Yeah, but you know... H.R. is who you go to first and they're supposed to be on your side but uhhhh... everyone knows they scratch the company's back. 🤷 OSHA is your next step but all they do is hand out hundred thousand dollar fines that's literally chump change for these kinds of companies. eeeeeeeEEEEEEEeeehhh... it's a lose-lose if you ask me. Take your cardboard pizza party and company logo embossed keychain and be happy you didn't draw the short straw and have to participate in The Carousel.
usually in these kinds of scenarios, it turns out that either 1. the corpos are well aware but think it's cheaper to just hide it away and just make everyone follow these rules. not sure how anyone not sued them yet 2. the corpos are aware, have tried different ways, even contacted the govt or some form of outside help, and found out that following these rules is the only feasible thing to do without ruining everything. at least here, they tried. 3. the corpos are purposefully ignoring the issue, thinking of it as the workers being delusional. usually they have enough wealth to simply pay whatever lawsuits is thrown their way and are content with the fact that the job will always attract desperate people who are willing to ignore such dangerous if it means getting paid, making the issue of findng another warm body to do the job solve itself
"These rules are so important that breaking one of them will result in a terrible fate" Also boss: "Ill tell you the rules one by one, when the time is right" Seems like a great way to get everyone killed to me.
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@@MostrandomM_toexisttodayDid you know that you're an asshole? But you can change that, all you have to do is stop bothering people with your stupid mythology.
When I hear the word "Raffle" my first thought was "Oh God, The crew is going to choose one of their own to be sacrificed to that thing that ate poor Barker." The ending was very disturbing
Yeah, that didn't make sense, though. The raffle should be that one has to be fed to the monster, otherwise the managers wouldn't have said "so n' so doesn't count. He broke the rules, but we still have to do the raffle." Nobody would've been hoping the debt was paid by the guy locked out if the raffle was some kind of strange cannibalistic ritual.
There is actually a story that's a parody of the rules that I really liked. Some dude gets a letter by the devil telling him to list some rules. Dude does so, then gets a job offer as a night watchman for a place with the rules he wrote.
I spent a few weeks on an oil rig 30 years ago doing non destructive testing on pipes. It's a loud hostile place, but the pay is good. The first few days are sensory overload, but it normalizes rather quickly. By the time I was leaving, I really enjoyed it. It took a while to get used to being on land again once I went home.
I went from working derricks to aut testing. Pipeline. Culture shock. These dudes were taking sandwich breaks. Offshore hands piss me off. Instead of getting anything done all they do is talk about how they did it offshore. Land rigs have 5 ppl doing what it takes over 100 to do offshore.
Definitely night and day difference between the two. I'd rather do land for the efficiency and normalcy it provides. I like offshore for the danger and excitement, but you're right about it taking 100 guys to get anything done, and God forbid you get one of the old guys helping you do anything. You're better off doing it solo.
@@nebwachamp in fairness, if something goes wrong on land, we can always run. You are screwed if something goes really wrong offshore. Plus people like those at BSEE are up your ass offshore, and in the case of BP rigs, the mountain of permits are too.
I'm a third party contractor, and have only gone offshore less than a handful of times in my two years with the company (2 in the North Sea (same rig), 2 in the Gulf (different ships)). As long as there is work being done, I kind of like it. Outside of BP taking forever to do anything, I enjoyed knowing what has to be done to get the job done, and not having to worry about anything else. Food isn't half bad either.
@@troybaxter u have a great point. The beauracracy must be grossly tedious. I leave the rig everyday too. I love it but gotta get away even if it's just for a sandwich. 3rd party hand huh... my favorite morning safety meeting is "beware 3rd party hands. Don't let them worm bite u or worm bite themselves." Lol.. God bless the patch. God bless u sir.
@@georgerafa5041 It was definitely fleshed out. Everything you needed was in the story. Some rich fucks made a deal with a monster, demon, whatever you want to call it, to keep the oil flowing, to keep them rich. In return, they have to paint symbols with the ick and oil from a sacrifice, and after that, rip apart and eat the sacrifice.
Obviously at the end, they all tickled Clive for a few hours and everyone went home safe and sound! Clive reacted that way because it was licorice syrup and he hate that flavor, poor Clive.
I work at a job with a strange set of rules... Lots of rules about showing up on time and when I can leave and when I can go eat lunch. It is a nightmare remembering and following them.
Mine is even worse, tells me how many days I'm allowed to get sick. And when I can't take my holidays they even dock my pay 33% bastards call it taxes.
My daddy was a welder on an oil rig in the north sea. Only once. Even though he worked all over the world, he only did the rig once. Can't say i blame him. I wouldn't have gone even once!
yeah ive heard how the north sea is absolutely dangerous. shows how money is the biggest incentive if humans are willing to set up an oil rig in one of the most dangerous areas of water
I used to live in Scotland and know some people who had worked on the piper alpha, probably the most infamous rig prior to the deep blue horizon - ooops, wasn’t 100% sure of the name, looked it up & it’s the deep water horizon, and it happened in 2010, so shocked that was 14 years ago - anyway, the piper alpha obviously reverberated through the community. One anecdote that has stuck with me was that the heat was so intense, it was melting helicopter windows. Spooky monster stories are nowhere as frightening as the banality of (human) evil, and the callous indifference of late-stage capitalism corporations.
Watching this while I'm on a deepwater oil drillship in the Gulf of Mexico. Been out here 170 of 190 days this year. 14 years in O&G. Most people can't handle it.
