August 19, 2025 • 13 mins
#horrorstories #reddithorrorstories #ScaryStories #creepypasta #horrortales #serialkillerstory #psychologicalwarfare #truecrimefiction #mindgames #twistedconfession In Part 1 of this chilling horror-thriller, authorities receive a disturbing confession from a man who calls himself “The Chain Man.” But nothing is as it seems. What starts as a routine interrogation soon spirals into a psychological game, with twisted riddles, planted lies, and gruesome details that leave investigators—and the audience—questioning what’s real. A gripping entry into a tale of deception, manipulation, and serial terror. horrorstories, reddithorrorstories, scarystories, horrorstory, creepypasta, horrortales, serialkiller, chainman, psychologicalhorror, interrogation, confession, deception, mindgames, truecrimefiction, darkminds, twistedstory, horrorfiction, criminalmastermind, fear, mentalmanipulation
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
A crowd of police officers were gathering around a laptop
that was screening a live video call. A thin guy
with huge black circles around his eyes and long, oily
hair was looking back at them, showing absolutely no emotions
on his face. The captain entered the room, silencing everyone
who was making a sound. You said, you have important
(00:20):
information about the chain man. So what is it all about, mister,
said the captain. First, I'm not giving you my name,
answered the guy. Maybe because I'm a criminal from what
I just did about fifteen hours ago. And what is
that you did? Demanded the captain, obviously losing his temper.
I killed a man, answered the guy with a smile.
(00:41):
To be precise, I killed the so called chain man.
By the way, does the media always have to give
serial killers those ridiculous names. The captain, along with the
rest of the officers, was offended with the attitude of
the guy that talked to them. It felt like it
all was a stupid prank. You know, young man, if
this is a prank, you are in serious trouble for doy.
(01:03):
This is not a prank, interrupted the guy quickly, as
he opened a bottle of soda and started drinking it,
making a particularly annoying sound. I'm going to tell you
where the body is. I'm going to tell you everything
you better do, said one of the officers angrily. Before
I tell you anything, I want you to know why
I did it. The answer is simple, because I was
(01:25):
bored and I wanted to do something exciting. I read
about the serial killer that is raging and that took
his nineteenth victim a couple of days ago, and it
just popped up into my head. Why not go and
catch him. I never meant to kill him. I just
wanted to stop him, but a few things went wrong
along the way. This guy is a lunatic, said someone.
Shut up, said the captain sharply, young man, do you
(01:49):
understand how bad will it turn out for you? If
you are lying? I mitcham, then carry on. Well. For
those who don't understand, I want to explain why did
I call like a hundred times saying that I have
information about out the serial killer and that I'll talk
only on a video call with the Captain and as
many officers with him as possible. That's simply for attention.
As the guy talked, he kept on making this awful
(02:10):
noise by drinking his soda as if intentionally wanting to
piss the police off. See, finding the killer that you
were chasing for a year now within eight hours is
actually cool, isn't it. That's something you want to share
with somebody. And as long as I don't have friends
or people to talk to, I thought you would make
perfect listeners. Officers were getting more and more irritated. One
(02:31):
of them even cussed the guy and walked out of
the room, slamming the door shut after him. The captain, though,
pulled a chair and took a seat as he listened
to the guy. He didn't completely believe that the guy
took the chain man down, but there's something about this
character on the screen that caught his attention. By now,
I'm assuming someone got angry and left the room. I'm sorry,
(02:52):
I can't know for sure since this is recorded, not live,
as you may have thought. But as long as I
answer all of your questions, it doesn't matter. Right. The
guy was to show his superiority over the police with
every cell of his body. He was obviously showing off
and trying to humiliate them with every word and gesture
he made. Silence covered the room with a cold blanket,
(03:13):
making officers look at each other and wondering, is this
really a recording? He made a recording so we won't
be able to track him, mumbled the captain. His conclusion
was more like an out loud thought than actually saying
it to any one. Exactly picked this trick up from
Saw too. Always wanted to try it out. It seemed
very cool in the movie, answered the guy from the recording,
(03:35):
just in time, as if he knew that the captain
would say that, oh, cut this out. It can't be
a recording. How would he know when to answer, said
a fat officer, waving away on the screen. The officers
looked at each other again, as if they were unsure
of what to really believe. Anyways, let me begin my
story two. As I said, I was bored and I
(03:58):
decided to find the chain man. As you know, he
picks only teenage girls. All crimes happen at night or
late evening with no witnesses. He kills the victims quickly
and hangs the body somewhere else on a chain. So
when I started to think about him, the first thing
I wanted to understand is why does he kill in
this specific way? He never sexually abuses his victims. As
(04:20):
you must know, he never mutilates the body. He always
kills quickly, whether by cutting the throat or suffocating the victim.
