Why Does Creepypasta Suck
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2017
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Select your fake creepypasta story I made up:
The Candle Lady - / jennynicholson
My sexy girlfriend died and is a ghost - / jennyenicholson
Crash Bandicoot but he's bleeding from the eyes.jpeg - / spider_jewel
Never climb inside an old suitcase in a Toys R Us parking lot at 3am - / spiderjewel
Big Scorpion - / jennynicholsonvids
Stories mentioned:
The Expressionless - creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The...
Candle Cove - ichorfalls.chainsawsuit.com/
Abandoned By Disney - slimebeast.com/forum/slimy-sto...
The Russian Sleep Experiment - creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The...
Ted's Caving Page - www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/ - Krátké a kreslené filmy
That Mansion that Jeff and Slender take you to if you stab your friends is called Prison.
Nice one
LMFAOOO
All aboard hell everyone. I laughed way too hard at this
Its sad this actually happened
Okay, I really hope that no one likes this comment so the number can stay at 666 because it works so well for this comment chain
Any creepypasta with the words "I am God" in it is automatically terrible.
Like Sonic.EXE?yeah I can agree
Jay Gagne agreed
Not true. If it's AI then it's kind of creepy cause self aware AI
self aware ai and im pretty sure i am god is said during the holder series at some point. which the holder series is great.
What if it's about a guy who calls an Uber? He gets in a car and immediately looses himself in his cell phone (because social commentary about "phones are bad"), until he eventually looks up because there was an unexpected change in the sound around them, and realizes they're now driving through the semi-abandoned industrial district. He asks the driver, "hey dude, where are we, why did you took this route?". And the driver looks back at him and smiles and says: "Because as of right now, I am God".
I'd like to add that Creepypasta titles are out of control. Instead of something brief that generates intrigue or dead, it's like "I killed God on Sunday and Now The Sky Bleeds And Everyone Is Upset"
Oh god this reminds me of a specific pasta..
Light novel type beats
I Used to Think Light Novels Had Stupidly Long and Revelatory Titles (but then I started reading creepypasta)
Or "Don't go into the [town name] sewer system at 5:34 am on a Sunday"
No please I love the garbage fire titles the length of a panic! at the disco discography
They’re some good fucking food
instead of "The Skin Taker" a character who takes skin and turns it into clothes, a cooler name would have been "The Tailor" cause it's ambiguous and the fact that they use skin would be a creepy reveal
If you read Candle Cove you'd know that there isn't supposed to be a reveal. It's supposed to slap you in the face with the creepy kids show idea then slap you again with the fact that the show was never real in the first place.
Jenny's argument about the name "The Skintaker" being too scary for a kids show holds no water at all when you realise that the show was actually never real to begin with and was all in the Kids heads.
Jenny purposely attacked that aspect of Candle Cove because she is or was friends with Max Landis (the guy who adapted Candle Cove for TV and actually made a show more boring than the OG story)
@@glooboy2206 Are you the author of Candle Cove or just really really devoted with too much free time?
@@sealeo5772 how much time do you have?
@@glooboy2206 uh... You ok?
@@glooboy2206 Jenny's point was that it's unbelievable anyone would be reminiscing nostalgically about something so fucked up. There's no twist to the "it was never real" reveal bc, yeah, obviously it was never real, that would be insane and impossible to air. A better version of the story might have been that they all remember the goofy adult host, and as they talk about it, they can put into words a lot of things they noticed were unnerving as kids about how he acted with the children on the show (a la Dan Schneider). The story rises as they have increasingly worried memories about him and think crimes could have been committed, but then that's deflated by the reveal that there was never a show yet somehow they have a mass hallucination of the creep
Isn't "Abandoned by Disney" the Jake Paul biography
Damnnnnnnnnnnn
Ohhhhh burnnnn
OH FUCKKKKK
Savage, yo.
... Well done, sir... Well done! 😂
As she turned off the camera she heard a soft rustling. She turned around. Dear God, the broccoli was moving...
Un chat domestique Brb writing Broccoli man Creepypasta.
...and she gave it an unsurprised smile & wink.
The Mr. Toad's Wild Ride mug appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the video.
I loathe myself.
The mug appears a couple of minutes in, and then it moves around every now and then. And one of her dolls falls over near the end.
My favorite one is about the little girl hearing her mother call her name in the middle of the night, when she goes out of her bedroom she noticed the voice is from the basement. Then her actual mum comes out of her bedroom and tells her daughter, ‘Don’t go there, I heard it too.’
Short, creepy and effective.
Sarahhhhh SARAAAHHHHH
"Her actual mom"
plot twist, she has lesbian parents
@@tortis6342 I think it would be scarier if it weren’t said that it was her real mom because like what do you do then? Which is real?
@@curlyemmm1232 Holy shit that is a really good point
My favourite creepypasta is a really short one where a hunter stays in a cabin he comes across in the forest. There are lots of paintings of creepy angry faces, and he finds out in the morning when he wakes up that those weren't paintings, but windows. It was a pretty nice twist for a story like three paragraphs long.
That story scarred me as a kid. Our counselor told it to us while I was at a summer camp.
omfg that gave me chills
It's like that story of someone arrives at a hotel wants a room and is told "no that room is off limits, it's a cursed room", then he gets another room, goes to it and passes by the cursed room, feels kinda spooked by it. Then at another occasion when he passes next to the cursed room again he can't resist the urge and peeks through the keyhole and sees nothing but red. He feels creeped out and confused. The next morning he asks at the desk "so what's about this cursed room?" and he's told the story about some lady that dies there and whatnot. The punchline is that, notably, the lady's eyes were exceptionally red in color.
I don't think that's a creepypasta
@spiritcat7202 there's a version of it on the creepypasta website but I don't think it originated as a creepypasta
"Mario jumped out of the screen and killed my parents"
Niko Virta he said the fuck word
H Y P E R R E A L I S T I C B L O O D
HE DID A GOUNDPOUND ON THEM
mario has logged in
Pizza Sauce and he said “so long gay Bowser”
I still remember when I was like 9 and I found one of those creepy horror channel videos of the Russian experiment one and for about 6 months I genuinely thought 3 skinless Russian maniacs were running free in Eurasia. I also thought they were gonna come in through my window at night and eat me. I mean I live in the US so I doubt they could swim across the Atlantic for the sole reason of eating MY skin specifically but I mean I don't know their priorities.
Dude this comment is so accurate to those weird, niche fears
Lmao saaaaame. The picure honestly still gets to me
That’s silly. Why would they swim the whole Atlantic when they could just swim the Bering Strait and get there through Canada?
@@alisaurus4224 WHY MUST YOU THINK SO LOGICALLY
I think skinless dudes would die the moment they contact salt water so you’re good
"It's so absurd and over the top. How can anyone take them seriously?"
You have no idea how much disbelief I can suspend
Man this comment hit home 😂
When you have an imagination, yes
*[slaps top of you]*
This bad boy can suspend so much disbelief
Same
my tweenage anxiety really said All Scary Things Are Real
My least favorite thing about these creepy pasta/horror stories aside from them being highly repetitive is that half start off with a guy self bragging about how awesome he is and how much he sucks at the same time. I'm a big guy, not muscular, not fat. I can handle a fight and am good at it, but I also am bad at it. Nothing scares me, but this story is about how everything scared me.
ahh totally! "I'm really smart but I do bad at school and always say and do dumb things. I'm kind of a loner and I have no friends, but also my two best friends joined me on my scary adventure"
self insert anime protagonists.
My favorite is when they're so clearly trying to make it relatable to redditors on nosleep and it's like "I'm a normal person who isn't superstitious and is completely logical, but this shook me to my (average) core"
Jakecore
But let’s all admit that the best creepypasta of all time is man door hand hook car door.
Clearly
i agree sweaty
I completely agree
I see your man door hand hook car door and raise you, Who was phone
Thats such a specific reference, I didn't expect to find such here
She’s one of those people that talks so casually you can’t even tell if she’s trying to be funny and that’s what makes it funny
it's real charming
This is the first video of hers I've watched and I lost it at "the mansion that Slenderman and Jeff the Killer take you to if you stab your friends," just because of the deadpan delivery. Instant subscribe.
It's called "deadpan humour". It's a very common style of comedy in Britain!
