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List of Creepypastas
- pram 4y agoPetscop is a favorite of mine. The “haunted video game” genre is usually pretty low effort, but Petscop felt like watching something like Twin Peaks. Genuinely surprising and interesting, with creative in game mechanics.
- fferen 4y agoNo doubt my favorite creepypasta is the Interface series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9
- devindotcom 4y agoI liked when it was appearing randomly in reddit threads but ultimately the story kinda fizzled out. Creepypasta type fiction tends to do that, big concept, scope expansion, then a rushed ending. Actually it's kind of a hallmark of SF/F in general...
- bitwize 4y agoBuild tension and then... man door hand hook car door
- planetsprite 4y ago>Order by Name >Order by Date >Order by Cringe
- dvh 4y agoSurprisingly "then who was phone?" is not on the list
- sph 4y agoIt was dog all along: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yes-this-is-dog https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/yes-this-is-dog
- Liquix 4y agoBEN Drowned, smile.jpg, The Russian Sleep Experiment.. Some of these were so well done and haunting. What a macabre thing to get all nostalgic about! For further reading - this site has been up for over a decade and is fairly comprehensive: https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Creepypasta_Wiki https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Creepypasta_Wiki A personal favorite: https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Memetic_Symbol https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Memetic_Symbol
- jpg1 4y ago[dead]
- sph 4y agoThe name of your personal favourite reminded me of the secretive Antimemetics Division of the SCP foundation: https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics-division-hub You've clicked this link a thousand times, yet you'd swear you've never heard of it.
- api 4y agoI feel like Roko's Basilisk belongs on any creepypasta list.
- bpiche 4y agoWeird, I didn’t see candleja
- the_doctah 4y agoDoes it count when it started with a popular cartoon?
- Unbeliever69 4y agoWe've all been down the Ted's Caving Page rabbit hole.
- wsinks 4y agoOhhh man this just reminded me of my favorite horror story... You probably know it. It's a web comic. I don't think I can say anything more but those that know already know. It's a pretty long comic but man does it move quickly. EDIT: I found it. Click and read at your own risk: https://www.webtoons.com/en/thriller/chiller/bongcheon-dong-ghost-horang/viewer?title_no=536&episode_no=22 https://www.webtoons.com/en/thriller/chiller/bongcheon-dong-... Just changed that link too. This one works and it's just perfectly scary.
- cecilpl2 4y agoElan?
- wsinks 4y agoI don't know Elan! I'm disappointed, the link I edited into my parent comment doesn't fully replicate the original. EDIT: I updated the link to one that I found that works. I love and hate that comic.
- capableweb 4y agoPiling on with my personal favorite horror story/comic: "The Enigma Of Amigara Fault" - https://www.wattpad.com/471498454-the-enigma-of-amigara-fault https://www.wattpad.com/471498454-the-enigma-of-amigara-faul... + https://junjiitomanga.fandom.com/wiki/The_Enigma_of_Amigara_Fault https://junjiitomanga.fandom.com/wiki/The_Enigma_of_Amigara_... > Following an earthquake in an unnamed prefecture of Japan, a fault is discovered on Amigara Mountain, very close to the epicenter of the quake. On the slopes of the mountain, two hikers meet; a man named Owaki and a woman named Yoshida. The former assumes that they are both here to see the fault, which has captured the attention of the global press. Following the sound of voices to the fault, the two of them marvel at the strange sight before them: countless human-shaped holes in a rock face exposed by the earthquake. I'm not sure why I'm so fascinated and horrified by that comic, but it really seems to pull some strings in my brain.
- 8f2ab37a-ed6c 4y agoMight want to add https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_Challenge_hoax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momo_Challenge_hoax to that one as well.
- rlex 4y agoAbsolutely enjoyed Ted The Caver back in the day. Someone even took some photos to get it look more realistic. Surprised to see someone even filmed (indie) movie about it, but judging by 5/10 rating, probably far from good one.
- CamperBob2 4y agoThose "photographs" sound like a worthy job for DALL-E or Stable Diffusion.
