"Deadtime" award winning creepypasta by João Pinto ― Chilling Tales for Dark Nights

[@hibrica]

YES! The first time I started listening to this story was maybe about 2 years ago and I remember how much I loved it. Unfortunately, before the story could end I fell asleep back than ( as I only listen to CTFDN at night while laying in bed) and I couldn't remember the title nor the name of the author. For 2 years I have been looking for this story and wondered how it ended (I could only vaguely remember that he was talking about a silhouette of a man under a streetlight). I'm really happy I found it (actually KZbin recommended it to me just now) and I must say that my 2 years of search was very much worth it! Great story, great writing and a great performance that brought it all to life. Thanks CTFDN :)

[@JH-nf9in]

Awesomely creepy story! I think Jonathan Jones can make reading a grocery list scary!

[@MeanmnachAodh]

One of the better tales I've experienced on here so far....Nice work.

[@RaccoonRevolution]

The narrator has a very clear, easy to understand voice and his inflection is good. But it's a little more... jovial that really works for this genre. I kept expecting him to say, "Coming soon, to Walt Disney home video..."

[@RaccoonRevolution]

Jonathan Jones Holy crap. That's pretty rad. You know what? Subbed.

[@keelolo3427]

The J-Walker 😂😂😂😂

[@ItsthatguyOnline]

The J-Walker I agree 100%

[@jacquipeers206]

Lovely clear voice. Thankyou. It means a lot to those of us whose hearing isnt 100 percent.

[@jasonbrule7761]

This comment made me smile...

[@wynwynwynwyn]

I like his nice clear voice but it sounds vaguely like he's overdubing an infomercial. Like: "Are you troubled by night paralysis? Well no more with this new product!" lol.

[@exnomer5002]

This guys voice makes me feel like i'm in a starbucks... could literally hear him say anything and it'd come out sounding great! :D

[@Arcticmj87]

I have only but one negative comment about CTFDN... so ill come out and say it you guys are so much better than 90 percent of the horror suspense genre that's out there in pop culture! They get the TV commercials and recognition that you guys should have! All of the Hollywood cookie cutter stories combined don't equal the quality of your channel. I look forward to every new narration.. thanks for all that you do and the time and effort your team puts in. I have so many ideas I can hopefully find the time to submit a story and have the honor and privilege of it being brought to life in you channel!

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

Mike Boyle Thanks for the kind words, Mike!

[@controsfilms]

That was anything but negative.

[@colewarnerreviews5834]

Goddamn this comment is old

[@typerry1546]

As soon as I heard sleep paralysis I noticed my room get darker lol

[@sarahjustsarah3640]

Fantastic! Creepy and fun.

[@melvinshelton8448]

Very, very nice. My disbelief is suspended. Let's hear more from this production team, particularly this Narrator and Writer. One more thing. You can do what you want. I'm going to take the Narrator's advice. And I think you should, too.

[@cardfreak05]

I couldn't help but laugh at the way he pronnonced joao xD

[@lootleo4022]

I hate to bust the bubble of the story but I’m only posting this to help. I suffered from terrible sleep paralysis my entire life. A few years back, I developed horrid insomnia. My doctor prescribed me a cocktail of meds until we found what works. For me one of the meds is Quetiapine Fumurate, i.e. Seroquel. It’s an anti-psychotic but can be used off brand for sleep. Works like a charm. Sleep paralysis is no joke and I’m so grateful this medicine works. I’m still making up my sleep deficit but no more horrible nightmares nor sleep paralysis. Just thought I’d share for anyone out there suffering and desperate for help.

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

Thanks for thinking of others, Loot Leo!

[@RaineCarosin]

I echo Mike Boyle and EveryOne who enjoys this channel as much as I do... I'm so chuffed to be able to play games whilst hearing a good old scary story... And to all involved in bring these things to life, I say BRAVO! You make me look at my own darkness and I force myself to shine brighter and happier and more content, because no matter how dark it gets, just one flicker of light will catch the mind's eye and lead to happy thoughts!!! Thank you very much and ditto this on each of the video stories!

[@bethdavis6933]

That was AWESOME

[@ToocidnabIgaoni]

I had sleep paralysis once, but twas due to a dream I died in. I awoke filled with terror, but was unable to move. I couldn't even open my eyes, yet I knew after that dream I was completely awake. My mum came into my room just in the nick of time, brushed her hand across my hair telling me to wake up. I was able to move again. Later I told her about that damned dream I had, & how she was like my guardian angel who had revised me. Never again have I ever been through anything the like & I only hope never more.

