''We Played One Too Many Tricks on our Gullible Friend'' | BEST OF THE VAULT 2019 [EXCLUSIVE STORY]

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if you tell people there's an invisible man in the sky you created the universe the vast majority of them will believe you but if you tell them that the paint is wet they have to touch it to be sure gullibility it seems comes down to the individual get enough people to believe you and people are no longer deemed gullible and thus is the theme of tonight's story another fantastic one from dr. creepers vault the subreddit I set up so you could share your stories with me and I could read them all back to you and this one again is a fantastic effort that I'm sure you're gonna love well my friends it's once again time to sit back and relax with your favorite drink and bliss ever since grade three my friends and I could make Derek Zimmer believe anything anything from pop rocks and coke make your stomach explode to earwigs actually burrow in your ears oh what's on your shoulder right now to the typical urban legend of the babysitter and the killer upstairs oh and that actually happened to someone in our neighborhood the best prank we pulled on him had to be in sixth grade when we told him that everyone had to go into the girls bathroom to change because well the toilet overflowed in the bullies this was during gym class too and in our school the bathrooms doubled as change rooms geez he didn't even question it didn't even wait to see us go in first we followed right behind it carrying his spare set of clothes a towel over his shoulder we didn't even need to shut him in he just walked through the door and we locked it behind him and from then on there was nothing but hollering and shrieking from the other sides I've got to admit I still get tickled thinking about that one after grade seven it stopped being funny pulling fast ones on anymore all the time but like a bad habit we kept feeding him lies and watching him fall for them over and over again well I guess it didn't help that he had Sheltering hovercraft parents I mean the guy believed in Santa Claus until he was 13 for God's sake and they kept walking him to school even though he live literally just up the street wasn't until Derek begged them after being tortured by our sneers and years that they finally stopped you'd think that they'd have tried to protect him by teaching him not to believe everything he was told but I guess since they did everything for him he just always needed someone else to make up his mind I don't want you to get the impression that Derek was slow or something he was actually a pretty bright kid he wasn't top of the class or anything and his math and science marks were pathetically low but if you spent time with him you'd see he was actually very insightful especially when it came to abstract stuff like morality and friendship and artsy stuff - oh yes I was friends with Derek even though I constantly tricked him made fun of him yeah I was one of those friends which actually analyzed our favorite TV shows comparing the ones he lights and the ones he didn't I'm going to really meticulous detail about why some were good and some were bad what made a joke funny and what didn't at the time even though I liked talking with him I kind of thought all this information was pretty useless I mean I just watched shows movies and played video games for fun not to write a goddam dissertation if Derek had any brains I thought he'd put more his energy into his schoolwork but now looking back it makes me wish our school had a philosophy class or even an arts program I think he would have excelled rather than constantly being stuck with the C's and DS but we grew up in a small frozen town in Northern Ontario that only offered the bare necessities for a diploma in a town where most people work in the mines and spend their spare time ice fishing or playing hockey Derek stuck out like a sore thumb all the teachers seemed to like him but you could tell they were pretty frustrated by how difficult you found the material he was also a bit stubborn at times for instance you think he would have done well in English right wrong he's shown only in the creative writing assignments but didn't follow instructions and would never read the books that were assigned the funny thing was he was a voracious reader always reading something he just didn't want to be bothered reading Lord of the Flies or Of Mice and Men he just thought they were a waste of his time one thing that Derek excelled at besides being a very loyal to a fault friend was he was an amazing storyteller when he got hold of an urban legend or a dirty joke or if something happened to him he would tell it in such a way that we would hang on every word he says there was no rambling no moons or us he always took his time and told the story perfectly the punchline or the ending of his story was always clear and left us howling with laughter or terrified or desperate to hear more more than a few of the stories Derek told us were uncannily frightening tales of ghosts and creatures in our hometown most of them like it traced back to some origin usually Alvin Schwartz his scary stories to tell in a dark are there also a few I'd never heard of could find no source for whenever I confronted him with this he would give me this knowing smile his eyes at ease and say there's some