So why in hell does he hang the bodies in
streets or public places? That didn't take me a long
time to figure out. Let me lead you through the
chain of my thoughts really quickly, just so you would
understand what was really going on. So I close my eyes,
(04:42):
I imagine a girl, I slice her throat open and then
hang her body on a tree. Well, obviously I'm a
strong man, because that takes some strength to hang a
body on a tree with a chain within minutes. Right,
So I'm a grown up with a strong complexion killing
teen girls without sexually abusing them. Who am I? As
(05:04):
you know, erotophonophilia is one of the commons among serial killers.
Ninety five percent of serial killers kill either for sexual purposes,
or attention or sense of power. In our case, the
chain man didn't kill for any of these reasons. So
I went deeper. I kept asking myself, who am I?
Why do I hang bodies? Then I got it? It
(05:28):
is really simple. Look, a serial killer kills people who
share something in common a color of hair, or a
way of dressing. In our case, its age. All of
them are teenagers. And why does someone would hang a
body in a public place. All of the psychologists that
were working with the police and made psychological portraits of
(05:49):
him were wrong. He didn't hang the body for attention,
at least not for the attention they thought about. You see,
if he wanted to gain as much attention as possible,
he would utilate the body. Right. I knew this from
the beginning, but I couldn't understand his reason till I
just figured one thing, one possibility. It's a remainder. He
(06:11):
hangs the body as a remainder of the victim's death.
Think about it for a moment. It will be all
over the internet, on TV, and even in the papers.
He wants the parents to be reminded of the death
for as long as possible. This sounds stupid, right, I
mean parents will always be reminded. They would not forget
(06:32):
their loss even if it never appeared anywhere. Isn't it
the rational way of thinking? But who said the offender
is a rational person. Soon as I understood this, I
started understanding everything. He wants to remind the parents because
these girls are reminding him of his loss. He is
a father who lost his daughter and his sanity. He
(06:53):
remembers his teenage daughter every time he sees a teenage girl.
He wants to kill those girls because for him, it
is only fair. If life took away his daughter, no
one deserves to have theirs. This allowed me to minimize
the number of potential killers to every one who lost
their daughters in the past five years. I didn't find
(07:14):
any unusual or large orders of similar chains, so I
assumed that it's someone that already had easy access to
such tools and that minimized potential murderers to only one.
The real serial killer. After finding him through your base,
which I hacked into earlier, I went to his store.
He was a fine man named the material is banned
for security reasons. He was in his mid forties, had
(07:37):
a huge beard and a husky voice. I asked him
a couple of questions about the hammers he had. Then
I asked for a chain. As he showed me the
types of chains he had, I asked him to give
me the one he uses to hang the victims he
kills to grieve for his daughter. Boy, did those words
drive him crazy? He attacked me and of course won
(07:57):
the battle. For I'm somehow physically weak, I lost my consciousness.
