Presents 3 types of people People 1: Who follow the strange rules from the University No questions asked and Will follow the rules even if there is a chance it is Theo, will never open that door. People 2: Will look at their situation and read it as follows. If this lockdown never ends do I want to be alive and sit here all alone, or do I risk death in order to risk saving my friend? I would rather die than having left a friend up shits creek without a paddle all for the reward of sitting here alone in the dark. People 3: The introverted lad who, upon discovering there is some sort of dark entity/creature/mimic in the hall, feels his Berserker Heritage begin to rise. smashes the coat hanger, gathers up the middle pole, and as he is furiously sharpening his makeshift spear, continue muttering something along the lines of "Big Scary Monster eh? Well your about to have a flag pole shoved up your ass Big Scary Monster...." Breaks out the white paint from Art class making a skull face mask with white paint. He then remove his shirt, kicks open the door, lets out a warcry that would echo through eternity, and charge into the dark. Some relent, being frightened of the dark.....Others?.. smash head first into it, no quarter will be given. . God bless People 3.....
...Rule #78: when making pasta after midnight, don't boil it past 3 minutes. Rule #79: if you hear a cat meow in the other room, don't meow back in odd numbers. Rule #80...
Yeah. It was suspicious. Almost as if someone had interrogated Theo for just enough information to sound believable before ensuring he would not interfere. He also didn't mention anyone else that the "thing" was impersonating, even if just a (random) description like "that person from the 5th floor with green hair and glasses" sense.
Sorry Theo! I'd expect the same treatment if I was late getting back. However, if I learned about a Periodic Lockdown, I'd stock up on water storage and filters along with easy access food. If I have roommates I'd ensure we understood that this was emergency rations and nothing else. My only concern would be them talking too much, and other students stealing it.
Just in case others loot my rations stash. High calorie snacks would be hidden throughout my room. Bottles of water stashed away too. Not a single drink or food that could increase dehydration. No salty or spicy or sweet stuff, just barely tasty snacks or foods. No carbonated or caffeinated beverages.
@00wolfQUEEN - It's the big 3 3 hours without shelter 3 days without water 3 weeks without food. He'd need the bare minimum of food. Just having salty snacks wouldn't be enough if he's stuck in the longer than the normal lockdown length. However, water is essential. Food can be spread out and rationed longer, but he'll definitely need a good storage of water. The bare minimum is 3 months. Normally, you'd want at least a year's worth of supplies. Not to mention first aid kits and basic knowledge of it. For 1 or 2 people, it's easy. Well, if you can trust the other person enough. It's my thought process. I put myself in the situation while listening. 😄
The filling up the sink reminded me of war stories where they would fill up their bathtubs with water because they never knew when they would stop having water and how long it would last. This was an interesting story!
If Theo forgot everything since the lockdown, why would he remember where he lived and the name of his roommate? He could’ve rested easy… Loved the story, another great narration!
@@ivyme5783 Because it probably interrogated theo before wearing his skin, "Which room did you stay at, whats your roommates name?", it wouldn't know what happened to theo's bike as thats not really a question that would have been asked.
Short-time memory and long-time memory. He didn´t slept since the bike accident, so that incident wasn´t copied into his long-term memory. But the name of this room-mate and his dorm number is saved there.
Even if you feel you're a little behind, don't forget to take a breather when you need it too. Thank you as always for sharing these stories with us. I would like to think us fans will always look forward to hearing your videos, regardless of the time between uploads.
Now I miss seeing you how you change your face with the with characteristics ..you are hands down the most talented voice actor doing creepypasta. Do You any other forms..
OOOOh, revamping the recording area, nice nice, that'll make you look forward to doing storytime as much as we enjoy listening to it eh, I guess I can't find it in me to bitch about my withdrawals between stories this time, lol.
I don't usually encourage sequels to creepypastas, just cause I believe they work best as short, standalone stories, but I have to admit, I'm a sucker for other people's perspectives of the same event. It would be interesting to read, or in this case, hear about what Theo had to deal with on his end while Brian was stuck in the room, if that really was Theo.
@@insanenero2922 It can't be Theo outside his door, he didn't clearly say how he got in the dorms. He was stuck outside with the broken bicycle with a possible card reader or door that was locked from lack of power. And how convenient, the thing pretending to be Theo wouldn't answer about his bicycle in the beginning. Like the Fataville story, I'm betting its a creature pretending to be Theo, imo.
@@novalong Yup...not to mention memory being wiped yet still remembers Brian and his dorm room...not to mention the conversation is limited. Even if it's Theo opening the door would still be a bad idea of something else is nearby. Who knows how fast it is and if when the door opens it can speed towards them.
If i was caught off campus in this scenario i would just.. stay off campus until the lockdown is over. Seems like a really easy solve for Theo. Or ask someone else at the nearest student housing complex to let me stay in their dorm because I was too far from my own to make it in time.
To be fair I think the place is in the middles of the woods, so the first solution probably wouldn’t work, but the second one would, I’d make sure to have a few good friends in every dorm house just for that reason alone.
Already mentioned in another Reply chain, but despite my belief most creepypastas not needing sequels if its not written to be a longer story, id definitely like to hear Theo's side of the story, granted he somehow survived and had to evade the reason those lockdowns happen in the first place
My theory is what's behind the door might be Theo, as in... what was left of him. If the thing isn't a doppelganger or monster that can copy voices, but a parasyte or demon instead, them possessing or straight up wearing Theo's body to talk is a possibility. And the thing gave Theo a little bit more autonomy/lucidity in response to Brian's refusal to open the door, to try and convince him. "Theo" sounds genuinely scared because he is, but he can't be saved anymore.
@@NaBa.O3O I like the idea that it really was Theo at some points, but there was also a doppleganger thing. Or that maybe Theo could break through whatever was controlling him briefly, not realizing what was going on or being able to remember anything from before. It was really him in those moments, but if the door had been opened he would've lost control again. Maybe the thing consumed his memories, sort of like the Flood from Halo do to their victims?
