Fyve. April 4th Yesterday, I received an e-mail from my ex-girlfriend, Becky. She got married last year. She said she needed help and I was the only one she could turn to. There was something wrong with her husband, John. He tidies everything up and arranges things in piles. It sounds stupid, I know, but he has become obsessed. The house is spotless. He cleans and disinfects everything. He has to arrange every single thing so that it is perfectly aligned. He put all the books in the bookcase in alphabetical order and stacked the magazines on the coffee table so that they're perfectly aligned with the edge of the table. Whenever I ask him why he is doing all this, he avoids the question. One day, I found him rummaging through the kitchen drawers, cleaning them out and making sure the cutlery was all perfectly aligned. He was also counting the cutlery obsessively and putting a certain number in each section of each drawer. When I demanded to know why he was doing all this, he flew into a rage. Last night, I woke up and John wasn't in bed. I heard him rummaging around downstairs. He was rifling through the bookcase, furiously pulling books out, rearranging them, counting them, stacking them in piles. He was also whispering to himself, repeating numbers over and over. It was as if he had gone out of his mind. 'What are you doing?' I shouted at him. 'There are exactly 75 books on this bookcase,' he replied. 'That's 3 times 25, which is 3 times 5 times 5. It likes 5s. 5s are what attracts it...' I was shocked. 'What likes 5s?' I demanded. 'The Long Face,' he hissed as he started sorting through the books again, ignoring me. I tried to stop him and calm him down, but he pushed me away and knocked me to the floor. 'This bookcase needs 49 books,' he whispered, very slowly and carefully. 'Exactly 49. No more, no less. That's 7 times 7. It doesn't like 7s. It likes 5s. Ok? I'm going to have to teach you.' I was so scared, I ran out of the house. I'm scared to go back. I'm staying with a friend right now. Can you come over? I need to talk to you. Hope to see you soon. Becky. April 5th When I went to see Becky, she threw her arms around me and hugged me tightly. Her eyes were red from crying. I comforted her as best i could and once she had calmed down, she asked if I would escort her back to her house. She wanted to check on her husband. When we got there, we found 7 neat piles of books stacked on the doorstep. I told her maybe I should go in first. I pushed the door open slowly and called out John's name, but there was no answer. The house was extremely tidy. Not a thing was out of place. There was something disturbing about it. It was as if nobody had ever lived there. We searched the house from top to bottom, but there was no sign of John. When I checked the bathroom, I found a trail of blood leading to the bath. John was lying in the tub in a pool of blood. He looked like he had committed suicide. His wrists were slit. I almost threw up and I had to stop Becky from coming in. I didn't want her to see him like that. We called the police and while we were waiting, I noticed something. John was clutching a small notebook in his hand. It looked like a diary. I don't know why, but when Becky wasn't looking, I took it. April 6th I read John's diary and it reads like the ravings of a lunatic. However, it does explain all of his strange behavior. The pages are filled with scrawled writing, all about something he calls 'The Long Face'. He doesn't really explain what it is, but there are lists of rules for dealing with it. He says it likes multiples of 5 and will seek them out. It hates 7s. Everything must be arranged, sorted and piled to correspond with these numbers and multiples of these numbers. It sounds insane. April 9th I'm beginning to think the insanity is contagious. Something very strange happened to me today. I was looking at my bookcase and I happened to notice that the