There's someone like that in my humanities class, and his presentations are a work of art because of his completely deadpan tone when talking. Most of the time you can't tell if he's serious or joking.
I know someone like that,they think they're funny but everyone else just thinks they're wired. No one likes me.
That FREAKING monologue at the end of the Russian Sleep Experiment just ruins the whole story. It's just so stupid and out of place and it still gets me upset.
The version of the russian sleep experiment I read actually just kept it at the prisoners covering up everything, wanting more gas and mutilating themselves. Which is much better.
not me tho
I would have liked it better if it ended at the part where it mutters “So close to freedom” or something like that
When I was in boy scouts someone told the Russian Sleep Experiment as a campfire story, and they actually made it really work. I think the fact they couldn’t quite remember it perfectly meant they accidentally edited out all the parts that didnt work. specifically i remember the final monologue being reduced to one tony sentence fragment, even then that still almost broke the immersion, but i found it just close enough to believable as a kid that i count it as a good one.
Same! Except it was when I first joined boy scouts and thought it was real 😂
what’s the version they shared?
Someone in my college tried to submit the Russian sleep experiment as an original piece of creative writing and it was the funniest shit I'd ever seen when it was selected at random to be sent to other students to read and half the class sent an email to the teacher explaining it was plagarism.
In sixth form a guy once tried to pass off "The Egg" by Andy Weir as his own work for our creative writing project and we had to gently let the teacher down because up to that point she was raving over how good it was
According to one of my professors, one of his students once tried to submit an entire episode of Rick and Morty as his own original story. Like, the whole episode written out in script format. I don’t know if that was true but I want to believe.
@@KC-bb2bc this is a funnypasta
@@hotelmario510 I remember about the The Egg creepypasta. The story is more about the philosophy of Hinduism, afterlife, and rebirth of humanity. This creepypasta is less creepy than what I expected for. I find the ending sad for some reason because the protagonist accepted being reborn as a Chinese girl (if my memory reserved correctly).
@@KC-bb2bc funniest shit I’ve ever seen (also I believe a film student would do this. Probably either a TVR major or one of those guys whose work sounds good on paper, like he’s gonna make “indie docuseries” but what he outputs is a vision of himself through the same glasses John Green looks at his protags through- sources: was in film school for a sec)
What makes this video truly spooky is the fact that Jenny has HYPER-REALISTIC BLOOD AND A SKELETON hiding inside her throughout this whole video... AND SO DO YOU!!!!
Oh my god, is the skeleton going to kill me?!!!
@@wjzav1971 Well everybody who has had a skeleton has died or will die so take that how you want
Nah, mine's poorly rendered
Oh my god I was totally not scared about the realistic blood and skellington until I realized it was also hyper in it’s realism oh nooooooo
skeletman 💀
You know, I once heard a story of a guy, when he was 8 he saw what looked like a snake and he picked it up to admire it. But then the 'snake' transformed back into his brother Loki who yelled 'BWEH it's me!' and stabbed him... to this day I hesitate to pick up snakes in the wild...
WFDOIJWJFSHRI
No
Hahaha even the “BWEH it’s me!”
BWEH it’s me! *commits homicide cutely*
PLSSSSSSSS
Side note: why would there be a Mickey costume at a Jungle Book themed park ?
The city mouse, the country mouse, and the rainforest mouse
Yeah, plus, Disney is SUPER careful about keeping up the illusion. Cast members have to practice autographs, so that if someone gets an autograph from Cinderella and then comes back 20 years later to get a new one, the Cinderella one would look exactly the same. They'd NEVER have a room labelled 'mascots' (again, they aren't called mascots, they're called cast members. It's even a meme: "we're not employees, we're cast members!), in any place with the remotest chance a kid could see it.
CreepyPasta writers are never intelligent
Because Mickey is EVERYWHERE
Mickey is GOD!!!!
Because the author is a hack.
"Creepypasta are what you graduate to when you're slightly too old for goosebumps." Congratulations for making me laugh like some deranged, startled hyena.
the "slightly" is the most sutble of burns :D
Calum Gideon Wdym, nosleep is full of literal 12 year olds
Oh god, you made me have a existential crisis
Lol at that description
@Calum Gideon I listen to the r/nosleep podcast that's on spotify when I'm at work and have to process garnishments. It helps me stay awake lol. I'm in my mid-late twenties.
Every time I hear about the Candle Cove pasta I like to imagine that it was from an interdimensional being who really, REALLY wanted to make a children's program but couldn't broadcast on regular cable due to the whole space-between-spaces thing so they had to resort to sublimating it through TV static.
The traumatic episode was just cultural differences; it was a hit with children in its home dimension.
Paige Hankins Headcanon accepted.
"What do you mean human children don't give each other pieces of their flesh to show friendship? How do they bind their souls to their covens, then?"
I love that idea.
AHAHA
The creepiness should be from the puppets being badly made. Like one has a mouth that opens diagonally.
If people put a skeleton in a children's show, they'd make him the nicest most harmless one.
Maybe there'd be a badly painted clown.
There would be a caretaker called Caretaker Skin but the voice actors say it too fast like:
"c'Take-a-skin" and his puppet-joints look like bone-joints.
My older sister used to tell a story that she insisted was true and it reminded me of a creepypasta but later turned out to have a rational explanation. She and her best friend used to go exploring around in the wilderness outside the city of Yakutsk where both she and I grew up. There's large expanses of uninhabited tundra and you can often find interesting wildlife or arctic flora. My sister and her friend came across a mine shaft that had presumably been used to mining coal or diamonds or something from underground. They decided to explore inside and see what they could find. At one point they came across a tunnel in the mine that was partially collapsed and had flooded with water from snowmelt. Floating in the water were many pieces of debris like broken wooden beams from the tunnel ceiling and wires and stuff like that, and tangled up in the middle of this refuse was a dead body. They both saw it and were frightened, so they ran away towards the opening of the mine. But then they changed their minds and decided to go back and look, and when they returned only moments later, the body was gone. Both my sister and her friend swore up and down this story was true, as unbelievable as it sounds. Years later, a group of botanists discovered that a certain type of lichen plant that thrives in cold weather grew abundantly in the area, and these lichens naturally produced spores which contained significant quantities of a hallucinogenic substance. My sister thinks they had inhaled some of these spores since the plants grew in the area and it caused them to hallucinate something that wasn't really there.
wait they both hallucinated the same thing?? that can happen?
@@adriannethornheart8516 maybe the sister said something like "MY GOD, IS THAT A DEAD BODY?" and it affected the other girl's allucination.
@@xugabugala5683 thanks for pointing that out, it makes a lot of sense
Both of these stories are hilariously made up 😂
@@tommylundy2495 Hey, take it up with her, not me. I wasn't even born yet.
I think the common thread is that people just starting to get into writing horror (often children) don't have a good grasp of the distinction between things that would be scary to experience and things that are scary to read. You need a bit more finesse if you're trying to scare someone at a remove, and that's hard for newer writers to manage. I've got a lot of love for creepypastas, though. A lot of very weird, very earnest, weirdly charming nonsense.
Maybe this is why whenever I read bad creepypasta I always think that it sounds like something that would scare an 8 year old, or me if I had read it 10 years ago or something like that. KIds have much more imagination and can more intensely imagine these scary stories and immerse themselves, whereas when you're older you just notice the flaws in how people act or how the plot sounds tropey.
Wait, y’all read Creepy Pastas? I just listened to them on CZcams with a creepy photo slowly zooming in the whole time
TheVolgun?
@@DeadCanuck TheVolgun does SCP, not creepy pasta. Although, SCP does have a bit of a creepy pasta feel to them.
Since you asked that question, I am assuming you have never heard of the great MrCreepyPasta, CreepsMcPasta, & CreepyPastaJr. (There are more but I don't really know them all.) That's fine. I don't judge.
Yeah, I'm too fucking lazy to read shit, too. haha
Back in my day, we had no CZcams creepypasta channels, or reliable fast Internet access for streaming videos, you young whippersnapper.
We had to read our own creepypasta, and we were *grateful* .
MrNobody What’s “reading?”
the creepiest pasta i've ever seen was at olive garden. true terror.
Stasis. I play Magic; The Gathering.
ah! you're the first person to notice it. so by way of thanks, i capsize my stasis at the end of my turn.