things that can't be explained it would then pontificate about the other world and how everyone was able to access it if they just suspended their prejudices and disbelief this is how he got beamed his stories well he said that at the time I thought it was a bullcrap this was the only thing I'd ever known Derek to lie about now looking back I wish I'd realized that this honest gullible boy was incapable of telling faucets and then what he was telling me was something he at least believed to be true eventually I've got a bit jealous of Derek I never had a good memory for details aside from numbers and figures and often when I taught a joke I'd forget an important part of the setup and the punch line would fall flat or if I told an anecdote about something that happened to me and I thought was funny or exciting after I'd finished the listeners would just stare blankly their vacant faces tacitly screaming is that it believe me took me a long time and a lot of effort to write this story as well as I have well I was also jealous of Derek because of the attention he got from girls although he wasn't very athletic he was tall fit and good-looking and his gullible nature I think made a lot of them think he was cute you know like a lost puppy you just want to take care of unfortunately for them Derek was too absorbed in his own world of Marvel comic books Stephen King Family Guy and Doctor Who to never take a hint he's got really interesting in grade 10 when Christie Blackwell a preppy girl from the states came to our tale the family was from Montana and her father had come here for some administrative job at the local mining company we didn't know it at the time but his position and his family's move were only temporary no he had likely nothing in common with his girl both Derek and I were absolutely smitten when you're in a small town all the kids date each other sisters an axis so I guess everyone was pretty intrigued by this new pretty face from him somewhere exotic like Montana for a few weeks she was all Derek and I could talk about some of our other friends thought she was cute too but Derek and I were head-over-heels I however never got up the courage to speak with her I might have been top of my class and on the lacrosse team but I knew I was in the eyes of girls just a short fat sarcastic little boy with a sour disposition Derek however he didn't have the same calorie as I had he actually went up to her during a lunch break and talked with her I watched him approach grinning from ear to ear waiting for the humiliation and the peal of shrieking laughter from the other girls but she actually talked with him she was positively radiant when he introduced himself and I thought I was gonna have a heart attack when she invited him to sit down at her table I admit I was enraged wasn't fair it just wasn't fair for some idiot like Derek with no prospects for the future to have that girl and what would that mean for me why would he want to hang around with some loser when he had that girl on his arm luckily Derek as I've said didn't take hints easily so it wasn't until a rumor has started about her liking him that he finally was ready to ask her out of course he told me first Jamie he screamed over the phone one night I remember actually winced from the receiver guess what his voice flared at arm's length after placing the phone back to my ear I asked him he told me that he'd heard it from one of the girls that Christy liked it I found a stone form in the pit of my stomach don't get me wrong I knew that I wouldn't have gotten Christy I just thought neither of us would so the fact that he got hurt and I hadn't really burned my ass and then I got an idea an idea that would haunt me for the rest of my life Derek I said into the phone she doesn't actually like you I overheard her and Jennifer the girl who told me they're just playing a trick on you there was silence on the other end Derek mumbled out a pitiful butt and I knew I had to pounce listen I implored if you ask Christy out on a date everyone will just laugh at you they're just doing this to make a fool out of you in front of everyone again silence fell on the other end I could then visualize Derick with his head hanging down all mopey like he sometimes gulps then I took it a bit further over the line I mean come on think about it you and her she's only been in our school three weeks and she's already top of the class everyone turns their head to see her how are you gonna be good enough for that I felt that stone in the pit of my stomach again but this time for a different reason after hearing Derick sadly mumble you're right over the phone shamelessly I changed the subject asking him if you were gonna still hang out this weekend to play xbox at his house but his voice never came back to normal that night I barely slept I really felt like shit this was the first trick I pulled on Derick that made me feel that way but it wouldn't be the last it was grade 11 when Lloyd another friend and I took the pranks too far Lloyd and I had just got back our exam results for grade 11 physics and well we didn't fail these marks weren't gonna look good on our university application letter of course Oh Derek wasn't in physics or chemistry or biology he found some loophole in a technicality to take something called Earth and space science in grade 12 risk science technology credit don't ask me