"The Concrete Below The River" | Creepypasta

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it's getting so that I need to tell someone about this I'm posting it here to limit my liability I mean it makes sense right I'm just telling a story so you can believe what you want I know what I know to be true that's good enough for me actually it's not really true I don't know what's true or what I believe anymore I just know that I haven't been able to sleep for a few weeks now I work for a small consulting firm hired for project management on the Edmonton AV Valley line LRT construction I was happy with our company was awarded the contract with what I know I wouldn't accept any amount of money in the world to do this job now I should give you a little background I'm a third generation admin tone Ian my grandfather originally moved here from st. Paul as a child in the 30s a dad owned a successful development company who would I graduated from the U of A took over the project management wing again we were a small in-house company when we were tapped by the City of Edmonton to undertake the very large infrastructure project that was expanding transit we were a static I should also note that as a lifelong Edmonton Ian with roots going back here in this city I know that thing is not supposed to be there everyone knows it's not supposed to be there March 15th that's when most people found out about it a concrete mass the size of a car under the riverbed in the path of the Towada Knob bridge that it's being constructed our press release would simply focus on any future traffic delays based on having to prolong our operation hundreds of thousands of people hearing the news and going hmm well that's interesting they're all assuming that finding random things underground is normal when you're excavating to build a bridge they're assuming we have all that under control but what if it was different if we uncovered a mass grave what make people wonder what he was doing there what if we uncovered an unexploded bomb or a dinosaur skeleton or a treasure trove of ancient artifacts what would it take for people to look up from there Tim Hortons and ask what's that doing there it was actually the 12th of March we found the thing it took us almost a week until we decided to let on to the general public what we had found and even then we didn't say much about it Monday March 12th 2018 it was Monday morning I dropped my kids off at daycare was merging onto the Hyundai freeway from Sherwood Park but I got a call from Bill he was on the dig site Pete I need you on site I could sense panic in his voice I was concerned there'd been a workplace accident I was just heading to my office what's up I told bill speaking louder than usual that my voice would be picked up by the Bluetooth in my truck I don't know how to explain this I'll just have to show you when you get here he paused for a second get here quick he added before hanging up I felt a sharp flash of pain in my bowels since I had taken on this project I'd been experiencing it more and more I rushed to the site and jumped out of my truck meeting bill in a staging area what what is it I pleaded when I walked up to him he was with some of the agents from the company that we had hired to do the cofferdam work they were poring over reports and drafts [Music] I don't know how to explain this but we found something in the riverbed he shrugged and started leading me toward the bank uh okay what I thought I thought he was going to say was a body that's all we needed some sort of murder investigation to tie us up I mean he would be sad for the victim and everything but all the companies involved would have to pay a penalty if the completion deadline was extended it's a body isn't it fuck I knew it I ran my hand down the side of my face no it's not a body it's a big slab of concrete he shrugged again I looked out over the water and back at him I don't see it I said ee it's in the riverbed right where we're supposed to be constructing one of the supports you put his hands on his hips this was worse news than if it was a body it was sure to delay construction can we take it out I said hoping that the simple solution would be all that was required to rectify the situation no no we can't take it out it's too big it'll mess with the cofferdam again it's below the actual riverbed itself so if we pull it it'll create a sinkhole he began walking again and I followed him into his office and a rundown modular trailer how long is it going to take us extra I'm out well we can incorporate it into the structure that'd be the easiest solution he pulled out some papers and thrust them in my direction great let's do that then I smiled shit eating grin and everything there's something else though okay I hated how cryptic he was being at this point I just wanted to cut to the chase and tell me how much it was going to cost and how much more work I'd have to do because of it it's not on any of the geotechnical reports it's not on any technical drawings I consulted with her engineers and they say it's not even on historical drawings no one remembers anything ever being there emotion at the papers I was holding a rifled through them huh you're right I placed the papers back on his desk and that was my reaction that's why say what would it take for you to have heard this story more than in