"There's Something Weird Going On At This Retirement Village" Creepypasta

I've been a gardener for most of my life I have gradually worked up a roster of clients over the years the majority are elderly residents who cannot maintain their gardens anymore due to ill health or mobility I've had some customers for almost 20 years and I treat them as family as they do me they will usually recommend me to their friends or neighbors I recently got recommended and took on a rather large ongoing job for a luxury retirement village it was perfect as work was running a little dry recently and I was struggling to fill each week the village consisted of around 30 bungalows and the surrounding grounds were absolutely huge it was pretty much in the middle of nowhere surrounded by farms fields it would take a few full days a week to maintain the grounds the residents ranged in the amount of care they're required in the village provided assistant living the first few weeks were pretty much mundane and I barely even saw any of the residents I would occasionally notice them staring at me through the windows but never had any face-to-face interaction I was there for most of the day and it was bright and sunny outside at the moment so I figured I would have at least met a few of them the first time I actually spoke to one of the residents was a few weeks after I started I was mowing the grass one morning when I heard a harrowing screech coming from behind me a sound almost deafened me even over the sound of the lawnmower I immediately turn around to a sweet older lady standing on the steps of a house waving at me I turned them off and moved towards her to introduce myself I introduced myself as the new gardener and just as my hand out towards her she just remained there waving but not at me I noticed she was waving directly over my shoulder and not looking at me at all then all of a sudden she said ok I'll go back inside now and turn around and went back inside of a house I turned around but nobody was there I have seen some strange behavior in my time and this was definitely not the weirdest thing to happen to me I brushed it off and continued my day the following days went by as usual with no contact with residents other than the occasional peeping through the curtains at me the next time I had any contact was the first time I met Jeffrey he was an older blind man who was the only one of the residents who would occasionally sit outside on his porch he would just sit there all alone he would barely shift in his movement I never bothered him as I figured he did not want to be bothered I was clipping some roses one day in a hanging flowerpot on the side of his house and I heard him speak I'm Jeffrey now I have a secret he said I turned around and introduced myself I'm Jeffrey and I have a secret he said again as I got closer I figured I would humor him and ask him what his secret was I can't tell you it's a secret I was a mixture of disturbed and confused at this point the way he spoke was almost like that of a small child whispering some silly anecdote in my ear I just wanted to get back to work so I did I began to cut the roses again before I heard him speak once more okay he said I can tell you he paused before raising his voice in more of an adult tone he's behind you who is behind me I said while looking over my shoulder no one was there of course okay I'll go back inside now he then said before walking back inside of his house I was a little more disturbed this time I decided to finish up at the retirement village so I could take a little break from that place I hastily drove off and went back to another client to regain a sense of normalcy it was a Friday afternoon and I decided to work a little later as then I could take the Saturday off I'd planned Saturday afternoon and did not want to have to work in the morning I finished up the job and around 7:00 p.m. it was getting darker and I went over to the van to call my wife to tell her that I would be home soon I rummaged through the van looking for my phone but could not find it anywhere damn it I shouted to myself as I realized that I had left it back at the retirement village I had placed it in one of the pots the second time that I approached Geoffrey I was in such a rush to get out of there I had forgotten it it was in the complete opposite direction from my house and I did not want to have to trek down there in the morning it was not too far from where I was at the time so I decided to pick it up then as I approached the long and winding road towards the retirement home it was as if the night sky instantly darkened by the time I had reached the property it was almost pitch black outside no no street lights and the only illumination was the headlights on my van it was just all in my mind I told myself I backed up my van and grabbed a flashlight from the back I slowly walked over the cobbled driveway every step louder than the last you could hear a pin drop in the silence that engulfed me I flashed my towards the houses and stopped in my tracks scared to move another inch all of the residents were outside the front of their homes they were all standing there waving off to the distance they did not falter and did not move as I ran straight back to my van I started up the engine and got the hell out of there I was not bothered about picking up my phone I explained everything to my wife once I got home but she felt I was just tired and overreacting I tried to convince her but it fell on deaf ears I was in two minds whether to return back there on Monday morning but at the moment I could not afford not to I had lost quite a few clients over the years and I'd barely ever raised my prices I always felt terrible raising my prices on my elderly customers who I considered family this new job was different the pay was at least triple what I used to earn in a full week for a few days work I was being paid directly by the company who owned the village and had no problems on that end this job allowed us to afford some luxury in life we also have two young children that we have to support I turned up Monday morning and everything was back to normal I retrieved my phone and it was exactly where I'd left it the residents were all inside of their homes and although the staring out of the window seemed to be worse at least they were not outside I went through the day with no issues and although I could not explain what happened I tried to ignore it the same thing happened yesterday there was no issue and even Jeffrey wasn't sitting outside on his porch there whisper creepy little messages into my ear I didn't notice the staring had become worse though throughout the day almost all of the residents at one time or another I had caught staring at me it was the least of my worries though I did manage to catch one of the carers on our way out of one of the houses had not actually seen any carers before which I had not even thought about until I saw her I had not seen any relatives or visitors either only the residents she seemed to be in quite a rush and she was pale in the face I introduced myself and asked her if she had noticed anything strange about the village she began to look around as if she was being watched and asked me to walk over to a car she seemed to regain more semblance of calm the further she moved away from the building I would just do your job and not ask questions just be careful around some of the residents she said I asked her about Jeffrey and the older lady who I had first met and she began to breathe heavier frantically looking over her shoulder be careful of him he's blind but he sees things not in a way you or I could understand oh god I've said too much this is my last day here I recommend it is yours as well I asked her what she meant but she just shook her head and got in a car and drove off I began to panic but all I could think about was the money I was about to book myself and my wife our first holiday in five years I had to make this work I would not get an opportunity like this again I got there in the morning and my usual time and everything seemed to be what her route call a normal day at this place the residents would stare occasionally and I would get the occasional wave but that was fine by me the afternoon hit and I was waiting around the corner of Jeffrey's house he was now sitting outside on his porch I heard him whispering occasionally I decided to ignore it I finally reached the front of his house and heard him humming to himself or drawing a picture he was manically brushing strokes onto the page with his right arm while the rest of his body remained lifeless do you want to see it he said as I walked past him without rude to ignore him so I politely declined and wished him a good rest of his day what it's important you should see it he said again I begrudgingly accepted he held out the picture in front of him it was a drawing of me in that very moment I mean it was me exactly down to the facial feature down to the facial expression I was pulling right then the detail was astounding shape of my eyes the length and style of my hair even the scar above my eye when I cut my head open when I was younger the surroundings were also immaculate it was black and white but the flowers the sky everything was perfect he looked more like a photo than a drawing I looked closer at the drawing noticed that just above my shoulder there was a black smudge I could barely make out some features but not much it was over foot taller than egg and on second inspection look to have the shape of a human it was difficult to make out as the drawing was all black and white how did you do that I thought you were and what is that above my shoulder he asked that's him he said I could show you him now I slowly turned my head as Geoffrey began maniacally laughing in front of me then laughter began to bellow throughout the entire village I spun the rest of my head around there was nothing behind me I turned around and angrily grabbed my tools and exited the village I could hear the sounds of laughter still as I drove away I got home this evening and decided not to tell my wife what had happened I immediately went to go and take a shower when she called out to me humm what's that like smudge all down the back of your shirt [Music] [Music] you

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Keywords: creepypasta, creepy pasta, creepsmcpasta, horror movie, creepy

Id: oeiZs7pMr04

Length: 15min 55sec (955 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 14 2018