Well played
The breadstick was slooooowly pulled into the bottomless pasta bowl.
OldThinkerTube and before he dropped the noodles in, the chef *thunder and lightning cue* DIDNT SALT THE PASTA WATERRRR
One creepypasta that always stuck with me was 'Normal Porn For Normal People'. It was about this "porn" site, but all the videos were of really bizarre and either completely non-sexual or only vaguely sexual things, like a woman licking a washing machine all over at one point. There was also pages and pages of endless strings of text that turned out to be links that led to even more strings of links, that eventually led to one of the weird videos (meaning there must have been thousands and thousands of these things). I'm kind of on the fence about whether it went too far tbh- at the end (spoilers I guess) they find a video of a woman getting her guts ripped out by an enraged ape, but I kind of felt like yeah, all the weird but mostly innocent videos were a good setup for something sinister being hidden somewhere deep in there, and it's not like there was anything supernatural involved. And those dark-web torture streams are a thing(??? Maybe? I'll be real, idk shit about the dark web lol), so it wasn't too much of a stretch to think someone hid their insane torture-porn in an unintelligible maze of hyperlinks.
Lmao i can actually see that being real, you can easily find shock videos of that kind on the internet. Search good enough and you can even find a dead body of an infant or some shit. Yeah.
I remeｍber that but the one I read had a silent video of a man in a bunny costume being chainsawed
was just thinking about this one the other day! another good one with a similar ‘seemingly innocent thing hiding something more nefarious (but ambiguous)’ vibe imho is ‘pale luna’
Its absolutely unsurprising. Sites like goatse and bestg0re have existed on the surface web for years now. As a teen I was all too curious and ran into too many unintelligible-site-name shock sites also.
Ohh that one traumatized me as a kid!!! I think it holds up TBH.
The Russian Sleep Experiment would have been so much creepier if when the guards walked in, they were all just calm an smiling blankly or something. The over the top nature of the original ruins the whole thing.
I think it would fit better if they were locked in for longer and the end is either them dieing of heart failure like from being awake for real long times, them begging for more gas or them suffering brain damage
That one only got so far due to that creepy b/w picture of the halloween grinning dummy thing.
But why make the tortured POWs the monsters in this scenario anyway?!
As a recovering drug addict the five days awake thing doesn't work at all lol that's not that bad tweakers have been doing it for years
I do like the underlying message, that sleep prevents us from eventually becoming these unfathomable monsters. They just needed to show better restraint, and definitely needed to present the experiment over a much longer period of time because we already know a person can go multiple days without sleep and be just fine
Guard: What are you!?
Test Subject: I'm tired.
Guard: what are you?
Test: i'm gay
**crashing noises approach**
Test Subject's dad: hello Tired, I'm Dad
“What are you?”
“An idiot sandwich!”
I’m a sleepy boy
Hi tired I’m guard
I don't see whats hard to believe about a dying Russian peasant woman using her last breaths to give a mellow dramatic monologue
Said Dostoyevsky
“I no longer need beets. You see, I now know the search for beets was just a coping mechanism, a projection for the search for meaning.”
i really like this spelling of melodramatic
@@Tine_of_Nice_Dreams its like Drama hiting a joint
They were prisoners of war not Russian peasants
Many SCP articles have a similar problem. Lots of interesting little objects with anomalous properties would be good in themselves, but at some point the writers must have thought "But how do I make this more scary?" and add as a cliche that "if no one uses this artifact with harmful concequences once in a while it will do something even worse, so you can't just put MY creation in a box and forget about it!"
The weird machine with input and output and settings like FINE and ROUGH is one of my favorites. What the hell is it? I don't know. But it is cool and creepy.
Virtually every SCP that's actually good has very little in the way of proper explanation. Newer entries on SCP don't know how to use [REDACTED] or [DATA EXPUNGED], so the whole thing is basically "here's my scary monster, here's exactly what it looks like, here's what is does, here's how it kills you, here's how to stop it :)".
Like great concept my guy, but fear of the unknown is such a powerful tool. Let us do the thinking and the theorising for ourselves. They're so scared that people won't understand exactly what their monster is, and they won't think it's cool.
@@rowancampbell864Honestly, I'm kind of the opposite. To me, the horror is somewhat dullened by having to reread the article multiple times to piece together what's going on, or look up some other SCP to learn the deep lore behind them or whatever. I like a good mystery or narrative horror piece as much as the next guy, but I also remember fondly the days when SCPs were just weird shit like the owl graffiti that eats you or the butler that can get you anything you want within reason. Good writers will fit a lot into very little, like SCP-4831, where less good writers will fit a lot into ... a lot, like that one about the barn with seven keys or whatever.
One SCP that got me was a disease SCP but it turned out it wasn't actually an anomaly and the scientist faked it to try and get the SCP foundation to cure his wifes cancer. It sparked a debate in universe on the ethics of having the ability to save people and just not doing it. Really stuck with me.
My favorite SCP is the bell that they keep suspended in jello. They found it next to a note that said something like "You've seen it, now he can hear you. You've touched it, now he can see you. But never ring it, because if you hear it he can touch you." I don't think they ever describe who "he" is, but they have a D class ring it and they ended up killing themselves or something.
One horrorishhh story that has always lingered in the back of my mind was this story called “Autopilot”. I read it in middle school and haven’t gone back to it so I don’t actually know if it was any good, but the actual story has always stuck with me for some reason. It’s about this man who just goes about his day, explaining how it feels like autopilot to him. He walks without thinking of walking and goes to work without really thinking of going to work, that kind of thing. He’s supposed to take his daughter to day care that day and his daughter falls asleep in the car, and he drives there without thinking about it. He goes to work on a really hot day, and when he gets back it turns out he didn’t actually take his daughter into the daycare because he was so stuck in routine and she was asleep so he just didn’t even notice, and she died in the hot car.
i read an article about incidents of children dying in hot cars and this was pretty much it.
omg this is great??? love these setups that are simple and take place in everyday life but have devastating consequences
“The lost episode of Calliou” I lost it
CandidElk don’t forget his bloody eyes
Caillou.exe
Hyper-realistic Caillou blood
So if you hadn't lost it, it would've aired with the rest? Not sure how I feel about that. :P
Every episode of Caillou was already pure horror
"And then I was skeleton, and I was you, and you became skeleton AND WROTE THIS"
That is such a twist. It is crazy that that really happened tho.
subtle username HA HA, that’s a funny joke.
That’s a joke right? RIGHT?
Also the sad thing about candle cove is that the setup (low rent creepy puppet educational show) is actually super similar to a real show that existed that i watched growing up called Crashbox, which was an intentionally creepy show aimed at small kids who liked spooky stuff and genre films to get them to solve puzzles and use their brain. And Crashbox even had a skeleton character! His name was captain bones and he used his bones to make math puzzles. It was cute and charming and also spooky because he was a weathered old skeleton.
I actually convinced myself that I had seen candle cove after I read the creepypasta. Had trouble sleeping because of it for weeks. Then, years later, I was reminded of the name of the ACTUAL show, and figured out the whole ordeal was just because I had seen one episode of crashbox as a kid and had a crazy imagination
Welp. Time for me to look up Crashbox.
Hey this is an old post but I remember Crashbox too but my mom says when I was watching it it was just a video of this person sitting on her bed talking about shitty creepypasta
There's only so many variations of someone with a giant smile tapping on your window you can come up with.
Creepypasta is what you downgrade to when Edgar Allan Poe just isn't edgy enough.
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INVALID REFERENCE FRAME: POE IS ABSOLUTE EDGE
where does Lovecraft fit in? I always thought Lovecraft was the inspiration for these things since he seems to be the default horror writer when it comes to discourse on the internet
@@aceshighdueceslow Yeah I haven't read a lot of creepypasta, but based on this video I'd have to agree. A lot if Lovecraft stories follow this basic template, things start off creepy but basically normal, shit gets weird but maybe the main character's just going crazy, then sharon turn into overt supernatural mayhem at the end.
edgar allan poe did a lot of structural and narrative things that were cool for the time, i think! he was definitely a little more than edgy though !
Creepy Pasta Checklist.
Eyes Bleeding
"Hyper Realistic"
"I used to play this game."
"Dude who sold it to me was skittish and just wanted this item gone."