passing more than just that five or so seconds she think oh well that's odd that's what I thought it was odd nothing more nothing less I didn't question why there was a block of concrete under the North Saskatchewan River bet a man-made block of concrete that wasn't on any technical drawing that wasn't in any history books the river that had estimated begun flowing through this area 2,500 years ago a river that carried countless indigenous people over the centuries that explorers first sailed down in 1760 that the original fort was constructed next to in 1795 that hosted a town then a city there after a river that never had anything built where a concrete block the size of a car was now under the riverbed the none of the people in history that I just mentioned ever noticed a man-made giant concrete block under the river where nothing ever existed before I didn't question how it got there I was just thinking of how much money and time we needed to spend on it [Music] it wasn't until bill said the next thing that I questioned it it's making a sound he suggested what is I thought he was talking about his laptop but she was turning toward me the big block and makes a sound he opened up a file from his email we had some industrial divers down to survey it she got weird he kind of chuckled but that didn't hide the pensive look in his face immediately they came back up they both complained they were really nauseous now maybe they were sick but they both felt better when they got back up so they thought maybe something was wrong with their equipment they checked everything and everything was okay so they went down there again and it happened again so they pushed through set the equipment and then we got some recordings he stopped while he fumbled with his mouse trying to click open the file he wanted to show me that he was taking a very long time to open well okay I'll show you this in a sec he winced at the slow machine and then began again anyway so so the thing we get these readings back and Bill was trying to explain but he couldn't quite describe it he was somewhat frantic and kept stopping to look at the ceiling the thing makes a sound not like sound but a vibration infrasound one of our engineers called it like a very low like seven Hertz like a vibration kind of thing he turned back to his computer cursing it out I should say it is not uncommon in construction and engineering for stationary objects to vibrate and some sort of frequency in fact the example I can tell you about without getting into too much technical detail would be the example of a suspension bridge that begins to undulate in a wave and of course any sort of vibration like that would create a sound and sometimes these vibrations create larger and larger vibration constructive interference that eventually destroys whatever is doing the humming but a concrete block by itself normally doesn't do this so while it was odd it was still inside the realm of possibility for me so that I know we was going with this I was a little taken aback but I wasn't still completely convinced the problem was worth more than considering just the amount of money and time to fix it [Music] so bill started but was interrupted by an extremely loud noise his computer had started playing the sound file he was trying to open and it caused an intensely loud low distortion to come through his speakers which were full volume I clutched my ears and then my stomach as it began to instantly hurt he clicked furiously to turn it off that's the noise bailed over the buzzing he kept clicking to close the file but it wouldn't close I can't he fumbled around desperately I instinctively reach for the connection for the speakers it violently yanked it out we were both standing there panting nauseous bill looked embarrassed we both sat back down and exhale deeply I still didn't know what to say about it we both sad and uncomfortable silence I was waiting for him to tell me more but I realized he didn't know any more than I did and I was the project manager he was expecting me to have an answer or a solution um I began not really knowing what I was going to say but I had to say something so the engineers can't take it out I confirmed he nodded slowly it's uh loud I wasn't getting anywhere bill began to shovel the papers on its desk into a neat pile did the structural engineer say anything I said looking out the window it had been a foggy morning but the Sun was speaking out a grayish yellow hue settling over the river valley they're doing a report on it ill kind of mumbled I began to rise from my chair eager to get out of the trailer and back to the safety of my office I thought maybe the answer would come to me or maybe it resolved itself or maybe the engineers would come back and say was no more difficult than extracting a tooth and maybe they would say the humming was some natural phenomenon and maybe they'd say the concrete got there from some mistake they were originally putting up the clover bar footbridge that we had demolished to make way for our construction maybe it wasn't that there was a man-made concrete block under the riverbed that had no history it was making the noise Tuesday March 13 2018 the next morning I lifted myself out of bed at the sound of my alarm Burroughs heavier than the sum of my parts I dragged myself around the kitchen as if I was a marionette