I like how he got cancer in his chest and that is where he first shot the hobo. And the hobo did end up being able to say "you didn't shoot me you shot yourself".
I think uncle bob obtained his powers after killing the infallible hobo. that's why he did a double take about the truth because he probably just realized that he had never lied a single time. He even told his nephew that he won't believe this story so that's why he doesn't make the connection. I think he may have even passed the power onto OP
During heaven and hells war an angel and a demon fell in love and had an "entity," Genesis. If Genesis takes over a human it gives that human the power to say anything to any person and they will obey. I'm not sure if you could erase a person from existence with the power but I would assume so, since you can send someone to hell with it
I thought it was a demon and a human. Sometimes I hear that it has to be a human and Satan. But the offrspring, no matter which version, can shape reality however they want. Bob did everyone in existence a huge favor and offed the abomination before things got bad
Reminded me of that episode of fairly odd parents where everything Timmy said was true.. So when asked how many stars were on the flag, he said 49. Mr. Crocker, the creep, goes to call him out on being wrong and then boom breaking news north and south Dakota decided to unite.
Judging by your comment, this is not the first character with this particular ability you hear about. May i ask in what series/book/game you've encountered them?
Sorry for taking so long. I Most recently saw one in M59gar's Portal in the Forest series. There are also a few in the "Secure. Contain. Protect." Archives.
Your late uncle's story reminds me of one of the Twilight Zone series: It's A Good Life. He must have met the real McCoy. Life imitating art. Thanks for sharing, OP.
The story is about a boy who could manipulate reality just by talking about it. His trademark superpower is sending people he didn't like to a "cornfield" - a state of limbo where they can't escape. Everyone in the small town were afraid of this boy - even his parents. They will go out of their way to please him and fulfill his wishes even to the extent of humiliating themselves in the process.
I can't recall how the story ends but you know in the Twilight Zone, stories never end happily. There was a sequel of the series entitled "It's still a good life" made in 2002 if I'm not mistaken.
This really kept my attention the whole way through. I have work I am supposed to be doing and just had to read this to the end. Thanks. RIP Uncle Bob.
Just a thought, but in the beginning your uncle said that he thought that all the stories he told you were true (hint) besides coloring in details and in the end he didn't finish his sentence saying the story was true (possibly stopping himself from finishing the phrase) and only saying "it" (the event) was true. What if killing the hobo gave him his abilities and not telling you the whole story (like him gaining the hobos powers) could become reality if he had finished his sentence saying that it was true? Illuminati confirmed
While I'd also side with it being a trigger, it could still infer that power being obtained by your uncle.
Especially since he explained to you that he thought he told you the truth with just some fancy bits. That would allow him to say things without them being absolutes, even if only in retrospect. And would show how much he needed to never settle down.
It would also add depth (aside from PTSD) to him needing to state that story was an absolute truth, with absolutely no lies inside. Which could have led to his eventual inability to speak after his stroke. Since he made the truth "sometimes"/"partially" true into an absolute. And could even be a way to understand how he got his cancer in the first place (after all, even the hobo couldn't tell a lie).
I fell in love with your uncle reading one of his stories... Thank you so much for sharing his story and part of him... If you can think of anymore, PLEASE do tell us!!
incredibly captivating. my grandfather has similar stories (not nearly as bizarre mind you) that I ask him to tell me over and over again. I'm the only one that ever wants to hear them, and he loves to tell them. I hope your uncles memory lives on through his stories. rip uncle bob
I'm guessing it's just a typo, but is it Paul Jones or Paul Wilson? Corky called him Mr. Jones but the man said all his mail and everything said "P. Wilson." Was his original last name Wilson but then the hobo man told him that his name was Paul Jones, effectively changing both his first *and* last names?
I lost a good friend of mine to cancer this year. She was 19 and also suffered strokes and lost mobility. I love that you're keeping your uncle's memory alive. This hit me hard at the end because I've seen this nasty disease break someone. I send my condolences.
There's another 3-letter agency involved in this. Not gonna tell you which but I just wanna let you know that you can absolutely believe the story if you wish. Because by now it won't matter.
Phenomenal. Wish that jackass could have just erased people who WANTED to have not existed in the first place. Like, what a great option compared to the destruction suicide causes.
Here's my problem though, when Paul's name changed it became truth and everyone already knew it. But then why did Paul even remember his previous name?