Great story. I was so worried that the door would open because he had left it unlocked. Theo did ask for him to leave it unlocked and the narrator did agree. But it was never brought back up
@@koya9705 ok but that's not specified in the story. Plus the students are instructed to lock their doors and to stay put. The narrator said he agreed to unlocked the door for his roommate but also never specifically said he did or didn't.
@@TheAustralianIdiottry to use logic to really assess the level of actual physical risk of harm. Always try to take deep stable breathes (in thru your nose and out slowly thru your mouth). If you get enough are that helps with keeping your heart rate down, thus helping you relax. Mat God bless you on your journey of fighting anxiety.
The whole water situation you could use the toilet tank for water. Obviously not in the toilet bowl, but the top tank has clean water with no chemicals in case anyone needed to know that.
many college dorm rooms don't have their own washrooms in them, its often a shared bathroom/shower area. some will have a small sink as part of a kitchenet type setup (basically a mini-fridge, enough room for a hot plate or a microwave and a small sink)
BOOTLED WATER. That stuff happens regularly, so I do not understand how they are not better preppared... Sure, fill the sink, but also have bottled water as a reserve in case of problems, and like two cans of food. That stuff can be stored for months, and takes a little space - 2 liters of water, and two canned meat on top what you regularly have.
Probably, yup he kept talking to it and it keeps improving...Kinda reminds me of Doctor Who Midnight episode. but that might be why the lockdown is extending for so long. Maybe if he didn't respond and it didn't think anyone was there it would have left earlier.
I kept expecting him to reopen the school website and look at the rules only for it to say "Ignore Theo". I don't know why, but I just felt like that was supposed to happen.
@@rustybevrege answering the door can be interpreted as both opening the door and answering questions with the door closed so I guess the author meant the first one
As someone who's currently in college prepping for finals this week, this was even scarier than I thought it'd be but it made my day. Thanks Mr. Lighthouse!
What a great story. I wish it was longer. There were two things that bothered me though about what happened that I would've liked if it was payed a little more attention to. One was when Theo was texting Brian and asked Brian to leave the door unlocked since he was almsot there. Brian said he would, but then (as far as I can remember) there was no mention of him locking the door when lock down began. That just makes me think how Brian mentioned that he looked around the room with his phone flashlight to check if anything had changed, and he said that something did in fact change in the room but then nothing was mentioned about what exactly was changed in the room upon that realization. Would have been interesting to find out. On top of that, that would mean "Theo" probably already went in there and did something... The other is from the rules which I could have sworn was right before the very last rule to not let someone/something in once lock down has started. That second to last rule was to not answer the door. I imagine that meant to not respond to the voice on the other side of the door. Brian did exactly that and talked to "Theo" a lot. Now that I think about it, I wonder if Brian responding to "Theo" and the possibility he forgot to lock the door had something to do with him experiencing the incessant night. I said it already, but this story was great. Would be interesting to get a part 2 if at all possible. Lighthouse Horror, that was amazingly well told.
I think the ending was solid because we don't know how long it ended up lasting. Ideally there would be a sequel, but with this story in particular, I like that we don't get any info on the threat.
Pretty sure that the story being uploaded, was the ending. "If your reading this and it's been less than three days, there may be a chance." I don't know when the story was uploaded originally. But that would be the implied date when the lockdown ended. November 16th, 2022, 7:19Pm was his last update. If the story was uploaded several days or more after that date in the website, Brian is dead.
@@Riflery Likely because he responded to it to begin with. I bet once whatever it is knows your there you cant escape. All the rules seem geared towards making sure nothing knows your there. Otherwise they wouldnt have had to turn off the lights. So responding to it either permanently screwed him over, or he had to wait long enough for whatever it was to think he wasnt there anymore. I think the dumbass died and all his stuff went back to the real world probably felt like a normal lockdown for everyone else 30 minutes or so for them. Someone probably eventually found his laptop with the message.
Sooo... there are periodic lockdowns when electricity and water supply are out, and all your school tells you is "fill up the sink"? And you never think on your own to stock up on bottled water, canned food that doesn't require any heating and a torchlight/candles? Congratulations, friend, you have just won this year's Darwin prize, along with the whole college who never thought to instruct its students on such basics, not to mention install panic rooms for students who might not be able to make it to their dorms for some reason.
@@gamergirl3000 Preparing oneself for a common occurence is hardly overthinking. When I was a kid, blackouts were quite common, and we kept candles in the kitchen cabinet. If there were some repairs on the water pipes in the house, we stocked up, as well. It's called common sense, and if a story needs to drop so much common sense to create drama, it's simply not thought out well.
@@irena4545 it's not common sense. the lockdowns previously only lasted a few hours. enough to be a pain be never some all day thing. so no getting days of supplies and such really wouldn't make sense when the worst thing that might have happened prior is a missed meal.
Maybe when his life energy ends, or worse, his body persishes, 'Theo' will stop being outside Brian's dorm, & allow this to lockdown to end. With 'Theo' outside, this lockdown will never end.
listened to this while getting ready for work and i must say, i really like how it wasn't revealed who or what was outside. Your narration was amazing as well, you could really hear the uncertainty and fear in the protagonist's voice ^^
I can't believe he didn't think to stock up on bottled water, high nutrient snacks, poweraid, and stuff of the like. If I was living in dorms with frequent lockdowns, that would be the first thing I'd do.
Welp. The alarm was 45 minutes before the lockdown and they had to be in their dorms 30 minutes before. So I’m total he had only ten minutes and he had to walk back to his dorm. So I don’t think he had time to take anything
@@daaaaaaaaaanay Nonetheless, you'd think that after 1 year of these lockdowns, our MC would've thought to keep extra supplies just in case a situation like this one happens.
"It's like I can't remember anything before the lockdown..." "Except my name, your name, which room was yours, the fact that you needed a key to get in... should I go on or should you f*ck on off down to the next room?"
The ambiguity around whether Theo was really himself or not reminds me of another great creepypasta called Psychosis. Wonderful story and narration as usual!
Oh I loved this. I hope your coming back with a second part. I have so many questions, like why do they have lockdowns, does brian get out, what happens to Theo, is there anyone else in the dorm rooms next to brian....so many questions.
