"Dogs Know They Aren't Human" Creepypasta

it's hard to imagine what it's like to lose someone you love before it happens of course I've seen it a hundred times in the movies dramatic Affairs for the most part with lots of screaming and crying and carrying on the shock the disbelief the unconstrained rage all lashing out at the world for the most ordinary and predictable thing in it it wasn't like that after Dad disappeared though he was simply there one day and gone the next leaving behind nothing but a penetrating dull eight weeks of police investigation turned up nothing it wasn't an act of cruelty which made the world steal him away it was merely Universal and difference his life was short his death random and meaningless and there was nothing left but for the rest of us to carry on I got the phone call from mom late at night in my studio apartment dad was presumed dead and the police had officially closed their investigation of him I stayed quiet and listened to her all the way through even though there was nothing left to say after the first line I thinked her politely for letting me know and then I hung up after that I stared at the wall for about an hour not really thinking anything just observing idle thoughts as they passed in one side and out the other I live in a different state and hadn't seen him in a couple months eventually I decided that waking up tomorrow wasn't going to be any different than every other day when he was still puttering around the kitchen table a thousand miles away but I was wrong I had lived alone for years but my apartment had never felt so empty before I had to keep the TV on all the time just so I wouldn't have to hear the soft gurgle of blood in my veins or listen to the dull monotony of my own breath I don't know how I never noticed those sounds before but they were starting to drive me crazy now I guess I just couldn't stop thinking about how fragile my own mortality was and how pointless my life would have been if it were all to end that's why I got a dog half husky half coyote about six months old I picked her up from the animal shelter where some cowboy was dropping her off the dog was growling and snarling at him but she calmed down the instant he left I figured she must have been abused or something but she seems so sweet to everyone else that I decided to take her home with me a few days later I got a call that my dad wasn't dad a little over a month after he disappeared he just showed up again mom said he just walked in one day and sat down at the breakfast table like nothing had happened she couldn't get a word out of him about where he had been but she was so happy to have him back that she just didn't even press he wouldn't tell me anything either just grunted something about needing to clear his head it seemed like a miracle to me too but I guess I had already spent so much time fixating on death that nothing much changed for me I kept the dog anyway and I named her snoots and from the very first time I called her that her ears pressed flat with excitement and she started wagging up a storm she was really skittish at first but she hated being alone and would follow me from room to room even sitting between my legs when I sat on the toilet snoots was absolutely perfect for me her constant attention made me feel like I mattered again maybe my life didn't matter in an existential sort of way and maybe my death wouldn't mean anything on a cosmic scale but it would mean the world to her I was warned it might be hard to train her because of the coyote blood but she learned almost everything immediately she was so shy that she tried to walk between my legs when a stranger was nearby but it felt good knowing she trusted me she didn't have one bad habit though unpredictably going off the first time was a couple months after I got her we were walking down the sidewalk towards the park when her first started to bristle and her mouth flared to reveal powerful teeth before I knew what was happening she was snarling barking and howling at the lady on the other side of the street the lady started running and snoots actually lunged at the leash almost dragging me into the street after her as soon as the lady was gone though snoots was back to normal I couldn't figure out what had happened she had never even growled at another animal before the lady didn't have a dog with her and she wasn't carrying food or anything she hadn't made any threatening moves either it was so random that I just forgot about it but that wasn't the only time the next time it happened she jumped up from the couch and started snarling at the door a few seconds later someone knocked and she howled in response I looked through the eye hole but it was only the pizza guy I had to actually drag snoots into the bathroom and lock her in there until he left before she would calm down that behavior happened so rarely that I couldn't figure out how to predict or prevent it I couldn't just keep her isolated and it was pointless to take her to training where she was usually the sweetest thing in the world I was terrified that she would randomly attack someone and would be taken away from me though so I kept her daytime walk short after that only going out in the early morning or late at night when there weren't so many people around another few months went by and I thought her feral side had finally been tamed when it happened again it was after 9 p.m. and we were doing a last walk through the park before it closed I was talking to my mom and dad on the phone and wasn't really paying attention to snood snuffling along behind me my first warning was when the leash snapped violently ripping the phone from my hand I automatically dove to catch my phone snoots was dragging so hard she managed to break the leash free from my grasp I couldn't stop her from charging ahead long into the darkness a guttural snarling rising in her throat I chased after her shouting her name screaming a warning for whoever was out there but by the time I caught up with her snoots was already on top of someone she had his hand in her mouth savagely thrashing back and forth like she was trying to rip it off the guy was trying to push her back but snoods to have lunging in at him whenever she lost her grip by the time I caught up with him she had her teeth around his neck ferociously shaking like wild animals do when they're trying to make a quick till I got hold of the leash and pulled so hard snoots practically did a back flip the guy was on his feet now swaying unsteadily I started to apologize but the words died in my mouth his hand was a bloody pulp severed digits scattered on the ground the wounds on his neck were even more brutal a whole sheet of skin was peeled back hanging in ragged tatters along his shoulder