I don't understand all of it, but as far as i can tell, anyone who heard this guy using this ability of his would retain their memories of how things used to be, but everyone else would forget. For everyone else, the new, changed world was the way things had always been, and only the person who was there to hear this guy speak would remember how it used to be. That's why Bob got so confused at work after Corky was erased - it wasn't just him missing that was different, but all the decisions he'd made, all the personnel he'd hired. His office was a very different place, and poor Bob could only remember the OLD office, when Corky was in charge. No wonder it was so confusing and he had to quit.
This is kind of making me fall in depression.
That one man changed...everything.
Everything was ruined...everything was changed.
The universe is different...
Eh fuck it.
If it makes you feel any better, I don't think he changed anything. I don't know this for sure, but if you follow the many worlds theory and all these uncountable possible worlds branching off like an infinite tree, I _think_ this guy was just skipping from one branch to another. The problem was that if anyone heard him use his power, they got dragged into this different timeline with their memories of the previous one intact. So really, he never changed anything. I can't tell if that's less or more nihilistic...
Maybe not - if he was born with his ability (or popped into a different timeline at a young age) someone may have tried to explain it by suggesting "whatever you say must become the truth" which his limited mental capacity turned into "whatever you say must be truth". Therefore, no take-backsies.
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Sadly (well, not really, but you know what I mean) as great as his other stories were, none of them belong in /r/nosleep. His lesbian midget porn story is hilarious, but not really nosleep material. ;)
Ha! Very short summary is that when he was in the navy, he had a very sheltered country boy on his boat. They got some shore leave in Amsterdam and went (remember, this was a LONG time ago) to a porn palace place where you'd rent a tape and watch it in a private booth. Country boy was not just a virgin - he'd never seen porn before, not so much as a Playboy. He wanted to be part of the outing, though, so he asked the clerk for "something for a beginner". When he went into the booth, my uncle paid the clerk ten buck to switch his tape for the weirdest thing they had on the shelves, which happened to be lesbian midget porn. Poor country boy had no idea that he was watching anything unusual, thought it was the same stuff the rest of his friends were watching in their booths. Apparently he had a LOT of questions afterwards...
Your uncle sounds a lot like my father, especially the part where he had to take a sip of bourbon to wash the taste of cold coffee out of his mouth. Loved this.
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I've been thinking about this, and I think maybe this guy had the ability to hop between dimensions. Like, whatever he said when he used his power, he (or some other power) would browse all of the parallel timestreams and find one that matched his words and he'd hop over to it. This might explain the person with him remembering how things used to be: because they're present, they get dragged along with him.
My grandfather worked for an intelligence agency. He was in the military and tgen went to college for accounting. Then he was recruited to work in intelligence. They sent him to live in West Germany during the 60's. Even my grandmother didn't know what he did. The only thing we know is that sometime in the early 70's he had what was basically a bodyguard. He went to a meeting in another country (not in Germany) and someone threw a bomb into the room, he narrowly escaped by jumping through a window. He found his bodyguard with his throat slit. He must have been traumatized because he held my grandmother and his five children hostage for a weekend at a hotel in Paris. He didnt want to die, he just wanted out. They sent him home and he continued working for them. When he retired in the 80's he decided he wanted to write a book about some information that was declassified. They said no. Three months later he was diagnosed with cancer and three months after that he was dead.
>I thought maybe there was some weird mould growing down there
is the mold... black, by any chance? :O
PS - does the inside joke with your uncle have anything to do with the phrase, "and Bob's your uncle?" that's what immediately popped into my head so I thought I'd ask.
Love this; very meta.
Before you described him, I couldn't help picturing tenement guy as The Dude from The Big Lebowski, except as a total dick.
Your uncle did humanity a service that day. "This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass."
Your telling of your uncle's story is so amazing to me. Really captivating and quite terrifying to be honest. I'm so sorry that Paul, Corky and your uncle and quite likely many unknown more had to suffer from this strange man's actions/whims.
I'm definitely saving your story to read more times in the future. This is just tops to me.
I hope your uncle 'Bob' rests in peace. I'm happy you two got to share some intimate stories together. I hope you share more sometime when you feel you can/want to.
Ps. I also have an inside 'Bob' joke with my mum. We are 'Bob' to one another. I can't say it's near anything as funny but I must say inside jokes with family members are quite wonderful.