I saw “strange rules” & almost broke my thumbs pressing play 🤣! I love your stories & appreciate the time & effort you put into making them, thank you! 🙂
I actually worked offshore on oil rigs and pipe bargea in my early twenties. It is true that the sea can play trick with your mind and being out there with nothing but deep blue acean around you can get unnerving for some.
I never had the opportunity to ask someone like you, if you care to answer of course! -Is the platform quite stable or do you feel a bit of the movements of the sea in general? -Is there an oil smell around all the time or is it just when some accident or mess happens? -Did you worry during storms or did you felt quite at ease? -Did you get bored a lot outside of your schedule? Thank you regardless if you decide to answer or not, I know my questions aren't exactly deep, but it's a bit of curiosity. As a teen I got the chance to visit a platform while it was at our port, I don't recall why it was there, but it was nice. Sucks that it sunk I think it was the oil rig P-36, it sank in 2001, 11 of the 175 died sadly.
@@Mangaka-ml6xo I will try my best to answer your questions. Stability? Yeah it was pretty stable, but you could still feel some movement in a high sea state. The pylons are filled with sea water to helo with that. The only area that I thought smelled if oil and other smells was the drilling floor and the mud module uaes foe drilling. Most storm we would ride out, but fir steong tropical depressions and hurricanes we were flown in to shore. Finally yeah, there were times I got bired, but my schedule was pretty constant with little down time, so mostly I just focused on working and sleeping.
@@wallacetillery5557 Nice, thank you very much, it is much appreciated and am grateful you took some of your time to answer my somewhat generic questions. 👍👍
Bacon is not red meat. Update: I researched it, and it turns out bacon is classified as red meat, because it contains more myoglobin than fish or chicken. Guess I put my foot in my mouth on that one….
I stopped in the midden of the story to look for this comment. I've never heard of bacon being red meat. I thought pork was known as "the other white meat". I guess they could have given them turkey bacon then for that 1 day.
@@Its_slimbabyy I guess that ad campaign wasn't accurate then. Look up "pork the other white meat". It was an advertising campaign in the 80s/90s. Growing up back then and not having any internet to learn otherwise it made me think that pork was white meat.
I want a lighthouse story about a listener who doesn't follow the rules to the videos hes listening to & only realizes his own reality has melded into the videos hes listening to when its a little too late. Lighthouse inception if you will
Hmmm so here’s my interpretation, whatever is down there, probably a kraken or something akin to it is influencing the rig in a lovecraftian sense Because of the oil rig is connected to it the rig has become a part of it, I won’t say the rig is alive but whatever eldritch creature elder god thing is down there, it’s almost like the rig is a part of it Remember Jean said to wear the pin to show your a part of it, almost like you could say the pin makes you a white blood cell in a sense The red door my guess is that it leads to the “heart” of the rig? So that’s why oil seeped out of it for days after it had been opened like a cut or something? The drilling platform is maybe it’s voice? Why would it want to hear other voices when it’s the only one that should be speaking? Don’t look East because that is where it’s gazing maybe? Wednesday is when it feeds? The 7th to me is what ties it together because it’s got such a powerful hold and influence over the crew by this point they commit the sacrifice with their many hands, almost like a krakens many tentacles reaching out for its prey… Just my interpretation though I enjoyed this story and maybe sully should see about getting a job at a grocery store or I bet the zoo down the street from barnabys is hiring, maybe a lonely old radio station needs a new DJ?
You put that little bit of extra effort in to this story which sets you apart from other channels. A handful of voice effects and sound effects brought it to life. First video I have watched, now I will binge your channel.
@@deportsuperman Agreed! Dealing with a mysterious unknown entity is great, but they led up to an event and then dropped the ball. Like ending a movie right before the climax.
That last part hits like a train. If they had to offer up a sacrifice that’s one thing, but the workers being forced to be a part of it all…for hours…and how some have gone through this multiple times
Indeed, someone being so deluded that they think a story like this could actually happen is quite scary. And to think, there are probably more of you! :o
@@kangarookangaroo702 Not literally. It's symbolic of how we worker bees are basically being paid to risk our lives and limbs so some fatcat in an air conditioned office halfway across the country can get obscenely rich. The monster under the rig represents corporate America.
Thanks a lot, now I've got to go back and listen again if the warning was don't watch the sunset in the east or don't look east at sunset. 😂 Edit: okay so he looked east after sunset. It does sound like Gene says "at the sunset" but it's "afta sunset" 9:22
Kraken is a producing heavy oil field located in shallow water in the UK and is operated by EnQuest Heather. According to GlobalData, who tracks more than 34,000 active and developing oil and gas fields worldwide, the field is located in block 9/2b ALL, with water depth of 408 feet.
"That door, you never go open it no matter what you hear." Welp guess we know what he's opening. Edit: Just finished. They never opened the door. Nice.
