The Monkey's Paw - The Curse of Getting what you Wish - Fantastic Tale in Comics - See U in History

[@tyrantking9000]

"I want 200 pounds." And just like that, he gains 200 pounds, and not in money.

[@muaddib5079]

Lol, that was funny

[@darksungwyndolin8305]

That's what I thought was gonna happen, I wasn't prepared for this

[@dunkleham]

He is immediately buried under 200 pounds of loam topsoil

[@ZidaneTribal93]

@@muaddib5079 indeed

[@fracoppa102]

r/TheMonkeysPaw in a nutshell.

[@yusei2221]

For those wondering what his last wish was: It was for his son to rest in peace.

[@veronicageorge3825]

I actually think the way it was worded was to wish his son back to the grave, but I'm not sure as it's been awhile since I read this story.

[@flamingpassion9160]

@@veronicageorge3825 ya me too

[@yusei2221]

@@veronicageorge3825 I'm kind of in the same vein myself; the last time I heard the story was in middle school, I think...? I'm just going off on memory, to be honest. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong, whoops ^^;

[@sapphirestar3978]

nah it would of taken too much time i think what he wished for was for the curse to be over

[@nirvallasparadise]

Actually it is inferred

[@JStryker47]

In the version I read in high school, there was a morbid bit of foreshadowing. When the father wishes for 200 pounds, the son remarks, "Well, I don't see the money. And I suppose I never shall."

[@tjlnintendo]

From the version that I read in middle school, I recall the ending being a bit different. The husband’s 3rd wish was that he wished that he never got the monkey’s paw to begin with. This in turn caused him to wake back up infront of his son playing chess like in the beginning of the story, but the consequence is that the general dies on his way to the whites house, thus making it where the whites never got the paw.

[@peyinards7050]

I say that's a great ending

[@afaiiii]

this is a better ending

[@liz-oj6mb]

the good ending badge

[@solarsenuth8818]

Yeah that’s what I thought as well, but maybe (dumb Idea) but the rat that the old man met on the stairs may have been Herbert himself, because the old man did wish for Herbert alive but it could have been Herbert in a different body, the ending has no sense, and I’m still stumped?

[@tjlnintendo]

@@solarsenuth8818 Don’t worry, that idea is no where as dumb as one of my classmates when he suggested the person knocking on the door was the Monkey asking for his paw back. 💀

[@Shidyk]

The Monkey's Paw was always a story I found interesting as a youth. As an adult, I can only contemplate how scary it would be to have something like this give you what you want, but always with a catch. Thank you, See U in History for bringing this story back.

[@cactusmann5542]

Ask for something your enemy wants.

[@BVBGirl-3313]

I was 10 when I heard this and saw it in a theatre with my school Not the best thing for over active imaginative children... especially me...i had medical trauma that year so I was messed up anyway...this story....return to oz...freaked me out ..... Its okay they regulated our forth grade emotions with where the red fern grows....cant be freaked out with out also being devistated over dogs all in the same year

[@BVBGirl-3313]

@@cactusmann5542 doesnt mean something wont happen to you to make it happen

[@bpapao]

"i want eternal happiness and to end distrust for all peoples in the world to live in peace and in good health" Id say that the catch for this request would be reasonable ha! Take that monkeys paw

[@BigDaddyJinx]

The D'Jinn operate this way as well. You get *exactly* what you wish for. No more. No less. The play there or the "catch" is that you have to find a way to phrase your wish so that the consequence isn't a a dire one. Years back they had an X-Files episode featuring a D'Jinn who was trapped in a carpet and once unrolled and she was freed, they got wishes. Mulder finally figured it all out. Even the Outer Limits or the Twilight Zone did a wish episode like this years before that. A story like this with the moral of "Be careful what you wish for - you just may get it" is as old as time itself. So much so that I decided to try my hand at a Monkey's Paw fable of my own.

[@Trey1x.]

I remember reading this in sixth grade and it spooked every single one of us, one of the only stories that ever got me.

[@cuetoaa7074]

Same to my class. But we were an easol class so we didn't understand a thing :V

[@Joker-jw1iq]

Me as well

[@lastmanstanding7155]

Same in my school. Maybe it's a curriculum thing for 6th grade. But yea we all sat with our desks inward reading the book. And I'll admit, the story got me.