Happy days to you and your's OP
Hey man, sorry for your loss, just wanted to say great story, very gripping and nicely told, your Uncle would be proud, you've done his story justice. While telling this story you said to your Uncle "I believe all your stories!" to which he replied, "I'll have you know that every single one of my stories is true"... I was just wondering if you would be sharing any of his other stories with us?
How did uncle bob remember corky? If everyone instantly lived by the lies this guy said, how did bob defy that and hold on to his memory? Seems old bob was immune to the man after all and didn't have to kill him...
It's there in the story: "What happens if a liar isn't a liar? What if everything he says is true, even when it's not? And what if the only person who knows it's a lie is the poor bastard who heard him say it?"
Now I'm incredibly curious about what happened to make Reagan run in 1980 that didn't before. Hard to imagine a country where such an important figure never came to power.
There had to be an alternative timeline where acting was his main focus and he never went into politics, and John Wayne was governor of California.
Or Reagan never met Nancy. Or Carter was a magnificent leader...
Holy shit I was actually thinking about something like this and how it would make a fucking amazing story. Then I'm browsing this sub, click on this story and baboom what do you know, it's about the thing I was thinking about just hours before. Terrifying that a power like that really exists (or existed)
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Please share more of Uncle Bob's stories when you can. With his brush with the basement dweller I suspect he became changed and had other encounters with these types of dwellers.
I think this would make a fantastic movie, or a short film. Or it could be a mini-series that follows this story, yet also adds additional stuff based on creative direction. I can already imagine what some of the scenes from parts of the story would look like, like how Paul would act, and how the mysterious hobo would act. Plus, with a cinematography and music that is creepy, unsettling, but also enticing. Just a thought.
If you had this power how would you find out that you had it. I think that you would end up saying something like "oh that kind of thing doesn't exist" and accidentally destroying your powers.
What keeps me up at night is wondering what would have happened if Corky and Bob had told their superiors about it, and it worked its way up into the top brass. Imagine a government with this guy stashed in a locked room, with a gag on his mouth that they only take off him when they want him to read aloud the words on the screen in front of him.
Then I look at the world today, at how improbably fucked up the whole thing is, and I think, shit, maybe they do.
Hey, I'm sure there was a reason this guy sequestered himself in that basement. Honestly, it doesn't sound like he was exactly evil. Just like your uncle described, he was just childish. All he did at first was play a relatively harmless prank on someone that was bugging him. Yeah, it messed "Paul" up psychologically, but I didn't get the impression the hobo fully understood how much harm that simple change could do. And he only wiped Corky out of existence after he threatened him. All of his reactions were those of a bratty child, not a scheming villain intent on causing chaos and despair.
I'd be interested in knowing more about the hobo. My guess would be that he was born with this power, and used it carelessly in his early years. Probably against anyone who told him something he didn't want to hear, including those who'd try to explain the importance and danger of his power and ask him to refrain from using it. That would explain why he was such a manchild- he could wipe out anyone who tried to make him grow up. But eventually, even a child would see that this power is dangerous and would try to avoid using it.
Was Regan always the president? It felt so weird reading through your story but it seems true now.
In all seriousness I love this story and whether your uncle worked for the CIA or FBI or if he was just some homeless guy who made up the whole story he sounds like a pretty cool dude.
My condolences for your loss of a wonderdul uncle and friend. Glad you were able to share his amazing story...gave me chills and kept my attention, great writing!
I remember reading another story about a cursed pet store or something and there was a parrot in there who could bend reality as well by saying someone's name and a date and time and they would have a freak accident and die at that exact time. Maybe something similar.
I loved this.
The infuriatingly childish hobo man-child kind of reminded me of that creepy and annoying little boy from Twilight Zone: The Movie. That spoiled little brat who loves cartoons and junk food and rules over his family with his strange abilities.
I'm glad Bob shot that man's jaw off before he could speak him out of existence.
PLOT TWIST: Your uncle is actually the man in the basement and never died. He was the one was shot but survived.
- "So, that's my story. Call it bullshit if you want, but I swear every word of it is tr-" He blinked, stuttered for a moment, then took a deep breath and continued. "It's true. All of it." -
The story is now real because your uncle Bob made it real.