Definitely. Was better, before he started appearing on screen, but....still good! Not that I hate looking at him, I just think the narration has changed. More pauses or something
that’s one thing i noticed is in all of these stories the main character starts to question the rules a little too much or gets too comfortable i assume it’s done on purpose to teach us a simple warning of don’t question it just follow the rules and collect your pay when you are done which if i ever had a job with strange rules if it was safe to i would make a list of the rules keep it on me at all times and follow them without question as long as i made the money they were promising me there would be no issues
There’s a moment you say “relax, son” and my Alexa reacted and replied. I was in the bed preparing to sleep and I almost had a heart attack, I thought there was someone talking to me from the corner of my room lol
Rules to surviving Walmart 1. If a manager says something to you whispering you can see me can save your life 2. If the coke man shows up before 3am throw bread at him 3. If a man named Matt claiming to be the store manager walks toward yell not today Satan he'll leave you alone 4. Never fall asleep before 2 am you'll wake up in a alternative universe 5. Crack heads are the guardians against evil
Very well written and narrated. I knew what was coming pretty early on but I didn't care, this was a great ride! One of these needs to become a series. Tales from the Kraken
As a RL frac worker for 15 years I can say the worst part about working an ocean rig or land well is the waiting... There is so many times you just sit hour after hour. And you have to stay at your spot even if doing nothing for 10 hours. It seriously drives you crazy. Its much worse than the physical work
I’m so glad that you have kept on doing your personal presentation on the stories you narrate! I always watch you on my iPad so I can see YOU telling ME a story It’s great Stephen! & it makes the whole thing a real time out stress reliever & just a kind of special treat.😎🌈✌️
Oof. That last part was nauseating. A tension headache did start up at the same time, so it was probably just that. It's the thought on thick fluid that smells like rotten eggs being poured down your throat. Nasty.
Your story telling and voice acting is superb. I like having you as the visual, the editing and otherwise as well. Props for not being like every other creepy pasta narrator, you go above and beyond and it shows.
these stories are interesting in that the main source of horror is not the monsters or unexplainable, but the cruel and heartless behavior dictated by rules from people or things beyond comprehension. The forced inhumanity for sake of maintaining profit margins. Absolutely a horror story birthed from the mind of a person bathed in neoliberal capitalism.
Was already listening to one of your videos now to fall asleep, thank you, i love your channel so much, i would love love love to hear more Forest and Firetower stories ❤
@@stephaniereynolds361 I am kind of assuming by the 'hands on him' thing that they were like... ripping him apart? but the whole 'screams for hours' thing makes me thing it was idk maybe like eating him slowly?
That’s what I was thinking but how do u rip someone apart w just ur hands … even w multiple ppl trying? Not only that but what was the point of making him drink the oil and what part did it play, if any? And how was he screaming for hours? Shouldn’t he have eventually passed out from the pain and died? Idk … it’s silly all the time I put into figuring these things out when it’s fake anyway and could never be real. But I try making it make sense and needing all the details 😂😂😂
This is why I can’t do books like this I need high description in Graphic detail😂 can’t just leave me hanging now I’m pissed off 🤣 im still thinking about whats behind the damn red door that was never discussed further 😭
I worked in the gulf in the early 80's.For Dimond M Drilling. Rig 98(a platform) and 99 (a monster jackup).As a 19 year old, from Northern Michigan/Wisconsin, I was the youngest and only Yankee on the rig.Iam 63 now and my wife still wants me to right my memoirs, BUT WHO IN THE WORLD WOULD BELEAVE ME.!!
"That's why we got these rules. You'll learn each of them when the time comes, to keep the narrative interesting. Because people kept complaining when all the rules were laid out in the beginning and the protagonist just broke them all like an idiot."
Shhh. Secret rules. Especially the last one, that you don’t know about. lol Dude witnesses 2 murders now, others many more times, but they’re like, yeap, guess I’ll renew my contract. lol 🤣
I'm so glad corporate recently fixed the "wear the button in the shower" thing. Now we get a little implant and a tattoo! Thanks and keep serving the ancient ones! 😊
I'm new here.. but.. I'm a sucker when it comes to a good narration and a good horror stories.. This one of em'.. my first Vid here was the 3 hour long story but it seems like it's just a 10 minute story telling.. I'm super hooked.. Thank you ... Please keep up the good work..
De manier hoe je het verhaal vertelt, is zo interessant. Heb gister dit kanaal ontdekt en vind het echt geweldig. Heerlijke stem om naar te luisteren en wordt goed vertelt. Blijf zo door gaan
Wait is there going to be another continuation!!??? I loved the story but I really want a proper ending. Did they sacrifice him, start eating parts of him, or rip him apart? Is he going to go back? So many left over questions 😅
Just joined the community! I have to say, this story is absolutely fantastic. As an aspiring author myself, I'm truly impressed by the vivid details and depth you've woven into the narrative. It really inspires me!
I actually worked on Oil Rigs in the Gulf of Mexico as a service technician. I’d take boats offshore or helicopters That was a time of adventure and a lot of stress 😂and a lot of times: extreme boredom !
Oh man I loved this one! The rules were practical and not obscure, the creature never showed its hand, and the real monsters are the people after all. Excellent work Lighthouse Team!
Nice horror story.... this is a good one to include in the training manual for my new employees....I 'll try the pin for starts and I'll turn the cash drawer in to the "red door"...
I swear if it wasn't for these videos. My hour-long drive homes will be awful every time I see a new video post. It's unlike yay, I get to listen to something other then the radio.
As someone who has worked on offshore oil rigs, TLP’s, SPARs, & Derrick barges for 27 years, the author paints a pretty accurate account of life in the oil field. Minus the supernatural portion of course. Unless you count all the damn Gravity defying capsules and ball shaped objects seen exiting and entering the water with no disturbance to the surface tension. I seen my first one when I was 23 years old and working on the DB 50 in the Vermillion Bay Area of the GOM. It had such an effect on my sense of “world as we know it “ state of mind, it started me on a journey for truth that listening to this channel and others like it is a fortuitous result of my interest in the unexplained. Bravo Author 👏👏👏! And narrator of course! 👏👏👏
We're currently on anchor in Grand Isle. We just finished with our SPS. I was work on a TLP in Green Canyon for a while. They did do a great job with this story.