"This episode of this one show played at 6am and shit went down."
And BLOOD
+Zodiel *hyoer realistic blood
Then I realized "Creepypasta',s name' is a brutal, sadistic, child killing, crazy and a horrific monster
"I used to be normal."
"One summer I worked as an intern for...."
"This really happened to me."
Bleeding from the eyes.
Anything like "You'll probably start hearing strange noises around your house. I'm sorry...."
"Free" or "Really Cheap"
In the russian sleep experiment when the guard goes "What are you?" I almost expected a "The Aristocrats!" punchline
I just want you to know if I ever become a god the first thing I'll do is replace every copy of that story with a version where everything is the same but that is the ending.
Honestly I think a big issue with Creepypasta is that most of it isn't really trying to say anything. A lot of the best horror ever made cuts deeply into something humans find fundamentally frightening, such as isolation, inability to trust one another, the perversion of something we take for granted, etc. Creepypastas don't really tap into that, there's no real themes or metaphors or any real truth, it's mostly all random "oh wouldn't it be spooky if", which obviously is fine for kinda fun cheesy good times, but if people want them to be taken more seriously, they need to speak more to truths of reality and derive fear from that, I think.
What works really well is when the buildup has unnerving details that slowly but surely end up spooking the protagonist out, then when they ultimately find out what was really going on, the reveal is ambiguous yet even creepier than anticipated - while still grounded in reality, not some over the top paranormal bullshit -, so that they (so then, by them, the reader) gets caught off guard. One of the essential parts of true fear is the lack of reassuring information, so when you build up a fear to something ominous to then learn that the truth is even darker than imagined yet still unclear is pretty effective in spookiness factor.
And sometimes the best horror really is “I know you’re afraid of spiders. Here’s 50,000 words of graphic descriptions of spiders crawling into your face.” That first Magnus archives web statement fucked me up for DAYS
I think this is why “Search and Rescue Woods” (the initial run of stories, anyway) and the “My first time in an American forest” series and especially its follow-up are my favourite online horror stories (also they’re both NoSleep stories, the quality in general there is… marginally better than the Creepypasta wiki).
They both go into the idea of isolation and of something ‘other’, a sense of not being able to trust your own senses when you’re already in a situation that could go south fast. The protagonist of the “first time in a forest” follow-up series talks a few times about having a sort of superstitious dread when she thinks about going back to town, and even knowing that it’s stupid and probably something being beamed into her head she can’t get over it, and as someone who’s struggled a lot with intrusive thoughts it really struck a chord. The whole idea of losing your sense of self and how you might not be able to trust your own decision making just got to me, far more unsettling than any amount of hyper-realistic blood and intestines strewn about like confetti.
Finding good creepypastas/nosleeps that are engaging and well-written on a literary level is definitely hard, but I find that the actually great ones also tend to be some of the most popular. 'Penpal' and 'Borrasca,' for example. Very commonly touted as some of the best in the genre, and deservedly so. There is something so sinister and terrifying about the horror confined strictly to the grim depths of humanity. 'Psychosis' is also a good one, it really plays with your paranoia. 'A Spire in the Woods' is a less known but good one. All four stories suggest the supernatural, but reveal that the horror was human all along. You're absolutely right that deriving fear from reality is an extremely effective way to write horror, and I wish there were more of them!
Here's a tip for anyone who wants to write scary stories: blood isn't scary at least not on its own.
I dunno, finding blood where there shouldn’t be blood and/or where there was no blood the last time you looked would freak out most people.
@@alisaurus4224 But it won't freak people out to read about it.
@@alisaurus4224 You get used to it after the 7th or 8th time it happens, it's no big deal really.
right, also what would be scary irl or even in a movie is different in text
@@alisaurus4224 as a person that has had heavy periods for most of her life and has a scratch-prone cat, finding blood in my house is almost a daily inconvenience lmao
The version of the Russian sleep experiment that I read was actually way shorter and didn’t have the monologue or the attempts to take them down or anything. It ended with the army breaking into the rooms after people started freaking out and one of the subjects just saying “please turn the gas back on”
It had a really creepy image attached to it too. I guess that just proves Jenny’s point.
The image is 90% of the horror of that creepypasta.
dude i saw the image on pinterest at like, 10 and that fucked me up lmao. i read it in 8th grade and the story itself is pretty lackluster but if you show me that picture i wont be able to sleep
It's years and years later, actually reading the story now probably wouldn't phase me, but that picture still gets an "eurgh" out of me when I see it.
The version I read, ended in a much calmer way. They opened the door to one man left and asked, what he’s doing. Then he says “just keep cutting” and he continues peeling skin off his hands
I read a version that ended differently too. It started differently too as it gave some exposition that the experiment was set at a Christian or Jewish university. The participants were religious and I think they gladly decided to leave the experiment when the army came in. One of them says in an interview, "I have seen God, and he is cruel" or "I'm more powerful than God" or "I don't believe in him anymore." It was something really deep, but I can't remember it perfectly anymore.
“Creepypasta is what you graduate to when you’re slightly too old for Goosebumps.”
The nail has been hit so hard on the head it’s now in the center of the earth.
I feel like the book "The Ruins" kinda has this exact problem. It starts off with a pretty great and creepy premise: tourists accidentally stumble into a place filled with an unknown species of vine, which turns out to be carnivorous, slowly eating them all alive and eventually even burrowing inside their bodies. But then it gets taken too far when the vines turn out to be impossibly intelligent, like, human levels of intelligence. It turns out the vines can imitate any sounds they hear, even perfectly mimicking human voices. Which, I guess could've been done without taking it too far, like, they're like parrots or something, they just repeat sounds without knowing what they mean. But it turns out they're not just repeating sounds: at one point the vines make it sound like two of the main characters have sex (who actually haven't), in a deliberate effort to make a third character jealous. The vines also do things like try to trick the characters into falling to their deaths, then literally laugh at them afterwards. It just feels cartoonish at that point. And the fact that the vines are intelligent, and therefore DELIBERATELY evil and cruel, honestly makes it less creepy to me than just having it be an un-thinking, un-feeling plant that just does what it does: not good OR evil, just a force of nature that these characters were unlucky enough to encounter.
I saw the movie adaptation and yeah I can confirm that the tension was immediately killed. I’ll admit I was intrigued when the locals killed a small child that came in contact with the vine. That’s a very good set up that they’re willing to kill their young because this thing is THAT dangerous. But once the plants started playing mind games to make them turn on each other I found it too comical
It's like that island where people went and just died. I think it's in italy? No one could figure out why.
Except that story was real and it turns out there's a bunch of venomous snakes there and just.. no one knew about them.
@@loli_cvnt5622 ok I know that’s really sad but it’s also kinda funny just cause of how completely random it is
@@loli_cvnt5622 can you tell me the name of this island so I can look at the story
i wanna see someone who's talented writer take bad creepypastas and rewrite them to try and make them good. that might be really interesting.
The show Channel Zero was pretty good. They didn't specifically take bad creepypastas and made them good, but still. Every season they adapted a different creepypasta. They did "Candle Cove", "No-End House", "Search and Rescue Woods" and "I Found a Hidden Door in My Cellar".
I wanna do that but I'm not a good writer. And I've never written horror
Next Steven King novel
I'm not really a fan of horror. I've literally never read a creepypasta before. But I like to think I'm a passable writer so I'll take a shot at the hospital story, for you.
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My Grandmother was a nurse, and she used to tell me all sorts of stories of people who came through the ER. They were varied, but always entertaining. You can't get to your 80s without having some good stories, I guess. Quick example, she had one patient who was delirious, and at one point she walked in on him straddling cot's side bars; he looked at her and said "I've either got to break this bronco or shoot him". Pretty amusing.
One story that stuck with me though, was a story of a weird old lady that came in for a bout of pleurisy - inflammation of the lung lining, causes trouble breathing - though she thought she was having a heart attack. She was wrinkly as a prune everywhere, except her face - she wore way too much foundation, to where her face seemed practically smooth - even the lines around the lips that are visible on a much younger person were hard to make out through all the makeup. She was nice enough, gave everyone a cute nickname. My Grandmother was "Honeydrop" - presumably after her blond hair bun? She had a photo of herself at the time and it seemed fitting.
