Creepypasta

Creepypastas are horror-related legends or images that have been copy-and-pasted around the Internet. These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated paranormal stories intended to scare readers. The term is a portmanteau of the words "creepy" and "copypasta".

I first got into Creepypasta around Halloween in 2015. Cosmos posted a huge list of Creepypastas in a thread on the Farms and from then I was hooked. While most of you are probably aware of the more popular stuff like Slenderman or the SCP Foundation, there's tons of other great stories out there. I'll share a list of my favourites here, and hopefully some other people can add some good ones. All this stuff is from Creepypasta Wiki, Creepypasta.com and r/nosleep and a few other sources, but the aforementioned three are my main ones.

The Strangers
The Thing That Stalks Stalks the Fields
The Dionaea House
The Pastel Man
The House That Death Forgot
The Comfy and Cozy Cabin
Bedtime
Mr. Widemouth
Annora
Candle Cove (adapted as Season One of the SyFy Channel show Channel Zero)
The Cedar Cove Incident
The Crawlspace (my favourite Creepypasta of all time)
Barbie.avi
Normal Porn for Normal People
Abandoned by Disney (has a prequel and two sequels)
The Rake
Paradise Pine
Penpal (adapted into a book, which I highly recommend you read)
It's locked
Holes
The Girl in the Log
Room 733
The story of her holding an orange (also became a book)
The Showers
There's something inhuman south of Seattle if you want to go looking for it
Don't lie to your kids. Trust me, they know.
Please Avoid Open Water
I fucking knew he was cheating on me.
Feed the Pig
Third Parent (also has a prequel, a sequel and a spin-off)
Does anyone else remember this pop song from around 2008?
Borrasca
The Disappearance of Ashley Morgan
The Doll House
The Lost Town of Deepwood, Pennsylvania

If I can remember any other good ones I've read, I'll post them later in the thread.

 

I haven't touched a creepypasta in quite some time ("Candle Cove" is my personal favorite), but I'll take a look through that list since I'm in the mood for some horror. Another forum I go on had a creepypasta thread that had some good ones and was what introduced me to them, though that thread got nuked. The revived thread I didn't really check out, but I can go back there and see if I can get a couple more. Even then, I wasn't always into them, although around that time, I attempted a couple myself since the other members were trying to write their own. I'll share an old one of mine at the end of the post.

These days, though, whenever I make a brief return to creepypasta, I tend to go more for the fan creepypastas like "BEN Drowned" and the one about the Tails Doll. But despite how terribly cliché they can get, I mainly go for those from the Pokémon fandom, such as "Lost Silver", "Lavender Town Syndrome", "Snow on Mt. Silver" (which, like the "Pokémon Black" and "Lost Silver" creepypastas, got a ROM hack made), and one I had found called "Event Gone Wrong" I thought was good. Recently, after Creepy Gaming did a thing on the NES Godzilla creepypasta, I took a look at it myself and really liked it. It's long (about eight chapters plus an epilogue), but well worth the read.

Spoiler: Red Light

There's something about the color of red that makes it so beautiful, but deadly. It's well-known for being the color of our blood, the essence of life. It's also used to show such passion in a relationship; why else is the rose so naturally red?

But even the rose holds dark secrets.

Red is the Devil's color, in a way, therefore it's the sign of evil. We all see Satan as the red man with goat's hooves, a forked tail, horns, and a pitchfork. But what about the eyes? Are they just as red as his skin, or darker? What if they're of a lighter color? It's been said the devil can take the form of an angel of light. And angels supposedly have blue eyes, right? How can we tell the difference between a real angel or the devil?

There might be a way.

Have you ever wondered why sometimes you feel very uncomfortable at night?

It could be the room is heating up from when the air conditioning broke down. It may be cold as midnight, thanks to that fan set on "high" twenty-four-seven. Perhaps it's because you have way too many blankets on your bed. Are you afraid you might smother yourself? Maybe the bed you lay on is old, bumpy, too hard, any adjective you can think of, and it hurts your back. You happen to sleep with a stuffed animal, or other special item close to you? Can you not sleep without it? Or if you are, is it too distracting? What about your silly little thoughts running through your head? You must be worrying about something. It's that alarm clock, no doubt, the irritating buzz is forever implanted in memory. It's not uncommon for someone to become paranoid over it. Everyone does need their beauty sleep after all. It's the dark, is it not? Still can't sleep without a nightlight? That does help wash away the bad shapes our tired, frightened brains conjure up when we needed rest the most. Even the closet, which you always keep closed shut and turn your backs on. It could be the family pet, they never sleep when you want them to.

If you answered "yes" to any of the questions above, you're over-reacting.

You know the truth, you cannot deny it any further.

You're afraid of the color red. Especially at night.

Who can blame you? Red is especially penetrating against black. Doesn't help that the most common color used for the numbers on digital clocks is red. Or of any machinery, for that matter. It's rather vexing at night, worse if you need glasses.

