Creepypasta: Patient Zero

Creepypasta: Patient Zero

June 2nd 2014
This is the log of Dr. Stein on Patient Zero in regards to our latest attempts to force cognitive prescience in Project Future Sight. The aim of this project is to determine if we can take a more or less ordinary Homosapien and imbue them with powers of precognition, mind reading, and astral projection. The subject has been selected randomly from a mental ward for deniability purposes, in the event we have to terminate them.
Patient Zero is a 22-year old Arabic male with good English so communication and cross-cultural issues should be easily minimized, especially seeing as his schizophrenia has left him confused as to his current state. No known violent or self-harming tendecies, although he has been placed on a 24-hour suicide watch as a precautionary measure.

June 5th 2014
After several days of inactivity Patient Zero did something noteworthy a few minutes ago at 23:19 hours, military time. He took one of the pieces of paper and one of the jab-proof pens provided in case automatic writing took place and began using them for this purpose. When he regained consciousness he had written “AT THE TURNING OF THE CLOCK, MY KEEPERS FALL” on the sheet of paper. Cryptoanlysts are referring to our written historical and mythological databases in an effort to decipher the phrase.

June 6th 2014
The events of early this morning were…unsettling. At 00:00 hours both of Patient Zero’s guards that had just rotated into their shift collapsed. The cause of death appears to be massive inoperable blood clotting in the brain. They would have been dead before they hit the floor. Both guards were of fine health and with no previous family history of stroke.
Patient Zero also wrote another message for us. “THE FIRST PLAGUE IS UPON YOU”.

June 8th 2014
In retrospect I may have let myself be caught off-guard by this because of my assumption the “plague” would occur the day after the incident of prescience. Now it seems that the riddles come to pass at a completely random interval, without rhyme or reason.
As for the “plague”? I had the pleasant experience of reliving the First Plague of Egypt when the water in my paper cup turned to murky blood in the break room during lunch hour.

June 15th 2014
Patient Zero…godammit, will you stop writing? It’s all he does now, day and night, maybe three or four hours for eating and sleeping. Although stopping him or even terminating him would probably do very little to keep the predictions from coming to pass. At least this way we know what’s coming next.
I hope.

June 21st 2014
Sorry for the huge break between log entries. I’m alone in here. Everyone’s dead, we shouldn’t have ever thought of disturbing the Old Ones. Well, Patient Zero’s not dead, their little puppet that he is. Goddammit, I know it’s not his fault but I’m really starting to hate that guy. I had a dream last night where I-
Oh, right. The day before, Patient Zero wrote “EVERYONE DIES BUT YOU”. Apparently all these notes were intended for me to read, then? They were all directed at me? Because I haven’t been reading them all. What do the Old Ones want with me…
Our universe is their plaything. And they are growing bored with watching us struggle in vain. I haven’t been topside in weeks, maybe “EVERYONE DIES” meant everyone everywhere and me and Patient Zero are the only humans still alive. And I don’t need Patient Zero to predict that our time is limited.

July 3rd 2014
Patient Zero is dead, although that’s not the most important thing I need to share. It’s what he wrote on his last note.
This last note is what scares me. Everything else I was numb to, but this is impossible to ignore. It would probably scare me a lot more if I fully believe it. To be perfectly honest I’m probably just in denial. He wrote it in his own blood after slitting his wrists, how I don’t know because all sharp implements were meticulously…sorry. Anyway. The last note has one sentence scrawled on it.
THE WORLD ENDS