[@danielmessi1092]

Same as me but in 7th grade. It really intrigued me honestly what a story

[@BVBGirl-3313]

6th grade...what...i wish I was 12 when I heard this story....but Noooooooo The year I get surgery and have medical trauma we get return to oz and this effed up story... At age 10... We didnt just hear the story...no we also went to a theatrical telling...at age 10(they did short stories...monkeys paw, tell tale heart, sleepy hallow) All through fourth grade if I had nightmares it was wheeler laughs and the crying screaming mom trying to force the door open with a shadow man behind it....seeing it in theatres esoecally as close as we were(basically front row) effed me up more than if I just heard it ..... We also got to watch where the red fern grows that year....like idk if they meant to torture us but it was.... Like you have us scrraming our heads off cuz of headless Mombi then sobbing cuz of dogs then freaked out cuz of a petrified monkey hand .... Sorry for the rant...im watching this to face my fears sooo many years later 😂😂😂

[@Tri_Nguyen_]

plot twist: the major put a wire in the mechanical paw and was trolling the entire family. Herbert ded af tho

[@mob4556]

Official plot confirmed.

[@fadelmuhamadnardi2200]

and he uploaded it on this platform

[@burritowyrm6530]

the monkey’s paw incident

[@Chaoticgoodcryptid2319]

I kinda feel bad about laughing at "Herbert def af tho"

[@brucemason1901]

@@Chaoticgoodcryptid2319 Why? It's fiction.

[@moneda4u]

Moral of the story is nothing comes easy, you must work for what you get. Usually things that are too good have a catch.

[@schwarzerritter5724]

So... bring your son back to life the hard way?

[@ZaiDrizzleDrop]

@@schwarzerritter5724 Nah, more like accept that you can’t Change his fate of death

[@matrix91234]

I always presumes that taking shortcuts is dangerous (unless its to get to the store quicker). But take the movie "Requiem for a Dream 2000" movie, legit scary stuff but the warning signs are there. Be patient and you may be rewarded rather than quick painful decision

[@KingNazaru]

A family is warned to not take wishes lightly, makes careless wishes, and suffers horrifying consequences. I love comedies.

[@satanbrony9235]

I think it shows more examples of bad decisions so that the audience could think "you shouldn't do that" on their own.

[@m.mmotivationnnnsurvivor7151]

Dumb Ways to Die

[@ludens1472]

Every horror movie ever. Someone tells them there will be consequences if they do smth or visit somewhere. Protagonist and friends/family r too dumb or thick headed to follow the advice

[@txtrophycub]

Its only funny if you're a sociopath. You missed the reasoning for the story

[@KingNazaru]

@@txtrophycub No I didn’t . You just didn’t understand I was joking.

[@Hanweon]

There was a saying go like this “anything in life come at a price” So be careful what you wish for

[@rattandragon9104]

I wish for no consequences in any action I take

[@rattandragon9104]

Git out smarted

[@oliviamann556]

Yeah it’s not only you may get it it’s how you get it

[@sgauden02]

I seem to remember a version of the story where the mother actually does open the door in time, but we don't see what she sees, as we're following the father, who only hears a scream of utter terror from his wife before uttering his third, and final wish. Then all goes silent, and the man checks on his wife, finding her on the floor, mumbling as though she's utterly lost her mind from what she saw.

[@undyne1]

Yea, i remember that version too from middle school

[@sgauden02]

@@undyne1 In that version, I think the price for the third wish was the wife's sanity. The paw does send Herbert back to the grave, but not before his mother sees him in his mutilated form, causing to completely lose it.

[@brucemason1901]

lol Glad and relieved that people in the comments confirmed that I read the same version.

[@Krystal40553]

I remember that one too but I also read another version where it was Mrs White who made the wish instead of Mr White, who was now terrified of making another wish. I think he was asleep at the time so Mrs White in her grief made the wish and Mr white woke up to see her doing it, since he said not to make another wish, or was out of the house and walked in on her making the wish. Either way as the husband try to stop his wife from opening the door, she pushed him aside and happily ran to the door, ignoring her husband’s cry. Desperate the husband grabbed the paw and wish his son to return to the grave, and just as the wife opened the door to only see a puddle of blood on the doorstep (and I think on the door too). The wife angrily yelled at her husband and began to cry in despair and grief that she was hysterical and had to be sent to a mental hospital for the rest of her life. But I also read another one where she committed suicide due to her grief.

[@kkorsonel]

​@@Krystal40553you definitely made all that up it made no sense. And there isn't a story ending with her committing suicide.

[@NguyenPham-bl6qm]

So the moral of the lesson is: Everything comes with a sacrifice. That's how I interpret it at least.

[@gonzaloortega5481]

Ok

[@matrix91234]

I think its more "Dont take shortcuts, its not worth it"

[@ayasha6646]

Close, don’t meddle with what’s already put in place to happen, or there will be consequences.

[@dabaruknemuhar1981]

Moral of the story is, be EXTREMELY specific about what you're going to wish for or don't wish at all. It's a scam.