@@leegray2441 Well sir I know when we were at port or dry dock it was a chore to stay out of trouble. I hope you have better luck than I did. 😂. Enjoy your hitch and stay safe!
The first time I heard you read, I thought I was kind of impressed but now You are my absolute favourite horror story reader on TH-cam. YOU ARE THE BEST OF THE BEST!!!
Have you tried 'Habibi Spice ASMR'? Arab Dad reads to you as you try to fall asleep, only you will be succeeding With commentary throughout. And with an always going off-script cat
At some point these rules have to be reported for corporate malpractice.
HA!!! You saw what we did in the middle east for oil? Yeah, if that keeps the oil flowing good luck stopping it.
Yeah, but you know... H.R. is who you go to first and they're supposed to be on your side but uhhhh... everyone knows they scratch the company's back. 🤷
OSHA is your next step but all they do is hand out hundred thousand dollar fines that's literally chump change for these kinds of companies.
eeeeeeeEEEEEEEeeehhh... it's a lose-lose if you ask me. Take your cardboard pizza party and company logo embossed keychain and be happy you didn't draw the short straw and have to participate in The Carousel.
usually in these kinds of scenarios, it turns out that either
1. the corpos are well aware but think it's cheaper to just hide it away and just make everyone follow these rules. not sure how anyone not sued
them yet
2. the corpos are aware, have tried different ways, even contacted the govt or some form of outside help, and found out that following these rules is the only feasible thing to do without ruining everything. at least here, they tried.
3. the corpos are purposefully ignoring the issue, thinking of it as the workers being delusional. usually they have enough wealth to simply pay whatever lawsuits is thrown their way and are content with the fact that the job will always attract desperate people who are willing to ignore such dangerous if it means getting paid, making the issue of findng another warm body to do the job solve itself
@@dsandoval9396 dam rules
@@dsandoval9396 hopefully pay is above minimum wage
Oil execs exchanging their workers' souls for business?
Sounds like a normal rig to me.
Business as usual
No doubt
You misspelled "oil execs". Should be "all execs".
You're welcome.
@@Templar451 Spot on.
@@madtrucker0983 Wish I wasn't.
"These rules are so important that breaking one of them will result in a terrible fate"
Also boss: "Ill tell you the rules one by one, when the time is right"
Seems like a great way to get everyone killed to me.
And if you follow all the rules, you may be lucky enough to win the raffle and die a worse death than breaking the rules!
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@@MostrandomM_toexisttoday I'm good being a sinner, thanks
Makes for better suspense.
@@MostrandomM_toexisttodayDid you know that you're an asshole? But you can change that, all you have to do is stop bothering people with your stupid mythology.
I absolutely love the subtle nod to horror with characters named “Clive” and “Barker”.
I am oblivious, what's the reference?
@@Mavvyd96 Clive Barker is a horror icon. Director I believe.
@@Mavvyd96 or author
Author that wrote and directed the original Hellraiser movie and other stories c@@Mavvyd96
Yeah, "subtle"
When I hear the word "Raffle" my first thought was "Oh God, The crew is going to choose one of their own to be sacrificed to that thing that ate poor Barker." The ending was very disturbing
Same thought. Sounded like "The Lottery." Making the pathetic humans tear someone apart for its amusement and appeasement is a bit more horrifying.
Sound like a less deadly version of the lotto then legion runs but am sure someone is going to die painfully
That's what I thought too, 😮
I'm guessing the rest had to have a bite, off of poor Cliver...
Yeah, that didn't make sense, though. The raffle should be that one has to be fed to the monster, otherwise the managers wouldn't have said "so n' so doesn't count. He broke the rules, but we still have to do the raffle." Nobody would've been hoping the debt was paid by the guy locked out if the raffle was some kind of strange cannibalistic ritual.
I would love to see a story where the MC works for a Government agency who's job it is to investigate the companies who have these strange rules.
There was a creepypasta similar to this.
@@rouninpanda6318 Do you remember what it was called?
Yeah, it's good to have story of govt entities who bump back the night.
Kinda like the first hellboy movie.
@@rouninpanda6318 yeah that sounds pretty interesting i would be down for that story
Bet
We got strange rules, too. Show up. Clock in. Do your job. Take lunch break. Don't be an arse. Etc.
I'm glad you don't work at that grocery store anymore.
😂😂😂
Seems to go threw jobs left and right lol
Barnaby’s locally owned haunted grocery store
He should go back 😂😂😮
😂😂😂
New guy: _almost dies a bunch_
Mentor: yeah, thats one of the rules. Dont do that.
Watch ur Peter tongs.
"I work at a strange rules factory, and they gave me a strange list of rules..."
Rule one always make rule on something the main character doubts
There is actually a story that's a parody of the rules that I really liked. Some dude gets a letter by the devil telling him to list some rules. Dude does so, then gets a job offer as a night watchman for a place with the rules he wrote.
How is that not top comment😭
You broke the first rule of rule club, YOU KNOW YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TALK ABOUT RULE CLUB
Rule number 2: never rule out the rules that don't rule enough.
I spent a few weeks on an oil rig 30 years ago doing non destructive testing on pipes. It's a loud hostile place, but the pay is good. The first few days are sensory overload, but it normalizes rather quickly. By the time I was leaving, I really enjoyed it. It took a while to get used to being on land again once I went home.
I went from working derricks to aut testing.
Pipeline.
Culture shock. These dudes were taking sandwich breaks.
Offshore hands piss me off. Instead of getting anything done all they do is talk about how they did it offshore.
Land rigs have 5 ppl doing what it takes over 100 to do offshore.