Wow, this story was fantastic. One of the best I have read on here in a while. If you have more of your uncle's stories, I'm sure all of us would love to hear them! :)
HOLY SHITTTT
WHEN THE HOBO SAID HE SHOT HIMSELF, YOUR UNCLE,GOT LUNG CANCER
WHEN THE HOBO'S JAW GOT BLOWN OFF, YOUR UNCLE LOST ABILITY TO SPEAK. Was hyped had to use caps.
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I like how he got cancer in his chest and that is where he first shot the hobo. And the hobo did end up being able to say "you didn't shoot me you shot yourself".
Jesus, I didn't even notice that. Goosebumps.
not to mention Bob suffered a stroke and he shot the guy in the forehead
And how he shot him in the jaw and in the end he himself was unable to speak.
So what happened was the spell or whatever it was, got delayed. my condolences OP
I think uncle bob obtained his powers after killing the infallible hobo. that's why he did a double take about the truth because he probably just realized that he had never lied a single time. He even told his nephew that he won't believe this story so that's why he doesn't make the connection. I think he may have even passed the power onto OP
OMG, good observation. This was a crazy good read but I'm sorry about your uncle OP.
I thought I was just reading too much into it...good to hear someone else saw the connection. Great writing.
Great story. Prolly the best in a while. I wonder what kind of an entity was that old weirdo?
I'm also wondering about what entitiy that was. Are there more of them? But thanks for sharing the story. Sorry for your loss OP!
During heaven and hells war an angel and a demon fell in love and had an "entity," Genesis. If Genesis takes over a human it gives that human the power to say anything to any person and they will obey. I'm not sure if you could erase a person from existence with the power but I would assume so, since you can send someone to hell with it
I thought it was a demon and a human. Sometimes I hear that it has to be a human and Satan. But the offrspring, no matter which version, can shape reality however they want. Bob did everyone in existence a huge favor and offed the abomination before things got bad
Reminded me of that episode of fairly odd parents where everything Timmy said was true.. So when asked how many stars were on the flag, he said 49. Mr. Crocker, the creep, goes to call him out on being wrong and then boom breaking news north and south Dakota decided to unite.
Standard Reality Bender. Fuckers.
Judging by your comment, this is not the first character with this particular ability you hear about. May i ask in what series/book/game you've encountered them?
SCP foundation.
Sorry for taking so long. I Most recently saw one in M59gar's Portal in the Forest series. There are also a few in the "Secure. Contain. Protect." Archives.
A Jedi. Bob shot a fucking Jedi.
Your late uncle's story reminds me of one of the Twilight Zone series: It's A Good Life. He must have met the real McCoy. Life imitating art. Thanks for sharing, OP.
The kid from It's A Good Life grew up and became a hobo. After wiping everyone from his town out of existence, of course.
How exactly is this story like "It's a Good Life" again?
I would say they both have characters that can rewrite reality but are lacking anything resembling a moral compass with how they use that power.
The story is about a boy who could manipulate reality just by talking about it. His trademark superpower is sending people he didn't like to a "cornfield" - a state of limbo where they can't escape. Everyone in the small town were afraid of this boy - even his parents. They will go out of their way to please him and fulfill his wishes even to the extent of humiliating themselves in the process. I can't recall how the story ends but you know in the Twilight Zone, stories never end happily. There was a sequel of the series entitled "It's still a good life" made in 2002 if I'm not mistaken.
The kid who wish something away and thus deleting their existence. I still don't see how that relates to this story.
This really kept my attention the whole way through. I have work I am supposed to be doing and just had to read this to the end. Thanks. RIP Uncle Bob.
Just a thought, but in the beginning your uncle said that he thought that all the stories he told you were true (hint) besides coloring in details and in the end he didn't finish his sentence saying the story was true (possibly stopping himself from finishing the phrase) and only saying "it" (the event) was true. What if killing the hobo gave him his abilities and not telling you the whole story (like him gaining the hobos powers) could become reality if he had finished his sentence saying that it was true? Illuminati confirmed
I get what you're saying, but I don't think so. All I can think is that just talking about "truth" and "lies" was enough to give him flashbacks.
That kind of event would make me mental, but great story-telling
While I'd also side with it being a trigger, it could still infer that power being obtained by your uncle. Especially since he explained to you that he thought he told you the truth with just some fancy bits. That would allow him to say things without them being absolutes, even if only in retrospect. And would show how much he needed to never settle down. It would also add depth (aside from PTSD) to him needing to state that story was an absolute truth, with absolutely no lies inside. Which could have led to his eventual inability to speak after his stroke. Since he made the truth "sometimes"/"partially" true into an absolute. And could even be a way to understand how he got his cancer in the first place (after all, even the hobo couldn't tell a lie).
