An Empty Prison [SFM Creepypasta]

Overview

An unnamed prisoner narrates how a “one-day” attitude adjustment from a judge turns into an extra year minimum at Pembina prison—then reveals the place is historically haunted, chaotic, and maintained through corporate greed.

Prison Description

• A heavy, cramped, multi-floor stone cube
• One main hallway per floor
• Hundreds of inmates are held there (with rumors claiming far more)

From the start, something terrifying occurs on the first floor at night—followed by months of escalation, denial, transferred inmates, and guards who either won’t investigate or “find nothing” even when prisoners go missing.

Key Events / Highlights

Night-floor “dead silence” and missing prisoners

• Inmates on the bottom floor scream and panic nightly
• The screaming abruptly stops, leaving eerie quiet
• Footsteps shuffle around without words—suggesting movement without visible cause
• Guards later claim inmates were transferred, but the pattern implies something else is moving unseen

The arrival of a human guard: Kellen

Among frightened, distant staff, Kellen stands out:

• He jokes with inmates
• Makes eye contact
• Treats prisoners like people
• Promises to look into what’s happening
• Eventually begins researching the prison’s history

Recurring “episodes” across floors

Multiple nights follow similar patterns:

• Guards run past inmates and gates
• Floors go strangely empty
• Screaming erupts again later—seemingly coordinated, as if the “entity” is learning where people are

Gory red-pattern supernatural lore

Kellen links the prison’s evil to old Indigenous/folklore territory:

• A rotting woman vision that steals life from those sleeping where the Pembina River meets the Red River

He also connects the folklore to two Canadian priests reportedly visited in 1818—whose deaths supposedly align with the year the prison was built (1853).

The implication: the prison is “woken” with changing seasons.

Final escalation: emptied floors and “execution” by absence

As corporate collapse cuts protection down to near nothing:

• Guards dwindle
• The night shift disappears

The prisoner expects the entity to arrive—and it does. Now it isn’t only frightening or chasing; it begins systematically taking people.

Floor by floor, inmates shrink in number as Kellen tries to move prisoners—often too late.

Will’s desperate bribery and the horror’s logic

Will repeatedly tries to get guards to act by bribing them, but the guards freeze in terror.

In one brutal moment, a sobbing prisoner’s incoherent warning becomes clear:

“It knows… Jesus Christ… it’s red…”

The entity’s presence seems to drive victims into panic that spreads upward through the prison.

The narrator’s collapse into helpless survival

Prisoners believe escape is near when:

• The building “glows red”
• Gates open

But it was an error. After the breakdown:

• The disbursing company fires Kellen
• Locks are changed
• The narrator claims they and others were left 11 days starving and motionless

The thing stands outside their cells, walks through bars, and dares them not to breathe.

Jokes / Reactions

• The narrator’s tone is sometimes darkly comedic, especially when mocking corporate paperwork—treating the haunting like a liability, not a supernatural emergency.
• Kellen’s “normal-guy” humor (jokes, eye contact, humane treatment) sharply contrasts with guards’ fear and the worsening inhuman horror.

Main Plot (One Line)

A prisoner survives years of night-time disappearances in a corporately maintained haunted prison—only to be left to starve and rot inside when the few remaining “protections” fail.

Main Personalities

• The Narrator (unnamed prisoner; first-person survivor)
• Dante (cellmate; pushes for action; fears the bottom-floor entity)
• Will (cellmate; panicked, resourceful; bribes guards; shares information)
• Kellen (guard who believes inmates, researches history, escorts prisoners, ultimately fired)
• “Helen” (mentioned as arriving later—likely a replacement or connected party tied to Kellen’s staffing cycle)