When I woke up, I was handcuffed to a metal
pole somewhere dark, all alone. I wasn't killed like all
his victims. I wasn't his victim. Three. When the guy
from the recording reached this point of his story, an
officer entered the room and informed the captain that this
(08:18):
video call was really just a recording and that they
just found the source. Right after that, the room fell
back into perfect silence as all of them kept listening
very carefully to what the guy was saying. I want
to tell you this. In movies and books about someone
being trapped alone, they always make someone imaginary come to
them and help. So you should know that that doesn't
(08:38):
really happen when you are trapped. You are all by yourself.
My eyes took some time to adjust to the darkness
before they began to see a little. I was in
a warehouse of some kind, shells with tools, covered with
a thick layer of dust all around the place. Even
the air was dusty and it was hard to breathe.
I didn't have many possibilities to escape, so I simply
(09:01):
broke my wrist. I broke my right hand and kept
my dominant hand safe in case I needed to fight.
I was able to free the other hand by using
some oil that I found lying near me. The only
issue was that I just needed to grab it with
my broken hand. Believe me, this simple task can be
very difficult when you do it with a broken hand.
(09:22):
Now I was half way free. I still needed to
get out of the warehouse, so I started searching for
the door. When I found it and examined it with
my hand, I realized there's no way to break through.
All I could do was wait for him to come.
I was left there for about two days. Curiosity gets
the best of us, it's human nature. Therefore, I was
(09:45):
sure he would come back to know how I found him.
But with a broken wrist and no food, I was
on the edge. I was slowly losing hope. I never
screamed for help. He's not dumb. He wouldn't put me
anywhere where people could hear me. I I slept, resting
my body on the door. Time passed very slowly, and
all I could do was get prepared. I searched all
(10:07):
around for a nail gun, but you never get this
lucky in real life, so I didn't find one. I
found a lot of other useful stuff, though. In two days,
I was able to craft something like a small catapult
that shoots only once, but then you'll have to place
the spring again, which would take time. It was kind
of big, too big to hold a nail, so I
(10:27):
decided to use a screwdriver instead. I placed it on
a shelf right in front of the door and took
my position behind it. Because I was no longer able
to sleep on the door, so I needed to do
something that would help me wake up if the door opened.
So I found some sandpaper and stuffed it underneath the door.
I figured it would make a loud enough noise to
wake me up. Like that, I kept waiting. My energy
(10:51):
was leaving my body. The pain was gradually increasing in
my swollen wrist, and I was not able to control
myself out of survival instincts. My body was trying to
put me to sleep. After some time, the door started opening.
I wasn't asleep by that time, so that whole sand
paper thing was kind of useless. He opened the door,
(11:12):
making an awful sound by dragging the sand paper, which
that distracted him, and that gave me a good opportunity
to shoot. The screwdriver hit his thigh. It wasn't strong
enough to damage him seriously, but it gave me enough
time to grab another screwdriver and start running towards the door.
He was still trying to understand what was going on.
(11:33):
I knew I wasn't strong enough to escape this huge man,
so my only chance was to complete the work by
the screwdriver I had in my hand. Thinking of the
pain in my hand and the two days of isolation
with no food or water, I ran at him. I
pushed the screwdriver as hard as I could, deep inside
his neck a couple of times. I believe I looked
(11:54):
very creepy with blood all over my hand and clothes.
I wish I was able to see it from a
third person perspective. A huge man is being killed by
a slim guy with one hand. Isn't that kind of cool?
Forth Whispers of disapproval and accuses spread among the police
officers while they were listening. He is crazy, murderer. We
(12:16):
have to get this guy shut up, all of you,
shouted the captain. He wanted to know what does this
guy want? Why? Would he tell them all of that
only for credit. I don't think the rest of the
story is interesting. The warehouse is in the material is
banned for security reasons. There you can find the body,
(12:37):
and at his house you can find the evidences that
claim that he is the chain man. I'm also very sorry.
I didn't mean to kill any one. Let's just look
at the bright side. I got you the serial killer.