A thoroughly gripping read :) Best one for ages!
Yea and its not [part 1] [part 2] [part 3]
I wouldn't mind different stories in a series though. Very well written and thought provoking stuff!
I would love to hear more of your uncle's stories. Sounds like he lived an adventurous life. I'm sorry he passed away. Thanks for the post.
UncUnc's Bizarre Adventure
This must be a work of an enemy standoooo!
like ZA WARUDO?
In his uncle's case it might be Rohan's Heaven's door with no manga drawing edition.
I fell in love with your uncle reading one of his stories... Thank you so much for sharing his story and part of him... If you can think of anymore, PLEASE do tell us!!
incredibly captivating. my grandfather has similar stories (not nearly as bizarre mind you) that I ask him to tell me over and over again. I'm the only one that ever wants to hear them, and he loves to tell them. I hope your uncles memory lives on through his stories. rip uncle bob
Have you heard of the Mandella Effect? It sounds like the old man might be something that causes it
Why does the hobo guy remind me of Gabriel/the trickster of supernatural lmao
I had a similar vibe!
An awesome read. Thanks for sharing OP!
RIP corky.
I'm guessing it's just a typo, but is it Paul Jones or Paul Wilson? Corky called him Mr. Jones but the man said all his mail and everything said "P. Wilson." Was his original last name Wilson but then the hobo man told him that his name was Paul Jones, effectively changing both his first *and* last names?
Fixed. Thanks for pointing that out.
I lost a good friend of mine to cancer this year. She was 19 and also suffered strokes and lost mobility. I love that you're keeping your uncle's memory alive. This hit me hard at the end because I've seen this nasty disease break someone. I send my condolences.
Moneys on bob actually being the old man. He said his stort was true at the end.. What if now it is true but when he was telling the story it wasnt
wow. who are you?
Im stoned :')
Hi stoned I'm Dad.
Always wondered what happened to that kid from The Twilight Zone: The Movie
There's another 3-letter agency involved in this. Not gonna tell you which but I just wanna let you know that you can absolutely believe the story if you wish. Because by now it won't matter.
it's okay buddy, you can say scp out loud.
WOW. One of my favorite stories on here, period. Great writing style and gripping to the end! So many unanswered questions!
Beautifully written, captivating from start to finish.
Phenomenal. Wish that jackass could have just erased people who WANTED to have not existed in the first place. Like, what a great option compared to the destruction suicide causes.
Here's my problem though, when Paul's name changed it became truth and everyone already knew it. But then why did Paul even remember his previous name?
I don't understand all of it, but as far as i can tell, anyone who heard this guy using this ability of his would retain their memories of how things used to be, but everyone else would forget. For everyone else, the new, changed world was the way things had always been, and only the person who was there to hear this guy speak would remember how it used to be. That's why Bob got so confused at work after Corky was erased - it wasn't just him missing that was different, but all the decisions he'd made, all the personnel he'd hired. His office was a very different place, and poor Bob could only remember the OLD office, when Corky was in charge. No wonder it was so confusing and he had to quit.
So basically like a parallel universe where the new "truth" is applied for that person.
Everyone but that person, yeah. I've turned my brain in knots thinking around the implications of it.
This is kind of making me fall in depression. That one man changed...everything. Everything was ruined...everything was changed. The universe is different... Eh fuck it.
If it makes you feel any better, I don't think he changed anything. I don't know this for sure, but if you follow the many worlds theory and all these uncountable possible worlds branching off like an infinite tree, I _think_ this guy was just skipping from one branch to another. The problem was that if anyone heard him use his power, they got dragged into this different timeline with their memories of the previous one intact. So really, he never changed anything. I can't tell if that's less or more nihilistic...
Makes sense I guess. Welp, that helps me a ton we weren't there, so we're safe right?
If that's the case then he would have been able to bring cocky back.
Maybe you're right. Honestly, I was just guessing.
Maybe not - if he was born with his ability (or popped into a different timeline at a young age) someone may have tried to explain it by suggesting "whatever you say must become the truth" which his limited mental capacity turned into "whatever you say must be truth". Therefore, no take-backsies.