Definitely night and day difference between the two. I'd rather do land for the efficiency and normalcy it provides. I like offshore for the danger and excitement, but you're right about it taking 100 guys to get anything done, and God forbid you get one of the old guys helping you do anything. You're better off doing it solo.
@@nebwachamp in fairness, if something goes wrong on land, we can always run. You are screwed if something goes really wrong offshore. Plus people like those at BSEE are up your ass offshore, and in the case of BP rigs, the mountain of permits are too.
I'm a third party contractor, and have only gone offshore less than a handful of times in my two years with the company (2 in the North Sea (same rig), 2 in the Gulf (different ships)). As long as there is work being done, I kind of like it. Outside of BP taking forever to do anything, I enjoyed knowing what has to be done to get the job done, and not having to worry about anything else. Food isn't half bad either.
@@troybaxter u have a great point.
The beauracracy must be grossly tedious.
I leave the rig everyday too. I love it but gotta get away even if it's just for a sandwich.
3rd party hand huh... my favorite morning safety meeting is "beware 3rd party hands. Don't let them worm bite u or worm bite themselves."
Lol.. God bless the patch. God bless u sir.
Bizarre rules plus a group torture ritual to placate a world ending monster? Sounds like an SCP operation. Thanks for the upload
Is that what it was at the end? I couldn't figure out what they were doing.
It wasn't clear, but they were finishing him off somehow. At least, That's what my imagination told me.@@givhony4910
@@givhony4910I think he's reaching. It was definitely not fleshed out what was happening and why.
@@georgerafa5041 Darn! I just wanted some closer. 😪
@@georgerafa5041 It was definitely fleshed out. Everything you needed was in the story.
Some rich fucks made a deal with a monster, demon, whatever you want to call it, to keep the oil flowing, to keep them rich. In return, they have to paint symbols with the ick and oil from a sacrifice, and after that, rip apart and eat the sacrifice.
Obviously at the end, they all tickled Clive for a few hours and everyone went home safe and sound! Clive reacted that way because it was licorice syrup and he hate that flavor, poor Clive.
I work at a job with a strange set of rules... Lots of rules about showing up on time and when I can leave and when I can go eat lunch. It is a nightmare remembering and following them.
You'll be fine, it's okay to let them slip from time to time…
Sounds like 90 plus percent of those.
Mine is even worse, tells me how many days I'm allowed to get sick. And when I can't take my holidays they even dock my pay 33% bastards call it taxes.
I loved all your responses funny as heck 😅
😅😅😅
My daddy was a welder on an oil rig in the north sea. Only once. Even though he worked all over the world, he only did the rig once. Can't say i blame him. I wouldn't have gone even once!
yeah ive heard how the north sea is absolutely dangerous. shows how money is the biggest incentive if humans are willing to set up an oil rig in one of the most dangerous areas of water
Being on a oil rig in Alaska can be just as dangerous.
Those are some rough waters.
I used to live in Scotland and know some people who had worked on the piper alpha, probably the most infamous rig prior to the deep blue horizon - ooops, wasn’t 100% sure of the name, looked it up & it’s the deep water horizon, and it happened in 2010, so shocked that was 14 years ago - anyway, the piper alpha obviously reverberated through the community. One anecdote that has stuck with me was that the heat was so intense, it was melting helicopter windows.
Spooky monster stories are nowhere as frightening as the banality of (human) evil, and the callous indifference of late-stage capitalism corporations.
Under water welding too lol
Watching this while I'm on a deepwater oil drillship in the Gulf of Mexico. Been out here 170 of 190 days this year. 14 years in O&G. Most people can't handle it.
Hats off to you, sir 🪖
I saw “strange rules” & almost broke my thumbs pressing play 🤣! I love your stories & appreciate the time & effort you put into making them, thank you! 🙂
I actually worked offshore on oil rigs and pipe bargea in my early twenties. It is true that the sea can play trick with your mind and being out there with nothing but deep blue acean around you can get unnerving for some.
I never had the opportunity to ask someone like you, if you care to answer of course!
-Is the platform quite stable or do you feel a bit of the movements of the sea in general?
-Is there an oil smell around all the time or is it just when some accident or mess happens?
-Did you worry during storms or did you felt quite at ease?
-Did you get bored a lot outside of your schedule?
Thank you regardless if you decide to answer or not, I know my questions aren't exactly deep, but it's a bit of curiosity.
As a teen I got the chance to visit a platform while it was at our port, I don't recall why it was there, but it was nice. Sucks that it sunk I think it was the oil rig P-36, it sank in 2001, 11 of the 175 died sadly.
@@Mangaka-ml6xo I will try my best to answer your questions. Stability? Yeah it was pretty stable, but you could still feel some movement in a high sea state. The pylons are filled with sea water to helo with that. The only area that I thought smelled if oil and other smells was the drilling floor and the mud module uaes foe drilling. Most storm we would ride out, but fir steong tropical depressions and hurricanes we were flown in to shore. Finally yeah, there were times I got bired, but my schedule was pretty constant with little down time, so mostly I just focused on working and sleeping.
@@wallacetillery5557 Nice! Thank you very much for having taken your time to answer my questions. 👍👍
@@wallacetillery5557 Nice, thank you very much, it is much appreciated and am grateful you took some of your time to answer my somewhat generic questions. 👍👍
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Hey, this story is refreshing in the way the rules are released gradually over time, so to speak.
It's suddenly clear at the end why the last rule is a secret. That's some fine print there!
Bacon is not red meat.
Update: I researched it, and it turns out bacon is classified as red meat, because it contains more myoglobin than fish or chicken. Guess I put my foot in my mouth on that one….