Oh this definitely needs a Sequel ... not only from Theo's perspective but Also to Elaborate on Why the Periodic Lockdowns had to happen & What exactly was roaming the hallways & what was making the Whooshing Noise that was mentioned .
Agreed I think the whoosh sound was the entity sweeping the campus, like an unnatural force of nature. Theo was outside the dorm entrance when it passed through and presumably "Got" him as soon as he messaged the protagonist sadly.
I think a prequel would be nice on why the lockdowns have to happen. Maybe before the lockdowns were even a thing, but something happened that made them mandatory.
I remember when this channel is super small I used to listen to it all the time when I was working shitty plant job and now I work at a better job where I cook food for old people. I’m currently on the way to the nursing program at my college and it’s been really fun to see the growth of this channel. Keep making good videos, especially the rules ones they are my favorite!
Brian would've been fine if he treated the lock-downs like prepping for a Hurricane. Sounds like he didn't even push the teachers into divulging what the longest recorded lock-down to ever occur.
That thing is so good with words and gaslighting, I feel bad for theo at the end 😢 Even though logically if there's a thing who hunts people during the lockdown, theo probably dead already and if he actually survived why don't he just use his key to proof he's the real theo? And the rules only stated they should stay locked in their room, I suppose any room with door can do, theo can stay in the toilet/his car/classrooms/closet/anywhere else where he can lock the door 🤷♀️
I've binge listened to a half dozen of these stories the past few weeks while doing other projects and I've noticed a few things. You are a man of many voices, from the gentle lilt of a motherly voice to the thicker middle-aged man's voice. A Brooklynite and a Bostonian , a mensch and a gentile, a Teutonic German, a Transylvanian Immortal and an almost extinct Minotaur. Brothers of many ages, cousins , Uncles and Grandfathers too. Rugged Everyman, Hobos, demons and beings made of static? Many, many voices. All except one, or ones of a certain....type? Well, not a type, more of a degree of melanin. A surplus of pigmentation so to say if you catch my drift. Haha, I know you have the one I'm poking around about. When are you going to bust that one out? I've been thinking about finally writing out my stories? I have about 12 to 15 stories I've worked on in my head for years and they need to be put to paper. The stories you narrate have motivated me to begin making an outline. I just can't seem to get started?
Most food has water content to some degree. Frozen foods especially. In fact, you could defrost your frozen food on a dish with sides to collect the melting water. If worse came to worse, collect the water that would inevitably leak from the slowly thawing fridge.
hi Tenzen ~ love the Rules stories too! remember the rules story with the kid working at the Gas Station. that was a goody. 🎵no more teachers no more rules school is out for summer🎵 🐽floyd ●have a nice evening, sweet dreams too😴
@@nancyM1313 so true my lovely friend. That gas station is a good one. I like that rhyme! I hope you & yours have a wonderful evening & it’s nice we check in. 👋😄 have a good one! 😴💤
@@TENZEN._. hey! I am showing my age😏 that's Pink Floyd song ~ don't remember the title. wait, Another Brick in the Wall. love my 70's music. right now, going back to finish BLOEBERT with drew blood. good night TenZ😗 12:01 💤💤💤
you wanna hear a good one ? my husband said I combined Alice Cooper song 'School out for Summer and Pink Floyd song. Haha! that's what I do. usually I sing the wrong words. lol!😂🤣
This was a great story!! The protagonist was intelligent and acted like 90% of us would. If i could add something it's he was only locked up for 24 hours. The dehydration thing was weird.
Thank you so much Stephen for making my morning with this awesome pasta. Top notch work as always. I definitely loved this one, especially how persistent that thing was at trying to trick him.🖤🖤🖤🖤
This is what I was thinking. I know when I lived in a dorm I had a full case of bottles, and sometimes also a jug to refill bottles with, and I didn't even have creepy periodic lockdowns! And food, both in the mini fridge, and non perishables. This kid is gonna learn a lesson about stocking up if he survives.
Love your stories. You know just how to give us enough explanation, but also not enough . Retaining the mystery of horror stories is difficult and you do it very very well
Very cool, but i recommend always keeping some sort of emergency food/water supply in your room or house at all times. Also soda would actually dehydrate you rather than hydrate you
This story is awesome and it sounds vaguely familiar to me. I feel like maybe I've heard another one very similar... I wonder if this is part of a "universe"?
This reminds me of the thing of why we have the fear of things in the inhuman valley or whatever it’s called because why would we evolve to be afraid of something that looks human but isnt
The MCs of these stories are dumb for our enjoyment. I wouldn’t have talked to that skinwalker once. I assume this college is somewhere near their home and they come to the college to feed. For whatever reason they are staying longer than usual. I assume hunters came to deal with them since OP was able to post this story.
Or he got it out somehow, it appears to be some kind of writing. At this point though I would have taken something to the wall and the next dorm over. If the teachers are keeping you in your room for this long they deserve to have property damage.
@@Quick15 what if the room next door had an open door? and what if the occupants were also the creatures. no one to trust but the people you went in with.
Yeah, it probably is staying longer cause it knew he was there and kept responding to it...That probably continued the lockdown. And it is responding better and better. But yeah the lockdown would have had to have ended for him to get the message out. Hopefully he left the school. This could also be an experiment by the school towards the students.
@@Quick15 personally in this situation. I’d tell the friend to just leave campus when he said he wasn’t gonna make it. I mean theres a whole 8 billion people off campus and they’re fine. It seems the lockdown only effects the campus. A theory I had is whether our MC is trapped there because he interacted with it. The reason this hasn’t happened to the MC before is because their roommate wasn’t unlucky enough to be on campus in the open when the lockdown initiated. Because he interacted with it its just going to wait till he either opens the door or dies. Its like vampire rules, it wants to get in the room but needs to be let in, with how desperate it is you’d think it would try to knock the door down.
I've recently heard this one on another channel, but come on y'all, this is Lighthouse Horror, you gotta just listen 😎 I find these stories where a door, a very thin piece of wood or metal, is somehow all that stands between you and something ominous. Doors represent a throughway to another place. And as such, they act as a barrier to forces unknown
This story doesn't answer any questions: what happens after 3 days? What happened to Theo? What is causing the lockdown? Why don't the staff provide a CCTV feed so people can see outside the halls from the TVs in their rooms?