You couldn't find. The picture on the screen disappeared, The
screen went black, and another voice continued talking. I know
you will be trying to find me. That's why I
(12:58):
just want to save your time. The guy in the
video is just a student whom I hired to act
this speech. He has a strong alibi on his whereabouts
in last two weeks, so you cannot accuse him of
anything even if you found him, even though I don't
think you can carry out even a finding of a
student anyways, don't waste your time. I'm not a danger
(13:19):
for any one. I'll be in touch. By the way,
this whole conversation is being uploaded on internet, it would
be fun to see how media is going to eat
you up by to be continued
A crowd of police officers were gathering around a laptop
that was screening a live video call. A thin guy
with huge black circles around his eyes and long, oily
hair was looking back at them, showing absolutely no emotions
on his face. The captain entered the room, silencing everyone
who was making a sound. You said, you have important
(00:20):
information about the chain man. So what is it all about, mister,
said the captain. First, I'm not giving you my name,
answered the guy. Maybe because I'm a criminal from what
I just did about fifteen hours ago. And what is
that you did? Demanded the captain, obviously losing his temper.
I killed a man, answered the guy with a smile.
(00:41):
To be precise, I killed the so called chain man.
By the way, does the media always have to give
serial killers those ridiculous names. The captain, along with the
rest of the officers, was offended with the attitude of
the guy that talked to them. It felt like it
all was a stupid prank. You know, young man, if
this is a prank, you are in serious trouble for doy.
(01:03):
This is not a prank, interrupted the guy quickly, as
he opened a bottle of soda and started drinking it,
making a particularly annoying sound. I'm going to tell you
where the body is. I'm going to tell you everything
you better do, said one of the officers angrily. Before
I tell you anything, I want you to know why
I did it. The answer is simple, because I was
(01:25):
bored and I wanted to do something exciting. I read
about the serial killer that is raging and that took
his nineteenth victim a couple of days ago, and it
just popped up into my head. Why not go and
catch him. I never meant to kill him. I just
wanted to stop him, but a few things went wrong
along the way. This guy is a lunatic, said someone.
Shut up, said the captain sharply, young man, do you
(01:49):
understand how bad will it turn out for you? If
you are lying? I mitcham, then carry on. Well. For
those who don't understand, I want to explain why did
I call like a hundred times saying that I have
information about out the serial killer and that I'll talk
only on a video call with the Captain and as
many officers with him as possible. That's simply for attention.
As the guy talked, he kept on making this awful
(02:10):
noise by drinking his soda as if intentionally wanting to
piss the police off. See, finding the killer that you
were chasing for a year now within eight hours is
actually cool, isn't it. That's something you want to share
with somebody. And as long as I don't have friends
or people to talk to, I thought you would make
perfect listeners. Officers were getting more and more irritated. One
(02:31):
of them even cussed the guy and walked out of
the room, slamming the door shut after him. The captain, though,
pulled a chair and took a seat as he listened
to the guy. He didn't completely believe that the guy
took the chain man down, but there's something about this
character on the screen that caught his attention. By now,
I'm assuming someone got angry and left the room. I'm sorry,
(02:52):
I can't know for sure since this is recorded, not live,
as you may have thought. But as long as I
answer all of your questions, it doesn't matter. Right. The
guy was to show his superiority over the police with
every cell of his body. He was obviously showing off
and trying to humiliate them with every word and gesture
he made. Silence covered the room with a cold blanket,
(03:13):
making officers look at each other and wondering, is this
really a recording? He made a recording so we won't
be able to track him, mumbled the captain. His conclusion
was more like an out loud thought than actually saying
it to any one. Exactly picked this trick up from
Saw too. Always wanted to try it out. It seemed
very cool in the movie, answered the guy from the recording,
(03:35):
just in time, as if he knew that the captain
would say that, oh, cut this out. It can't be
a recording. How would he know when to answer, said
a fat officer, waving away on the screen. The officers
looked at each other again, as if they were unsure
of what to really believe. Anyways, let me begin my
story two. As I said, I was bored and I
(03:58):
decided to find the chain man. As you know, he
picks only teenage girls. All crimes happen at night or
late evening with no witnesses. He kills the victims quickly
and hangs the body somewhere else on a chain. So
when I started to think about him, the first thing
I wanted to understand is why does he kill in
this specific way? He never sexually abuses his victims. As
(04:20):
you must know, he never mutilates the body. He always
kills quickly, whether by cutting the throat or suffocating the victim.
