The Portraits

Posted by admin on April 24th, 2011
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There was a hunter in the woods, who, after a long day hunting, was in the middle of an immense forest. It was getting dark, and having lost his bearings, he decided to head in one direction until he was clear of the increasingly oppressive foliage. After what seemed like hours, he came across a cabin in a small clearing. Realizing how dark it had grown, he decided to see if he could stay there for the night. He approached, and found the door ajar. Nobody was inside. The hunter flopped down on the single bed, deciding to explain himself to the owner in the morning.

As he looked around the inside of the cabin, he was surprised to see the walls adorned by several portraits, all painted in incredible detail. Without exception, they appeared to be staring down at him, their features twisted into looks of hatred and malice. Staring back, he grew increasingly uncomfortable. Making a concerted effort to ignore the many hateful faces, he turned to face the wall, and exhausted, he fell into a restless sleep.

The next morning, the hunter awoke — he turned, blinking in unexpected sunlight. Looking up, he discovered that the cabin had no portraits, only windows.

39 Responses to “The Portraits

Ayoka

That would be a little freaky.

Comment by Ayoka on June 9, 2011 at 7:54 pm
Paradeoxy

This is a really good Pasta, it was unfortunate for me though that a friend had told me this beforehand, but I was still able to appreciate the style of writing with only one problem, the opening sentence just sounds like it’s the opening line to a joke or a fairy-tale, but other then that top job! 5/5

Comment by Paradeoxy on June 13, 2011 at 11:39 am
NicelyNicely

Doesn’t make sense to me, surely he would have noticed the windows before entering. Oh well, still pretty creepy. 3/5.

Comment by NicelyNicely on June 17, 2011 at 1:00 pm
Ayoka

^ I’m pretty sure it’s saying that the windows weren’t there last night, and instead, the creepy pictures were there. Probably not PHYSICALLY, but.. hmm…well, I’m not actually quite sure how to explain this…

Comment by Ayoka on June 22, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Helli

kinda seems a bit as if things were looking in the windows.

Comment by Helli on June 23, 2011 at 12:56 am
bluebox

Well it was dark and the sides of the cabin were likely covered by trees/foliage so he didnt see the windows or the creepy faces staring through them at first.

Comment by bluebox on July 12, 2011 at 6:47 pm
Who?

One of the few pasta’s that still haunt me to this day…..

Comment by Who? on July 12, 2011 at 10:08 pm
Anonymous

I have a screencap of a minecraft mod for this, lolz.

Comment by Anonymous on July 24, 2011 at 2:48 am
Kristina

Very creepy, gives me chills. Great short pasta, 5/5

Comment by Kristina on July 24, 2011 at 5:30 pm
LilyB

So actually people, proberly murderers or something, were looking through the window at him. Or the cabin itself was doing something to make him halucinate. They’re my theories :)

Comment by LilyB on August 2, 2011 at 7:48 am
Mandy

This is one of those stories that makes me go “OH SHIT” after I read them o.o” 5/5 for making me nervously look out my open windows at night >.>

Comment by Mandy on August 9, 2011 at 1:13 am
SwamiCal

That would have been much scarier if I hadn’t read the parody of it with Minecraft pictures…

Comment by SwamiCal on August 13, 2011 at 4:06 am
Giselle

With a window in my room, I’m definitely creeped. Good thing I have blinds!

Comment by Giselle on August 18, 2011 at 3:01 am
Mr. Black

there are like 4 windows behing me i turned around and looked out every one of them right when i read that

Comment by Mr. Black on September 8, 2011 at 1:21 pm
STRaNGe FeaR

Thats some tripper shit when ur stoned. 5/5

Comment by STRaNGe FeaR on October 12, 2011 at 7:23 pm
lookin@u

to think, “did i lock the door?”

Comment by lookin@u on October 13, 2011 at 11:17 pm
Exlo

Jesus! I reap this with some creepy ass ambient stations from Soma FM playing in the background. Scary. 5/5

Comment by Exlo on October 28, 2011 at 11:58 pm
Creniker

I love this one. Simple and short, but the shock moments sent chills down my spine like few pastas can. And this is my second time reading it. 9/10 for a well written and creepy pasta.