No mammals, nor Muscovy ducks
I stopped in the midden of the story to look for this comment. I've never heard of bacon being red meat. I thought pork was known as "the other white meat". I guess they could have given them turkey bacon then for that 1 day.
Pig and cow meat is red meat lol
It’s pork ? Anything that’s not a fish or poultry is red meat
@@Its_slimbabyy I guess that ad campaign wasn't accurate then. Look up "pork the other white meat". It was an advertising campaign in the 80s/90s. Growing up back then and not having any internet to learn otherwise it made me think that pork was white meat.
I want a lighthouse story about a listener who doesn't follow the rules to the videos hes listening to & only realizes his own reality has melded into the videos hes listening to when its a little too late. Lighthouse inception if you will
Were you planning on writing that? It'd be cool.
Yhat would be a good one😊
Nah
Yea this is a good idea, u should get on it!!
I love how how his blue collar oil rig worker accent is just a Boston accent
In the Gulf it would be Cajun, Texan, or Mexican dialect 90% of the time.
IT'S LIGHTHOUSE TIME!
(grab your blanky!)
We would soo get along!!😂
Got my blankie!
Yippee can we have hot chocy?
I do love the voices used to tell the story. Keep up the amazing work.
Lovin those voices. Peerrrffecctttt.
If the ship's rocking, don't come knocking. No one's going to let you in. RIP Barker
Hmmm so here’s my interpretation, whatever is down there, probably a kraken or something akin to it is influencing the rig in a lovecraftian sense
Because of the oil rig is connected to it the rig has become a part of it, I won’t say the rig is alive but whatever eldritch creature elder god thing is down there, it’s almost like the rig is a part of it
Remember Jean said to wear the pin to show your a part of it, almost like you could say the pin makes you a white blood cell in a sense
The red door my guess is that it leads to the “heart” of the rig? So that’s why oil seeped out of it for days after it had been opened like a cut or something?
The drilling platform is maybe it’s voice? Why would it want to hear other voices when it’s the only one that should be speaking?
Don’t look East because that is where it’s gazing maybe?
Wednesday is when it feeds?
The 7th to me is what ties it together because it’s got such a powerful hold and influence over the crew by this point they commit the sacrifice with their many hands, almost like a krakens many tentacles reaching out for its prey…
Just my interpretation though I enjoyed this story and maybe sully should see about getting a job at a grocery store or I bet the zoo down the street from barnabys is hiring, maybe a lonely old radio station needs a new DJ?
Interesting theories. I'd prefer working as a meteorologist on an island inhabited by monkeys.
At this point rather take a lonely broadcasting station or the gas station on the edge of town
Good interpretation
My sense of humour is truly broken if I thought "Who's Joe? JOE MAMA" at "You don't want to end up like Joe"
NAH😭
I avoided ocean creepypastas for years! Never digged'em. But I gave this one a chance and... I was blown away!!!
Yes
You put that little bit of extra effort in to this story which sets you apart from other channels. A handful of voice effects and sound effects brought it to life. First video I have watched, now I will binge your channel.
You should be a little suspicious when a contract says there is a bonus "if" you finish the contract and not "when".
This needs to be a movie... great narration, the entire story was absorbing...
No! No stopping THERE! PLEASE tell me there are more in this setting!
It's better to end there, Lovecraft horror becomes dull when it's too explained
@@duckmeat4674True but to compare this with Lovecraft is a stretch...
@@melfreemans referring to the genre, not the author himself
I found this to be a disappointing stopping point.
@@deportsuperman Agreed! Dealing with a mysterious unknown entity is great, but they led up to an event and then dropped the ball. Like ending a movie right before the climax.
After listening to this story, I would never even think about working on an oil rig!
That last part hits like a train. If they had to offer up a sacrifice that’s one thing, but the workers being forced to be a part of it all…for hours…and how some have gone through this multiple times
I was curious it never tell us what they did. Did they ripped Clive apart or what??🤔
I think this was just a story, somewhat fictional
Scariest part of all this... is that I can actually see this being a reality.
Figuratively speaking, it is.
The story exists, but the contents are (probably not) real
Indeed, someone being so deluded that they think a story like this could actually happen is quite scary. And to think, there are probably more of you! :o
@@kangarookangaroo702 Not literally. It's symbolic of how we worker bees are basically being paid to risk our lives and limbs so some fatcat in an air conditioned office halfway across the country can get obscenely rich. The monster under the rig represents corporate America.
I'd be freaked out too if I saw a sunset in the east.
The sun sets in the west.
Thanks a lot, now I've got to go back and listen again if the warning was don't watch the sunset in the east or don't look east at sunset. 😂
Edit: okay so he looked east after sunset. It does sound like Gene says "at the sunset" but it's "afta sunset" 9:22
This is clearly in an alternate universe
Spotted that straight away. . . . .
Kraken is a producing heavy oil field located in shallow water in the UK and is operated by EnQuest Heather. According to GlobalData, who tracks more than 34,000 active and developing oil and gas fields worldwide, the field is located in block 9/2b ALL, with water depth of 408 feet.
We go wherever the kraken does
Ok?
Man,this dude has had one heck of a life full of strange lists of rules.... gas stations, fire towers, grocery stores and now oil rigs. Good grief!
“Rule one, don’t mess with the super mutant in power armor that can rip a deathclaw in half”
"That door, you never go open it no matter what you hear."
Welp guess we know what he's opening.
Edit: Just finished. They never opened the door. Nice.
Rules are meant to be followed lol
Best voice on the internet!