- JuanTono 4y agoOne that really scared me when I was 10: The licked hand" "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Licked_Hand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Licked_Hand
- doublepg23 4y agoMy friends and I would listen to The r/NoSleep Podcast during sleepovers, it was a great resource for Reddit generated creepypastas. https://www.thenosleeppodcast.com/ https://www.thenosleeppodcast.com/
- JetAlone 4y agoMy favourite is probably 1999. [Spoiler warning], I grew up in Canada at a time when the high profile case of Michael Dunahee's disappearance caused parents to act much more protectively of their children, effectively the death of socially healthy, independent outside play for many kids. This happened in the same city where "Michelle Remembers" allegedly took place. It feels oddly cathartic to me, to hear this story of an actual satanic kidnapper, in Canada, at this time. Maybe because I wish to believe that the stifling protection that our parents tried to offer was justified. I dunno. People are weird about parents. What pisses me off, is someone else tried to write a "sequel" to where Mr. Bear actually carries out the kidnapping of Michael, or a similar real world case. Exploiting a real kidnapping to try to create an ARG out of a real disappearance is sick. Some people complained about the RPG Y2K's plot recreating the case of Elisa Lam shot for shot, but going all "this actually happened ooOOoo my spooky story could be reeeeeeal" is another order of magnitude. At best it'll gum up real tip lines and private investigations with posts by LARPers and kids. The name reminds me of my 1st grade teacher, saying the year name emphatically every day, "Nineteen Ninety Nine" as she'd write it on the white board. And now here we are, "Twenty Twenty Two!"... I think it will be 1013 years before the year name is that fun to say again.
- jamal-kumar 4y agoYou think that's sick? In nearby Esquimalt I used to hear kids say 'FIRST YOU GONNA GET VIRKED... THEN YOU GONNA GET DUNAHEED'
- JetAlone 4y agoYes, it's sick, and so is that phrase.
- jamal-kumar 4y agoWelcome to Vancouver Island
- JetAlone 4y ago
- kiernanmcgowan 4y agoA sibling to this sort of spooky content is Crappypasta - poorly written attempts at Creepypasta. https://pasta-archives.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Crappypasta https://pasta-archives.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Crappypasta
- nkrisc 4y agoI haven’t read all of these by those that I have I never found that scary. Most horror isn’t that scary, especially anything supernatural. There’s enough real evil in the world to send shivers down my spine. A ghost is positively tame in comparison to the things actual people have done. Ghosts don’t scare me, people do.
- anyfoo 4y agoYeah, same. As soon as the story involves anything supernatural, I'm not scared anymore, since it can't happen anyway. Does not mean there cannot be a good story involving supernatural things (far from it, magic can be fantastic--pun not intended--in stories), just that any semblance of "this could happen to me" or "this could be a real story" is gone.
- api 4y agoRead Blindsight by Peter Watts. It's a horror story where the monster revealed is a thesis about future human evolution, and it's actually scary.
- andybak 4y agoWeird. I'm the opposite. Reality-based horror makes me sad, creates a sense of revulsion or just does nothing. But anything that threatens my sense of reality and I start to get goosebumps. > since it can't happen anyway Yes but that's the point. Imagine experiencing something that you know isn't possible. And the more solid your grip on rationality, the harder it would hit you. The harder it would be to accept what your senses were telling you.
- anyfoo 4y agoI don't know. If "suddenly there are ghosts", then either there's a completely natural explanation for why they aren't actually ghosts but just some sort of smoke-show, at which point it's not supernatural but you're back to "realistic violence"... ... or everything you thought about the world is wrong, including physics. Sure, that would make for a good story, and there are stories like that, but that's not what supernatural stories are usually about. The protagonists in those don't usually break down in an existential crisis consuming the rest of the narrative, they accept the supernatural and "deal with the problem at hand". The story is still about the ghost.
- aydyn 4y agoThis is extremely tame shit, and I'm offended that wikipedians think that this is remotely close to being a decent list of true creepy pasta.
- valar_m 4y agoYou should add your own favorites to the list.
- XorNot 4y agoPeter Watts (of Blindsight fame) wrote a short story called "The Things" (https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/ https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/watts_01_10/). It's written from the perspective of the monster in The Thing.
- ggm 4y ago4 of them lie in 4chan. I found that interesting. It's probably an undercount: 4 of them are NOTED as lying in 4chan.
- hedora 4y agoJust here to plug one of my favorite horror podcasts: https://pseudopod.org/ https://pseudopod.org/ No affiliation.