Why not supply the students with cases of water and supplies for extra long lock downs.? Why not just tell the students what is going so they can make a decision about attending that college or not? Or better yet why even have a college in the middle of nowhere where dangerous things lurk?
It might also be a psych experiment by the school. Hence why they might not want to tell students about what's happening there. If they knew it was a test or such they might react differently. Maybe once he runs out of drinks and is at the verge of dehydration the lockdown will end and he'll get access to any supplies or healthcare he needed. If he opens the door he fails and get kicked out. Or the school is sacrificing students who don't follow rules to the monster.
Finally, an "OP" that actually followed the rules. How refreshing. Great story.
What rules ?
Oh you mean the rules to the story, I thought you meant like reddit rules or sm
Right? It was nice. Plus, there wasn't an "overdoing" of rules or anything. It made for a great mind-game.
Presents 3 types of people
People 1: Who follow the strange rules from the University No questions asked and Will follow the rules even if there is a chance it is Theo, will never open that door.
People 2: Will look at their situation and read it as follows. If this lockdown never ends do I want to be alive and sit here all alone, or do I risk death in order to risk saving my friend? I would rather die than having left a friend up shits creek without a paddle all for the reward of sitting here alone in the dark.
People 3: The introverted lad who, upon discovering there is some sort of dark entity/creature/mimic in the hall, feels his Berserker Heritage begin to rise. smashes the coat hanger, gathers up the middle pole, and as he is furiously sharpening his makeshift spear, continue muttering something along the lines of "Big Scary Monster eh? Well your about to have a flag pole shoved up your ass Big Scary Monster...." Breaks out the white paint from Art class making a skull face mask with white paint. He then remove his shirt, kicks open the door, lets out a warcry that would echo through eternity, and charge into the dark. Some relent, being frightened of the dark.....Others?.. smash head first into it, no quarter will be given. .
God bless People 3.....
@@DustinBarlow8P people 3 scares me XD
Except for the water rule
Me being introverted mixed with me having a 0 paranormal tolerance. I’d have absolutely no problem ignoring Theo.
I'm extroverted, but a jumpy, scaredy cat. So...yeah Theo is SOL.
rules are rules. he can drive els were like anywhere in earth!! then wait for the all clear and come back too school
@@Badassoldwoman lol have to appreciate the honesty
Brian: Theo's stuck outside all alone
Me: sounds like a Theo problem.
Yeppppp, sorry Theo but my phone died during all that lol :p
Finally, a rulespasta that doesn't overdo it on the list of rules.
Nice pfp
...Rule #78: when making pasta after midnight, don't boil it past 3 minutes.
Rule #79: if you hear a cat meow in the other room, don't meow back in odd numbers.
Rule #80...
@@JhadeSagrav id be more concerned if someone knew how to meow odd numbers
@@Codename_KayCmeow 3x, then rule 10 says “ignore rule 79, it’s ok to meow odd numbers”
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I really enjoyed this story. I was yelling, Brian don't open the door. If "Theo's" memory was wiped, he wouldn't know your name. It isn't him.
I didn’t even catch that tbh. That’s a great observation
Also wouldn’t know what room was Brian’s
Maybe I missed it but didn't he say that his memory was wiped just right before the lockdown started?
Also he wouldn’t be able to remember where the room Brian would’ve been in
Yeah. It was suspicious. Almost as if someone had interrogated Theo for just enough information to sound believable before ensuring he would not interfere. He also didn't mention anyone else that the "thing" was impersonating, even if just a (random) description like "that person from the 5th floor with green hair and glasses" sense.
Sorry Theo! I'd expect the same treatment if I was late getting back. However, if I learned about a Periodic Lockdown, I'd stock up on water storage and filters along with easy access food. If I have roommates I'd ensure we understood that this was emergency rations and nothing else. My only concern would be them talking too much, and other students stealing it.
Just in case others loot my rations stash.
High calorie snacks would be hidden throughout my room.
Bottles of water stashed away too.
Not a single drink or food that could increase dehydration.
No salty or spicy or sweet stuff, just barely tasty snacks or foods.
No carbonated or caffeinated beverages.
Agreed
Yolo open up face your fight❤
@@WoozyCoolwell technically you need salt to live, so a few salty snacks would be good in case youre in there for days
@00wolfQUEEN - It's the big 3
3 hours without shelter
3 days without water
3 weeks without food.
He'd need the bare minimum of food. Just having salty snacks wouldn't be enough if he's stuck in the longer than the normal lockdown length.
However, water is essential. Food can be spread out and rationed longer, but he'll definitely need a good storage of water.
The bare minimum is 3 months. Normally, you'd want at least a year's worth of supplies.
Not to mention first aid kits and basic knowledge of it.
For 1 or 2 people, it's easy. Well, if you can trust the other person enough.
It's my thought process. I put myself in the situation while listening. 😄
The filling up the sink reminded me of war stories where they would fill up their bathtubs with water because they never knew when they would stop having water and how long it would last. This was an interesting story!
Filling up the bathtub is something we do for for hurricanes in my area.
Filing up the bathtub or gallon buckets is what we do for storms in my area. We can be without power for days.
Glad the practice is still being used to help.
We had to fill up water jugs, buckets, and the bath tub when we lost lights in bad weather. For some reason when we lost lights we lost water also.
@@levarnelson154 Yeah, that's something I worry about: losing water with the electricity.
Very creepy. Fear of the unknown is such a real and relatable thing.
Agreed!
If Theo forgot everything since the lockdown, why would he remember where he lived and the name of his roommate? He could’ve rested easy… Loved the story, another great narration!
But if it's a demon or whatever creature, how it knows Brian's name and his room, yet doesn't know about the accident with the bike
@@ivyme5783 Because it probably interrogated theo before wearing his skin, "Which room did you stay at, whats your roommates name?", it wouldn't know what happened to theo's bike as thats not really a question that would have been asked.