Definitely. Was better, before he started appearing on screen, but....still good! Not that I hate looking at him, I just think the narration has changed. More pauses or something
that’s one thing i noticed is in all of these stories the main character starts to question the rules a little too much or gets too comfortable i assume it’s done on purpose to teach us a simple warning of don’t question it just follow the rules and collect your pay when you are done which if i ever had a job with strange rules if it was safe to i would make a list of the rules keep it on me at all times and follow them without question as long as i made the money they were promising me there would be no issues
There’s a moment you say “relax, son” and my Alexa reacted and replied. I was in the bed preparing to sleep and I almost had a heart attack, I thought there was someone talking to me from the corner of my room lol
Rules to surviving Walmart
1. If a manager says something to you whispering you can see me can save your life
2. If the coke man shows up before 3am throw bread at him
3. If a man named Matt claiming to be the store manager walks toward yell not today Satan he'll leave you alone
4. Never fall asleep before 2 am you'll wake up in a alternative universe
5. Crack heads are the guardians against evil
Matt 😂
Crazy
Wouldn't be surprised based on my brother's 3-4 years working there
I have 86'd more men named Matt than any other namesake
Part 511 of thanking the lighthouse horror for the amazing narrations
Very well written and narrated.
I knew what was coming pretty early on but I didn't care, this was a great ride!
One of these needs to become a series. Tales from the Kraken
As a RL frac worker for 15 years I can say the worst part about working an ocean rig or land well is the waiting... There is so many times you just sit hour after hour. And you have to stay at your spot even if doing nothing for 10 hours. It seriously drives you crazy. Its much worse than the physical work
why do you have to wait and do nothing for hours on end?
Stories on oil rigs are always so cool
I’m so glad that you have kept on doing your personal presentation on the stories you narrate! I always watch you on my iPad so I can see YOU telling ME a story
It’s great Stephen! & it makes the whole thing a real time out stress reliever & just a kind of special treat.😎🌈✌️
Oof. That last part was nauseating. A tension headache did start up at the same time, so it was probably just that. It's the thought on thick fluid that smells like rotten eggs being poured down your throat. Nasty.
Your story telling and voice acting is superb. I like having you as the visual, the editing and otherwise as well. Props for not being like every other creepy pasta narrator, you go above and beyond and it shows.
Thanks for the amazing story! Really glad I didn't hear this one 20 years ago when my husband was working out there! Much love from SW Louisiana ❤!
Having worked offshore, production platforms and drill ships, I loved this. They author did some good research. Is the Kraken a platform or MODU?
Dude, appreciate the visuals on this one. Gotta say the ending was a bit abrupt, but the story was excellent.
these stories are interesting in that the main source of horror is not the monsters or unexplainable, but the cruel and heartless behavior dictated by rules from people or things beyond comprehension. The forced inhumanity for sake of maintaining profit margins. Absolutely a horror story birthed from the mind of a person bathed in neoliberal capitalism.
Was already listening to one of your videos now to fall asleep, thank you, i love your channel so much, i would love love love to hear more Forest and Firetower stories ❤
"This oil rig... has a dark secret..."
Do you mean the oil?
I kind of want to know what they did at the end... like did they rip him apart? eat him? did I miss something .__.
Been wondering the same thing. Here I am in comments trying to figure it out and still nothing 🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️🤦🏼♀️
@@stephaniereynolds361 I am kind of assuming by the 'hands on him' thing that they were like... ripping him apart? but the whole 'screams for hours' thing makes me thing it was idk maybe like eating him slowly?
That’s what I was thinking but how do u rip someone apart w just ur hands … even w multiple ppl trying? Not only that but what was the point of making him drink the oil and what part did it play, if any? And how was he screaming for hours? Shouldn’t he have eventually passed out from the pain and died? Idk … it’s silly all the time I put into figuring these things out when it’s fake anyway and could never be real. But I try making it make sense and needing all the details 😂😂😂
Clearly none of y’all have been in a cult before🙄..
All hail the Magic Conch 🐚!!
This is why I can’t do books like this I need high description in Graphic detail😂 can’t just leave me hanging now I’m pissed off 🤣 im still thinking about whats behind the damn red door that was never discussed further 😭
The joy of "strange rules." Thank you, thank you.
I worked in the gulf in the early 80's.For Dimond M Drilling. Rig 98(a platform) and 99 (a monster jackup).As a 19 year old, from Northern Michigan/Wisconsin, I was the youngest and only Yankee on the rig.Iam 63 now and my wife still wants me to right my memoirs, BUT WHO IN THE WORLD WOULD BELEAVE ME.!!
Give us a small sample of some crazy shyt. The people will promptly tell you whether or not you are full of Poo. Go... We're all ear lobes 👂🏾👀👂🏾
Write them! It doesn't matter if people believe them or not, they seem crazy interesting!
"That's why we got these rules. You'll learn each of them when the time comes, to keep the narrative interesting. Because people kept complaining when all the rules were laid out in the beginning and the protagonist just broke them all like an idiot."
those rules are written with blood. it's one of those places where a mistake results in a lost limb.
Shhh. Secret rules. Especially the last one, that you don’t know about. lol
Dude witnesses 2 murders now, others many more times, but they’re like, yeap, guess I’ll renew my contract. lol 🤣
I love how you actually show yourself telling the story at the start. Makes it that much better.
I'm so glad corporate recently fixed the "wear the button in the shower" thing. Now we get a little implant and a tattoo! Thanks and keep serving the ancient ones! 😊
Good gracious, that was excellent Light. Thank you so much and you have a great weekend and everyone else as well.