[@plcflame]

Wishing for the Monkey Paw is kind of what programmers do every day: You have to write very specific code step-by-step, any mistake and nobody knows what happens

[@michaeljonathan9715]

So Monkey's paw is basically coding tool/console command with sv_cheats 1 for real life but with spaghetti code.

[@abookoholic6252]

We read this piece in 6th grade and the assignment on it was to re-write the ending from the son's perspective. I'll put it here--it was the first piece of thriller writing I ever wrote and I'm still quite attached to it. - To say that it had been painful would have been a severe understatement. I had never felt such pain, not when I had broken my leg as a young child, not being cut from my shoulder to my wrist by a stone that I had fallen on while playing with my friends 3 years later. Never. Then it had numbed; the pain was no longer a part of me, it was still there, but I was separate from it. I was surrounded by thick fog, and I *was* the fog. Perhaps it was all in my head, maybe there was no fog, but I did not care for I was fading--drifting into a blissful nothingness. "I wish my son alive," a quavering voice sounded in the darkness and seemed to pull me from a long, dreamless sleep. It echoed as if I was hearing it from a long distance. it was my father, and I wished to go to him. For the first time in what felt like years I truly thought. I thought of mother and father and of seeing their faces, now wrinkled with age. I wanted them, just to see them, to look into their eyes. But I couldn't; it was impossible. Two senses only had I regained. I could see and I could hear, and what I saw and heard terrified me. I did indeed wish to see my family, but I did not want them to come to me, yet that seemed probable for the bloody and decaying mass of flesh that was my corpse was digging free if it's grave, and I knew where it was intending to go. It was walking down the road to what had onece been my home, and I saw from its eyes though I had no control over it. I knew that it would drag the other Whites back to the grave, and being both dead, it would be as though we were alive to each other. I wanted nothing more than for them to simply have the sense not to open the door. I wished in vain however, they would not have wished me back only to leave the door closed to me. I knocked, and I heard my mother scream my name. I knocked again, and I heard my father called to her. My mother was scrabbling at the door, still screaming. Then I was gone. I was fading, drifting away, and there was nothing. I thought no more.

[@Jamie-js3qw]

Excellent writing

[@DaniyalSolkar]

@@Jamie-js3qw you're right

[@tjlnintendo]

You wrote this as a 6th grader??? Impressive!

[@DaniyalSolkar]

@@tjlnintendo ikr

[@davidchau8545]

why u lying boi

[@vincentdecicco7393]

Great presentation and execution on this classic ghost story. Well done

[@punchline619]

U have my name 😂

[@C-View1]

1: “No consequences for wishes” 2: “I wish for you to have no limits” 3: “Give me all of your powers”

[@eswinipi]

The anime xxxHolic has an episode about the Monkey’s paw, and about how evil it is.

[@avengerex]

I remember that one :D Nanami was the name of the student I believe.

[@blueanimegirl07]

Yasss I'm so glad you mentioned this. I first heard about the Monkey's paw in xxxHolic

[@comebackfailed6350]

even Rick & Morty had an episode with the same item

[@memoriesofheaven5192]

3rd Wish: "I wish Sergeant Major Morris didn't bring me and my family the monkey's paw nor told us about it's existence 10 days ago."

[@fyhdhgg]

the theory we had at school was that the son died because he grabbed the hand and said "i dont see the money and i dont think i ever will" hence his death

[@kikikira8416]

Would that make sense though if the first wish was for 200 pounds but the 2nd was for the son to be alive and 3rd got him to rest in peace, can't have 4 wishes

[@tomfoolery7797]

@@kikikira8416 The son made the wish to never see the 200 pounds, the other three where made by the father.

[@nofoxed]

@@tomfoolery7797 The colenol said it only works for the first three people to touch it. The colenol, the colenols boss and mr. white

[@RGC_animation]

The paw only grants wishes to 3 person, it already granted wishes to the boss of the general, the general, and Mr. White, so there was no way the son could accidentally wish for something.

[@fyhdhgg]

@@RGC_animation yes, in this story it has the limitations of the first 3, but in the original i believe, or the version we read, it said it would grant 3 wishes to those who touched it. At least in the version we had, it made sense

[@teddybearjay3279]

I wondered why human beings made up beliefs that when you get what you desire so much, it’ll bring your downfall after all endeavours. Making us see that things don’t get obsessed over

[@gamingdemigodxiii5630]

Because even in the world of the mundane, one does not get to where they are for free. Even if they are not the ones to pay the price.

[@johnnoahdeandres9458]

@@gamingdemigodxiii5630 True

[@harryhorrocks6030]

@@gamingdemigodxiii5630 who's this one. And why does he have to pay to get what he wants.