- samfriedman 4y agoMy favorite internet horror stories were always by an anonymous poster named Josef K: I recently found their blog. My favorite story: https://thejosefkstories.com/2008/10/27/quiet/ https://thejosefkstories.com/2008/10/27/quiet/
- AdamH12113 4y agoThe list includes Local 58 TV[1], a YouTube channel which does an incredible job of reproducing the style of old VHS video and local TV stations while also being deeply unsettling. I highly recommend it if you're into that sort of thing. [1] https://www.youtube.com/c/LOCAL58TV/videos https://www.youtube.com/c/LOCAL58TV/videos
- klez 4y agoGreat series! And a great and short introduction to a whole subgenre of YouTube horror to boot. My favorite from the short series is "CONTINGENCY" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c66w6fVqOI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c66w6fVqOI
- filoeleven 4y agoMy personal favorite, which did not make the list, is Anansi’s Goatman. The storytelling is solid, and it’s got the right amount of mystery to it along with the nostalgia of being a carefree teenager in a weird situation. I re-read it every few years when I think of it. https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Anansi%27s_Goatman_Story https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Anansi%27s_Goatman_Story
- notsapiensatall 4y agoSurprised to see something like this on Wikipedia. But okay, I've got one more. It's a bit niche: "watch the skies". Bethesda Softworks is most famous for video games like Skyrim and Fallout 4, which are known for their vibrant modding communities. But the idea of shipping a level editor alongside an open-world game started with Skyrim's prequel's prequel: Morrowind. Things were a bit rough around the edges back then, and strange things happened: http://inuscreepystuff.blogspot.com/2010/09/jvk1166zesp.html?m=1 http://inuscreepystuff.blogspot.com/2010/09/jvk1166zesp.html...
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- _0ffh 4y agoYou mean "predecessor" (twice), "prequel" has a different meaning. It's (roughly) when the medium B is created after medium A, but is set earlier in time.
- iamcurious 4y agoInteresting, that definition of "prequel" creates a strange conceptual symmetry with the word "sequel". Both "prequel of A" and "sequel of A" imply "published later than A but set in the same universe", with "pre" and "se(q)" referring to the timelines, we can factor out "quel" to mean just that. I guess "Back to the future III" would be neither a sequel not a prequel, but definitely a quel.
- halgir 4y agoThanks for sharing, I liked this one. Here's my favorite video game related creepypasta, also about a mod: https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Black https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Black
- Bakary 4y agoDo you have any other recommendations? I really enjoyed this one.
- thrwawy74 4y agoHow does this not have the Anansi Goatman? That is by far the best story. https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Anansi's_Goatman_Story https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Anansi's_Goatman_Story
- Labo333 4y agoI'm not sure it qualifies as a "story" but here is one of the scariest copypasta I know, just explaining how you can die of rabies: https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/7qwtd5/rabies_is_scary/ https://www.reddit.com/r/copypasta/comments/7qwtd5/rabies_is...
- jimmygrapes 4y agoNot sure if the style is up your aisle but Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey (by Chuck Palahniuk) deals with this subject in a way that a younger version of me was both horrified and fascinated by, and sometimes I think I'm the only one who liked the story.
- nathias 4y agonice, there are thousands more, I prefer them in the machine-generated-audiobook version
- amelius 4y agoIsn't goatse in this category?
- ChrisRR 4y agoNot at all. Goatse is a shock image, not creepy
- TruthWillHurt 4y agoNot happy my donation is wasted on hosting this.
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- sph 4y agoA small recommendation, if you like unnerving atmospheric horror like Silent Hill and the cancelled PT sequel: My house walk-through: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWXnt2Z2D1E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWXnt2Z2D1E (Sorry, I just realised this is not creepypasta. I'll leave it up because it's still pretty good.)
- eunos 4y agoI;m waiting for some meta creepypastas that will tricks some folks believing it's a fact.