I'm new here.. but.. I'm a sucker when it comes to a good narration and a good horror stories.. This one of em'.. my first Vid here was the 3 hour long story but it seems like it's just a 10 minute story telling.. I'm super hooked.. Thank you ... Please keep up the good work..
babe wake up new light house horror, i think this is that story for another time he was talkin ab
I myself worked on a rig and it was very tough . After your shift you got 12 hours off but goodness it went by so fast
I don't understand what happened in the end. Dod the people kill clive Or some monster did.
Gotta unlock that red crate and get ready for the heavy scientists
Now THIS is a Fuggin oil rig story jack. LOVED it man keep these sea monster/ocean anomaly edits coming brother!!!
Just keep on uploading Strange rules story Im in love with it that too with your narration. Amazing vid as always
De manier hoe je het verhaal vertelt, is zo interessant. Heb gister dit kanaal ontdekt en vind het echt geweldig. Heerlijke stem om naar te luisteren en wordt goed vertelt. Blijf zo door gaan
yes ❤
Wait is there going to be another continuation!!??? I loved the story but I really want a proper ending. Did they sacrifice him, start eating parts of him, or rip him apart? Is he going to go back? So many left over questions 😅
I think that's the point. The author left the last part up for interpretation. Honestly it is more terrifying that way.
Just joined the community! I have to say, this story is absolutely fantastic. As an aspiring author myself, I'm truly impressed by the vivid details and depth you've woven into the narrative. It really inspires me!
Love the strange rules stories. This was definitely a strange but good story, thanks for sharing. 💕💕
It's definitely a truly awesome story. Kept me on the seat of my chair. With the rules you have to follow, I'd be freaky scared to death.
This was cool. My grandfather ran the chevron / transocean sedco rigs off of Angola. He had the first golf course built in Angola per the same.
I actually worked on Oil Rigs in the Gulf of Mexico as a service technician. I’d take boats offshore or helicopters
That was a time of adventure and a lot of stress 😂and a lot of times: extreme boredom !
I learned to either sleep through it somehow or read a book on those trips to and from the rig.
*finally* a youtuber who does voices to differentiate characters and is good and not cringe. fantastic
Yay! A new story time!
Oh man I loved this one! The rules were practical and not obscure, the creature never showed its hand, and the real monsters are the people after all. Excellent work Lighthouse Team!
Why did they all touch him at the end? Hopefully the amazing lighthouse horror team can make more of these rules stories 🤞
The ending is confusing
Excellent story, time absolutely flew while walking on the treadmill.
Wait why is gene talking below the deck when they weren’t allowed to make any noise down there
Good point
Ooops, i guess he's next to go
Nice horror story.... this is a good one to include in the training manual for my new employees....I 'll try the pin for starts and I'll turn the cash drawer in to the "red door"...
I swear if it wasn't for these videos. My hour-long drive homes will be awful every time I see a new video post. It's unlike yay, I get to listen to something other then the radio.
Some of the rule creepy pastas are good and some are OK to say thin but love the work you put in and the passion. Hope you have a stresless day
Clive screamed for hours... because it was Taco Tuesday and he was so very excited! The end.
Good one love the audio quality. Fan for years
Gotta love a new lighthouse upload :)
I’m loving this story, ending could have been better, thanks Steven!
As someone who has worked on offshore oil rigs, TLP’s, SPARs, & Derrick barges for 27 years, the author paints a pretty accurate account of life in the oil field. Minus the supernatural portion of course. Unless you count all the damn Gravity defying capsules and ball shaped objects seen exiting and entering the water with no disturbance to the surface tension. I seen my first one when I was 23 years old and working on the DB 50 in the Vermillion Bay Area of the GOM. It had such an effect on my sense of “world as we know it “ state of mind, it started me on a journey for truth that listening to this channel and others like it is a fortuitous result of my interest in the unexplained. Bravo Author 👏👏👏! And narrator of course! 👏👏👏
We're currently on anchor in Grand Isle. We just finished with our SPS. I was work on a TLP in Green Canyon for a while.
They did do a great job with this story.
@@leegray2441 Well sir I know when we were at port or dry dock it was a chore to stay out of trouble. I hope you have better luck than I did. 😂. Enjoy your hitch and stay safe!
Please tell us about these capsules and ball shaped objects entering/exiting the water!
You have the best videos ever! And you make ever character have there own voice and it makes these stories more interesting and soothing to listen to
why do they always gotta end right at the good part
Are all of the rule stories tied together? Cause I love them they send a chill down my spine evrytime I listen to it
I sure wasn't ready for that ending! 😳🦑🤯⚘️🙋♀️
The first time I heard you read, I thought I was kind of impressed but now You are my absolute favourite horror story reader on TH-cam.
YOU ARE THE BEST OF THE BEST!!!
C’mon! Too ambiguous! What did they do to Clive? Tear him apart? What was “It”? Need more information. These stories are leaving me hanging too much…
He got took away by the sea monster the kraken !!!
Clive got offer to the kraken he lost his life ....to say the company murdered him or was it on his contract if he get chosen by raffle
yeah i really don't understand the ending, why did he scream forR hours? Why were they running towards him?
Perfect timing ❤ thank you for helping me through my PT post surgery. 5 minute walk today ❤
4.20am and maybe I can now get some sleep, finally..Thank You 💜
Have you tried 'Habibi Spice ASMR'?
Arab Dad reads to you as you try to fall asleep, only you will be succeeding
With commentary throughout.
And with an always going off-script cat
@@TheKrispyfort No I haven't