[@AllanRivera952]

My friend suffered from sleep paralysis three times in his life when he was in college, and once when he moved back home. He had the Old Crone hallucination during the episodes. Scary stuff.

[@earndoggy]

I've had sleep paralysis happen to me but I've been able to break free. Once I fell asleep in reading a book on my iPad which fell to my lap face up. When I woke up I tried to pick it up but couldn't because it seemed like something was holding it down. My personality has no flight, it's all fight, and I was able to move, enough to try to pick it up again. It was really difficult, like moving in thick liquid, but I tugged a few times, then got mad and managed to flip it a double bird and it let go.

[@corinnefrusciante3706]

My understanding of sleep paralysis is that your brain paralyses you during sleep so you don’t act out dreams, a measure to keep our bodies safe while we sleep and dream. Sleep paralysis occurs when we awake before our brain quite realised, brain lag. In the time before the brain registering our awake state we are frozen, literally frozen. Can’t move a single muscle, can barely breathe, it’s terrifying. Terrifying. I went through a rough period in life and had frequent sleep paralysis events for a year or so. Every single time I couldn’t stop the rising panic, extreme panic and when my body could move I’d be gasping, crying and shaking like a leaf. Horrible time. Awful

[@Mc.Scrumpy]

Thank God and actually good for paralysis story I get sick and tired of hearing about sleep paralysis stories that I closed out of it as soon as I hear about sleep paralysis. I'm glad I stuck around

[@kklm7991]

Its 11:39 AM and im very scared to leave my be now

[@Foxiepawstotti]

I haven't been smoking any of my herbal remedies either and I am still seeing faces but it's probably because of tiredness with insomnia. ..that is clinically proven to make you see things (thats my excuse and I am sticking to it! ). Really great story too it's extra creepy because I get 'sleep' paralysis except I'm awake I never get it on wakening up (I rarely get to sleep in the first place! ) so I know that all the suffocating is real and so are the shadowy shapes you see. I shouldn't be listening to stuff like this because because I won't be doing myself any favours! Really enjoyed it real or self generated effects included!

[@anthonyarcanumsanctumregnu9551]

Excellent 😊

[@riseso-high2452]

Jonathan Jones.... Crazy How I Was Just Thinking Of This Exact Story, Just Yesterday!! Makes one ponder... Are Phones Now Able To Pick up Our Thought Frequencies??!!;) And Provide Us With What We Desire?!!;()

[@themaster804]

This narrator sounds a little too happy for this type of story. It sounds as if hes recounting a happy memory.

[@GTKDYLAN]

CTFDN ha guys are so awesome! All of ya who took part in this masterpiece deserve an award! Specially the narrator and Author, there's 2 things things that makes this unique. A Silver tongue narrator and HP Lovecraft author, combine the 2 and bang! This masterpiece is born, time of birth? The dead of nigth......

[@alphazero0685]

Great story. Could even be made into a really good movie too

[@AllanRivera952]

Also, I'm pretty sure that the woman that grabs Josh is probably something anyone with a girlfriend can relate to in the dead of night :P

[@wire_beatz7399]

For your next story, can you read Unclear Whispers?

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

Do you have a link to the version you're referring to?

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

WiRE _ BeatZ Is this the one you're referring to? creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Unclear_Whispers

[@wire_beatz7399]

Chilling Tales For Dark Nights Really sorry for the late response, yeah that's the pasta

[@isaacsanchez6392]

When will you have your next short horror contest????

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

We do them monthly now. New ones announced the 1st of every month, entries always due on the 22nd of the same month, winners announced the 1st of the following month. More details here: www.chillingtalesfordarknights.com/writing-contests/

[@isaacsanchez6392]

YAY I will show u my skills I won't let u down

[@soul77125]

Chilling Tales For Dark Nights Like no s#1t!! I had sleep paralysis a couple of times. It was horrible!!! anyway cool story a little cliché because of the zombies, but its still good

[@relentingmite]

Aeternus Nocte i have experienced sleep para. But im lucky to have said i have had no horrible things happen just the not being able to move situation.