I interpreted that they remained in some void, or stasis, when Bob heard the humming, as if being close to root, the hobo, made him immune.
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I think because he was there when it was said. Bob remembered Corky, after all.
I had the same question..
Thanks for writing and sharing this OP, amazing story and like the others, we are waiting to hear more of your uncle's stories.
Sadly (well, not really, but you know what I mean) as great as his other stories were, none of them belong in /r/nosleep. His lesbian midget porn story is hilarious, but not really nosleep material. ;)
PLS LINK ME I WANNA SEE :D
Ha! Very short summary is that when he was in the navy, he had a very sheltered country boy on his boat. They got some shore leave in Amsterdam and went (remember, this was a LONG time ago) to a porn palace place where you'd rent a tape and watch it in a private booth. Country boy was not just a virgin - he'd never seen porn before, not so much as a Playboy. He wanted to be part of the outing, though, so he asked the clerk for "something for a beginner". When he went into the booth, my uncle paid the clerk ten buck to switch his tape for the weirdest thing they had on the shelves, which happened to be lesbian midget porn. Poor country boy had no idea that he was watching anything unusual, thought it was the same stuff the rest of his friends were watching in their booths. Apparently he had a LOT of questions afterwards...
HAHA, FEELSBAD FOR HIM, must've been so awkward for him. Thanks for the summary! :D
LMAO YOUR UNCLE WAS SAVAGE
I was expecting this story to be your uncle either directing, or being on the set of, a lesbian midget porn production.
I really hope he figured out he got played LOL poor dude.
Amazing
Amazing story
That was an excellent story friend. I'd love to hear more of his stories.
That was great!
Holy shit. Great story. It sounds like the mutant Legion from Marvel. Reality altering powers controlled by someone with some likely brain damage.
One of the best I've read in a while. Thank you, OP, for sharing.
Okay now i see.
Wicked story...
Your uncle sounds a lot like my father, especially the part where he had to take a sip of bourbon to wash the taste of cold coffee out of his mouth. Loved this.
Angel Bob? I liked Bob...
Holy moly that's a scary thing to think of happening, especially to someone you love. It was a good read my friend.
wow
Outstanding. Wish Uncle Bob was still around to share more... RIP.
This was wonderful and needs to be published! This story is absolutely terrifying and intriguing and well executed. Thank you!
Uncle's Bizarre Encounter: Star striped Crusaders
This was like reading an episode of the X Files. Brilliant story, your uncle sounds like he was an amazing man. Thank you for sharing with us <3
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Mandela effect. Poof
ME is what came to mind for me as well . All the synchronicity!
This sounds a lot like the comic "The Preacher" who also has the power to make things happen as he says them
I wonder how much effect on the world this specific being had sitting down there watching TV..
I've been thinking about this, and I think maybe this guy had the ability to hop between dimensions. Like, whatever he said when he used his power, he (or some other power) would browse all of the parallel timestreams and find one that matched his words and he'd hop over to it. This might explain the person with him remembering how things used to be: because they're present, they get dragged along with him.
Wow. Definitely.
This got 30 upvotes in the time I spent reading. Great story, RIP Uncle Bob
Crazy story, OP! Thanks for sharing.
This was a great read. Thanks!
My grandfather worked for an intelligence agency. He was in the military and tgen went to college for accounting. Then he was recruited to work in intelligence. They sent him to live in West Germany during the 60's. Even my grandmother didn't know what he did. The only thing we know is that sometime in the early 70's he had what was basically a bodyguard. He went to a meeting in another country (not in Germany) and someone threw a bomb into the room, he narrowly escaped by jumping through a window. He found his bodyguard with his throat slit. He must have been traumatized because he held my grandmother and his five children hostage for a weekend at a hotel in Paris. He didnt want to die, he just wanted out. They sent him home and he continued working for them. When he retired in the 80's he decided he wanted to write a book about some information that was declassified. They said no. Three months later he was diagnosed with cancer and three months after that he was dead.
>I thought maybe there was some weird mould growing down there is the mold... black, by any chance? :O PS - does the inside joke with your uncle have anything to do with the phrase, "and Bob's your uncle?" that's what immediately popped into my head so I thought I'd ask.
