"The Creepiest thing I saw As an Oil Rig Diver" Orginal Horror Story

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I've worked on oil rigs for most of my adult life as a saturation diver for the most part I always loved the solitude of the job sometimes having to work at nearly a thousand feet underwater I've spent most of my time as an adult completely isolated from the outside world no matter what happens when you're at that depth you can't just shoot to the surface and escape it not even death you just have to stare it down and decompress slowly so freaking slowly if you spend only an hour at 250 feet below the surface your decompression time or your ascent would have to be five hours to prevent getting even slightly bent and that's what we call decompression sickness when the gases from the compressed air you've been breathing begin to expand and depending on what depth you been at kills you after causing debilitating and horrific pain no career Sat diver wants to risk it and we always ascend decompress very slowly and that's why I'm here to tell you my story had I done what my every instinct wanted me to do would have died eight years I devoted to my job before I changed my mind about how much I loved it and I heard a story like this from one of my fellow employees I would have laughed it off and went happily on my way however this was no secondhand tale not something told when we were sitting around eating dinner and drinking the contraband beer no this happened to me and I'm going to tell you about it even though there will be those among you who scoff laugh and even think I'm making shit up just to try to get your attention so listen you know who I laugh at now when we are the people who say there are no mysteries left no unexplored places left on our earth no things left that haven't been explained away by science those are the people I laugh at now I used the laugh at a lot of things told by others used to not anymore there are things left on this earth that you don't want to meet and I had two distinct displeasure of meeting more than one of them when I worked for the Jupiter oil rig it was big no it was a huge undertaking when my bosses decided they were going to move the Jupiter operation Riggin all to a different part of the ocean it meant that the shift crews were going to have to work a lot of overtime stay on the rig for indefinite intervals and lose a lot of sleep we were all being well compensated so at the beginning none of us complained well too much that always changes on an oil rig though you can't stick a bunch of Roughnecks out in the middle of the ocean indefinitely and expect everything to go all peachy for very long tempers flare much is mo rules the day eventually still I could think of no better job to have or at least I couldn't back then by the time the rig was set up in her new placement there had been a couple of brutal fights among the crew they had been sent home immediately and replaced with other land bound crew members Harvey my new boss the boss of the Jupiter held up like a hero out there he practically lived on the Jupiter and he loved his rowdy crew even though they sometimes cost him grief with his bosses and it was eventually time for my job to begin I had worked topside on the rig while it was being moved and now that it was time to descend back into what John and I called the metal tube to get ready to start with the whole setup under the sea we would be there for months this time trying to get everything up and running safely and securely there were only two of us who lived in the pressurized system under the flatbed boat ready at any time to go out to do the work under the rig you know connecting pipelines insuring sturdy construction keeping the valves flipping to the moneymaker setting Jed Clampett had it right when he called oil black gold living in the pressurized system under the boat at a shallower depth than what we'd been working caused our bodies to become saturated with the gases that would allow us to stay underwater indefinitely therefore becoming great assets that the company that owned the Jupiter we were valuable assets and we knew it John didn't enjoy the isolation and the job as much as I did he liked the pay if a janitorial job beachside would have offered him the same pay John would not have hesitated to take it me on the other hand I would go batshit in a week of having to deal with people and the noise and the chaos of the topside world there are several people working on the flatbed boat above us they were responsible for our lives more or less they ensured we had our food are compressed there and we were as comfortable as possible while we were there they mess up and we die there was a medical crew of course but no one wanted to have to call them in that would mean the situation was quite possibly irreversible and that part of my job used to bother me but I got used to it pretty quickly the first couple of weeks after John and I had begun working our seven hour shifts on the seabed had gone perfectly normal boringly perfect actually and usually there were a few exciting encounters with the deep-sea life but the seabed seems a bit empty had I not been so wrapped up in the sad looks stories John was intent on telling me about his recent girlfriend I might have thought about exactly how odd it was for the seabed to be so devoid of creatures but my head was still wrapping around the fact that John had told her it was okay for her to have another boyfriend while he was working no I couldn't do that maybe that's why I never tried to have a relationship after I took on the saturation diver job during the third week under John and I hooked up some preliminary pipelines for a test and called it a day back in the metal