[@gamingdemigodxiii5630]

@@harryhorrocks6030 Because in real life, everything of value has a price tag, whether it be currency or time. The bigger the perceived prize, the bigger the price tag. Add magic to the list (especially wishes), and the price spikes upwards.

[@harryhorrocks6030]

@@gamingdemigodxiii5630 No i meant who's this one you were talking about. Here's your own words "one does not get to where they are for free." So who is this one.

[@sifilore9462]

I saw a movie of this, made in the 70’s, when I was in 7th grade in the early 2000s. The last wish was “I wish my son was dead in the grave forever”. Mr. White when looking outside threw the paw away. There’s lesson to b learned with not just this but other wish granting stories. Be careful what u wish for, cause you’ll just get it.

[@nyx626]

What were the consequences of the second and third wishes?

[@sifilore9462]

@@nyx626 Pretty sure the 2nd is like in the video here and the film had moaning sounds. If the door opened u know what that means 🧟‍♂️. The 3rd I don’t think had any, cause it reversed 🔄 the 2nd wish, consequence free.

[@luisz0339]

@@sifilore9462 A little late, but 3rd wish consequences were the wife's happiness, she lose her son forever. At least that's my theory.

[@afshanoorulain7360]

I've read the book , the wife wished her son to come back but , it was long back I don't remember what happened after the wife wished her son to come back and it didn't work , they just cried and I don't know what happened after that .

[@brucemason1901]

@@afshanoorulain7360 There was another version (that I've read) when the wife opens the door, she sees the mangled and rotted corpse of her son standing there and screams from sheer horror. The father doesn't see it/him himself, because he's using the final wish to send his son back to the grave. After making the last wish, the husband goes to his wife and finds her on the floor, trembling in fear while incoherently mumbling to herself. It's said that the third wish costed his wife her sanity.

[@General_Li_Shin]

Wow I had this in English class, absolutely loved this story back then !!

[@jacksonortez8558]

My teacher showed a movie about this and i really enjoyed it

[@algsunshine7075]

Name of the movie?

[@jacksonortez8558]

@@algsunshine7075 the monkey's paw (2011)

[@algsunshine7075]

Lol ok 👌🏽 thanks

[@jacksonortez8558]

@@algsunshine7075 ur welcome

[@TEKKENKING23]

I remember watching something that had a short story about the monkey's paw

[@Bulka_-gz6ug]

Just make your first wish "interpret the wishes as I wish them to be interpreted, without consequences and harm"

[@sapphirestar3978]

this is essentially deadly malicious compliance...giving them what they asked for not what they wanted

[@moneda4u]

The paw does not read their minds. It does not know how you feel or what your want, only what you say. The wishing must be simple and with detail, something like I want a glass of water. But peoples wishes are never simple or easy and that is why it goes bad.

[@sapphirestar3978]

@@moneda4u my point exactly

[@lel0uchvibritannia981]

I wonder if being specific with your wish can you avoid the consequences. Such as for the man’s first wish, “I wish for a kind person to give me $200 just to be kind”

[@thechair6519]

Maybe. I would just either say “i wish for the monkey's paw to be destroyed” or make the most specific wish I can make

[@chrisrudolf9839]

If the paw isn't inevitably malicious, I think the way that would most likely produce the intended results would be wishing for something that you can possibly acchieve through your own succesful efforts and to phrase in detail how it should happen. The more realistic, the better. Like "I really wish my boss would finally recognize all the good work I've been doing for the company and grant me a pay raise of [insert reasonable amount]." Wishing for a random stranger to give you money just to be kind is very unrealistic, because people generally don't do that for no reason. The result could be that you meet an insane madman. Or that something horrible happens before that, so that someone pities you so much that he gives you the 200 dollar to help you out. (E.g. your house burned down, you lost everything and can't afford food or shelter, so a friendly neighbor gives you what he can spare out of kindness). Thinking about it, the way you phrased that wish exactly fits what happenend in the story, provided the company was actually not responsible for the accident and under no legal obligation to pay anything.

[@lel0uchvibritannia981]

@@chrisrudolf9839 wow that’s a scary possibility

[@neros398]

Monkey paws cant think further then the plane statment thry are told

[@VictorHernandez-nj2lo]

I remember this was parodied in a simpsons halloween episode,the paw had 4 wishes.Maggie got a new pacifier.Bart wished the family rich & famous,other people hav had it w/them.Lisa wished for world peace,leading space aliens to attack a planet w/no weapons.Homer wished for a turkey sandwich,but over reacted when the turkey was a little dry XD

[@kaytlinjustis5643]

I remember listening to this story from a different book, and they had a tape, from school. All I could remember was the family making the three wishes, and people dying as a result. All I could think about was, 'why on earth would ANYONE want to keep a mummified, smelly, rotting monkey paw that was said to be cursed to begin with?'. Throughout my life, I was told that there are consequences to your choices and that when it comes to magic and the fae, words hold power and you need to be careful how you word your wish or boon, because the fae will ALWAYS find a loophole if you aren't pure of heart, greedy or ungrateful.