It turned out to be a result of an infection, and they were going to send her home with some antibiotics after monitoring her for the night, but in the morning she was looking even worse. Worried about a secondary infection, they decided to keep her for a bit longer. She got really sick, high fever, sweating, basically bedridden and my Grandma got to have all the fun of changing her bedpan and giving her a sponge baths. That was weird though, because while giving the sponge bath, the little old lady gripped my Grandma's hand when she brought the sponge near her face. She had a vice-like grip for her age too. She was very intense about not having her face washed, presumably not wanting her makeup ruined, though she wouldn't explain. They argued a bit, and in the end my Grandma just gave up. The old lady was wary for a bit, but warmed back up to my Grandmother soon enough.
She was there for around a week, and there was a bit of gossip around the nurses about the lady. Her sheets were changed several times, naturally, but her pillow never seem to have makeup smudges at all. She was also pretty touchy, and she'd pat each of the nurses on the cheek as thanks for any tasks they took care of her, though she'd cringe away if you tried to do the same. Eventually she was discharged, and if that was the end the story would have been pretty boring - but a few days later the janitors made a fuss. They found a bunch of pillow casings, covered in makeup and dried blood, stashed around the room she'd been in. There were empty, label-less bottles of makeup wrapped up in them, some of them broken (one of the janitors had sliced his hand up pretty well on the broken glass unwrapping them).
For about a month afterwards, They kept finding more stashes of pillow casings and makeup bottled, in stranger and stranger places. Stuffed into a hole in a couch, fit into a light fixture, crammed into a bathroom ceiling vent - some places a tiny old lady would have trouble reaching even if she wasn't bedridden with an infection. The bloodstains ranged from a few small drops to enough that it looked like they had been used to staunch a sizeable wound.
The last pillowcase they found was crumpled up in the break room. There wasn't any blood on that one, but it was still wrapped around a makeup bottle with the label peeled off - still full of makeup, unlike the others - and a note that said "For Honeydrop. Thanks for understanding".
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Welp, I did my best, but like I said I've never read or written anything vaguely horror-ish, so it's probably boring and bad. Still, fun to try something new, at least.
@@Clawdragoons I'm not very good at horror either so take this with a grain of salt: the ending is a bit anticlimactic unless I'm not getting something and you made a small grammatical error at the sponge bath part. Other than that I like it.
I had a favorite creepypasta when i was 14. I think it was called "he waits" or something. It wasn't really scary or creepy. It was kinda melancholic and dark and a little sweet. i remembered it years later and i wanted to find out if the author wrote more stuff.
didnt find her writings but i DID find out she was a edgelord nazi who tried to plan a mass shooting with her boyfriend and is currently in jail for it. so thats something?
I think that's the true horror story here.
Sitting here trying to think of a word to describe this comment. I'm thinking mindpunch
Wow that took a turn.
She probably was denied the ability to art college because that seems to drive people immediately to nazi land.
Fuzzy Wuzzy Well that escalates quickly.
“If you’re intimidated by real books”
....Ouch
*Me:* Jeez, this creepypasta is pretty spooky.
*Jenny:* This creepypasta is over-the-top and dumb.
*Me:* This creepypasta is over-the-top and dumb.
cringe culture is dead
you should learn to think for yourself its okay to disagree with someone
@@memberofchat2825 no, that would just be to hard
@@Adrian_1114how’s that?
@@protag64toons2.0 it's a little belief that it's better to genuinely like the things you like rather than prefacing why you like it with excuses so you can stay on the side of the understood majority with the "right opinion"
I am actually working nightshift in a hospital right now. There is a disturbing lack of mannequins terrorising me. But I am bored in the first person so I guess that's OK.
just...dont...look...BEHIND YOU!!!!!
just...dont...look...BEHIND YOU!!!!!
You need to buy a haunted video game cartridge first, then the haunting will begin.
Beatrix Wickson If your bored just say loudly to a coworker "wow it sure is quit tonight
Jack Hasten Good luck, it's like a cross between Scrubs and Halloween II.
The “Humans can lick too” is probably the most disturbing one for me. Now as a 21 y/o adult, i still check if i lock my doors twice before going to sleep lol.
oh my GOD, you just activated so many repressed memories of mine. This story fucked me up SO HARD. I can still remember little pre-teen me reading it for the first time and not being able to sleep well for so many nights. I don't know if this story is legitimately terrifying or if I was just so young when I first read it, but I DEFINITELY get the chills only thinking about it. That creepypasta traumatized me and shaped me as a human being, no joke. I'm also 21 yo, so I feel like we share somewhat of a similar experience.
That story has been going since it was published 101 years ago. I first heard it told on a local radio spooky story show. The man who read it called himself The Man In Black, his voice was perfect for it and the story had me shaking with fear!
I’ll be 21 in a few weeks, and I forreal checked under my bed tonight bc I felt some vibes
Lawrence Nguyen Y’know, except the phrase “humans can lick too” is so transcendentally stupid.
except for the version where the dog is crucified. Too much, bruh
One creepypasta I really enjoy is titled something like, "I'm a search and rescue officer for a forest service".
It is one of the nuttiest stories ever. I almost wanna spoil some bits of it, 'cause it's really balls-to-the-wall random, but it's also depressing and really unnerving at times. It has completely surreal moments in it that make the forest setting feel like a macabre circus, but it also plays on the fear of losing someone in such an insane place. It does suffer with being kinda hilarious when it doesn't mean to be though.
Like, a lot.
I love it, but it makes me cough up a lung laughing at certain parts. I'd recommend it if you're more adept at scaring yourself with your own imagination.
It also mixes in a few realistic cases (mostly dead kids) to keep the out-there elements grounded.
I like this one thought it was real at first until I checked the title but it's so odd and creepy and makes me never wanna go into wildlife
I read the thread of the story and the one story that saddened me is the death of the girl who got stabbed on a dead tree after falling down an embankment.
I think the overly-weird, almost humorous aspects actually worked REALLY well in this one, 'cause it was just a recollection of various situations over the years. Life is already weird by itself, so odd things will pop up time to time, but it also makes the environment seem well-rounded. I havent read it in a while, but I remember that it did a good job of making the forest seem like it's own little world that didnt exist to act on humanity or scare us, it just was what it was. Some aspects of it are scary, while others are just somewhat boggling, and some intercept with the environment we live in and gives deeply sobering, realistic instances of things as mundane but sad as a child getting lost. Very chef's kiss
Yeah, the one read by Corpse Husband is the best. I listen to it frequently when I’m going to sleep
dude, I was watching this video when my dead girlfriend from when I was 11 showed up on screen and hyper-realistic blood cape out of the screen and a stuffed animal of Vetvel from Trust and Betrayal, Legacy of Siboot appeared on my bed and said "I am your dad."
In 2005 i went to garage sale and i threw money at man and he gave me a copy of sonic and knuckles but when i go home and slip the cartridge in and SONIC EYES RED AND START BLEEDING he then yells AAA AAA AAA AAA
WAS THE BLOOD HYPER REALISTIC?!
👏👏ugh your mind 😍😍👌✊👀
AAA AAA AAA AAA is the code for the stage select
But did man door hand hook car door?
I imagine the AAA AAA AAA beimg said by a text to speech module XD
The problem with these bad creepypastas is the utter lack of nuance. The key to horror is to let the brain do its job and imagine all the horrible things that could happen or what’s making the noise just beyond the eye’s reach in the shadows. The reason why visual descriptions rarely work is because once the mind can see the monster it can start devising ways to defeat and/or escape it and it loses the suspense of “I don’t know”. Hence why it’s scarier to hear someone say “What was that?” over “look at that water-logged corpse sewn to the half rotted pig running around!”
also, some authors *try* this, but end up with "what I was seeing was... beyond description. the indescribable thing crawled towards me on all fours, rows of teeth gleaming at me in the dim light", which, yeah.
The authors of these creepypastas have seen to many horror B movies and not read enough horror books.
You can get the audience to go along with a lot more crazy stuff if they can see it and have an hour's worth of build up.
Visual scares in movies can work amazing, though. Crawl comes to mind for one. There was minimal suspense since once you knew an alligator was around, you always expect it. Yet the impeccable timing still make it scary and good. Sorry I know u discuss written story but I gotta give the visual scare device some props somehow.