So why in hell does he hang the bodies in
streets or public places? That didn't take me a long
time to figure out. Let me lead you through the
chain of my thoughts really quickly, just so you would
understand what was really going on. So I close my eyes,
(04:42):
I imagine a girl, I slice her throat open and then
hang her body on a tree. Well, obviously I'm a
strong man, because that takes some strength to hang a
body on a tree with a chain within minutes. Right,
So I'm a grown up with a strong complexion killing
teen girls without sexually abusing them. Who am I? As
(05:04):
you know, erotophonophilia is one of the commons among serial killers.
Ninety five percent of serial killers kill either for sexual purposes,
or attention or sense of power. In our case, the
chain man didn't kill for any of these reasons. So
I went deeper. I kept asking myself, who am I?
Why do I hang bodies? Then I got it? It
(05:28):
is really simple. Look, a serial killer kills people who
share something in common a color of hair, or a
way of dressing. In our case, its age. All of
them are teenagers. And why does someone would hang a
body in a public place. All of the psychologists that
were working with the police and made psychological portraits of
(05:49):
him were wrong. He didn't hang the body for attention,
at least not for the attention they thought about. You see,
if he wanted to gain as much attention as possible,
he would utilate the body. Right. I knew this from
the beginning, but I couldn't understand his reason till I
just figured one thing, one possibility. It's a remainder. He
(06:11):
hangs the body as a remainder of the victim's death.
Think about it for a moment. It will be all
over the internet, on TV, and even in the papers.
He wants the parents to be reminded of the death
for as long as possible. This sounds stupid, right, I
mean parents will always be reminded. They would not forget
(06:32):
their loss even if it never appeared anywhere. Isn't it
the rational way of thinking? But who said the offender
is a rational person. Soon as I understood this, I
started understanding everything. He wants to remind the parents because
these girls are reminding him of his loss. He is
a father who lost his daughter and his sanity. He
(06:53):
remembers his teenage daughter every time he sees a teenage girl.
He wants to kill those girls because for him, it
is only fair. If life took away his daughter, no
one deserves to have theirs. This allowed me to minimize
the number of potential killers to every one who lost
their daughters in the past five years. I didn't find
(07:14):
any unusual or large orders of similar chains, so I
assumed that it's someone that already had easy access to
such tools and that minimized potential murderers to only one.
The real serial killer. After finding him through your base,
which I hacked into earlier, I went to his store.
He was a fine man named the material is banned
for security reasons. He was in his mid forties, had
(07:37):
a huge beard and a husky voice. I asked him
a couple of questions about the hammers he had. Then
I asked for a chain. As he showed me the
types of chains he had, I asked him to give
me the one he uses to hang the victims he
kills to grieve for his daughter. Boy, did those words
drive him crazy? He attacked me and of course won
(07:57):
the battle. For I'm somehow physically weak, I lost my consciousness.
When I woke up, I was handcuffed to a metal
pole somewhere dark, all alone. I wasn't killed like all
his victims. I wasn't his victim. Three. When the guy
from the recording reached this point of his story, an
officer entered the room and informed the captain that this
(08:18):
video call was really just a recording and that they
just found the source. Right after that, the room fell
back into perfect silence as all of them kept listening
very carefully to what the guy was saying. I want
to tell you this. In movies and books about someone
being trapped alone, they always make someone imaginary come to
them and help. So you should know that that doesn't
(08:38):
really happen when you are trapped. You are all by yourself.