hanging from strings while I fed the kids and got them ready for daycare I hadn't slept well I kept worrying about the block practical items cost the time liability then the Impractical what was it doing there why was it making a sound that I had fallen asleep only an hour to affirm my alarm was to go off dreaming I was standing in the riverbank while black clouds covered the sky in the river I could see a light it was the block blowing an intense grey lights like Sun through clouds on a bleak day and the hum it was emitting was pulling me toward it like a magnet it walked into the water and I can breathe underwater and the cube pulled me towards it then I became part of it when I was part of the cube I was a part of the earth and there was an intense sadness in this image emaciated people all in perfectly formed lines wearing what looks like gas masks but otherwise naked and they were I don't know how to put this you know what a dream when you just know something to be true they were all facing an imminent death and it wasn't a comforting release move on to the afterlife type thing it was a violent death and there was this intense fear everyone was feeling I drove in a haze on autopilot one of those drives where you're a little shaken when you get to where you're going because when you get there you can't remember any details about how you drove there what if you mode someone down I walked back toward the bank donning my hard hat to bill who was again speaking to a group of planners and pointing out something to them in the drafts he let them go Liddy ad me follow him into his office again [Music] I called you six times he said routing I looked at my phone there was indeed six missed calls I somehow didn't hear over the course of my night hours of shit I'm sorry I began apologizing profusely he waved it off of this hand and started so we got the engineering report back they're trying to say maybe there's something wrong with the equipment or it's background interference sort of the machines operating in the vicinity caused it or whatever bill said creating a space they miss clothes venetian blinds and peeking out toward the river but you don't believe that I said slowly trying to read him it's getting louder bill said I snorted by accident what do you mean it's getting louder I tried to sound as serious as I could I began to think this was some sort of very early April Fool's joke it's louder I can hear it I couldn't hear it before then yesterday evening at about 7:00 p.m. I was in here working on some things and I swear I could hear it he resumed peeking suspiciously through his blinds I felt like either this was a big joke or he was losing it bill you know you've been working pretty hard I started he snapped back quickly and Curly before I could finish my sentence I know I could hear it this fucking thing whatever it is he turned back to the window again I was worrying now about Bill I had worked several projects with Bill between our respective companies I'd met his wife his children we had times where we saw each other more than we saw our own families I never known him to be this way I was wondering if perhaps I didn't know him as much as I thought I did what do you think it is I said slowly [Music] bill sort of snapped out of it he turned back towards me and slumped down at his desk I don't know he's sort of mumbled he pause for a bit then changed gears suddenly springing up anyway the engineers say they can incorporate it at a minimal additional cost but we're going to have to talk to the city because it's going to take longer we'll miss our opening date he looked for Lorne we both knew that was money out of our pockets big money suddenly the intangibles of the mysterious cube were no longer at the forefront and the day-to-day of paying bills of putting food on the table was I'll talk to them I said in a reassuring tone no one knew this is going to happen so maybe we can escape penalty I nodded and patted him on the back he continued to stare at his desk that night once again I dreamed of the cube this time I was in the North River Bank it was nighttime in the summer the air was a void one of those days where there's no wind and the temperature and humidity are just so that you feel you're in absence of an atmosphere everything is hushed and you don't feel your are moving through the air all the leaves are still and the blades of grass don't move with any breeze the air doesn't feel cool entering your nostrils there are no smells of hot pavement from the day or taste of sweet Dew weeping from the trees just noting the reflections of lights from the building downtown the campus and high-rise towers of Saskatchewan drive reflecting in the still water that's wrong though the river is never still when you stand next to it you realize it's not the shallow and tranquil picture you see in your car window driving alongside of it it's raging fast-moving whitetips and churning it's not a pencil line drawn on a map but a deep expanse cutting the city in half impossibly wide but in the dream it just walk up to it the banks were soft and Sandy like that if they still lake under the moon and I walked into the middle of the river it was only an inch deep the riverbed was asphalt and out of the River rose the cube like a monolith like the monolith on the album cover of who's next so I disrupt