"I Looked at the Solar Eclipse With My Bare Eyes. The Hole It Left Has Something in It." Creepypasta

What you'll learn

• 1 (00:55) **Story Opens: A Joiner in Mrs. Hoyle's Kitchen** - The narrator, a kitchen fitter named Craig, is working late on a job in Winsbury, behind schedule and dealing with a chatty apprentice, Bailey.
• 2 (07:54) **The Eclipse: A Deliberate Refusal to Look** - Bailey goes outside to watch, but Craig stays in the garden, looking down at the crescent-shaped shadows cast by a tree, avoiding the sky.
• 3 (12:10) **The Night After: A Growing Anomaly** - Craig returns home to his partner, Ryanne, and they go out to watch the Perseid meteor shower, which is at its peak due to the moonless night.
• 4 (16:55) **The Diagnosis: A Burn and a Lie** - The next morning, the hole is still there, and Craig realizes he has a central blind spot in both eyes, making him unable to see faces.
• 5 (23:50) **The Aftermath: A Career Unraveling** - Unable to see the bubble in a spirit level, Craig makes a catastrophic error on a job, ruining £1400 worth of quartz worktops.
• 6 (29:41) **The Past: Cornwall, 1999** - The story flashes back to August 11, 1999, when a ten-year-old Craig and his fifteen-year-old brother, Dean, went to see the total solar eclipse in Cornwall.
• 7 (34:44) **The Fingers: A Pattern in the Void** - Back in the present, Craig sees four pale, finger-like shapes emerging from the rim of the hole in his vision, which he initially dismisses as stress.

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