"The Sun Goes Out For Exactly Three Seconds Every Day At Noon" Creepypasta
September 23, 2026
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5 min readThe Day the Sun Stopped Working
At twenty to one on January 8th, while six hundred people stood around an open grave in Kerrick, Nevada, the sun went out. Not behind a cloud. Not during an eclipse. It went out like a dead bulb—full dark everywhere at once, temperature dropping on faces like a door opening—and three seconds later it was back. Nobody screamed. The excavator was where it had been. So was the sun, which had been there the whole time.
Dan Edgeverry, the town's electrician, tells this story. He was standing between the Prossers and the town residents at Margie Sowell's funeral, exactly where a man of his standing belongs in a valley where everyone knows the unwritten rules about who stands where. The four scientists from the Turn and Peak Observatory—who had been in town for three years and still ended up at the edge of the crowd—watched his face afterward. Emmett, one of them, lifted his chin at Dan. Small. Then they left before the coffin went down.
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What you'll learn
- 1 The Sun Goes Out For Exactly Three Seconds Every Day At Noon - Navigation Outline
- 2 (01:32) **The Funeral and the First Event** - Dan Edgeverry describes the town of Kerrick, Nevada, and the funeral of Margie Salow on January 8th
- 3 (12:38) **The Pattern Emerges** - The event repeats daily at the same time, and the town begins to normalize it
- 4 (17:50) **Wade's Quiet Investigation** - Wade Prosser asks pointed questions about who owns the observatory and for how long
- 5 (23:26) **Dan Gets Called to the Observatory** - Dan is summoned to fix a burnt control board and gets his first look inside
- 6 (30:57) **The Event Begins to Drift** - The timing shifts later each day, and the town relaxes, thinking it's passing
- 7 (34:36) **The Duration Becomes Unpredictable** - The event stops being a predictable three seconds
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Show Notes
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