[@swordfish_0219]

I remember this story from my school days

[@swetamajumderofficial]

Same here...

[@glowworm2]

Same!

[@МаксимЖечев-у3с]

Same

[@masteroftheassassins]

I had to read the story in school and it’s still one of the spookiest stories I’ve ever read

[@brucemason1901]

Same.

[@fernandoveiga1848]

It is a good tale with a good message "Even things that would seem perfect have a lot of downsides", most times in life we think of a "perfect life" or "perfect goals" without thinking that there is no life without stress or pain, and that everything has good and bad in it

[@astraeusgodofthestars676]

This is my first time hearing this spooky yet incredible story. Thanks from PH 🇵🇭

[@asahibiswas1411]

Although I'm from India... but I never heard this story ...!

[@themoreiragequitthemoreihv4234]

I'm a pilipino

[@louisodiri9019]

Immediately I watched WW 1984,I entered KZbin and this was the first video I saw ! What a coincidence!

[@jeybeyon6643]

This is a good example of a good horror story, rather then the graphics detail of Gore and death, it goes to a simple question of "what if"...what if the wife open the door? What if it was fate and they can't change it? What if it was based on a true story? Question linger longer in the mind and the craving for answer could lead to insanity. Like a little splinter under the akin, it is not painful nor does it hurt but wanting to bite it out is implanted in the mind ... probably idk 😛

[@piyaruj]

Moral of the story, always specified your wish to the tiniest of detail. Outsmarting the monkey paw outsmart.

[@chunellemariavictoriaespan8752]

Seriously, amongst all the relics, the monkey's paw is the most pain in the derriere... After all, it has a price. In one story, someone wished for it to rain and the nearest pool dried up... That pain in *ss...

[@flamingpassion9160]

I don't understand the ending. Did his son came back alive as a zombie and ate his wife alive then return to his grave in peace being reunited with his mother dead and then monkey paw curse the Dad to be insane as he starrred at the other side of the road of his wife maul to death and footprint back to the cemetery. Or The whole time the son didn't die but his co-worker. And they mistaken the body for the son as a coincidence since they look alike. When they buried the son, they didn't went straight home fast. But they walk slowly home. But the Son left his keys in the house and try knocking the door back to back everyday since 9 days of the couple mourning in their room alone. Then as they wish their son to be alive, they're son was already alive. But the Dad wish him to return to the grave. With that wish a horrible twist happen instantly. And the son is dead and killed by a serial killer. And his wife was stabbed to death. On the other side of the road, the son's and mother's bodies and coffin is there and then serial killer with shovel next to the house put him and his mother there. And Standing ominously near the coffin and the house staring at the Dad. While the Dad witness half of the thing the serial do. The monkey paw became alive and curse the Father. That was the Father final night alive.

[@Madkklown]

Their son came back to life. That was him knocking on the door. And the father's final wish was to put his son back to rest. In which case, when the wife opened the door. There was no one there.

[@flamingpassion9160]

@@Madkklown but what if the whole time the son already alive. And What your theory on the hand behind him and the person the father saw outside as he froze being afraid staring outside.

[@moneda4u]

@@flamingpassion9160 The son is "alive" only in the sense that the body is moving. He is now a mindless zombie. Bringing the body back to live does not bring back the mind or personality of their son. He is now a walking abomination. The father used the last wish to put him back so he can rest in peace.

[@flamingpassion9160]

@@moneda4u But why the father starred to other side as he saw something horrible he witness and why a hand behind him seem to look alive and seem to about to do something horrible to him.

[@ashanpirzada9476]

@@flamingpassion9160 for the fathers expression and the hand, literally that's just the way they were drawn, doesnt mean anything

[@Digital963]

This feels like it’s missing the end

[@truthspreader1996]

Agreed!

[@onuhrita5009]

I was still waiting for the ending till the video finished...

[@dankerbooper]

Did you even read the original story?

[@onuhrita5009]

@@dankerbooper No actually! Didn't know there was a book! Is the ending similar to the video?

[@dankerbooper]

@@onuhrita5009 it's literally a century old tale.

[@lotus.bouquet]

I feel like the moral of this story is that we can't force things into existence when we aren't ready for them. Trying to control our lives will always come with consequences because it shows a lack of faith in yourself and the process.

