Uploaded to a dead imageboard’s /x/ board on September 23, 2009, at 3:14 AM. The OP wrote only: “Found this on a recycled hard drive from an estate sale. The previous owner hung himself in his editing bay. Watch alone. No sound.” TRANSCRIPT (Verified by three independent observers, none of whom kept the file): The video is shot in first-person perspective, as if through a consumer camcorder from the early 2000s. The image is washed out, overly bright, with chromatic aberration bleeding at the edges.
A bedroom door at the end of the hall. It’s closed. Someone behind it is humming a lullaby, but the melody is off by one semitone— uncanny . The camera stops. The humming stops. A whisper, clear as if right next to the microphone: “You’re not real either.”
No other files were on the drive. Just Useless.avi . And a shortcut to the recycle bin. Useless.avi Creepypasta BETTER
The door opens by itself. Inside: an office chair facing away from the camera. On the desk, a VHS tape labeled “HOME MOVIES 1998 – 2001.” The chair slowly rotates. No one is sitting in it. But the seat cushion is compressed, as if an invisible person is still there. The camera zooms in involuntarily.
Useless.avi (The Director’s Cut)
A child’s bedroom. Late afternoon. Dust motes float in angled sunlight. The camera pans slowly across an unmade bed, a half-finished drawing of a stick figure family, and a toy box with the word “USELESS” scratched into the paint in capital letters. No breathing. No movement. The frame rate stutters every five seconds.
.avi File Size: 143 MB Duration: 4 minutes, 12 seconds Resolution: 360p (appears downscaled from a higher, corrupted source) Uploaded to a dead imageboard’s /x/ board on
The camera turns toward a full-length mirror leaning against the wall. There is no reflection. Not a blank space—just the wall behind where the filmer should be. The camera tilts slightly, as if confused. Then, a child’s voice, faint and distorted, says: “You weren’t supposed to see that.”