@@Akrilloth it could also be that it knows who lives in each room because of some supernatural stuff
Short-time memory and long-time memory. He didn´t slept since the bike accident, so that incident wasn´t copied into his long-term memory. But the name of this room-mate and his dorm number is saved there.
Hey everyone sorry it's been a few days. Redoing my recording area so a little behind on stuff. I hope you enjoy the story!
Haven't heard one yet Mr Lighthouse that I didn't enjoy.
Thanks for the Hardwork and Awesome narrations my Friend
Even if you feel you're a little behind, don't forget to take a breather when you need it too. Thank you as always for sharing these stories with us. I would like to think us fans will always look forward to hearing your videos, regardless of the time between uploads.
Always worth the wait 😊
Now I miss seeing you how you change your face with the with characteristics ..you are hands down the most talented voice actor doing creepypasta. Do You any other forms..
OOOOh, revamping the recording area, nice nice, that'll make you look forward to doing storytime as much as we enjoy listening to it eh, I guess I can't find it in me to bitch about my withdrawals between stories this time, lol.
great story. The ending leaves it so open to possibilities. Would love to hear a sequel, or perhaps the same story from Theo's perspective.
Agreed 👍🏻
I don't usually encourage sequels to creepypastas, just cause I believe they work best as short, standalone stories, but I have to admit, I'm a sucker for other people's perspectives of the same event. It would be interesting to read, or in this case, hear about what Theo had to deal with on his end while Brian was stuck in the room, if that really was Theo.
@@insanenero2922 It can't be Theo outside his door, he didn't clearly say how he got in the dorms. He was stuck outside with the broken bicycle with a possible card reader or door that was locked from lack of power. And how convenient, the thing pretending to be Theo wouldn't answer about his bicycle in the beginning. Like the Fataville story, I'm betting its a creature pretending to be Theo, imo.
@@novalong Yup...not to mention memory being wiped yet still remembers Brian and his dorm room...not to mention the conversation is limited. Even if it's Theo opening the door would still be a bad idea of something else is nearby. Who knows how fast it is and if when the door opens it can speed towards them.
To know the reality of a doppelganger story ruins the horror element. A sequel would be garbage.
If i was caught off campus in this scenario i would just.. stay off campus until the lockdown is over. Seems like a really easy solve for Theo. Or ask someone else at the nearest student housing complex to let me stay in their dorm because I was too far from my own to make it in time.
That’s an underrated solution, was wondering why no one thought of that
To be fair I think the place is in the middles of the woods, so the first solution probably wouldn’t work, but the second one would, I’d make sure to have a few good friends in every dorm house just for that reason alone.
I imagine if we go back to the rules it will say "your dorm". But maybe 🤷
Students who commute are still a thing, even in a middle of nowhere campus.
Already mentioned in another Reply chain, but despite my belief most creepypastas not needing sequels if its not written to be a longer story, id definitely like to hear Theo's side of the story, granted he somehow survived and had to evade the reason those lockdowns happen in the first place
My theory is what's behind the door might be Theo, as in... what was left of him. If the thing isn't a doppelganger or monster that can copy voices, but a parasyte or demon instead, them possessing or straight up wearing Theo's body to talk is a possibility.
And the thing gave Theo a little bit more autonomy/lucidity in response to Brian's refusal to open the door, to try and convince him. "Theo" sounds genuinely scared because he is, but he can't be saved anymore.
I want a part 2 of Brian's side of the story though
@@NaBa.O3O I like the idea that it really was Theo at some points, but there was also a doppleganger thing. Or that maybe Theo could break through whatever was controlling him briefly, not realizing what was going on or being able to remember anything from before. It was really him in those moments, but if the door had been opened he would've lost control again. Maybe the thing consumed his memories, sort of like the Flood from Halo do to their victims?
Great story. I was so worried that the door would open because he had left it unlocked. Theo did ask for him to leave it unlocked and the narrator did agree. But it was never brought back up
the school has a system in place where the doors automatically lock during the lockdown
@@koya9705 ok but that's not specified in the story. Plus the students are instructed to lock their doors and to stay put.
The narrator said he agreed to unlocked the door for his roommate but also never specifically said he did or didn't.
“”MY CARD ISNT WORKING I CANT OPEN THE DOOR PLEASE OPEN OUR DORM DOOR THEO””
The story has a couple plot holes that don't make sense
My anxiety level kept rising. Don't open that door. Great story. Excellent narrator as usual.
Please give me a tip about lowering anxiety
@@TheAustralianIdiottry to use logic to really assess the level of actual physical risk of harm. Always try to take deep stable breathes (in thru your nose and out slowly thru your mouth). If you get enough are that helps with keeping your heart rate down, thus helping you relax. Mat God bless you on your journey of fighting anxiety.
The whole water situation you could use the toilet tank for water. Obviously not in the toilet bowl, but the top tank has clean water with no chemicals in case anyone needed to know that.
THANKS MATE ❤❤❤
many college dorm rooms don't have their own washrooms in them, its often a shared bathroom/shower area. some will have a small sink as part of a kitchenet type setup (basically a mini-fridge, enough room for a hot plate or a microwave and a small sink)
Yea but who doesn't stock a fridge when a college like this have lockdowns? Or think to store a few cases or bottles? Neglecting much?
@@Bjorn_Tyrsonmine did
BOOTLED WATER. That stuff happens regularly, so I do not understand how they are not better preppared... Sure, fill the sink, but also have bottled water as a reserve in case of problems, and like two cans of food. That stuff can be stored for months, and takes a little space - 2 liters of water, and two canned meat on top what you regularly have.
Made the mistake of answering the door. Because it knew he was in there, it was more persistent.
Probably, yup he kept talking to it and it keeps improving...Kinda reminds me of Doctor Who Midnight episode. but that might be why the lockdown is extending for so long. Maybe if he didn't respond and it didn't think anyone was there it would have left earlier.
@@hollywoodpineapple8337right it's like feeding a stray cat but the cat is the reason for the lock down 😂😂😂
@@donguapo7862 Or any type of strays...including stray people...hehe
I kept expecting him to reopen the school website and look at the rules only for it to say "Ignore Theo". I don't know why, but I just felt like that was supposed to happen.