[@absolstoryoffiction6615]

Depends... Wish for the impossible because it will never happen even in eternity. If the Monkey's Paw can exceed omnipotence, then "I" will be impressed.

[@marcelbr815]

Moral: if it’s too good to be true, it probably is.

[@theeasypeasysquad4169]

This story was one of the stories i had to read as per my school curriculum. I just came to view this because of the visuals.

[@legoslash4799]

Wasnt the Monkey's Paw also one of the stories in the Monogatari series character, Suruga Kanbaru???

[@moneda4u]

yes.

[@ludens1472]

All the stories in the anime are legit. I don't mean it's based on real life but rather on folklore and fables.

[@paulinettejaenquirindongor9495]

I remember reading this in 9th grade. One of my favorites!

[@akewisututchin3742]

I read it in 9th grade too.

[@pratik8213]

Same here. It was part of the short stories book. 😅

[@undyne1]

This brings back memories when i was in 5th or 6th grade, we read the story and i found it spooky but interesting.

[@Sazman]

More of these stories please!! Love the art, voicing and sound effects/music 💯 amazing job!👏🏼

[@philhearing3659]

As Gaunter O'Dimm, devil in Witcher universe said, I give you what you wish, not what you want. Same thing is with the paw. There is always a logical catch which will make you regret your wish...

[@kolinmartz]

Moral of the story. Be specific with your wish.

[@blackbankai0354]

Moral of the story: read the terms and conditions.

[@unknownanalyst5576]

The narration and the animations were quite nice, but I think you could have mentioned his son's name, which was Herbert.

[@johnreydelatorre3450]

Lesson: You need a competent lawyer before making a wish.

[@clarkgable2733]

The lawyer will steal the money. Most lawyers are not like Perry Mason.

[@cheesetergiles4190]

If you said "I wished for a million bucks without consequences" will the monkey paw grant your wish?

[@jamesward4596]

Yed But only for you

[@chrisrudolf9839]

We don't know exactly why there are negative consequences and if they necessarily always occur, the legend said the creator of the monkeys paw wanted to prove that trying to cheat fate will always result in evil, but we don't know whether it is cursed to intentionally do something bad or if it just proves his point by people bringing those consequences upon themselves. Because people just think about what they want and not about how that should work and what consequences for themselves or for others could go with it. As the friend said, the paw doesn't just magic things into existence, it happens always in a natural way that could always have been a coincidence. So the more unrealistic and/or vague the wish is, the more likely the paw will twist it into something horrible that fulfills your wish to the letter, but not how you meant it. You getting a million bucks would obviously have a wide variety of consequences, good and bad ones for you and others - unless you fall into a state before in which you can do absolutely nothing with the money and no one else who is with you can use it either. Also, the money has to come from somewhere. With your phrasing, you'd probably fall into an abandoned mineshaft, wound yourself badly so you can't get out and find a hidden treasure with a million bucks down there shortly before you die of your wounds - your body and the treasure is never found, so your wish is fulfilled, you got a million bucks and you getting the money had absolutely no consequences.

[@jedzoku]

You get a lifetime supply of venison or kicked by horses a lot but without serious injury.

[@DeadNotSleeping789]

Has anyone else heard it with the son being found dead with nail marks inside his casket as the ending?

[@APerson-kq2ei]

I would just get a lawyer to avoid every possible loophole and then wish

[@clarkgable2733]

The lawyer and the judge will split the money. They in it together.

[@ViroMad]

This reminds me of the movie Bedazzled. The "devil" is friendly like with the target and grants the wishes but in a way that the user did not intend (all the wishes have hilariously bad consequences).

[@Solqueen86]

Should've asked for more money. asking that exact number is asking for trouble and the son's burial would be at least 100 pounds or more. Dark I know but never give a certain number cus a life might be only worth that

[@nunyabiznes33]

Coz they never thought it through. They were not told how horrible the cost would be. If I know it kills people like this, I'll just ask for me and my loved ones to be happy, successful and safe.

[@sabangmusa4709]

Ah, yes. My horror stories collection. I had no regret reading this story to my little sister to scare her..

[@c.galindo9639]

Nice story. I like mystery horror. It brings a lot to the imagination and what lingerd in our minds as superstition

[@reubenisibor8634]

This channel is so underrated

[@testprofile9865]

I'm gonna watch this later. I just dropped by to comment that the story of the monkey's paw is actually in this anime called Bakemonogatari. It is very good. Watch it and gain immunity to Covid. Peace out ✌️

[@nerocani2597]

Kanbaru Suruga

[@Goodiesfanful]

It's not just the monkey's paw. There are all sorts of stories, from fairy tales for example, about people wasting three wishes because they didn't wish wisely. One is the tale about a husband wishing a sausage on the end of his wife's nose, then has to waste his last wish to get it off her. Another version is finding the two wishes turned out badly because you didn't word things carefully, and then wasting the last wish on wishing everything back the way it was.

