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Aren’t You Glad You Didn’t Turn on the Light?
Two college roommates were complete opposites, one liked to study while the other liked to party. In preparation for their upcoming midterms, the studious roommate (Jane) planned a Friday night of studying while the partier (Mary) decided to go to a frat party.
The two were friends, regardless of their differences, and while Mary got ready for the party, she tried to get Jane to go. Jane insisted on studying and Mary set out for the party. Jane agreed to leave the door unlocked, so that Mary wouldn’t have to bring her keys.
While Mary was at the party, she met up with another group of friends and they convinced Mary to stay at their place for the night. Mary agreed but had to stop back at her room to get her keys. It was about 2 a.m. when Mary got back. She snuck in and grabbed her keys, leaving the lights off, not wanting to wake her roommate.
The next morning Mary walked home, intent to ask Jane for some study help. When she reached her room and opened the door she saw Jane murdered at her desk! Written on the wall in Jane’s blood was "Aren’t you glad you didn’t turn on the light?"
Another Version:
She commandeered the room in the basement of her dorm as soon as she realized she would have to pull an all-nighter in order to prepare for tomorrow’s final exam. Her roommate, Jenna, liked to get to bed early, so she packed up everything she thought she would need and went downstairs to study . . . and study . . . and study some more. It was two o’clock, when she realized that she’d left one of the textbooks upstairs on her bed. With a dramatic sigh, she rose, and climbed the stairs slowly to her third-floor dorm room.The lights were dim in the long hallway, and the old boards creaked under her weary tread. She reached her room and turned the handle as softly as she could, pushing the door open just enough to slip inside, so that the hall lights wouldn’t wake her roommate.
The room was filled with a strange, metallic smell. She frowned a bit, her arms breaking out into chills. There was a strange feeling of malice in the room, as if a malevolent gaze were fixed upon her. It was a mind trick; the all-nighter was catching up with her.
She could hear Jenna breathing on the far side of the room—a heavy sound, almost as if she had been running. Jenna must have picked up a cold during the last tense week before finals.
She crept along the wall until she reached her bed, groping among the covers for the stray history textbook. In the silence, she could hear a steady drip-drip-drip sound. She sighed silently. Facilities would have to come to fix the sink in the bathroom…again.
Her fingers closed on the textbook. She picked it up softly and withdrew from the room as silently as she could.
Relieved to be out of the room, she hurried back downstairs, collapsed into an overstuffed chair and studied until six o’clock. She finally decided that enough was enough. If she slipped upstairs now, she could get a couple hours’ sleep before her nine o’clock exam.
The first of the sun’s rays were beaming through the windows as she slowly slid the door open, hoping not to awaken Jenna. Her nose was met by an earthy, metallic smell a second before her eyes registered the scene in her dorm room. Jenna was spread-eagled on top of her bed against the far wall, her throat cut from ear to ear and her nightdress stained with blood. Two drops of blood fell from the saturated blanket with a drip-drip noise that sounded like a leaky faucet.
Scream after scream poured from her mouth, but she couldn’t stop herself any more than she could cease wringing her hands. All along the hallway, doors slammed and footsteps came running down the passage.
Within moments other students had gathered in her doorway, and one of her friends gripped her arm with a shaking hand and pointed a trembling finger toward the wall. Her eyes widened in shock at what she saw. Then she fainted into her friend’s arms.
On the wall above her bed, written in her roommate’s blood, were the words: "Aren’t you glad you didn’t turn on the light?"
Variations:
- This story has also been set at a summer camp where the two girls were bunk mates and one went back to get her purse.
- Sometimes the police are already at the dorm room when the surviving roommate returns and they reluctantly let her in to see the message on the wall.
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Pretty sure this is off Supernatural Season 1..
no it’s not it’s off your mom!!!!
It was, but Supernatural has a bunch of Urban Legends in it as well. Including, Bloody Mary, The Hookman, and my personal favorite, The Licked Hand.
I saw that one in a movie, I think. The Creepy Thing killed the man’s dog and hung it in his closet, and when he put his band down to pet his dog like he usually did it was her instead, and she licked his hand… Yuck.
yep this one waz on suppernatural
i really like this story the metallic smell description gives me chills
I listened to this when I was little by my sister, I didn`t think it was a urban legend I just thought she made it up wow!!
not even legend!! more of like a STORY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I DONT BELIEVE I ALL THESE THINGS. THIS IS ALL FAKE,ALL RIGHT?
Oh really? Well of course, none of this happened to you so it’s never gonna happen to anyone!! :I It’s Urban LEGENDS. It may or may not be real.
I remember seeing this legend on that Movie Urban Legend
I love this urban legend <3
i don’t get it…… ooh now i do
i wonder y she comit suiside
she didn’t commit suicide… didn’t you read the word “MURDERED” in there?
how could she have done that if her own blood was used like ink on the wall sayin “aren’t you glad you didn’t turn on the light” why would someone take the time to write that on their wall if they wanted to die then? that makes a lot of sence….
what!
….isn’t this from the MOVIE Urban Legend?
yeesss ahaha
stfu!!
make me !
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muahahahahaahaa ,
idk bout you guys . but i didnt likke this Urban Legend .
Maybe if i see the movie you guys are talking about ["Supernatural"]
I will like it better .
Butt , whatever . we shall see i guess .!
well , i love you guys!! lmfaoo , JK i hate you .
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hahaa , anywayss . byeee!!!
its a show
ME AND MY FREINDS (GILLIAN,TOVA,BREEANNA,HALLE,ADDIE COUSIN JOEY,AND ANIKA) ACTED IT OUT.
This story sounds like an episode of Tales From The Crypt
i loved it, it was so mysterious!!!
this is awesome,but really,really old
This is from the episode The hookman from Supernatural Season 1
Even that sign under the words. But it’s a fact that the writers from Supernatural are always using urban legends and always do research for their episode’s
Weird……awkward……but i know im going to freak out next time im reading one of these LOL
In supernatural, they mentioned it was an urban legend
this story’s been around for a while, it’s not that scary but has good writing
Wasnt This also Based On one Of The Ted Bundy Killings?
that is sad because im the studying type and im going to go to college so this spooks me im a little scared now!
I rather dislike this one. In addition to the variations on here, I’ve also read one in which both of the girls are in bed, and one hears whistling. She keeps telling her roommate to stop, and so the whistling stops. This goes on for a while before The roommate finally falls asleep. When she wakes up, the roommate is dead.
Another one was One was studious, the other was kinda slutty. So the studious one goes to bed at a reasonable hour, while her slutty roommate goes out for a party. Late that night, the studious roommate wakes to some noises in the bathroom. Figuring the slutty roommate had just brought a boy back to the dorm, she goes back to sleep. When she wakes in the morning, her roommate is found in the bathtub, murdered.
However, there are a number of reasons I don’t like this one. I’m not going to go into detail, however, because I’ve already made this long enough.
just tell me where u live i will be waiting
You are going to jail in custody of threatning the cyber world the consequences are 2 days in jail.
OMG Supernatural season 1
this is like completely different to the Urban Legends movies, i reckon its kinda ludicrous and extremly obvious
maybe it can come true they realy shouldn’t put it on enternet becouse it going to give some scico and idea