One of the rules did say don’t answer the door and he did.
@@rustybevrege answering the door can be interpreted as both opening the door and answering questions with the door closed so I guess the author meant the first one
As someone who's currently in college prepping for finals this week, this was even scarier than I thought it'd be but it made my day. Thanks Mr. Lighthouse!
What a great story. I wish it was longer.
There were two things that bothered me though about what happened that I would've liked if it was payed a little more attention to.
One was when Theo was texting Brian and asked Brian to leave the door unlocked since he was almsot there. Brian said he would, but then (as far as I can remember) there was no mention of him locking the door when lock down began. That just makes me think how Brian mentioned that he looked around the room with his phone flashlight to check if anything had changed, and he said that something did in fact change in the room but then nothing was mentioned about what exactly was changed in the room upon that realization. Would have been interesting to find out. On top of that, that would mean "Theo" probably already went in there and did something...
The other is from the rules which I could have sworn was right before the very last rule to not let someone/something in once lock down has started. That second to last rule was to not answer the door. I imagine that meant to not respond to the voice on the other side of the door. Brian did exactly that and talked to "Theo" a lot.
Now that I think about it, I wonder if Brian responding to "Theo" and the possibility he forgot to lock the door had something to do with him experiencing the incessant night.
I said it already, but this story was great. Would be interesting to get a part 2 if at all possible.
Lighthouse Horror, that was amazingly well told.
Theo: They wiped my memory!
Me: So uh....how do you remember your dorm number?
I'm so upset with how this ended. I was so into this story and actually scared. Felt like a cop out to not finish it
I liked it. Usually on these rule stories, the characters always break the rules. It was nice that one finally stuck to them.
I think the ending was solid because we don't know how long it ended up lasting. Ideally there would be a sequel, but with this story in particular, I like that we don't get any info on the threat.
Pretty sure that the story being uploaded, was the ending.
"If your reading this and it's been less than three days, there may be a chance."
I don't know when the story was uploaded originally. But that would be the implied date when the lockdown ended.
November 16th, 2022, 7:19Pm was his last update. If the story was uploaded several days or more after that date in the website, Brian is dead.
@@Riflery Likely because he responded to it to begin with. I bet once whatever it is knows your there you cant escape. All the rules seem geared towards making sure nothing knows your there. Otherwise they wouldnt have had to turn off the lights. So responding to it either permanently screwed him over, or he had to wait long enough for whatever it was to think he wasnt there anymore.
I think the dumbass died and all his stuff went back to the real world probably felt like a normal lockdown for everyone else 30 minutes or so for them. Someone probably eventually found his laptop with the message.
Endings do only one thing... Lets people down. When a story is to good, no ending will ever do it justice. It's best to leave it to interpretation.
Rules creepypasta aren't very common so I cherish whatever rulespasta you post. Thanks for this, a great story as usual!
Sooo... there are periodic lockdowns when electricity and water supply are out, and all your school tells you is "fill up the sink"? And you never think on your own to stock up on bottled water, canned food that doesn't require any heating and a torchlight/candles? Congratulations, friend, you have just won this year's Darwin prize, along with the whole college who never thought to instruct its students on such basics, not to mention install panic rooms for students who might not be able to make it to their dorms for some reason.
Maybe the college just wants to weed out the dumbasses 😉
When you start overthinking this much it loses the point
@@gamergirl3000 Preparing oneself for a common occurence is hardly overthinking. When I was a kid, blackouts were quite common, and we kept candles in the kitchen cabinet. If there were some repairs on the water pipes in the house, we stocked up, as well. It's called common sense, and if a story needs to drop so much common sense to create drama, it's simply not thought out well.
providing some stuff or having some for emergencies would be good too.
@@irena4545 it's not common sense. the lockdowns previously only lasted a few hours. enough to be a pain be never some all day thing. so no getting days of supplies and such really wouldn't make sense when the worst thing that might have happened prior is a missed meal.
Evidently that wasn't Theo at the door! I would love to hear a sequel to this, perhaps expanding on this lore and why the lockdowns happen.
Maybe when his life energy ends, or worse, his body persishes, 'Theo' will stop being outside Brian's dorm, & allow this to lockdown to end. With 'Theo' outside, this lockdown will never end.
And if that's true than he couldn't break Into the next room because there is no "next room" and the blinds are for the students sanity 😦
Maybe when he stops answering him through the door 😂
listened to this while getting ready for work and i must say, i really like how it wasn't revealed who or what was outside. Your narration was amazing as well, you could really hear the uncertainty and fear in the protagonist's voice ^^
I can't believe he didn't think to stock up on bottled water, high nutrient snacks, poweraid, and stuff of the like. If I was living in dorms with frequent lockdowns, that would be the first thing I'd do.
Welp. The alarm was 45 minutes before the lockdown and they had to be in their dorms 30 minutes before. So I’m total he had only ten minutes and he had to walk back to his dorm. So I don’t think he had time to take anything
@@daaaaaaaaaanay Nonetheless, you'd think that after 1 year of these lockdowns, our MC would've thought to keep extra supplies just in case a situation like this one happens.
The lockdown was supposed to last 1-2 hours not days
Lol when I lived in the dorms I had water juice and power bars on stock at all times anyways
"It's like I can't remember anything before the lockdown..."
"Except my name, your name, which room was yours, the fact that you needed a key to get in... should I go on or should you f*ck on off down to the next room?"
I wish I saw this before my shower. I was just listening to old stories of yours. I'll listen to this one during tomorrow's shower
I wondered if I was the only one that listened while showering.
@@wwlightnin Bros taking that 30 minute shower.
@@Quick15 it happens. I blame LH. Lol
@@wwlightnin lol
I “eeeekkkk” every time I see a new post. Lighthouse has become my absolute fav creepy pasta narrator. So good
The ambiguity around whether Theo was really himself or not reminds me of another great creepypasta called Psychosis. Wonderful story and narration as usual!
Theo is dead. There is no ambiguity.