[@RGC_animation]

No I'm pretty sure Aladin can word his wishes in any way and he'll still end up with everything in the world.

[@water2770]

it's less about getting what you wished for in the first wish, but more how you get it.

[@OnizukaAllMighty]

New format, keep it up, it's looking great

[@claudedossantos3302]

Art goes with voice. If the background had been cheery would this still have been dark for you?

[@geburah8319]

People are so dumb in how they phrase their wishes. The phrasing is super important. Just look at the Wishmaster movies.

[@moneda4u]

is not the phrasing, is how complicated the wish is. If you wish for something easy like orange juice, it wont be destructive because is easy to get. However, people wish for hard things like large amounts of money, fame or controlling other people. The hard wishes have consequences because hard things are not easy to get. Whatever you get must come from somewhere. The paw makes it happens, but it does not just fall from the sky. There are always consequences

[@chrisrudolf9839]

The story is supposed to have a religious/philosophical moral, it is not about a game of wits to see if you can outsmart a malicious magical object. The point this story is supposed to drive home is to be content with your fate and make the best out of it with the means you have at your disposal, instead of being greedy and wishing that fate just gave you what you wanted without you working out how to get it.

[@Ulqcog]

Scary story, very nice. Also a great trinket.

[@aubreyyoung6664]

I have never heard of this story before but I can’t wait to see it

[@ceddyspaghetti7905]

That makes two of us 🤗

[@aubreyyoung6664]

The story was really good I like how it has a horror type atmosphere I love it 😁😄

[@asahibiswas1411]

Although I'm from India.... but i never hered this story ...

[@andreysantiago6255]

It’s like the Wonder Woman 1984 but more mature, has well structured storytelling, strong atmosphere, perfect amount of characters with meaning to the narrative, and a much realistic writing that makes it stands out.

[@Alexanderiii]

TBH it wouldn't be too difficult to do a better job of writing than WW 1984.

[@777LoveStory]

If you watch the special features or maybe extras here on the tube (can't remember), they borrowed the concept from this story.

[@Adenn]

The wife looked so terrifying

[@JohnnyBGoode-jm4qp]

Indeed! ❝Even his wife´s face seemed changed as he entered the room. It was white and expectant, and to his fears seemed to have an unnatural look upon it. He was afraid of her.❞ - William Wymark Jacobs

[@maxsmith2715]

This was insane, but in a good way insane. Really enjoyed learning about the monkeys paw.

[@solarsenuth8818]

I think when Herbert says there will be something horrible squatting on top of the cuboard, I thought it might have been the original monkey that had its paw cut of, I mean it would have been a nice touch the story and they could have had a monkey with 3 paws at the door step when the last wish was granted.

[@BDL3035]

“I wish for my hands to be replaced with monkey paws”

[@serbianslav5494]

I've heard about this story while reading an S.T.A.L.K.E.R. fandom wiki article about the Wish Granter.

[@raysea7267]

what a powerful story...love it

[@zera3947]

Thank you monogatari series for making me research about this story years ago

[@zoraz8255]

Is the anime good I havnt seen it

[@zera3947]

@@zoraz8255 its trippy but its suuupper good

[@zoraz8255]

@@zera3947 is the monkey paw relevant to the plot or something

[@zera3947]

@@zoraz8255 in one of the earlier arcs yeah

[@zoraz8255]

@@zera3947 nice

[@sirgems5926]

Yess do more of these scary storiesss!

[@dymonddavis7847]

Always I repeat always be careful what you wish for or else you will suffer the consequences

[@Shourya899]

I watched It Again and Again

[@AncestorEmpire1]

a modern version of the monkey's paw story is Hellraiser.

[@thegreatshamalamadingdong9788]

Would love to see a vid about the hand of glory too. Read about it and very sinister . Awesome video thank you :)

[@silverazrael9562]

What's that never heard of ya

[@thegreatshamalamadingdong9788]

@@silverazrael9562 I'll try find few things for ya one min.

[@thegreatshamalamadingdong9788]

@@silverazrael9562 ah looks like im not aloud to post links to wiki sorry. But yea just google hand of glory and check wiki ect ;)

[@silverazrael9562]

@@thegreatshamalamadingdong9788 will do sounds intresting

[@thegreatshamalamadingdong9788]

@@silverazrael9562 let me know what ya think

[@vorlux6354]

That is one spooky story also this channel is getting closer to 1 million subs

[@onuhrita5009]

I felt the ending was missing.... I was actually still waiting for something until the video stopped. The man should have at least waited to see what came as his son. Would have made the story more interesting. And we never knew whatever happened to the monkey's paw! All together, it was a good story... Wanted it more scary.