tube John and I waited for our dinner he looked up at me while trying to call her on his cell phone and his expression changed he laid the cell on the table and smiled folding his hands on the table and leaning forward did you hear that John smile wasn't one of Joe valatie and I noticed it was plastered in place and he looked nervous he sounded like Donald Duck we both did well we always did but for some reason it struck me as funny this time and I grinned fraid not buddy good our dinner came down via the pressurized tube system and we ate in silence I noted that John would come across all pale and nervous as his eyes darted back and forth never really settling anywhere before I settled in for a game of solitaire I asked John if he was all right and he answered by asking if I'd seen anything strange out there while we were working earlier no it was the bottom of the ocean now you know everything looks weird at these depths there were creatures that lit up fished for food by dangling a little built-in light in front of their mouths yeah and there were weird things out here but nothing that fell into the out of the ordinary kind of strange the next day John was worse and after our shift his vitals were not in the green anymore fearing that he was coming down sick the medical crew deemed it necessary to ready him for expulsion from the job he would have to decompress in a solitary chamber just to make sure he didn't pass any germs to me a simple cold can cause a fatality in my line of work blocked sinuses can cause trap pressure that we can't equalize and do permanent damage or even death in some cases I would likely be finishing the job alone I would at least be down there for a month alone until they could get someone else called in and safely pressurized to live in the tube for the duration of the job the next day was well it was labor-intensive I tried to adjust my work to include some of John's responsibilities I went over the pipeline we'd hooked up the day before just to make sure nothing was missed John had obviously been sick or something because there was missing bands the entire thing would have to come down and be set up again properly medical team wouldn't allow me to question John that evening is that he was far too unstable for disturbances of any kind and they wouldn't give me specifics about his diagnosis that worried me it worried me for my own well-being had he been contagious had he passed on some germ to me I didn't feel sick but the medical crew definitely kept a closer eye on me after John went into the isolation chamber to be decompressed the next day I went out to start my duties and the first thing I noticed as I descended to the seafloor was a complete absence of movement other than mine the lights on the worksite shone dimly through the blackness as I got closer and it looked like an alien settlement to me rarely had I felt strangely going into a worksite I'd set up but this day I did the water seemed darker not murkier just blacker and I asked for a remote check of all the lighting as I descended and momentarily one of the flatbed crew answered that all the lights were working properly Gordon to their monitors up there he asked that everything was kosher and I answered in the affirmative even though it didn't feel kosher I worked for hours without stopping to rest at all and was feeling a bit fatigued when I finally did stop for a break it's easy to get lost in the work and forget to take a break down there all alone but I wasn't alone several times I'd caught movement on the bottom just in my peripheral but when I turned to look all was still completely motionless there were things just outside the circle of lights though and I was sure of it as the day drew to a close I began ascending toward my tube and rest I would soon have to begin disassembling the pipeline that John had messed up and I didn't look forward to it just as I passed out from the light of the worksite something moved just behind me in the wake of its movement I was pushed to decide I shown my light around frantically searching out the cause but saw nothing shark was my first thought and well my first worry and usually we weren't bothered with them but it wasn't unheard of in this line of work I hurried up the line my lights swinging and arcing wildly through the water as I went I had ascended about 40 feet when the creature swam by me again this time it bumped me and as I turned with my light I saw something that looks similar to stingrays swimming into the blackness did that thing have arms I mean I seen arms and long hair trailing out winnowing through the water from its head my heart thud 'red and thundered in my ears and my vision swam concentrating on my breathing I pulled myself along the line forcing my movements to be steady and in control I couldn't have seen that it was simply a weird deep-sea creature that resembled a humanoid besides I had felt the scale scratching along my rubber suit if I had scales it wasn't human in any way another 20 feet and I'd convinced myself that I had not seen anything too unusual 10 feet later well I came face-to-face with the creature it was blocking my ascent right in my face I let go of the line and kicked backwards dangerous but no more dangerous than coming into contact with that thing it was huge easily twice my size maybe larger considering that its midsection was shaped that of a ray flat and rounded constantly moving it had been clutching my line with a hand that sported webbed fingers and black talons his eyes were enormous and shaped like almonds taking up almost the complete top half of its face directly below the eyes was as round Maul full of tiny yellow sharp teeth I kicked backwards as it advanced and soon the essential line was far