how the Ontario education system works also around this time Derek was getting super obsessed with comic books and writing his own report cards and post-secondary prospects be damned at the time we thought it was really fine he didn't just draw the six boxes with stick figures in them and poorly graphed word but was like most kids he actually found out about the proper format to write a comic book script he kept trying to make us read them but I mean we didn't know how plus we were busy you know with me school anyway Derek had this long bastard of a comic book script freshly printed from the school library an adaptation of some classic horror story by Paul or Lovecraft I think and he ran up to Lloyd and me in the cafeteria all smiling waving it at us begging us to read it and remember this was the same day we got our abysmal test scores back now despite our understandably pissy mood both Lloyd and I resisted the urge to tear Derek's head off Lloyd said weakly sure Derek give it here I'll read it tonight Derek Como slept off the table bench he was so excited he thanked us then was off to god-knows-where I turned my head and glared at Lloyd are you serious I asked him you realize we have a presentation with chemistry to finish tonight right Lloyd blew out the side of his mouth I'm not gonna read it dude he said his eyes cast woefully down on the Crumlin grease Laden Table Talk I'm just pranking it he concluded quarter heartedly sat there and stared at it for a few seconds and then another malicious scheme started spinning in my hands I knew that my uncle Eric was coming over for supper that weekend I told Lloyd that we would both tell Derek that my uncle worked from Marvel Comics and that he'd read his script and loved it and that he was interested in publishing it giving Derek a job writing for Stanley I'd invite Derek over to speak with him to discuss this jobs prospect at greater length funny thing was my uncle Eric was a belligerent drunk who mostly been unemployed between his time as a trucker and his time as a garbage man but never it probably doesn't need to be said did he ever work for Marvel comics Lloyd my birth grinned and giggled like evil children it was perfect this way we wouldn't have to be drilled by Derek's questions about what was his favorite part he would be too preoccupied by the idea of having his work actually published working for Marvel comics for God's sake I guess you can probably figure out what happened next I'll try to spare you the cringe-worthy details as best I can the next morning Lloyd and I told Derek about my uncle and fed him our line Derek beamed like I'd never seen before and bought it hook line and sinker of course that Sunday he came over for dinner home excited of course my uncle Eric was two sheets to the wind six gin and tonics deep and on his seventh that night of course Derek approached him asking him about his script what it's like to work for Marvel my uncle Eric harshly but what in the hell was he blathering about of course I promised light I would give him all the details on Monday seeing Derek I'm Stover and defeated like some withered daffodil I just had to look away I didn't laugh didn't chuckle didn't even smirk all I could do was look away that hit in my stomach turning to stone on Monday in front of the school entrance about 30 minutes before first bell and thirty degrees below zero Derek stormed right up to me indifferent seeing this coming and fighting no despair surprise or pleasure in it I stood where I was let him hammer me instead there were no threats no curses no accusations just one question did I lie about Christie blackwell - despite being exhausted from the endless stream of assignments and last night's interminable guilt I somehow managed the strength to slowly shake my head and mutter no one last prank on Derrick with that Derrick said nothing he simply walked away at that moment standing there alone with sticky icicles running down my upper lip for my nose - my scarf I thought I was gonna throw up the next day I advised Lloyd that we give Derrick some distance at lunch hour I suspected we were persona non grata but to my surprise Derrick came over to our table stone-faced without a word he sat down and ate Lloyd and I glanced over at him and then at each other the three of us just sat and chewed in silence then after finishing his serving of oily cafeteria french fries he told us one of his typically great terrifying stories his last you guys ever hear about Melvin Axelrod's he began and cryptically fake sounding name still a pretty good start Lloyd and I both shook our heads wordlessly he was a student at our school way back when it was run by the nuns I later found out this part of his story was true our high school pendleton college was once run by a local nanami but this was when it was still a residential school with only poor shipped in native kids as his student body he's actually the person I'm gonna write my next comic strip on I know you two won't read it but I think you should hear about him anyway Axelrod was a funny kid bits to pigeon believed anything his pals told him this of course immediately rang a bell for both of us Boyd and I looked at each other knowingly still we were hooked at least I was he was also very poor with a sick father at home who couldn't work so a lot of his friends could make him do things with the promise of money