You Mr Lighthouse really never do disappoint. Thanks as always for another awesome narration my Friend
Oh man, I was having some light(house) withdrawals!!! Hope all is well!! Thanks as always!!!
Oh I loved this. I hope your coming back with a second part. I have so many questions, like why do they have lockdowns, does brian get out, what happens to Theo, is there anyone else in the dorm rooms next to brian....so many questions.
Oh this definitely needs a Sequel ... not only from Theo's perspective but Also to Elaborate on Why the Periodic Lockdowns had to happen & What exactly was roaming the hallways & what was making the Whooshing Noise that was mentioned .
Agreed
I think the whoosh sound was the entity sweeping the campus, like an unnatural force of nature.
Theo was outside the dorm entrance when it passed through and presumably "Got" him as soon as he messaged the protagonist sadly.
I think a prequel would be nice on why the lockdowns have to happen. Maybe before the lockdowns were even a thing, but something happened that made them mandatory.
@@marisolmartinez5097 Totally Agree ! 😊
Also if it's a creature roaming the halls, how does the school know exactly when it's going to be there and when it leaves.
This story scared the hell outta me! I had to turn the lights on and everything.....I loved it!
I would’ve just left campus.
WOW! What a story! Best story I've heard in a while!! The ending was like "whatever I want it to be" kind of ending. Enthralling 💖
I remember when this channel is super small I used to listen to it all the time when I was working shitty plant job and now I work at a better job where I cook food for old people. I’m currently on the way to the nursing program at my college and it’s been really fun to see the growth of this channel. Keep making good videos, especially the rules ones they are my favorite!
Congrats! Keep it up and good luck with everything! ❤
Oooh…I liked this one. And I really liked how it was never explained what was going on. That said, I’d love to hear a sequel!
My favorite channel is back with a new video and I couldn’t be happier,these uploads always make my night better!
Brian would've been fine if he treated the lock-downs like prepping for a Hurricane. Sounds like he didn't even push the teachers into divulging what the longest recorded lock-down to ever occur.
"And now I'm supposed to make sure he that he doesn't make it back at all."
That line filled me with absolute dread.
That thing is so good with words and gaslighting, I feel bad for theo at the end 😢
Even though logically if there's a thing who hunts people during the lockdown, theo probably dead already and if he actually survived why don't he just use his key to proof he's the real theo?
And the rules only stated they should stay locked in their room, I suppose any room with door can do, theo can stay in the toilet/his car/classrooms/closet/anywhere else where he can lock the door 🤷♀️
I've binge listened to a half dozen of these stories the past few weeks while doing other projects and I've noticed a few things. You are a man of many voices, from the gentle lilt of a motherly voice to the thicker middle-aged man's voice. A Brooklynite and a Bostonian , a mensch and a gentile, a Teutonic German, a Transylvanian Immortal and an almost extinct Minotaur. Brothers of many ages, cousins , Uncles and Grandfathers too. Rugged Everyman, Hobos, demons and beings made of static? Many, many voices. All except one, or ones of a certain....type? Well, not a type, more of a degree of melanin. A surplus of pigmentation so to say if you catch my drift. Haha, I know you have the one I'm poking around about. When are you going to bust that one out? I've been thinking about finally writing out my stories? I have about 12 to 15 stories I've worked on in my head for years and they need to be put to paper. The stories you narrate have motivated me to begin making an outline. I just can't seem to get started?
Whenever I’ve had trouble starting a story, I try writing out the ending first. Sometimes having the end done, makes writing the rest a little easier.
I love this narrator. Memorable voice. He makes every line important.
Very interesting take on the ‘rules’ trope. Love your narration, as always!
Always on point with the best stories! My day just got better!
Ahhhh get back here and give me closure! Legit though. That had me imagining my freshman year in the dorms and creeped me out big time. Well done!
Most food has water content to some degree. Frozen foods especially.
In fact, you could defrost your frozen food on a dish with sides to collect the melting water. If worse came to worse, collect the water that would inevitably leak from the slowly thawing fridge.
All of your narrations are fantastic! Don't worry about taking a few days off - we'll be here!
BRILLIANT WORK, STEPHEN! Thank you for the scary good times with rules! 🔥👊😎🔥
hi Tenzen ~ love the Rules stories too! remember the rules story with the kid working at the Gas Station.
that was a goody.
🎵no more teachers
no more rules
school is out for summer🎵
🐽floyd
●have a nice evening, sweet dreams too😴
@@nancyM1313 so true my lovely friend. That gas station is a good one. I like that rhyme! I hope you & yours have a wonderful evening & it’s nice we check in. 👋😄 have a good one! 😴💤
@@TENZEN._.
hey! I am showing my age😏
that's Pink Floyd song ~ don't remember the title. wait, Another Brick in the Wall.
love my 70's music.
right now, going back to finish BLOEBERT with drew blood.
good night TenZ😗
12:01 💤💤💤
you wanna hear a good one ?
my husband said I combined Alice Cooper song 'School out for Summer and Pink Floyd song. Haha! that's what I do. usually I sing the wrong words. lol!😂🤣
🖐🏼 its *Blobert*
💤💤💤 don't worry about a reply.
late already.
This was a great story!! The protagonist was intelligent and acted like 90% of us would. If i could add something it's he was only locked up for 24 hours. The dehydration thing was weird.
Thank you so much Stephen for making my morning with this awesome pasta. Top notch work as always. I definitely loved this one, especially how persistent that thing was at trying to trick him.🖤🖤🖤🖤
I love me some lighthouse horror stories
Your voice gives this story a nice texture. Good work.
"Im starving brian, ive been out here all night".
1 day without food is not starving.
Theo going to have to figure it out.
@E Michelle Should have stayed outside Theo.
On this episode of what am I listing to on my walk: holy heck. Bad decision.
Chickened out around 14:02
Irresponsible of the school not to mandate students have a small stock of bottled water and food stored in their rooms.
This is what I was thinking. I know when I lived in a dorm I had a full case of bottles, and sometimes also a jug to refill bottles with, and I didn't even have creepy periodic lockdowns! And food, both in the mini fridge, and non perishables. This kid is gonna learn a lesson about stocking up if he survives.
