The Crisis Line That Never Ends | Psychological Horror

Описание: Some calls don’t feel dangerous at first.

They feel routine.

That’s what the crisis line felt like — late nights, a headset pressing against one ear, a script half-followed and half-ignored — right up until it became clear the first call had never ended.

Not burnout.
Not exhaustion.

A pause.

The timestamps were real.
The call log was real.
And every night at 9:15 PM, the phone rang with the same breath on the other end — steady, familiar, patient.

That was the first sign this wasn’t stress.

It was containment.

What started as volunteering turned mechanical:
shifts that never advanced,
a room held in blue light,
rain that refused to finish falling,
and the growing sense that the caller wasn’t being followed…

He was keeping something exactly where it was.

Then the truth surfaced.

The routine wasn’t helping anyone.
It was holding the moment open.

And by the time it became clear what the call really was — and what had been said the night it stopped moving forward — the headset was already on, the line already live, the voice on the other end waiting to hear the same answer again.

This isn’t jump-scare horror. It’s psychological dread — built from guilt, repetition, and the idea that some moments don’t pass.

They wait.

🎧 Headphones recommended
For rain that hangs in the air, dead space on the line, and pressure that settles slowly — like a timer that refuses to move.

🕯️ About This Story
The Loop is an original psychological horror story by The Murky Tales — a slow-burn descent into responsibility, memory, and what happens when trying to fix something only traps you inside it.

🩸 About the Channel
The Murky Tales is home to:
• first-person psychological horror
• slow-burn atmospheric dread
• memory-driven confessions
• places and moments that don’t release people — they keep them

New stories released regularly.

🔔 Subscribe if you like your horror patient — the kind that stays on the line… long after it should’ve gone dead.

Original story written by The Murky Tales
🎧 Background music by ‪@efliz‬