so one night around this time of year the dead of winter oh those years ago Axelrod and his buddies went out onto so Alaskan Lake it was frozen solid there just like it is right now Axelrod got dared by his buddies to walk out onto the lake see if he could make it to the other side now Axelrod was afraid terrified you know so Alaskan his two football fields long and three fields wide sure he knew it had been frozen solid for three months straight and a jackhammer couldn't make a dent an inch deep in it but still he was on shore he never walked across ice in the middle of winter before never even put on a pair of skates to his buddies he shook his head no he didn't care if it made him a chicken he wasn't going out there risking falling through so his friends decided to sweeten the deal it's hard him that if he made it to the other side they'd meet him there after walking along the shoreline and pay him $300 now his buddies didn't have $300 but they did have a thick wad of 10 $2 bills so they slipped one into Axelrod's hand there's proof there was more where that come from they both figured it'd be worth it to see axel rug fall through the ice or wet himself from fear again Axelrod wasn't too bright he was also very poor and his family was way behind on the electric bill which was bad since this was one of the worst winters in Canadian history so he took the $2 bill as proof they had 298 more made his way across the eyes the two friends giggled behind their frozen snot covered mittens egging him on telling him he was doing great Axelrod didn't clue in though he just kept going waddling and swaying from side to side like a tightrope walker terrified the Rhino hide the guys were give now his two buddies didn't want Axelrod to get hurt not seriously anyway at most they were waiting for him to slip and fall on his ass so they could laugh at him until their bellies were so so axe when I gotten 60 feet across the ice when his buddy said the shore heard a sudden crunch a sharp unmistakable sound the ice had cracked so Alaskan was giving way and Axelrod wait apparently the leg wasn't so titanium at the middle feeling a sudden rush of panic and just a little bit of guilt both of them started hollering at the top of their lungs for Axelrod to get off the ice to turn back Axelrod didn't turn around though didn't even stop walking he was determined to make it to the other side to make that $300 cracks in the ice be damned his house needed heat his pals on the show watched in horror as Axelrod took four more steps before plummeting through the ice on the fifth unable to think being dumb kids they freaked and ran away it took him ten minutes before they realized they needed to get help a couple of the nuns and one of the farmers from town came out onto the ice when they go to the break where Axelrod had fallen in they made an hour if ik Discovery on the other side of the hole was a set of freshly frozen footprints my prints in the snow but upside down and inside out they were glistening and raised like a trail of swollen scar tissue and they headed to the other side to the end of sole Alaskan Lake on the shoreline the five of them ran to the other side of the pond coming to the very end to find that the steps ended at a second gaping hole in the ice Axl Rose body was never found but the doctors were certain it should have been impossible for him to have walked that length of the ice well succumbing to hypothermia ever since that night on the anniversary of Melvin Axelrod's Arctic punch they say he comes back still drenched in half frozen stiff looking for the $300 promised him and taking any unfortunate soul who dares wander across the ice mistaking them for his tube house who played that cruel joke on him so very long though Lloyd and I stared back at Derek speechless our mouths again the silence was interrupted when two loud chortling sophomores bumped into Derek from behind making their way past him this has got to be bull lloyd insisted rearing back from the table why'd you get this I asked my eyes having never left Derek's face I told you he said it's the basis for my next comic script which you are well greed there are some things out there that can't be understood but you can't find them out if you just suspend your disbelief I looked at him hard he smirks I heard it from one of the teachers him from one of the upperclassmen last year he confessed both of them saw the exact same story I just did I was then fairly certain of what Derrick was going to say next and I was right the anniversary of Melvin axe of us disappearances tonight he whispered is that we were sharing state-level secrets hey I say we go to Saul ask and after dark and check it out Lloyd blew out his mouth his lips making that sound yeah all right I said hastily almost automatically what white blurted I'll go I continued help let's all go great said Derek over Lloyd's grumble protest meet you both at the shoreline near 10th and mockingbird be there at 10:00 sharp and with that Derek stood from his seat carrying his meal tray to the metal rack and exiting the CAF dude Lloyd spun on me what gives look man I offered Lloyd feebly and we did a really lousy things our Derek I think the least we can do is spend one late night with him on this little whim that's crap snap Lloyd this is your way of playing another prank on him I shook my head vigorously VEX by his charge oh