Comment by Creniker on October 31, 2011 at 7:06 pm
Cindurrr

I don’t think a creepypasta really has to make complete sense if it gives you the intended jolt of shock/fear when the punchline of the story comes.

Sure, it doesn’t make complete sense, but before you started over-analyzing and picking out the plot holes, you got that little inexplicable jolt of shock, didn’t you? That was the story’s purpose, and it did it’s job, end of story.

Comment by Cindurrr on November 2, 2011 at 10:25 am
asdasd

Really, was boring for me, luckily short (Because was waste of time :/ )

Comment by asdasd on November 3, 2011 at 6:30 am
Harper

Heh, I told this one at a campfire, and it scared the piss out of everyone.

Comment by Harper on November 19, 2011 at 7:48 pm
Zado

Imho one of-if not the creepiest pasta ever written to me

Comment by Zado on November 30, 2011 at 12:34 am
cuteinsanity

This one always gets me, though not as much as the first time. I have to rate 5/5 just because of how much it chilled me the first time through and still gives me a jolt with each reread.

Comment by cuteinsanity on December 6, 2011 at 1:40 am
Unknown


he was lucky to wake up I guess XD

Comment by Unknown on January 24, 2012 at 1:12 am
Tori V

that is kinda creepy, I would hate that so much!!!!!!!

Comment by Tori V on January 24, 2012 at 1:49 pm
onurb

wait…that means… OH SH*T!!!

Comment by onurb on January 31, 2012 at 3:08 pm
UnOrIqInal

I love the short ones that are this good, especially this one. :D

Comment by UnOrIqInal on February 2, 2012 at 4:29 am
Maya

Check this out, its a video of this story. It makes it even more frighting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmuIDGEGeus

Comment by Maya on February 15, 2012 at 10:26 pm
scaredofwhat

I love the short pastas. easy reads, good shock endings, and something you can remember to scare others :)

Comment by scaredofwhat on February 28, 2012 at 9:34 am
Jacob

Here’s another video of the same pasta – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS7CO-5R2bo

Comment by Jacob on March 6, 2012 at 4:00 pm
H.

Delicious.

It took me a while to ‘get it’ after reading the last sentence, but when I did… goosebumps. Goosebumps everywhere. Personally, I draw the blinds at night because I am terrified to look outside through the windows and see someone looking back. I live in the woods, as well, which makes this even more frightening to me.

Comment by H. on March 11, 2012 at 8:31 am
Stevie

This creeps me out so much.. I don’t get creeped out very easily but than I start thinking about what would have happened if he’d gone back outside at night or if he’d tried to touch the portraits or what would have happened if he’d got up to leave the room, would the eyes would have followed him?

Oi.. such a chill. 5/5

Comment by Stevie on March 15, 2012 at 12:19 pm
SCP-173

This one has always been a favorite of mine and mainly because of that last part and also this is the first creepypasta i ever read. @Admin i think this site needs a tag for the legendary or classic pastas like the russain sleep experiment and masterpiece and of course this one.

Comment by SCP-173 on March 15, 2012 at 5:50 pm
Llasd

what it means is that [there were actual people outside the cabin staring in at him. there were windows there the whole time. since it was too dark to see anything, he thought it was a black canvas or something.]

Comment by Llasd on March 20, 2012 at 4:15 pm
cci1116

Man, now I’m scared. I got three windows around my bed!!! >~<

Comment by cci1116 on March 26, 2012 at 12:48 am
StarSailor

I don’t even care who they were, that’s just creepy! 5/5

Comment by StarSailor on April 20, 2012 at 9:48 pm
Kerhwin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H8_NxB7CWM&feature=plcp
A narration I did of this story.

Comment by Kerhwin on May 5, 2012 at 9:30 pm
Anonymous

Amazing pasta, this scared the shit out of me!

Comment by Anonymous on May 11, 2012 at 6:32 pm
housebythsea

Short and creepy. At first, I thought what he saw on the walls were portraits of people sleeping on a bed. Then he’d realize they each were sleeping on the same bed, and then that it was the very bed he was sleeping on. I was disappointed with the ending at first, maybe because of that expectation, but after it sank in for a minute it definitely got to me. One of my favorites.

Comment by housebythsea on May 16, 2012 at 3:20 am
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