[@oceaniapostel6837]

Fvcn

[@louiss2595]

I experienced my first episode of SP 2 years ago. I'm 18 now. I was staying at my older sisters place, sleeping on the cough -- I woke up with the usualy symptoms, hallucinating, paralysed... thankfully, I was facing the face of the couch and so I couldnt see what was happening behind me lol. But when I broke free from the paralysis I shot up and everything vanished and went silent... I was in shock lol I had no idea what SP was at the time and I got no sleep lol. I saw a black shroud hovering over me when I was on the cough... and evil laughs! SP is some serious stuff you know!

[@louiss2595]

Couch* autocorrect

[@JohnnyYK]

He needs to quickly get his strength back and get back to his house and try to see if his body is there

[@Foxiepawstotti]

When I first heard you narrate I thought you were an eccentric sounding, upper class Englishman! I am amazed at the range of characters you've brought to life, for me anyway! I am really enjoying this but is there something going on with the photograph? I keep thinking it's moving really slowly and I cant give you the exact minute but as you're beginning to describe the house, it looks like a face appearing on the tree to my right (left if you're walking towards the camera Gawd forbid!) Its as creepy as the story! !

[@alexisross4442]

So freaky, I just told myself that these stories are the reason my sleep paralysis has started back up and more vivid right when he said "Sleep paralysis"

[@thewarinessexcounty8467]

All he had to do was go to sleep

[@thenightman9186]

I've always considered this one to be a sequel to Windfalls...

[@ZeroStrife1396]

P3 Dark Hour much? Really nice story.

[@iCalintzYT]

Etienne de la Rosa You win the internet

[@LordGlacier7]

What the I don't know what to say about this. I can't stop looking forward and back.

[@chillingtalesfordarknights]

We'll take that as a compliment, Frank Bullard

[@jacksparrow7536]

Hello everyone, I am looking for a particular story whose name I forgot that I heard quite a while ago. It was about a guy who moves into an apartment in the basement. He doesn't meet the guy who gave him the keys. There is a mirror and a peculiar painting in his room. It ends with him being trapped inside the mirror and looking at his real self go about his life. It would be really appreciated if someone helps me find it.

[@duaneleach9675]

Wow that was an awesome story. I like zombie stories and spooky stories of all kinds. This was a real good masterpiece in my opinion. Hey friends I've got a great idea. Let's get together load up some supplies and go out to a cabin. A cabin out in the middle of a woods or Forest on a dark stormy night this winter. Lots of lightning and thunder and high winds and rain. A cold night. Let's gather inside in the living room Stoke a really nice fire in the fireplace will gather around the couches in like a semicircle. We'll sit together enjoying hot chocolate or such the like and really tasty snacks. We'll bundle up in her blankets and listen to some real really really scary spooky stories as we hear the lightning thunder crashing outside and the wind whistling around the cabin rattling the shutters. Sounds like good fun to me. But not alone.! Oh no we never want to do this alone. We have to gather together at least for us maybe more. This is what I call fun.

[@JJ-ls6el]

So this guy didn't call the police, he just went online and described the story in immense detail?

[@matejskubic1181]

Awsome yo

[@NoxForest]

Good story

[@misssandycandy]

Nice ;))

[@lizstroud9029]

Is this normal? Is anyone else this lucid in their sleep paralysis?

[@DWolfLycanis]

I'm not a fan of what I'm about to say but if this was in a Warhammer Universe, Nurgle would approve of the decaying bodies and overwhelming rot and stench of death in the murky swamps, what a hell of a story

[@Musabre]

Glory to Papa Nurgle!

[@TurbanCatMccoy]

Purge the unclean

[@thompsonevergreen8006]

This guy does realise that sleep paralysis is also being asleep not only awake right

[@Saiyan_Goku]

Left for dead 3 sounds good

[@BernonCars]

I think I just pissed myself

[@Zomb3h]

Ah- this one really creeped me out because I suffer from sleep paralysis. Only about once a month though or so. Hnng, well I wont be sleeping tonight for sure lol

[@shebagabow58]

Great story but sorry to say that the person who wrote it has obviously never had sleep paralysis enough to know that it's far more terrifying than this.

[@thatwitchychic170]

Exactly what I was thinking, Migizi. The character seems so nonchalant about it all, almost chipper and so observant about what going on outside his window. My three experiences were absolutely TERRIFYING!!! You're not looking around, just lying there, looking at clocks, or out windows. You're freaking paralyzed and, in my case, finding it very hard to breath. And the being he's talking about, wandering the street? No, it's standing there in the room with you, my friend, right at the foot of the bed.