I was going to piss on the cube like the who pissed on the monolith but a door opened in it so I went in and inside was like being in an ice rink it was cold and white and artificial and the only thing that wasn't wide was a really small piece of riding in the corner of one of the walls it looked like he was right next to me but I walked for hours and when I got to it it just said what now you Wednesday March 14th 2018 I woke to the sound of my phone ringing in the kitchen I rushed down the stairs to answer it hello I started I mean paid speaking I started again it was Faraj he was one of Bill structural engineers you've got an emergency on site and we'll need you there right away he said seriously and deliberately the roads are empty as it was still very early in the morning it was still dark too early even have anything broadcast on the radio the news day hadn't started yet maybe whatever happened there was still time for it to not get blown out of proportion I sped to the contractor lot Frost looked like his even self perfectly pressed checker blue shirt and gray slacks all his shoes you certainly wouldn't know he had been sprung awake at 3:00 in the morning the police had phoned him on site there were two unmarked police cars shit what is it I exclaimed my head on a swivel it's Spill he said still keeping an even pace something happened with him he replied I thought he was going to say more clearly there was much more to be said he led me toward the trailer I opened the door and immediately stepped forth into blood Garage began to fill me in again what the policeman had said he explained bill went outside in one of the securities they had seen him covered in blood he was screaming it ran towards the river he pointed I looked at him and nodded hoping he would reveal more he had said the policeman had said that he had cut himself but I guess securities grabbed him before he could go in the water he probably wouldn't have been able to swim in there he checked his phone I'm going to go now and come back later in the day when I have some meetings [Music] he holstered his phone the police men's want to talk to you and you can just take over the situation I agreed and let the weary man go home sat down a bills desk and began to send emails I wanted to go to bill and find out how he was doing l just found out what he was doing my professional responsibilities came first emails to everyone in public relations and human resources in terms of not releasing statements to the media emails to Bill's colleagues about who is going to lease with me regarding our responsibilities together he meals to the company but of the proper PPE to clean up blood workers were already arriving on site in the morning Randall came in it was second a bill to take his place I told him he'd have to work in a different room the essence of bill was still all over the floor finally at quarter after nine I was able to sneak out to drive to the hospital bill was bandaged behind a curtain and sedated I walked in he closed his eyes tight he wouldn't look at me perhaps ashamed I sat down next to his hospital bed without saying a word it wouldn't stop his voice cracked it kept showing me things you breathe deeply inside began again he kept showing me everyone was going to die it wanted me to do it he coughed wait bill what was it showing you I became alarmed I don't know man just death just everyone die I can't explain it I saw people I didn't see them dying but I knew they were dying I knew they were going to die he gasped I was reminded of my dream from the other night bill what do you mean it wanted you to do it I grabbed his arm I began to squeeze a little too intensely he pulled away from me I don't know I don't know I just felt like he was pulling me toward it and I don't know I just knew I knew if I went in there it would cause everyone dying and I couldn't stop myself I tried to stop myself I thought if I ended it then I couldn't do it but it stopped me they pulled me but I had to go he began weeping I felt my face burning I felt butterflies as if I'd driven over a dip speed a horrible sinking feeling that something was terribly wrong that was much larger than me or the crew by the city or anyone in the world bill grabbed my shirt cuff tell me I'm not crazy he wept I uh what did I say it was I was we both were are much more terrifyingly neither of us were and there was a cube under the river I was leading us to our destruction I got a go bill I darted out of the hospital room when I arrived back in the sights the restoration crew had just finished cleaning bills office I sat down at his desk I thumbed through the geotechnical reports again in the reports from the structural engineers assembled upon the report from the industrial divers there was some ultrasonic pictures of the mass included something in one of them caught my eye in the photo so the cube itself there appeared to be something etched a small group of words at first I thought it was a watermark on the side but I looked closer I held it under light it said what now I dropped the picture I must be mistaken or maybe I had seen the photo before and that's why I dreamed what I did that must have been it something interrupted my train of thought a buzzing from one of the machines outside I rose and step out of the trailer and crossed the yard I climbed to the cab of