People often underestimate the power of subtlety.
this is precisely why lovecraft’s brand of horror is still so effective and widespread despite Lovecraft not being a particularly skilled writer (or a good person)
When Jenny was talking about how it was impossible that a character like the skin taker would have existed in a children's cartoon I just kept remembering that Halloween episode of Amphibia where there's this frog that is dress in other people's skin. They really went spooky with their Halloween episode
I remember being pretty taken in by the russian sleep one, until the monologue at the very end. Just leave the endings ambiguous, guys. Our imaginations can fill in the gaps you leave.
They didn’t even need to make the Mickey suit photonegative to make it iconic and creepy.
If you’ve ever seen old pictures of vintage Disney character suits, than you know that those things are already ample reason to never sleep with the light off ever again.
This is why fear of animatronic figures spawned an entire wildly successful horror game.
i shouldn't have looked it up
@@literally-no-one9587 I didn't heed your warning and now I deeply regret it
@@DizzyRobin If you're scared of animatronics, you're probably also scared of butterflies and clouds.
Having a character called ‘the skin taker’ wouldn’t be THAT weird. It sounds like something they’d put on courage the cowardly dog or crash box. The name doesn’t ruin it for me. Having an actual human skin cape on the other hand, does.
7 months late to the party on this one but, I am overwhelmed with the urge to point out Ko, from ATLA, who was a face stealing giant centipede demon, which was much darker than the Skintaker IMO.
There's still the issue that everyone's reaction was "Wasn't that weird" instead of "That show was so fucked up how did it even air" that people actually say about stuff like Courage the Cowardly Dog
OrdovicianAphelion there was also Hama from the Puppet master who was also a darker character than the skin taker
Yeah, but Courage the Cowardly Dog was specifically created to be creepy and push the envelope. No kids series that dark was really created before or since, and definitely not back in the 80s.
But Candle Cove is meant to be something akin to sesame street, not something like courage or avatar.
There’s two camps of creepypasta: 1) cheesy “character”pasta(this includes overused tropes like lost episodes) 2) literal horror novels that the author posted in the creepypasta section
"Why would a skeleton puppet be unbeleivable?"
"He's called 'The Skintaker' "
"oh."
I mean if you read the story you'd know that in the story's universe the show never actually aired. It was a fake show. There would be no reason for it to not be as scary as it wanted to be.
Given some of the children's programmes i watched it's really not that unbelievable to me.
@@glooboy2206 Point 1, there's also no reason for people who watched it to not recognize that it was weird.
Point 2, that's a Thermian argument. Who cares whether it would be plausible for a magic children's show to do whatever it wanted? It breaks the tone that the author set with the rest of the story, shifting it from pasta that could have been creepy to pasta that's just kinda silly.
The russian sleep experiment monologue is like an awful version of the Lord of the Flies pig head talking
I was thinking: 30ies sci fi. Like "Astounding" or something.
Honestly the talking pig head makes more sense
“I represent your fear” is the jest of it for anyone wondering.
Such a shame the author decided to end with that, when it should have ended while it was still genuinely creepy. That's a big problem a lot of creepypastas have, they don't know when to stop
THANK YOU
I'm the jolly seamstress woman behind disneyland making 5 of the photo negative mickey mouse suits for the resort they're building over a hellmouth
"This is so dumb and bad!"
*me feeling kind of scared just by Jenny's retelling*
"haha, yeah that's not scary at all"
It dawns on me that in its early episodes, The Magnus Archives has a distinctively creepypasta vibe to it. But it gets so much better.
New hc: jon didn’t believe the statements at first cuz he thought they were all shitty creepypastas
Oh absolutely. With episode 1 having that little twist at the end? Ugh it’s what hooked me and now it’s gone and destroyed my life.
that's what I was thinking too lol
Thats what it hooked me ngl. It felt so nostalgic since i grew up w creepypasta
Honestly I could believe the skin taker would be a character on like, Courage the Cowardly Dog or smth
True but personally I always pictured Candle Cove as a program for younger kids like a low budget PBS Kids show
@Not Important i mean the whole point is that the show was weird in scary, but not for adults ig
@@jabscha7051 Which is, I think, the entire reason it's creepy (in the "skin crawling" sense)--it's wildly out of place. Including the name. But they're kids, so they just take what's being fed to them.
The old transformers show had a character named Butt Plug.
Courage (at least for the US) was rated PG-y7.
So 7 years and up. And is animated. So it can get away with some dark undertones. Some light violence. It could feasibly have a character renamed that.
But Candle Cove seems more like something like Seasame street or Barney. A younger audience. Like toddlers and kindergartners.
Like yes, Courage the Cowardly Dog is for kids and is spooky but it’s for kids older than Candle Cove.
My dad’s favorite story that he swears is true and actually happened to him was when he had a flat tire in the middle of nowhere and had to pull over next to a small cemetery. He got out to change his tire and noticed and old man sitting at the edge of the cemetery next to a small fire. Dad was worried about him and went to check on him once his tire was fixed. They talked for about a half an hour, and the old man told my dad that he was the cemetery’s caretaker and that he was “really going to miss it” and he hoped his replacement respected the job and took it seriously. Dad didn’t think much about it until he read the paper the next day and saw the old man’s picture...in the obituaries. He had died two days before dad met him.
I really hope the next caretaker took his show seriously, I feel sad for that old man
That is so sweet and sad
It's nice to know the classics are still being told.
That’s the kind of ghost shit that’s just like, idk, so human and liminal. Nice.
Bullshit. that's a classic urban legend. if someone says "I swear this is true" 99% of the time, they're lying
When I was in high school we learned about the Russian sleep experiment in one psychology class as if it were true and I bought it... the American education system everyone
I had a teacher show us these “shrimp” or something that were supposedly used to purify water. He even got ANOTHER teacher in on the gig to eat one and react like it was disgusting. After about a week, my teacher revealed they were just Raisins in carbonated water and basically shamed us all for believing him and not reaching out further in our researching. It was supposed to be a lesson in not believing everything and that true science was questioning things and testing for all solutions, instead I just was even more upset my parents wouldn’t let me access to a computer for any reason. Like, how are kids supposed to find out that’s not true at all without at least using a computer?
@@LateNightTableCo I think your teacher just expected you to stand up and point at him phoenix wright style and risk detention to tell him he's wrong
@@LateNightTableCo books exists there is also these neat places called libraries full of them
@@memberofchat2825 'hi, yes I would like to read this whole book I'm completely not interested in about water purification systems to verify this one piece of information I was taught in class today'
and even if you DID read it, a lot of the times you just won't find the information you're looking for - it's not like there's going to be a chapter saying 'ah yeah that thing your teacher completely made up for show is not true' - true or not some stuff just won't be included and that doesn't deny nor confirm your questions
the internet is a great way to quickly verify information you have no clue about, you just have to know how to use it correctly - it's much more productive to be teaching kids that than telling them to be suspicious of everything they see in class from now on lmao
@@mydzy lmao who the fuck cares
Remember that old Japanese folk tale about the woman who asks you if you want red or blue toilet paper and the only correct solution to not get murdered is to not choose either? But like... Why would I choose a stranger's toilet paper over the paper in my purse. It's not like i'm toilet Neo talking to toilet Morpheus trying to get out of the toilet Matrix here.
‘Abandoned By Disney’ started off strong but eventually devolved into a story only believable if you imagine the narrator took shrooms before his urban exploration adventure and the last third of the story is just him recounting a really bad drug trip.
slimkt agreed.
More like he downed a bottle of cough syrup and took 15 Benadryl. You need heavy deliriants and dissociatives to ever feel like that.
Not all stories are meant to be realistic and believable. I don't watch Ghostbusters and think: "I was with you until the giant marshmallow man." If you don't dig my story - no problem. It's literally a 2AM hacked-out wall of text from 5 years ago, written to expand a one-sentence story about a "negative mickey"... But let's not pretend it was supposed to be incredibly serious and real. :)
Slimebeast Your story? You wrote the Mickey thingy? I don’t understand your comment. But I wasn’t saying all stories need realism, but horror kinda does. At least something resembling a skewered version of reality. Why would I be afraid of something that could never be imagined without laughing more than feeling “scared”.