[@shebagabow58]

Frozen in place with sheer fear while it’s laying in bed with you torture tickling you from behind.

[@AGC517]

Vunderbar....!

[@patrickancona1193]

So much better then the fools who try to sound sinister, every single one sounds like a 2nd grade teacher trying to scare the kids & makes a good story become hilarious, he also reminds me of the first gunnery Sgt I met, I was warned so I quietly let the yat’s bury themselves & tried to not smile, never judge a badass by their voice Semper Fi

[@crs7461]

I suffer from sleep paralysis, I 've seen some shit.. nopenopenope

[@alchemicmercury]

Ooh what kind of things? I like to draw peoples monsters to "take their power away". Its only a mind trick, like a placebo, but sometimes knowing that someone is making some sort of effort to help can help. It also helps that I absolutely love spooky stuff. I would love to hear some stories of what you have seen, if you feel comfortable sharing.

[@BLaCkKsHeEp]

so movies dont scare me, stories dont scare me, nightmares- i love em... so what's left? i need to experience sleep paralysis... i need my fix

[@aprilhobbs25]

I promise on everything, you do not want to experience that. What the storyteller describes pales in comparison to the real deal 😐. It is by far the scariest shit I've dealt with & I've had sleep paralysis since I was about 12 years old, I'm 39 now, you'd think I'd be used to it by now...no, not even close! I promise you don't want too experience that!

[@Lightwish01]

Black sheep - careful what you wish for...it might come true. From what I know of Sleep Paralysis, it’s a truly horrifying experience, one so powerful and terrifying that some have died from fear alone having a heart attack on the spot. I assume that you are quite young, still gathering wisdom in life. You do not want his because I have heard that some people’s lives get ruined due to psychological torture.

[@mackenzieclay4786]

My 2 favorite story after suicide watch! Good job

[@oliviermotard9113]

Sound liké sleep paraliz

[@cuetocaffery8804]

Anybody else found something in there dream so funny that they laughed themselves awake cause I have but I can't remember what it was

[@michaelflores9410]

happened to me a couple of times, and my sis and mom say I laugh in the middle of the night and say i get up if its a loud laugh but dont remember most of these events :/ . would be nice to know wtf is soo damn funny that is happening in my dreams.

[@dickfungus9383]

Michael Flores My little brother used to do this. I don't know if he ever awoke because of it but it was normal for him to suddenly start laughing during sleep.

[@BlaqueCzar]

A brother reader! Sounds kinda like the cat from mad tv who also voices samurai jack.

[@caseysand8227]

BlaqueCzar Phil Lamarr

[@Tomohawk-e1n]

03:22:51 = 13, coincidence, I think not

[@AG-en5y]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@nbnkenji8204]

D: I-i didn't expect to be this... This.. morbid....

[@KingTheInferno]

JJ!! :)

[@dragonflybtcheventuallybau6355]

Great story and I like the narrator's voice but I feel like he's reading to me vs telling me a story so not as immersed in it as I normally can be.

[@Arclight641]

Plot twist! the real villain was DIO Brando all along!

[@senatorarmstrong9041]

ZA WARUDO!!!

[@captainzac9350]

Officially shit myself

[@chrisjeremy8109]

The narrator sounds very in your face - kind of want to instinctively push him away.

[@robertfaust2079]

OMG! I can't stand the naration. It sounds like a dull computer. I had to turn it off 4:16 because the voice was soawful that it was hurting my ears and putting me to sleep. I'm not quite sure how that was pulled off, but since I could not listen to that guy's voice I have know idea about the story except a character was moving into what is OVIOUSLY a crappy location land building and all.

[@MUSQUIZanimation]

I thought the narrator was great! He fit the character very well.

[@Chazzymonkey]

He was pretty decent, you want nerve racking, listen to Jim Cummings.

[@Lightwish01]

Robert Faust - I found his voice just fine, clear and loud enough. You are entitled to your own opinion of course, and if you truly dislike his voice that much you have th3 choice of avoiding this channel and its stories from now moving forwards.

[@johngalt969]

Iron is not pronounced eye-ron. This guy can't read. :( It's terrible. Peripheral. Iron. So many simple words.

[@mh20767]

What a terrible stoty. It wasn't even scary. And the guy telling it was so monotone.