part of his spine had ruptured straight through the side of his neck where it had been unmistakably broken exposed sinew glistened with blood as he slowly worked his neck in a long circle like someone luxuriously stretching after a long nap I didn't even know how he was still conscious much less alive I wanted to go back for my phone to call for help but it took all my strength just to keep snoots from diving back in to finish her pray the man started fumbling at the ruined tatters of his neck not taking his eyes off me I braced myself half expecting him to attack us right back in retaliation he was too focused on his injuries though I was trapped in place holding snoots back helpless to turn away from what happened next he grabbed the hanging folds of his skin with his good hand and started to peel it down the remainder of his neck then he reached around to his back and started to peel it back there to the whole mess of flesh flopping away like a diver getting out of a wetsuit I watched transfixed but mortified as he slid out of the rest of his skin and clothing to leave them both in a soggy pile at his feet it wasn't exactly muscle underneath it was more like a second skin pale gray and slick with blood but it was fitted so closely to the structures underneath that it mirrored the muscle fibers I didn't have long to stare though he was running as soon as he was free leaving behind the whole wet mass he had shed on the ground I ran home with snoots as fast as I could I didn't even go back for my discarded phone I kept telling myself it wasn't real until I got back into my apartment but it was much harder to lie to myself while I was washing the blood off of snoots his face and fur she was wagging her tail again looking like her old self until she opened her mouth to let the last severed finger drop onto the floor I couldn't be alone after that even snoots wasn't enough company I talked with mom for a long time to help calm me down although I didn't breathe a word about what had happened she sensed that I was rattled though when she convinced me to come back home and visit for a while I kept snoots with me more afraid of the thing that discarded its skin then how she reacted to it I have her locked in the car with me where I'm writing this now though I want to run in and hug mom and tell her how good it is this year again I wanted to ask dad about what had happened why he left and why he decided to come back but I can't get out of the car though I can't let snoots out not with her snarling since the moment I pulled up to my mom's driveway there was only one thing that works newts up like that and I couldn't lie to myself and say it was something else the only conclusion I could draw was that my dad may have really disappeared but whatever came back was only pretending to be him I left snoots in the car and knocked on the door I let out a long breath of relief when mom opened the door then a hand fell on her shoulder and the thing that looked like my dad popped into view it made me sick to imagine the bloody slick gray skin underneath that intimate mask it was one thing to lose my father but having to look at him again like this was unbearable they invited me in and I sat down but I couldn't take my eyes off of him the disguise was seamless his affection genuine both of them avoided any mention of his disappearance and I didn't bring it up either I had to find some way of breaking the illusion though I couldn't very well just six newts on him and mangle him in the living room I had to bide my time and wait until I could get him alone I got my chance later that evening snoots was out back in the yard still agitated and restless from her proximity to the creature mom was out of the store picking up some things for dinner I invited dad out to the yard to toss a football around like we used to I figured we could take him by surprise and get rid of him before mom came back she'd just think he disappeared again and if she could accept it once then maybe she could accept it again it was better than letting that thing live inside the house watching her sleep just waiting to make its move I grabbed one of my dad's hunting knives and I waited just outside the door I couldn't wait until snood started snarling or he might realize he was caught and get away I had to strike hard and fast and then snooze could join me and help me finish the job to think of that thing wearing my father's sweater as anything but a monster I tried to tell myself it was the thing that it killed and replaced my real father anything to make it easier to do the deed before the opportunity was lost and then the door opened he stepped outside not noticing me pressed against the side of the house I grabbed him from behind not wanting to see his face and I plunged the knife into his side not wanting to let him speak he lurched forward and I let go of the knife I still couldn't look at him so I ran to the yard to open the gate now's the chance I shouted at snoots but she wasn't moving her fur was calm she ran up to lick me and started wagging her tail I had to drag her out of the yard thrusting her towards the creature crawling on the ground snoots looked back at me unsure of what to do I almost thought I really had gone crazy until at last the first started to bristle down her back she bared her fangs punching down in preparation to pounce it wasn't until then that I noticed the sounds of tires on the gravel driveway on the other side of the house snoots wasn't paying my father any attention it was my mother snoots was sprinting around the side of the house and I ran to keep up with her mom was just starting to get out of the car with an armful of groceries when the dogs sprang at her she managed to get the door closed in time but snoots wasn't giving up snoots beat herself against the window snarling and slamming yourself over and over into the car my mom switched it into reverse tearing back out of the driveway out into the street to disappear around the block I called an ambulance immediately but dad didn't look like he was going to last snoots came over to lick his face but the blood wouldn't stop and I didn't know what to do he said that he didn't blame me for what happened but every word was getting weaker than the last I asked him why he had left but I could have already guessed the answer he had left when he found out mom had been replaced by one of those creatures then why'd you come back I had to ask him I needed some closure before he was gone for good this time because I still loved her he said to me and that thing was the closest there is to having her back again [Music]

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Length: 16min 48sec (1008 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 22 2017