- willis936 4y agoI worked on a pokemon red rom hack for a few weeks based on a lavender town syndrome creepypasta. I was able to inject a new pokemon at a scripted point but things got pretty weird, especially around battle logic. I quickly ran into trouble with inadvertently overwriting used memory. There really wasn't a lot of unused bits on that gameboy cart or the gameboy's resources. There's no safety net to prevent you (or even inform you) of something you shouldn't be doing. This was in Z80 assembly and based off of the (very awesome) pokered project. https://github.com/pret/pokered https://github.com/pret/pokered I also went as far as making a cart. I lifted black cases from black carts and used both a flashcart from tindie and a donor cart with an EEPROM mod (for the more authentic feel). I found someone online who made nice looking pokemon black stickers and they sent me some. The idea was to make these weird items and drop them in the world. Alas, I'm not the hacker I aspire to be. Much like the inspiring work: it's just a good story. https://imgur.com/a/cNbsgcV https://imgur.com/a/cNbsgcV
- Tao3300 4y agoI remember that story and I remember hearing someone actually produced a cart of it. Nice work!
- FumblingBear 4y agoAn interesting trend that's been picking up more and more in recent years is the Artificial Reality Game (ARG). It feels a lot like the natural evolution of the creepypasta. For example, a recent one that I've been watching videos about is called 10 Tapes. It follows the story of a young guy who moves into a new apartment and begins to discover odd notes and messages around that seem tailor-made for him. What makes it so compelling though is the format. It all takes place on Tiktok, and the notes and tapes that he finds all have puzzles for him to solve. Because of the interactive nature of the medium, he crowdsources solutions for the puzzles which lead him down a rabbit hole of more tapes and puzzles to solve. It's very reminiscent of a creepypasta, but the interactions with the audience make it more intimate and really draws you into the narrative. Whole communities popped up trying to find any tidbits of info in the videos he would post. There are other examples of ARG's that remind me of creepypastas, but I'd highly recommend checking out this [0] overview that discusses and analyses 10 Tapes if only to appreciate the level of effort that people are putting into art like this. [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24XGxSdZmyI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24XGxSdZmyI
- blippage 4y agoYou guys probably know about it, but here goes anyway ... Anyone interested in Creepypastas might also enjoy SCP (no, not "secure copy", bu "Secure. Contain. Protect). They write up fictional anomolies. Two favourites of mine: a creature that will break your neck if you close your eyes in his presence, and a train system with rather peculiar properties. https://the-scp.foundation/ https://the-scp.foundation/ There was also another set of stories, something like "Keepers of Objects". I can't find any link, though, so I've forgotten what its proper name is.
- lawlorino 4y agoDo you have the titles/numbers for those two favourites you mentioned?
- blippage 4y agoSCP-173 "The Sculpture" is the one about the neck-snapper. The pic that accompanies it does add to the atmosphere of the story. The official site seems to be: https://the-scp.foundation/object/scp-173 https://the-scp.foundation/object/scp-173 It's very short though. I read a much longer version where they gave the inner monologue of the creature. I can't find it, though. I'm not sure what the deal is. SCP-052 Time-Travelling Train https://the-scp.foundation/object/scp-052 https://the-scp.foundation/object/scp-052 seems more complete.
- watercooler_guy 4y agoI‘ve always been a big fan of creepypastas —- they can be really well done and scary in novel ways. To some extent, I believed some of them to be real when I was a kid. If creepypastas were “invented” today, would they have made as big of a cultural splash? Or would they get lost in a sea of other content, or be debunked and discarded too quickly? Edit: I re-read the list and noticed some more recent creations on there, like The Backrooms. Maybe it’s less about believability and more about being a good story, which the Internet is still great at facilitating. So I guess my question is, did anyone else believe some of the earlier creepypastas, and was believability important to the popularity back then?
- pawelduda 4y agoPersonally I've been felt a lot more scared by creepypastas (or still images/photos of creepy places, entities or w/e) than horror movies for instance. Especially when it comes to images - some have such unnerving vibe to them that I find it fascinating (smile.jpg anyone?). I was always skeptical (aka treated it as fantasy) of supernatural things these stories are about, but I think the mere fact of getting engaged into reading them and using your imagination (suspending the disbelief) was enough.
- bitwize 4y agoMost horror movies are meh, but one... Lights Out (2013) was a horror film that genuinely terrified me. It's only a few minutes long, but it's more frightening than the jumpscare-laden slasher movies of the era ever could be. It's phenomenally subtle in its setup, showing how the slightest thing "off" in the dark can portend unimaginable horror. Check it out: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lykiTPUbtgs https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lykiTPUbtgs
- david_allison 4y agoDavid Sandberg has the HD version uploaded to his channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUQhNGEu2KA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUQhNGEu2KA
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