no way yeah well maybe this is Derek's way of getting us back playing a prank on us you ever think of that I doubt it Derek's not like that Lloyd just shook his head obviously pissed we didn't say anything after that but we both knew we were going to Saul asking Lake that evening to meet Derek I remember it was 10 below zero felt like minus 20 with the wind and even worse that close to the ice the stars were probably out and fully visible but I don't remember seeing them I could barely see what was in front of me from my face being 2/3 buried behind my scarf and toque I met Lloyd on the way there about 10 yards from the shoreline on Mockingbird and he was like why he's dressed like a winter mummy we got closer we saw a figure standing upright unfazed by the cutting Gail it was Derek he was in his snow pants in a parka but wasn't wearing anything to cover his head just a pair of ear muffs his Harley he seemed completely comfortable out there his flushed red cheeks the only thing betraying how cold he was well here we are he greeted us cryptically with the just as cryptic a smile on his chapped purple lips what are we doing out here Lloyd ground growing his thickly gloved hands together and bouncing from one foot to the other he's freezing we're here to see if Melvin Axelrod's ghost shows up I told him look he gave me could have thoughts all asking Lake that night I never said it was a ghost said Derek just over the wind the two of us stared at our guide into the other world then what is it I asked a zombie Lloyd mocked feigning ignorance Derek just shrug the three of us stood there in the middle of January in Canada staring at the frozen lake like three wallflowers staring at a dance floor and analogy is not much of a stretch for us predictably Derek broke the silence how about we play some truth or dare he asked I looked over and saw that cryptic smile and his now bluish lips how about we play some go home and sleep in a house with central heating Lloyd bugged me I couldn't help myself sure I said let's play some truth or dare you first Derrick post ordinarily I would have bicker back and forth of Derrick to try and get him to go first but my recently grown conscious forced me to accept this condition okay I said then looked out onto the ice anticipating what the Dare might be and not having any of it truth for the first time at night Derrick strange smirk disappeared alright he said his face and voice now very serious yesterday morning my mind then immediately raced that moment regretting my choice for truth when I asked you about Christy Blackwell okay okay never mind I shouted over him before I could even get the question out I changed my mind dare give me a dare what you want me to walk across the lake is that it without speaking Derrick and nodded his head that cryptic little grin reappearing I then look back at the frozen lake Derrick hadn't lied when he said it was two football fields long in fact it was longer two hundred and seventy three and a half years to be exact from where we were standing I could see only half with the ice the other side swallowed up by night and fog okay here's the deal I said trying to negotiate my way out of it I'll go as far as when that fog starts that's just before you two won't be able to see me No Deal said derec his eyes colder than Seoul asking you go all the way across or until you see Melvin Axelrod's or you admit you believe my story enough that you're scared to go out there what or choose truth I'm not scared of that bogeyman crap I exclaimed and why not go all the way said derec you know that Lake is perfectly safe for skating it's been frozen solid since November because it's stupid that's why well because you're afraid Melvin Axelrod will get you no I'm not fine and choose truth answer my question astonished I shot him an incredulous look man screw you I cried you're the one who's so stupid you believe that dumb story he probably did hear that story from upperclassmen last year I knew you'd be gullible enough to buy it I turn to the frozen pond my eyes melting the ice I'm gonna go as far as that Fox starts from there I'll be able to see over to the other side I'll also be right in the middle so it'll prove two things one that no one could fall through the ice when it's this cold out and two then there isn't some supernatural creature roaming around at night yeah I'll prove to you there's no such thing Derick look back at me that strange smile disappeared again from his lips and never came back I'm not Kabul he insisted in a low voice the story is true up yours I said walking to the edge of the shoreline and shuffling gingerly onto the ice come on light let's go me I heard from behind come on you wimp let's show this moron how stupid and full of shit is the two of us waddle not to Saul asking we inched our way closer and closer to the foggy middle if they care never seeming to thin out and receive like it normally would truthfully I could barely see an inch in front of me the whipping cold air caused me to tear up and turn my tears to icicles on my lashes but I was too angry to care in my mind I told myself I just wanted to prove to Derick what an idiot he was in truth I just wanted anyway to avoid telling him the truth about Christy Blackwell we were well past the center point when I finally decided to stop Lloyd was a bit ahead of me I looked around the fog was so dense