out of my reach and I was struggling to get away I bumped into something in my heart nearly exploded with fear tentacles wrapped around me and I fought to keep them at bay the thing was dragging me farther down away from the monster on my line and farther away from safety my radio wasn't working so there was no help from topside either I was completely alone the tentacles didn't have suckers on them the more I struggled the more painful the things grip became I didn't need my light to feel the tiny puncturing spikes on the tentacles and the other creatures swam and spirals down to us and reached out with his talons that tapped the glass of my mask I was too scared to scream I only stared wide-eyed and with that scream stuck in my throat I was going to die down there in the grip of sea monsters and there was not a damn thing I could do about it and so I stopped fighting so the spikes wouldn't puncture my suit the thing took me to the bottom to the work site it wrapped one tentacle around me pinning my arms to my sides and pushed me away from its sinewy body so that I could look at it it was some sort of hybrid squid that had no human features at all but it did have intelligence in its eyes its body undulated and I watched and discussed God please don't let it end like this I thought still paralyzed with fear in a certain amount of pain from the spikes and circling me the other creatures swam away and I could hear its high-pitched call ringing out through the water it hurt my eyes and my eyes watered a little more of the Stingray things came into sight it was a crowd of them and the crowd parted turned their heads in unison to the dark something was coming something big the creatures began shaking toward whatever it was as if they were pious worshipper z' and beckoning their deity the thing holding me began to relax its grip and my brain kicked into gear if the tentacle let loose enough I might escape I couldn't tear my eyes from the darkness and I could perceive movement there behind a veil of black the thing holding me shivered and shuddered as if in fear surely I was reading human emotions into this monsters actions but that's what it seemed like their larger creature was emerging from the black waters at MU slowly confidently even the head emerged first big as a Volkswagen bug and laden on each sod with long willowy whisker like protrusions that fluttered in the water the mouth looked like that of a lion but much much larger and - fur the things body was longer than a school bus and worm like it had a double set of tentacles just below its face it moved through the water like a snake moves on land and as it passed through the parted crowd one of the tentacles shot out snagged one panic creature and drew it close the mouth didn't open but the section of its belly below the set of tentacles did from this several long worm-like bodies poked out and at the end of each worm was around Maul like that of the first monster I'd met these mouths made short work of the struggling creature the tentacle that was holding me fell from around me and I began floating upward unnoticed as that horror drew ever closer to the squid hybrid which seemed to shrink away from the advance soon the ascent line was within reach and I knew I would be out of the circle of light I didn't dare kick or flail to speed my escape they would notice the movement of the water if I did not nearly soon enough I had the line in my hand and was ascending fast the medical crew thought I'd flipped shit when I began telling them what had happened I had moments of pure panic and terror once I was back in the tube in those moments I was certain those creatures those monsters had followed me and would break through all the reinforced steel to get me to offer me to their leader or whatever that thing had been I heard a couple of them joking about crazy being contagious and that John and I had both caught it apparently yeah well big hoot for them they hadn't seen those things as soon as we were able to go topside I would ask John if he'd seen them about a month after we were put topside John and I sat drinking in the local bar we'd avoided talking about what had happened down there we had avoided each other for the most part I finally questioned him about what happened and he said he thought he was losing his mind now the isolation of the job was finally getting to him and he'd wanted out he'd seen things down there that couldn't possibly exist well at least I had my answers I wasn't crazy neither was John so the company put a crew of six men down there to complete the job two weeks later they all disappeared except for one he had ascended from the seafloor straight up to the surface and died afterward the medical crew recorded his ramblings about the monsters and added them to their files of mine and John's ramblings the government ordered those files destroyed and John and I were visited by officials who told us in no uncertain terms that we were to remain silent about anything we might have seen or experienced down there they didn't want people trying to dive down there and find what we'd seen they would pass us off as crazy blame it on some breach of job protocol and stick us in a high-security mental asylum for the rest of our lives and so there's my story I've taken precautions to ensure that no one discovers my identity through this story - I just wanted people to know what lurks out there and the deep before something happens to me I don't really trust those government goons that keep such a close watch on us these days and you all deserve to know the truth

Channel: Creepy Ghost Stories

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Length: 23min 40sec (1420 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 17 2018