[@chrisrudolf9839]

the original author was probably going for a semirealistic story, leaving entirely open whether the paw actually did magic or the son's death was just a very weird coincidence. Which is what the parents will wonder for the rest of their lives.

[@onuhrita5009]

@@chrisrudolf9839 Oh okay! That makes sense! I already knew stories about "be careful what you wished for " so I just assumed this would end like them!

[@Varies16]

Both parents saw their dead son as a zombie, so the father wished, as his last desire, that his son could go back to the grave.

[@Big_RandyTM]

Well the author is trying to implement terror instead of horror. By not revealing to the reader what was behind the door, he left it up to us to think of what horrible monster could have been behind it. Kind of like the fee of the unknown.

[@Abo_Edreas]

Did anyone get what's the ending about? Other than that it was a very enjoyable and disturbing story ☻, thank you very much.

[@AngelGarcia-jz7zu]

I think the last wish the man asked is for his son to go back and Rest In Peace I may be wrong but that’s what came to mind

[@Frendlu]

Its open. The third whish was like, at least, the son didnt come back or undone the second wish. That's all. So, the dead, still dead. But the catch can be that the woman, becomes insane or, the more "happier" version, that it wasnt any cacth because you didnt intefered with life and death.

[@joey9068]

His 2nd wish should’ve been to turn back time, back to the exact moment when the paw got thrown into fire.

[@Cosmic-Entropy]

Its just like clockwork

[@bharatbhushan9849]

Thk very much.This helphed me a lot in my new chapter.

[@youngOG87]

Now that’s a scary story I couldn’t imagine missing the chance to discuss my cars extended warranty

[@seandeans1279]

Ms. White is a perfect example of why men need to grow a pair.

[@sayatullahkamalhasan3335]

😂😂

[@sam2761]

I couldn't remember this story exactly as it goes--so I told my nanny kids that they wished for their son back, he came back as a zombie, the mom opened the door and was terrified, but hugged him anyway. He bit her, and then they all became a zombie family and lived happily ever after.

[@94462]

It’s like Gaunter O’Dimm from Witcher 3, shout-out to those who know what I’m talking about.....

[@94462]

@Quaint lol so was I , maybe Gaunter is watching both of us haha

[@todddouglas7231]

That DLC storyline was one of the best written stories in any game ever

[@anaverageman7995]

We had this story in our 7th grade, enjoyed this a lot everytime I read it

[@LacertaZilla2024]

All magic comes with a price

[@Derpy._.loves_you]

HEY I WATCHED THIS AT SCHOOL TODAY

[@gyroscope915]

7:24 " The following days where fairly melancholic for the white people" There is a sentence you don't hear very often

[@juliusvermilionregulus9221]

It's a good story to make us think and wish carefully.

[@aelfricsyrax266]

What was the last wish.....? And who was at the door at the end ? And what happened to the family and the paw? Can anyone answer these questions...

[@sissysovereign1294]

Their son was at the door. The reason why his parents, nor the audience/readers, never outright get to see the son at the end is because he wouldn't have looked the same as he did before his demise. He would've been a mindless shredded corpse at this point. The father didn't want his wife to see their son mangled like that, so he wished for him to be RIP in the cemetery again.

[@chrisrudolf9839]

@@sissysovereign1294 That is one possibility and the details are left open on purpose, which makes the story much more effective. The last wish is very clear, the father wishes the son should not be there, because he fears that it might be a vengeful ghost or that he might have been buried alive accidently (false death diagnosis on coma patients happened in victorian age) in his horribly wounded state and would come back in terrible pain and mad from the trauma just to die soon after. But what the actual consequences of wish two and three were is left open. It clashes with the friend's warning though that the things you wish for don't just appear, but happen naturally. A possibility would be that they were going to go insane and just believe the son was back, because he was already dead and him actually coming back was impossible even for the hand and the last wish lifted the insanity. Or they were imagining things and the hand had done nothing at all. Or he actually somehow was still alive (only in coma and buried alive or mangled corpse misidentified and something different had happend to him) and was going to come back and the man's third wish made him run away before the wife could unlock the stuck door.

[@johnnyboy-ws3we]

back in 2002 when i was in my 1st year in middle school in 7th grade i once saw this story as a play during a school trip

[@Xyzeuse]

I read this in 4th grade still love it till this day

[@antwan1357]

Their is an old saying , be careful what you wish for you just might receive it.

[@andrewneven389]

I am quite happy staying in this country sir

[@JE4ØM3]

When you make a deal with the devil you sacrifice something in return be careful