I can't imagine everybody doing this. The school would be empty
Half the first years would be wiped out by the second lock down and the other half would likely realize they're in danger and transfer elsewhere
Exactly i would leave in no time
Good use of the tropes and quite the ending perfect story to jump back in with
This one was unexpectedly creepy. Really well read, thank you!
Love your stories. You know just how to give us enough explanation, but also not enough . Retaining the mystery of horror stories is difficult and you do it very very well
😢I was so excited was getting use to videos where we can watch u narrate!!
He made a wise decision
I like seeing you narrate! Don't stop! Great work as always. Favourite creepypasta channel by far.
I'm dropping out the second they tell me they have regular lockdowns and refuse to explain why.
Very cool, but i recommend always keeping some sort of emergency food/water supply in your room or house at all times. Also soda would actually dehydrate you rather than hydrate you
Don't open that damn door. No matter what.
Listening to this while in a long car ride is awesome it's a wonderful story! Ful of suspense its great
This story is awesome and it sounds vaguely familiar to me. I feel like maybe I've heard another one very similar... I wonder if this is part of a "universe"?
Good evening thank you for the great stories❤
This reminds me of the thing of why we have the fear of things in the inhuman valley or whatever it’s called because why would we evolve to be afraid of something that looks human but isnt
I wish it was more to the story. Very good story. Kind of relatable too for like lockdown situations but obviously with a twist a big twist
The MCs of these stories are dumb for our enjoyment. I wouldn’t have talked to that skinwalker once. I assume this college is somewhere near their home and they come to the college to feed. For whatever reason they are staying longer than usual. I assume hunters came to deal with them since OP was able to post this story.
Or he got it out somehow, it appears to be some kind of writing. At this point though I would have taken something to the wall and the next dorm over. If the teachers are keeping you in your room for this long they deserve to have property damage.
@@Quick15 what if the room next door had an open door? and what if the occupants were also the creatures. no one to trust but the people you went in with.
Yeah, it probably is staying longer cause it knew he was there and kept responding to it...That probably continued the lockdown. And it is responding better and better. But yeah the lockdown would have had to have ended for him to get the message out. Hopefully he left the school. This could also be an experiment by the school towards the students.
@@themindboggler8055 Idk if I was dying of dehydration I'd take the chance. But yeah, no guarantee.
@@Quick15 personally in this situation. I’d tell the friend to just leave campus when he said he wasn’t gonna make it. I mean theres a whole 8 billion people off campus and they’re fine. It seems the lockdown only effects the campus.
A theory I had is whether our MC is trapped there because he interacted with it. The reason this hasn’t happened to the MC before is because their roommate wasn’t unlucky enough to be on campus in the open when the lockdown initiated. Because he interacted with it its just going to wait till he either opens the door or dies. Its like vampire rules, it wants to get in the room but needs to be let in, with how desperate it is you’d think it would try to knock the door down.
Lighthouse horror and “the rules” name a better combo
A nice twist on the rules game, refreshing to say the least
Oh man ,this story is great! I hope there's another part! Thank you!
This was excellent. Stories like that gives the perfect amount of mystery and chill. +1 Subs
I’ve been watching your videos for years, and now I’m going off to college soon. It seems fitting
That was a really good one, I hope to see a follow up of someone going to Brynhorn to try and end the lockdown.
Lol quick tip if you don’t have water, don’t eat anything. You can survive a lot longer without food, and digestion requires water.
Do you save your pee? Ironman can turn his pee into potable water
@@histguy101 or if he gets one of those Dune stillsuits...lolz.
Even better: if you know these lockdowns happen regularly, stockpile bottled water and non-perishable food in your room :D
Bro loved this story a lot, jostled me up a bit too.
Wow!! I really liked this one. Good job 🤟
I was on edge the whole time. Awesome story!
I've recently heard this one on another channel, but come on y'all, this is Lighthouse Horror, you gotta just listen 😎 I find these stories where a door, a very thin piece of wood or metal, is somehow all that stands between you and something ominous. Doors represent a throughway to another place. And as such, they act as a barrier to forces unknown
One of my favorites. This could be made into a good movie with a little help.
I love all these stories! They get me threw the work day! Thank u guys !!
I love the way you tell these stories just perfection in my ears! Thank you for all that you do great job LHH🖤🤍🖤🤍🖤
This is my first video of your channel, and your voice acting was AMAZING!! ❤ Great job with the audio and the story is really interesting!
My brain:"Yeah, everything sounds logical, except the part with sugar addiction. Pepsi MAX is sugar free!"🤔
Thank You!!! 🤗
this story has a potential of a sequel
Thank you for doing almost everyday new videos, love your content bro
I have serious creeps right now, horrifying wow bravo 👏🏻
This story doesn't answer any questions: what happens after 3 days? What happened to Theo? What is causing the lockdown? Why don't the staff provide a CCTV feed so people can see outside the halls from the TVs in their rooms?
Why not supply the students with cases of water and supplies for extra long lock downs.? Why not just tell the students what is going so they can make a decision about attending that college or not? Or better yet why even have a college in the middle of nowhere where dangerous things lurk?
for the first question, after 3 days, he's going to die from dehydration since that's around the max a person can last without water.
@@LordOfTheFrogs_ he's got Pepsi and a toilet, and could potentially cut a hole in the drywall.
Theo's dead. The monster heard him voice texting
It might also be a psych experiment by the school. Hence why they might not want to tell students about what's happening there. If they knew it was a test or such they might react differently. Maybe once he runs out of drinks and is at the verge of dehydration the lockdown will end and he'll get access to any supplies or healthcare he needed. If he opens the door he fails and get kicked out. Or the school is sacrificing students who don't follow rules to the monster.
Another great story. Have so many different endings going through my head.
I really enjoyed this 1 Stephen.
Thanks ♥️♥️♥️😎🇦🇺✌️
Excellent narration as always 👏 👍
Hmm.. story, not quite my thing
Me to Theo: You know the rules and so do I~
Ahhhhh!! Need the rest of the story!!