My eyes took some time to adjust to the darkness
before they began to see a little. I was in
a warehouse of some kind, shells with tools, covered with
a thick layer of dust all around the place. Even
the air was dusty and it was hard to breathe.
I didn't have many possibilities to escape, so I simply
(09:01):
broke my wrist. I broke my right hand and kept
my dominant hand safe in case I needed to fight.
I was able to free the other hand by using
some oil that I found lying near me. The only
issue was that I just needed to grab it with
my broken hand. Believe me, this simple task can be
very difficult when you do it with a broken hand.
(09:22):
Now I was half way free. I still needed to
get out of the warehouse, so I started searching for
the door. When I found it and examined it with
my hand, I realized there's no way to break through.
All I could do was wait for him to come.
I was left there for about two days. Curiosity gets
the best of us, it's human nature. Therefore, I was
(09:45):
sure he would come back to know how I found him.
But with a broken wrist and no food, I was
on the edge. I was slowly losing hope. I never
screamed for help. He's not dumb. He wouldn't put me
anywhere where people could hear me. I I slept, resting
my body on the door. Time passed very slowly, and
all I could do was get prepared. I searched all
(10:07):
around for a nail gun, but you never get this
lucky in real life, so I didn't find one. I
found a lot of other useful stuff, though. In two days,
I was able to craft something like a small catapult
that shoots only once, but then you'll have to place
the spring again, which would take time. It was kind
of big, too big to hold a nail, so I
(10:27):
decided to use a screwdriver instead. I placed it on
a shelf right in front of the door and took
my position behind it. Because I was no longer able
to sleep on the door, so I needed to do
something that would help me wake up if the door opened.
So I found some sandpaper and stuffed it underneath the door.
I figured it would make a loud enough noise to
wake me up. Like that, I kept waiting. My energy
(10:51):
was leaving my body. The pain was gradually increasing in
my swollen wrist, and I was not able to control
myself out of survival instincts. My body was trying to
put me to sleep. After some time, the door started opening.
I wasn't asleep by that time, so that whole sand
paper thing was kind of useless. He opened the door,
(11:12):
making an awful sound by dragging the sand paper, which
that distracted him, and that gave me a good opportunity
to shoot. The screwdriver hit his thigh. It wasn't strong
enough to damage him seriously, but it gave me enough
time to grab another screwdriver and start running towards the door.
He was still trying to understand what was going on.
(11:33):
I knew I wasn't strong enough to escape this huge man,
so my only chance was to complete the work by
the screwdriver I had in my hand. Thinking of the
pain in my hand and the two days of isolation
with no food or water, I ran at him. I
pushed the screwdriver as hard as I could, deep inside
his neck a couple of times. I believe I looked
(11:54):
very creepy with blood all over my hand and clothes.
I wish I was able to see it from a
third person perspective. A huge man is being killed by
a slim guy with one hand. Isn't that kind of cool?
Forth Whispers of disapproval and accuses spread among the police
officers while they were listening. He is crazy, murderer. We
(12:16):
have to get this guy shut up, all of you,
shouted the captain. He wanted to know what does this
guy want? Why? Would he tell them all of that
only for credit. I don't think the rest of the
story is interesting. The warehouse is in the material is
banned for security reasons. There you can find the body,
(12:37):
and at his house you can find the evidences that
claim that he is the chain man. I'm also very sorry.
I didn't mean to kill any one. Let's just look
at the bright side. I got you the serial killer.
You couldn't find. The picture on the screen disappeared, The
screen went black, and another voice continued talking. I know
you will be trying to find me. That's why I
(12:58):
just want to save your time. The guy in the
video is just a student whom I hired to act
this speech. He has a strong alibi on his whereabouts
in last two weeks, so you cannot accuse him of
anything even if you found him, even though I don't
think you can carry out even a finding of a
student anyways, don't waste your time. I'm not a danger
(13:19):
for any one. I'll be in touch. By the way,
this whole conversation is being uploaded on internet, it would
be fun to see how media is going to eat
you up by to be continued
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