Slimebeast And the marshmallow man is something from real life. It’s a mascot. So that’s based in reality. Being based in reality is, in my opinion, important for feeling afraid. But just using Mickey Mouse cause kids will shit their pants when they read, comes across as pandering and boring.
the scariest thing with creepypasta is what the fanbase does the them. i still have nightmares over a ms paint picture of jeff the killer and ben drowned kissing
I still don't understand how that become A Thing. It's fucking baffling.
SAME
"That can't be true, they must be joking..." I innocently thought while queuing a google search. Oh, how wrong I was.
"Whatever you do! Do NOT search it on wattpad." I shuddered thinking back.
Goddamn 😂
Back in the day I wrote a creepypasta called "Sim Albert" which was where the narrator finds a bizarrely behaving family on The Sims. But he notices that the kid is being abused there, so he moves the kid out and gives him a happier life. When the kid dies in the game, his ghost actually thanks the narrator for giving him a second chance and finally moving on.
...it's basically a Feelspasta now. But at the time? It was a different one where instead of trying to freak out the reader, it was "Huh. So this is what a kid would try to do with the haunted game."
Fun fact: I stayed awake for five days once with a friend and in the end I started talking to my brother.
My brother was in Berlin at that time, over 800 kilometers away from where I was.
I mean, it was nothing supernatural or anything. My brother obviously didn't have the same experience or anything, but in retrospect it's just kind of fascinating that I actually started hallucinating from sleep deprivation alone.
i have narcolepsya from being an insomniac for my whole life, and ive had some pretty messed up AND really cool hallucinations. My dad had the same problem all throughout childhood and adolescence. One time at like 4 am he was dropping my mom at her house when he was 16 and my mom 17. We live in a pretty rural place so it was a dirt road, and as he was walking thru it he saw in the corner of his eye a person standing on the side of the road and he didnt think much about it as it was near a bus stop. But then he was like wait its 4 am theres no buses till 7 am and he looked to the side and he said to me years after he still remembers this person morphing disgustingly into whst it actually was, a road sign, and how he almost shit his pants. Once he was walking in the afternoon in winter (we live in the south of argentina so winter afternoons get real dark and night comes at 6 pm) and he saw this huge HUGE wolf looking dog sitting at the side of the road so he crossed to the other side bc yeah not dealing with that thing sleep deprived and alone in winter and then he turned around to keep an eye on it make sure it doesnt sneak up on him and that what he actually saw was a small bush. He told me so many stories like that and i have my fair share. In a way we are economic since we dont need any expensive substances to trip balls you just leave us awake for a night or two and we seeing wild shit
I barely slept from 8 to 18 due to an allergy to steroids for asthma no doctor caught at the time and by the time I was in college, I was hallucinating while awake, I was so sleep deprived.
And I was prescribed so many other drugs (anti depressants mostly) because no doctor caught the allergy until I made the connection myself in my mid 30s, explained it to a doctor, who confirmed I’m not allowed steroids again.
Those few weeks/months I was seeing ghosts in the middle of the day was terrifying. I sympathize with anyone going through that!
Best Creepypasta gotta go to The Hash Slinging Slasher
okay but that episode scared me as a young child, it was scarier than 95% of all creepypastas
The sash-bringing...
dontscrewtheworld The crash-dinging...
@@BoglimWrangler666 yeah, because of fcking nosferatu! damn that messed me up XD
@Taylor Davidson No thank you. I hate it.
Well, at least kids are writing i guess
Considering what I wrote when I was a kid, I agree. It's better to write crap and slowly get better than not write at all.
They're typing not write.
Justartiot 662 Still writing?? Still creating. It's faster to type, but the same amount of thought gets put into it. A lot of people used typewriters back in the day. Not really a new thing
The stories are awful, but I'm glad they get satisfaction from making them.
TeZOcatlipoca also a significant number of writers even before computers were well into typewriters not writing via pen
One of my favorite types of creepypasta is the out in nature with some kind of monster about type. My pet peeve with those is when the story treats the monster as something that's terrifying and unknown but natural, basically a big scary animal, but then described it like more of a supernatural monster, like with rotting skin or whatever. It always takes me out of the story. I just want to be presented with a genuinely scary cryptid that'll linger in my brain every time I take a hike for the next month, not some kind of weird zombie thing.
In defense of The Skintaker, Pound Puppies (1986) had a villain named Captain Slaughter. And didn’t many old cartoons show literal Satan?
Also, The Expressionless just sounds like a normal shift at a Florida hospital.
Yeah like tbh if they said the show was airing in cartoon network it wouldnt even be weird
"Hoh hoh, wanna see my head come off? Hoh hoh"
akeel brown Gorsh!
Ho ho, then come as close at you like
Yes hoh hoh
@@Only4two100bucks glad I'm not the only one who read it in dio's voice 🥴
@@aisyarnr6652 I read it as the stereotypical Frenchman laugh like "hon-hon-hon!" at first. I was confused for a while lol.
I personally really dislike the format of ‘someone tells a made up story pretending like it happened to them and everyone else just has to play along’ because you can never critique the writing or call out plot holes without ‘breaking the immersion’. If someone’s story is bad and stupid I want to be able to tell them that
Ella Mills Especially when nothing breaks immersion than a shitty fuckin’ story.
I agree
Same. Bothers me about the subreddit too. With good stories too. Sometimes you just wanna discuss the cool writing or talk about the story in a meta sense. But you can't, because the whole subreddit has to be in-character role-play as if the story is real. 🙄
EDIT: I think what makes it extra annoying is that it doesn't really ADD anything? The forced in-character responses never really add to the story. It's always just sort of "Oh omg, so scary. Hope you're okay."
@@TheMrVengeance if someone has posted a story online people should be able to give constructive criticism, otherwise what’s the point?
@@SorowFame to have an audience. Sometimes you just wanna write or read something interesting with no intention of trying to "grow" or have it be nitpicked. Just get your cool story idea out and have people engage with it ya know
“My father finally told me what happened that day” had me having nightmares for weeks when I first read it. It’s very long, but worth the read
I remember being so disappointed with the Russian Sleep Experiment when I first read it - the setup actually had potential but it quickly just goes so far off the rails.
I loved Ted's Caving Story. One time though when I went to re-read it, I guess I came across it as a repost where the reposter just wasn't happy with the answerless ending and wanted to continue it. So, they added a last entry where he went into the cave, and oh my goooodnesssss there IS a monster and he manages to out run it and climb out the cave but it's still following him and then a farmer shows up and chases the monster away with magic...
*sigh*
If there's one thing that creepy unsettling horror stories need it's a tidy resolution with all the questions answered!
So stupid, you don't need to answer every question in horror, that's one of the scary aspects of it.
farmer magic
I think i remeber that one. or at least a similar enging. The creature of the cave turned out to be some sort of ancient demon, the a shaman shows out of nowhere to seal it once again and that's it.
Magic farmer was the real monster all along.
"a long pale thing climbs out of the cave" Gollum. Gollum
Could be an undergrad student at the end of the semester.
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nice eridan pfp
@@mimisaur5000 thanks
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Creepypasta writers need to understand that sometimes less is more. Making certain details unknown can enhance the level of dread the reader experiences.
See the issue with that is this is a generation that grew up with a sea of Dean Kootz and Steven King books, where they go over ever single detail again and again and again.
Seriously in one book King describes the oder of a woman's breath SEVEN TIMES in three pages, nothing about the description changed, but ever possible opportunities he let's you know "Yep it still smells like antifreeze."
So they grew up with authors who didn't believe in less is more, but rather more is more and even more is better.
I believe in kings book The Regulators he spends over 3000 words describing what in the book is a inconsequential interaction between a mailboy and a teenage girl.
The best creepypasta I ever read broke format entirely, and was written in the second person. It was called "It's Not About You" and it was about you and a group of friends who get trapped in a cave and given rings that glow, and, as they go out, the person wearing that ring dies. As the story progresses, "you" get more and more excited, because, like, you're special, and you're going to survive and probably be given cool magic powers or something and "you" get more and more arrogant about how you're better than everyone else. In the last room, when it's just you and one other person, your ring goes out, and you get angry right as you're killed, and the last line is "Remember, it's not about you."
Absolutely freaked me out when I read it and I still remember it so vividly.
thats some heat
You forgot good old "HyPEr ReAlIsTiC BlOoD!!!!"