even worse I had to blink my eyes rapidly to break up the frozen moisture that accumulated on my lashes i roughly cleared my vision with my gloved thumb and then I saw it a hunched figure just obscured by the fog hobbling slowly toward Lloyd it must have been having the same trouble I was because he made no effort to run or communicate with the figure even though it was practically right in his line of sight first I thought it was Derrick thought he'd somehow caught up and was trying to scare us but I was wrong I was a very very wrong I tried to warn I'd to shout out to ask who was there but I couldn't the words were trapped in my throat I was as petrified as the ice I stood upon I stared seeing the nearly naked figure coming to focus it was a man or whoa what was once a man the skin was pale translucent all the blue and purple veins visible the hair was blond silver and slicked back like the head had been submerged in water it looked like a cadaver that had escaped from the city morgue his bright colored eyes resembled a pair of round broken mirrors and never once did I see them close not even blink then I heard it speak I did it muttered hoarsely the sound like the ruffling of crumpled paper I did it where is she the creature was mere feet from Lloyd but he turned his back to it like it wasn't there he then lifted his hand one red eye opened and asked me Jimmy did you say before he could finish the walking cadaver shot a long bony arm grasping his shoulder with his claw-like fingers Lloyd looked around and shrieked where's the thing muttered huskily where's my baby undoubtedly terrified Lloyd tried to sprint away only to slip and fall on the ice the walking guitar was a grip remained unbroken causing Lloyds winter coat to rip the thing pinned him onto the ice his grasping claws shaking Lloyd by the lapels you said if I did it you tell me where she was hit hissed into Lloyds face I watched still petrified only able to imagine the look of confusion and terror on Lloyd's bundled-up face where is she the thing screamed where is she you promised you promised his voice cracked on the last syllable they then started throwing lies torso up and down until the back of his head hit the ice with a shuddering fart I cringed it was like the sound of a bowling ball being dropped straight to the pine floor then the thing mounted him clawing and punching at his lifeless form in a hungry frenzy with his cracked blackened teeth bared the canines resembling a set of fangs I wanted to run I wanted to help to fight that thing off of my friend but I swear I couldn't by the time that thing had stopped I could see fleshy fallen red droplets steaming on the ice around Lloyd's head I knew then that he was gone what happened next I can't explain the creature laid down on lights supine body putting his pale protest Lea Scout head on his chest as though listening for a heartbeat I then realized that the fog was thickening there were whole plumes of smoke wafting up from the ice beneath their bodies I realized when they began to sink that the ice was melting the creature sunk down beneath the ice pulling my friend's corpse along with it once they slipped out of sight I heard the worst sound you could possibly imagine the sound of ice cracking I looked at my feet and saw a deep gash shaped like a lightning bolt tearing a path through the ice beneath my feet between my legs several mini fractures splintered off creating a spiderweb of icy shards my sense is returning to me I ran falling and stumbling back to the shoreline I don't know how many steps I made before I slid and fell through and was completely submerged in so Laskin I died remember how cold it was though it was freezing beyond imagination I just remember the disgusting feeling of my clothes soaking in the water beside my skin and the sheer panic blaring inside my skull remember how I was short and fat well I also didn't have a clue how to swim I just floated there under the water not seeing a damn thing my mind a riot of horrible scenarios and images as you would expect I flailed in desperate mortal fear when I felt a hand grab me in Paul thankfully the hand was pulling me upward to safety and it belonged to Derek Jimmy darrock panted after he dragged me up onto the surface it's okay he struggled to say as he too was drenched in the icy water here's my coat put it on he then laid his open Parker over my body luckily he'd taken it off before diving in to save me and I'm sure now if it wasn't for his quick thinking I'd have died that night I said to me he stammered on his lips returning a deep blue as was his face my phone is one of the coat pockets call nine-one-one what I said not understanding why he didn't do it himself just do it he said and then turned and began walking in the direction of that creature wait I hollered gotta go I can't lied he blurted out and now this is where I'd like to tell you that I forced Derek to stay with me that I told him the truth about Christi Blackwell that I apologized for the cruel joke I played on him with Lloyd and my uncle Eric and for always taking him and his friendship for granted but that didn't happen shivering from the cold and my own fear I just watched as he marched away disappearing into the farm I took out his phone from the right pocket and dialed 9-1-1 remember hearing the phone ring they were not in a sound reverberating in my skull I don't