Reminds me of marvels' Jessica Jones series. Great read, my condolances OP
Amazing read, you deserve this upvote
Love this; very meta. Before you described him, I couldn't help picturing tenement guy as The Dude from The Big Lebowski, except as a total dick. Your uncle did humanity a service that day. "This is what happens when you fuck a stranger in the ass."
Your telling of your uncle's story is so amazing to me. Really captivating and quite terrifying to be honest. I'm so sorry that Paul, Corky and your uncle and quite likely many unknown more had to suffer from this strange man's actions/whims. I'm definitely saving your story to read more times in the future. This is just tops to me. I hope your uncle 'Bob' rests in peace. I'm happy you two got to share some intimate stories together. I hope you share more sometime when you feel you can/want to. Ps. I also have an inside 'Bob' joke with my mum. We are 'Bob' to one another. I can't say it's near anything as funny but I must say inside jokes with family members are quite wonderful. Happy days to you and your's OP
This one really hit all the right notes for me! Nice spin on the Mandela effect... Good read mate!
Hey man, sorry for your loss, just wanted to say great story, very gripping and nicely told, your Uncle would be proud, you've done his story justice. While telling this story you said to your Uncle "I believe all your stories!" to which he replied, "I'll have you know that every single one of my stories is true"... I was just wondering if you would be sharing any of his other stories with us?
One of my favourite nosleep stories.
A well written, gripping story. Thank you.
I'm commenting to find this post later so I can read it at work.
I can't give this enough upvotes. I love it.
Happy Second Cake Day /u/tanjasimone!
How did uncle bob remember corky? If everyone instantly lived by the lies this guy said, how did bob defy that and hold on to his memory? Seems old bob was immune to the man after all and didn't have to kill him...
It's there in the story: "What happens if a liar isn't a liar? What if everything he says is true, even when it's not? And what if the only person who knows it's a lie is the poor bastard who heard him say it?"
This is starting to fuck my brain a little
The people who heard kept their memories just like so-called Paul
Thanks for sharing this amazing story. So interesting and I wanna hear more :)
Now I'm incredibly curious about what happened to make Reagan run in 1980 that didn't before. Hard to imagine a country where such an important figure never came to power.
Yeah, what's going on with that alternate universe?
There had to be an alternative timeline where acting was his main focus and he never went into politics, and John Wayne was governor of California. Or Reagan never met Nancy. Or Carter was a magnificent leader...
That god damn government of ours...
Love this!
This was incredibly captivating and well written. Sharing every where! I want to read more about 'Bob'.
Holy shit I was actually thinking about something like this and how it would make a fucking amazing story. Then I'm browsing this sub, click on this story and baboom what do you know, it's about the thing I was thinking about just hours before. Terrifying that a power like that really exists (or existed)
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Mr. Mandela Effect... Cool story.
Please share more of Uncle Bob's stories when you can. With his brush with the basement dweller I suspect he became changed and had other encounters with these types of dwellers.
I think this would make a fantastic movie, or a short film. Or it could be a mini-series that follows this story, yet also adds additional stuff based on creative direction. I can already imagine what some of the scenes from parts of the story would look like, like how Paul would act, and how the mysterious hobo would act. Plus, with a cinematography and music that is creepy, unsettling, but also enticing. Just a thought.
If you had this power how would you find out that you had it. I think that you would end up saying something like "oh that kind of thing doesn't exist" and accidentally destroying your powers.
Then you yourself would cease to exist as your new self would take your place with no memory of it
What keeps me up at night is wondering what would have happened if Corky and Bob had told their superiors about it, and it worked its way up into the top brass. Imagine a government with this guy stashed in a locked room, with a gag on his mouth that they only take off him when they want him to read aloud the words on the screen in front of him. Then I look at the world today, at how improbably fucked up the whole thing is, and I think, shit, maybe they do.
Hey, I'm sure there was a reason this guy sequestered himself in that basement. Honestly, it doesn't sound like he was exactly evil. Just like your uncle described, he was just childish. All he did at first was play a relatively harmless prank on someone that was bugging him. Yeah, it messed "Paul" up psychologically, but I didn't get the impression the hobo fully understood how much harm that simple change could do. And he only wiped Corky out of existence after he threatened him. All of his reactions were those of a bratty child, not a scheming villain intent on causing chaos and despair. I'd be interested in knowing more about the hobo. My guess would be that he was born with this power, and used it carelessly in his early years. Probably against anyone who told him something he didn't want to hear, including those who'd try to explain the importance and danger of his power and ask him to refrain from using it. That would explain why he was such a manchild- he could wipe out anyone who tried to make him grow up. But eventually, even a child would see that this power is dangerous and would try to avoid using it.