You gotta have a chart of how much blood volume they've lost and research the various progressive effects.
A PHOTO REALISTIC PIC OF DEAD ELMO
@Black Birdie LITERALLY THE WORST KIND OF PASTA OMG
A stock photo of blood?! In MY Sega Saturn?!
Its basically the law not to take a story seriously if it says that
In defence of the Skintaker, there's an old Nickelodeon show called Mr. Meaty that's equally creepy and unbelievable
Oh god thanks for bringing back those nightmares
You're absolutely right, and just looking at that show made me want to fucking throw up, but skin taker is still a little bit on the nose lmao. I would have gone with like, scabby or something, that sounds pirate-y even
Matthew Watson I FORGOT THAT ONE
I remember...that tape worm
Ethan I like your profile pic
The Russian Sleep Experiment always mixes me up, because there's an actually good pasta called the Arkansas Experiment that's also about trying not to sleep, but instead of "oooooh it turns us murdery" it was a cosmic horror story about how the facility they were in had the wrong angles and doors started appearing that weren't there before.
Okay I hear you about the 11 days thing, but lots of people will start hallucinating much faster than that with no sleep. Source: personal experience. I started seeing shadow people and static when I stay awake for 3-4 days straight. It’s happened twice
People don’t understand that many times, being truly scary requires you to be simple. Like the line that has been discussed as a true horror story despite it just being a line.
“I’m the last man on earth, and I woken to a knock on the door.”
or what about that one where a child tells her mom "there's something under my bed". so the mom looks under the bed and sees another version of her child that says "there's something on my bed"
i was just gonna spoil it but i decided not to incase anyone wants to hear it. the first i heard it was in an old time radio show from the 1940s (though i heard ti about 10 years ago, not 1940 lol). i could be wrong but i think was on X Minus One and the writer was Ray Bradbury. Again not 100% sure but i could always go back and find out. also im pretty sure its been in plenty of horror and sci-fi and prob many different versions but i really did enjoy the version I heard. not a scary as the just the sentence but its was still a good story.
"I have no mouth, and I must scream".
+Close Enough
The last man on Earth sat alone in his room. Suddenly there was a knock at the door...
...and she said “Honey, I’m home!”
There's a tree branch tapping on my window
I don't have a tree in my yard.
After "Ben Drowned," there were sooooooooooooooo many lame "haunted video game" creepypastas...
Haunted video game pastas, haunted "lost episode" pastas. It's just stale
adamlundq I disagree, I think bed drowned is awesome mostly cause there isn't any real life danger, just a little world controlled by Ben. Not to mention the footage, it's one of the few good ones
And one of those lame creepypastas was still Ben Drowned.
HYPER-REALISTIC BLOOD!!!
True, but there were some good ones, too. The Morrowind Mod creepypasta, for example
my fiance still talks about candle cove to this day. he said he stayed up all night after reading it and honestly i think it still terrifies him to think of after all these years.
Oh, I thought you were going to say he stayed up all night watching it.
this video actually made me feel a lot better. i’m a huge scaredy-cat and these scarred me when i was younger but i haven’t really cared to check in on them recently so hearing them retold this way is nice
like finding out the jeff the killer picture is just the crazy gf meme edited saved me so much sleep
I read the expressionless recently and the whole "I am god" thing is so overused in creepypasta. Like it's not even scary to begin with and it's super not scary when the supernatural creature hasn't done anything to justify calling it's "god". Wow you ate a cat and killed some defenseless doctors? You must be so powerful.
Edit: also with the photo negative Mickey, if the writer wanted to have a more distinct character how about some suit that's been stitched together from different characters. Sort of like a weird Frankenstein suit but with disney characters.
Now that's scary, specially when you consider the actual real existance of Carpet Samples. If you have seen pictures of that fursuit, you know how scary a patchwork suit can look.
I dont think you are supposed to believe it when it says that its god. Its just unsettling when people say that.
@@ivarent3784 I looked up Carpet Samples and I just wanna say, jfc, that thing triggered my fight or flight response.
@@HeyLeFay I want to do it now but I'm scared lol
I think the Expressionless scared me anyway. Not because of the cheesy line, but because of the Expressionless face, I even had a nightmare about that
I hate those ones where the narrator dies, and yet he is still telling the story.
ToFu BrOtHeR ikr that's so stupid lol
ToFu BrOtHeR same, i really think it’d be interesting if the narrator was recording and then when they died someone else came along and found the recording etc.
The evil Organization XIII Mickey with a white face, no eyes, red lips stretched across his face and Hyper realistic blood tears had just murdered the old narrator, so we ended up getting a new one!
Logic: when you're a teenager, who the fuck needs it?
“We’re you killed?”
Creepypasta protagonist: “Sadly yes…but I lived!”
The calm, chaotic energy is what I love about this youtuber
Personally, Mr. Widemouth is a creepypasta that still gets to me.
It's basically about a kid with a mono infection that develops a fever dream in the form of the titular Mr. Widemouth, a freaky lil Cheshire gremlin that's always trying to get him to do dangerous things. Jumping out of a window to land onto an imaginary trampoline and learning how to juggle knives are the things he tries to get the narrator to do, which they do not (children have common sense somehow lol), and Mr. Widemouth is miffed about the whole thing.
Probably the scariest parts are when the narrator moves out of the house with his family and the lil creature is in the bedroom window, waving goodbye...with a steak knife in hand. The other scariest part is the twist ending that occurs decades after the narrator moves out and they return to the house. Now, there was a deer trail that Mr. Widemouth told them about that he always takes kids to "when they're ready." The trail leads to the local cemetery...with many of the graves belonging to children.
that was the one creepypasta that fully actually scared me!
Hmm, the photo-negative Mickey could've worked if it had been a regular suit when the guy was looking at it but then afterwards he sees that only the colors on Mickey are inverted in the pictures he took... dunn dun DUN!
That's exactly what I thought!
It could also work if the costume was white or had colours run into each other in a creepy way as if I had some cleaning chemicals accidentally knocked onto it.
... could also imply some back story of the fate of the person wearing the costume when the chemicals got splashed on them.
A Micky Mouse version of Two Face basically!
Having your cake and eating it too- nice idea!
Bookish Mermaid fair enough, but I think this is exactly what Jenny Nicholson was talking about: if there’s an actual, tangible quality of evil in the story it carries it past “creepy” to full-on Hollywood haunting. It might not ruin it for some people, but I’m with her in saying these are the details that lose me. At least with qualities like it moving, or breathing, there’s always that element of “maybe it was in my head”
Honestly my favourite of the abandoned by disney series is the one shorter story i think was called "a few suggestions" or "a suggestion box" or something similar (im too lazy to search it). I think the format is interesting and it doesn't take itself too seriously, it's maybe more of a horror-comedy but I prefer that to the over the top creepyness and whatever the fuck was going on in the later ones.
The best creepypasta was “but who was phone?” :)
man door man hook car door is my personal favorite
@@drizzlecake lets not forget Missing friend haunted cartridge evil mascoct
I'm so glad someone posted this.
I like the rake! To be fair though, I watched it on the animated horror channel Snarled, and they told it really well
@@thedestroyasystem An actual good creepypasta would be "Penpal".Didn't understand it when I was young,recently revisited it and got a deep fear of suburban forests and polaroid cameras.
If you're looking for something to scratch the same sort of itch as creepypasta but without being bad:
The Magnus Archives, *especially* Season 1. Many of the statements should just straight-up be Creepypasta.
"Some weird guys gave me a weird box and said they'd give me five-hundred dollars if I kept it for a month.
The box was big and looked kind of like a coffin, and it made scratching noises whenever it rained? So I put a lock on it. Then I started sleepwalking, and one time I grabbed the key while sleepwalking.
I just put the key in a cup of water and put the water in the freezer so the key was stuck in a block of ice. Then those guys showed up again and took the box, but they did pay me.
Yeah that was pretty weird."
This is a fantastic breakdown of aspects of creepypasta that always bothered me. Interestingly, the ones she's mentioning are the ones most likely to come up when searching popular creepypastas and more often than not they are described as some of the best. I recall vividly the scene in The Expressionless with the cat in her mouth and the ridiculous phrase, 'I am god." I remember being really disappointed because I loved the idea of creepypasta.