remember anyone answering the last thing I remember is the feeling of my body growing warm all the pain and fear evaporating with the fog and then there was blackness blackness say for a horoscope with horrible images playing on a loop in my mind I woke up in the emergency room I was told that the paramedics and fire departments were called out that they'd scanned the ice but never found dairy colloid I was told that I was lucky to be alive even luckier that I didn't have frostbite and would therefore not have to lose any appendages eventually they got around to asking me why we were out there and what had happened I told them everything every last detail of course they all looked at me like I was crazy some of them even thought that I might have gone into shock and asked my parents to have me undergo a cat scan I never did that during my time in the hospital three thoughts kept spinning around my brain one how grateful I was to Derrick Zimmer for saving my life two how amazed I was that his story was actually true and three why that creature kept asking for his baby instead of the money like Derrick had said in his story I found out later that the story Derrick had told us that afternoon was one of many legends concerning us all asking Lake and that night some were about a man whose daughter had been kidnapped by a gang of thieves that the man was thrown into the lake his feet encased in concrete after he paid their ransom some were of a mentally disturbed woman who had drowned her baby after thinking that the devil had taken possession of it and at least half a dozen more I can't stomach reciting here perhaps the worst moment after that night was when I got a visit from mrs. Calhoun the principal at Pendleton College she was in her early 70s stout with a tight silver bobcat and a pair of owlish spectacles on her round little nervous she sat down at my bedside wearing a shapeless riotously Paden muumuu and asked me what had happened it's all asking I told her the same story I told everyone since waking up in the emergency room when I was done she just stared at me expressionless before giving out a sharp sigh through her tiny nostrils this is what I think happened James she began a subtle disdain in her voice I think you dared Lloyd a fan of its and Derek to walk out there on the ice we all know how you tricked and tortured that poor boy since primary school I think when the ice cracked and your friends fell in you panicked and came up with this ludicrous lie to cover your tracks because you think we're all as gullible as poor Derek Zimmer because you think you're that smart and the rest of us at that dumb I think you're a cruel immature sociopathic little boy you'll end up becoming a cheat and a fraud and spent his adult life in and out of prison from my bed I stared back at her wide-eyed it was so surreal and I don't teach er speaking to me in such a way and I don't care you tell this to she hissed because I'm retiring at the end of this school year and if I never see another sadistic child like you again it'll be too soon when I brought up how I'd been rescued how had all the most succumbed to hypothermia myself she grunted and said I don't know you seem all right to me after all you didn't even get frostbite out there did you and you're the only one of those boys who survived and then she shook her wrinkled gray head at me making her noise with that tongue in and out of prison she repeated to herself before rising from her chair and leaving me on my own today I'm happy to tell you her prognosis was false I haven't been in jail at anytime in my life and the worst I've ever gotten is a speeding ticket that being said guilt has followed me ever since that night I never told Derek that I'd lied about Christy Blackwell and for that I am eternally sorry as I am for making Lloyd come with me across the frozen lake I'd also doubted Derek about his story of the spirit that haunts all Alaskan once a year on a January night for that too I am sorry I don't know what compelled me to play so many tricks on him besides my overly logical and cynical nature whatever since that night I'm not so quick to dismiss something even if it does seem fantastic or even impossible [Music] [Music] Wow I'm sure there's a moral to that story somewhere in there but well you tell me what it is yeah don't be so gullible oh don't assume that people are gullible and believe everything you tell them well all I can say is another fantastic story there and of course I will be back again with another one on Friday you are gonna join me how you go on to say you will yes you will well that's enough for me for one evening just time for me to bid you all good night since we dream [Music] [Music] thank you so much for choosing to spend your time listening to me now if you enjoyed the doctor creeping experience and come find me on Facebook come chat with me on Twitter listen to the background music and downloaded if you like on soundcloud drop by the store pick up a t-shirt and importantly if you've got a story you'd like me to read send it to dr. creepers vault subreddit I set up so that I could read your stories looking forward to seeing you all again real soon so come check me out it's okay

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Length: 49min 0sec (2940 seconds)

Published: Wed May 29 2019

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