one of the pieces of excavation equipment I was working I told the driver to shut it down but I still heard the buzzing I grabbed one of the foreman outside do we have any other machines rhotic I yelled to him just a few generators he shrugged shut them down now I ordered why what's going on he enquired concerned nothing I just need all machines stopped for a minute I yelled back again and began wandering around the lot trying to find the source of the noise all machines were off still I could hear the buzzing [Music] it was coming from the river it was coming from the cube I walked back over to the foreman do you hear that I yelled he shrugged I ran back into the office and closed the door it was getting louder but not for everyone I didn't want to meet the same fate as bill so I let the crew has resumed work it promptly left to go home early faking illness that night I tried to stay up indefinitely I didn't want to dream of the cube I left my bedroom and crapped into the living room all was silent i sat sipping coffee on the couch I tried to surf the Internet to keep myself awake I fell asleep I dreamed I was in the desert I was walking about knowing where I was going not knowing where I was I stopped and as I looked down I noticed something it was a tiny cube a tiny cube of concrete I held it in my hand and it was smooth and cool suddenly it started to grow buildings rose up around me cities landscapes the cube became too heavy and I dropped it I was standing in a small stream the stream began to grow with the cube as the cube was sinking in the stream then it was too heavy and sunk to the bottom the river and the city continued to grow the cube growing heavier then sinking down below the riverbed I was somewhere floating above it all and I felt this great misery that I had dropped the cube I felt like I was supposed to hold on to it I felt like a failure I realized I was every person on earth and I had failed this thing by dropping it the cube which I could somehow see below ground turned red and he was angry I came to know as you do in dreams that if I had killed myself if I killed humanity it would be satisfied again and the cities would go away and it would just be a small cube in the desert again I wouldn't do it so it became angry at me and it hummed louder and louder until I woke up to my alarm Thursday March 15th 2018 I drove to the worksite and began preparations for the media all we were telling them was that there be more traffic delays of course because that's all people care about not where the fucking cube came from or why it's there or the fact that it's humming who wants to destroy us all just the facts but the bridge will take longer and it will mean more traffic delays the public went hmm that's interesting and they moved on I went into the office Faraj came in behind me he was briefing me on the updates as usual even tenor was off his usually perfectly stiff shirt was wrinkled he was sweating and he had bags under his eyes so they'll start work to incorporate it to the bridge structure he spoke quietly Faraj I looked into his eyes can you hear that he nodded and the industrial divers and some more of the crew and it's getting louder he added what do we build it into the bridge will that stop I asked him hopefully I don't know he said with force and that's where we are today we're building a cube into the bridge like it's nothing like it doesn't make a sound like it doesn't take over our dreams and our actions and that it doesn't have some sort of hell-bent to will to get rid of us we're going to just build a bridge on top of it and hope that eventually anyone near it anyone who crosses the bridge anyone in the city the country the world doesn't hear it humming you [Music] everyone I hope you enjoyed today's video if you want to see more let me know in the comments below and tell me what you thought of this narration make sure to follow me on Twitter for updates and if you'd like to get early videos shout outs and much much more I'd appreciate it if you check out my patreon page it's a place where you can help support my channel while getting awesome rewards in the process and every pledge helps out a ton no matter the size so if you'd like to see 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Length: 40min 17sec (2417 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 03 2018

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TLDL (too long didn't listen): it's a creepypasta story using the premise of the mysterious concrete block they found below the new LRT bridge. The guy speaks way too slow. Speed up the video to 1.5x if you're intent on going through the entire thing.

👍︎︎ 3 👤︎︎ u/all_way_stop 📅︎︎ Apr 06 2018 🗫︎ replies

For those who don't want to watch, a Construction working building a bridge, discovers there's a concrete like cube in the river they can't remove it because it will cause a sinkhole, divers go to investigate and it emits vibrations that disturb them and gives them nightmares about how it wants to destroy humans, the boss tries to kill himself because the vibrations are driving him crazy and the main guy of the story starts hearing the vibrations too...they aren't gonna move the giant concrete cube but build over top of it ...

👍︎︎ 3 👤︎︎ u/pumbaa3f 📅︎︎ Apr 06 2018 🗫︎ replies

Wtf is this

👍︎︎ 2 👤︎︎ u/ferdajews 📅︎︎ Apr 06 2018 🗫︎ replies