And they're always facing you, watching you sleep. Never a flicker. They pierce your retinas and bury themselves into memory. Whenever you close your eyes, you still see it before you until it fades out when you start to dream. But even then, you will still dream something that will be red. If it's a nightmare, you will always have red follow you.

Not a pleasant experience, is it?

Want to know a little secret?

If you wake up in the middle of the night and see the color red before you, you better hope you have a light handy. And keep it on at night. Always.

You are invisible to them at night, unless you wake up. They wait until the house is still to come out, but they sit patiently near or at your bedside, watching you sleep. You normally are unaware of them, quick to drift off to your own little Neverland. But sometimes, you just cannot sleep. And that's when you feel them. They know you're awake, but they don't attack immediately. For some odd reason, they just love eye-contact. The thought of being noticed excites them. And someone, somewhere, is stupid enough to look over their shoulder.

Their eyes are always red in the dark.

 

Wow, not bad. I didn't think people would share their own work in the thread, but it's a great idea.

If there are any Kiwi scribes out there wanting to share their creepypasta work, please do.

 

Not a written creepypasta, but I was working on a cartoon a couple weeks ago, and I recorded the audio for it, wrote the scripts for all the episodes and recorded the lines of the voice actors. Then, the animator never did any animation and only provided concept art for a few characters. The animator decided not to work on the animation, so the cartoon died because I don't want to find another animator at the moment.

Anyways, it was going to be a creepy little cartoon ending with the main characters dying, and I'm a little upset that I didn't get to see any animation done for it.

http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/713805

 

The only creepypasta that I really like/bothered to have read is Abandoned By Disney.
http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Abandoned_by_Disney
It combines two of my interests, uraban exploration and some history.

 

I posted that one in the OP. I also posted the prequel to it and the two sequels which may be of interest to you. If you like urban exploration and history I also highly recommend The Cedar Cove Incident, The Showers, The Doll House and The Lost Town of Deepwood, Pennsylvania.

 

Speaking of urban exploration creepypasta, I found this video I had seen some years back from a channel called "theLittleFears" or something, judging by the video description (since this is on an archive channel, guess the channel's gone--too bad). I was pretty impressed by it back then, and after rewatching it, I still am.

 

TheLittleFears was a fucking amazing little gem. Her channel is still up, but she hasn't uploaded anything for years and I fear she may have abandoned it now. Her voice was terrifying and beautiful at the same time and I've never heard any other readings like hers. She was the first creepypasta narrator I discovered, and after listening to her I learned about the more popular channels like CreepsMcPasta and Mr. Creepypasta, and I could never get into them because they all just paled in comparison and came across as incompetent tryhards next to her.

To my knowledge, nothing was known about her and most of her video descriptions were rather short or cryptic, which only added to the perfect creepiness of it all.

My favorite reading of hers was probably The Rat King:

 

Oh man, I didn't think it was possible to get nostalgic for scary videos, but that did it. Oof. But that is true, she's definitely one-of-a-kind.

When I first discovered her, the two videos that freaked me out and gave me the "nopes" were these:



Were the comments always disabled, or was that later implemented? I understand doing so to keep things a secret, but that's a little strange.

 

I just noticed that too. It looks like the last three videos she uploaded have comments enabled, but the others are all off. It's weird because I could swear I remember reading through comments years ago trying to find an explanation of one of her older videos. She must have implemented that later.

The Face Upstairs is a classic.

 

I think the Alantutorial is a good creepy saga.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGUcOrs__IKoeYi8zpCOgZ3fj8eWV_sVW
Go from the start and watch a man dive into madness.

 

Personally, I like the found footage creepy pasta videos the best. Lost In The Catacombs is my personal favourite exploration found footage video.

 

What about 'This House Has People In It'. The website that goes along with the video is awesome, and creepy as hell.

 

i'm surprised we've gone this far and nobody's mentioned the SCP foundation. That website used to scare me to hell and back as the pubescent teenage pussy I was when I found it.
I'd say the perfect starting point is this one:
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-096
Or the one that started it all:
http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-173

 

It was in the OP.

 

Spoiler: actual spoiler

[something about chunky mustard]

Also I didn't know there were more entries in the story.

 

This one is pretty good:
http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Perfect_Child

 

TFW you like creepypasta, but know you're too much of a sperg to make anything scarier than Sonic.EXE or the various MLP fanfic-with-minor-creepy-twist trash.

Candle Cove is my personal favorite, but I hate the expanded universe of the Candle Cove Wiki.

 

"Normal Porn For Normal People."

A story can make a better creepypasta the more it's subtle -- as opposed to "trying too hard" to be scary -- and realistic.

 

You like creepypastas? Here, have fifteen minutes of kids rapping over them and ripping off Epic Rap Battles of History.



I'm a fairly enthusiastic consumer of creepypastas and I'd only heard of a handful of these.

And then this... thing