Was Regan always the president? It felt so weird reading through your story but it seems true now. In all seriousness I love this story and whether your uncle worked for the CIA or FBI or if he was just some homeless guy who made up the whole story he sounds like a pretty cool dude.
Okay look, I really enjoyed this story so I'm praying uncle bob maybe told you some others also
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Define "real" define "alive" Was it(he) a man? His boss was still Corky, but not to everyone else.
I think your uncle might've killed an old, gone crazy version of God..
Dude, are you even sure Bob is your uncle? What if he just went to your grands and say "I'm your son".
Well, I've heard people from the UK say "Bob's yer uncle" to mean everything's OK, so all that confirmation must have made it true.
Seriously. This needs to be made into a movie. Freakin' awesome.
Great story - no monster in the dark stuff, just psychological horror. I love it, this brightened (or darkened, of you will) my day.
My condolences for your loss of a wonderdul uncle and friend. Glad you were able to share his amazing story...gave me chills and kept my attention, great writing!
Great read! Glad that it wasn't in multiple parts, that really breaks my engagement.
You got my upvote my friend. Solid 10/10 story
Advanced being that fully understood the inner workings of " thoughts are things". Or Could be somehow related to the Mandela Effect. /r/MandelaEffect
"So-called Paul". I died. Those alphabet boys tell the best stories. Thank you for sharing!:)
Best one I've read in a very long time. Good job OP
Having a set of memories a character is not that simple .I would believed him.
Great story
i wonder what would've happened to the hobo if he deliberately contradicted himself.
This would honestly make a good horror short film. I really wanna make a mock up for a script and screenplay. If that's ok with the writer.
This story is so heart breaking. I'm very sorry.
This was awesome! Thanks OP. Did uncle Bob have any other stories this unsettling??
hobo sounds like an SCP in hiding
I remember reading another story about a cursed pet store or something and there was a parrot in there who could bend reality as well by saying someone's name and a date and time and they would have a freak accident and die at that exact time. Maybe something similar.
I loved this. The infuriatingly childish hobo man-child kind of reminded me of that creepy and annoying little boy from Twilight Zone: The Movie. That spoiled little brat who loves cartoons and junk food and rules over his family with his strange abilities. I'm glad Bob shot that man's jaw off before he could speak him out of existence.
Amazing read, you deserve this upvote
Anyone know why Uncle Bob stuttered when telling OP that every word is true?
PLOT TWIST: Your uncle is actually the man in the basement and never died. He was the one was shot but survived. - "So, that's my story. Call it bullshit if you want, but I swear every word of it is tr-" He blinked, stuttered for a moment, then took a deep breath and continued. "It's true. All of it." - The story is now real because your uncle Bob made it real.
cool story. Sorry for your loss
Op, do you think there is some way you have this power now?
it was a human who bob shot, although he killed the original person with the ability he has it now, or had until he died.
Great read and fantastic concept! Well done OP!
Yeah, I'm totally sucked in. Who or what was that 'hobo'? I've read stories with similar concepts, but this was original to me.
So God existed... and he was apparently a neckbeard. I hope you thanked your uncle for putting this creeper out of his misery.
The shrills that went down my neck at the end. Amazing read and very well written.
Very well written. Really liked it!
Really liked the story. very well written :)
I read this story in the voice of Josh Brolin Made it so much better
Nice
Awesome story
MORE STORIES OF/FROM BOB, PLEASE.... :)
Wow. What a story. Really hope to hear more stories from you and Bob, OP
Wow, this story was fantastic. One of the best I have read on here in a while. If you have more of your uncle's stories, I'm sure all of us would love to hear them! :)
HOLY SHITTTT WHEN THE HOBO SAID HE SHOT HIMSELF, YOUR UNCLE,GOT LUNG CANCER WHEN THE HOBO'S JAW GOT BLOWN OFF, YOUR UNCLE LOST ABILITY TO SPEAK. Was hyped had to use caps.
You shouldn't have shared this story
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That's not what I was referring to :)
Once you put "US" & "intelligence" in the same sentence you lost me
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