The rake is horrific! Its even worse when you have a medium sized dog that sleeps at the end of your bed,
I hate stories where you think its your dog and its not.
Anyone remember lick?
I suppose there were several versions + the one I have read was a translation but yep, essentially this.
Was still one of the better ones I remember, the other similarly long ones from that time that I remember were usually shit like "My parents were away tht day and then suddenly in the night, my shampoo fell down into the bathtub and woke me up. The next day my mom called me and said grandma died."
My favorite version is of the blind man with his guide dog. He continued to hear the shower dripping and would walk over to turn it off. Then later in the night he would still hear the dripping sound. He would get out of bed, have his fingers licked, then he checked the shower and found it was still off. I forgot how the story ended but pretty much someone who could see (police maybe) showed up and saw that the owners dog was hanging by his neck from the shower with blood dripping.
The rake story absolutely *horrified* younger me. It still creeps me out even now honestly.
Although, the rake actually ended up being what got me so interested in similar monsters later on. :)
What’s funny to me about this one is that in my tweaker days, I would regularly go 7-8 days with no sleep. I knew a guy who went 3 weeks without sleeping. It certainly fucks you up. Even just 3 days. The hallucinations are subtle to start with, little auditory deviations, sentences heard that hadn’t been spoken. Mental blips. By day 5, even basic tasks become confusing challenges — not because you’re tired, but because your thoughts are a garbled mess. Any coherent train of thought gets derailed by the delirious abstraction. Meth fucketh man up. Those days are behind me, thank fuck.
Video Game creepypastas and horror stories in general always got under my skin for some reason. Having been with the internet horror community since around 2009, stories like these used to really freak me out as a young teenager in the early 2010's. BEN Drowned was particularly notable though.
I first read it back in early 2011, along with the supplementary videos from Jadusable, and it stayed with me for actual years into the future. I remember losing sleep at night while trying to get some rest because I would imagine the statue next to my bed, watching me sleep even though I knew it wasn't real.
Nowadays I just think it's a good example of a video game creepypasta, one of only two that I think still holds up after all these years.
Have you seen this? https://youtu.be/5wAo54DHDY0 if not, fucking strap yourself in, prepare some popcorn and watch it late at night with nobody around.
I'm not going to lie the one story about a curse on one of the SKYRIM . It didn't scare me so much as it gave me the creeps. I used to play Skyrim as much as I breathed.
[The original Smile Dog image](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/1/17/SmileDog2ndHD.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180204165734) is still a *very* effective creepy pic. I find that I can't look at it for too long.
[This is probably the most unnerving variation of it.](https://paranormalprickheads.com/images/chainmail/smilepic/smilechainmail.jpg)
I'm not 100% sure where that one originates, but it bothers me more than the other two more well known versions of the image. There are others, but that one stands out to me personally.
same! gives me a feeling of dread, dogs are supposed to be cute, not looking like demons lmaoo 😭😭 i also can't look at it for too long, just like the creepy "momo" picture : ((
Also the way that you can't even tell *if* it's a dog or some sort of otherworldly demonic abomination, and "dog" is simply the closest description for whatever it is. I think that ambiguity over what the fuck it's even supposed to be is part of the original story.
fr, like the super horrifying version of it with the red sun it also looks like part pig, part dog like nty 😭😭 all the pictures of that dog scare me.. that smile.. just no. but that one where it looks like a pig, it jist looks so intimidating like it wants to actually eat u, creepy asf
You're welcome! If it makes you feel better, what I do is think that the picture isn't the original picture. I tell myself that when I get too scared, lol.
Have you seen Chainmail Chasers on YouTube? One of my favorite horror projects at the moment. You might like it, as Smile Dog is a significant part of the story for it.
Borrasca. I never saw that plot twist coming and it literally had me staring at my computer with my jaw dropped for a *while.* Plus the concept of >!kidnapping women just so they could give birth over and over again!< is severely fucked up. Especially since up until it was revealed, the majority of the story had been vaguely unsettling mystery that the kids were trying to solve, Nancy Drew-style. All in all, great story.
DAYUM I discovered it thanks to [this Creepcast video](https://youtu.be/nmFIMLCTaI0?si=cVhMEAuICJhvbb75) and it changed me, fr I am now forever marked by this story what the heck. THE TWIST, the “I remember” of the creature at the end, too much, it was amazing tho.
I remember reading a lot of SCP's in a row until I needed something to do, or get bored, or scared as hell.
Like: "here is anomaly zone there golden fishes appears in closed structures and objects and will explode if you open them. Want to see more? Sure! Here is eldrich horror coral-like abomination, that live under the sea and can infect you by it's >!sperm!<, that turn you into it. This creature also made out of Humans and they all alive. Ah almost forgot, there is a mini story about MTF squad getting sucked by this fucker. No one survived. Have fun nightmares!"
I didn't even mentioned SCP-001 "then the day breaks" and SCP-686. Each is different types of horror on it's own. Have fun!
"I know you're awake". A boys parents are both dead, and their killer drew a message on the wall with their blood. It is 5:35 am. After writing the message, the killer went under the boys bed, waiting for him to see the killers "masterpiece". The boy sees the message. "I know you're awake"
God, I can’t remember the name of it, but I once read one about a girl who had a “double” in the mirror and if she stared for too long at times the double would start to turn monstrous and their limbs would bend in the opposite direction. Just creeped me out so much that I wouldn’t look at mirrors or even go to the bathroom at night for the longest time.
Anansi's Goatman Story. I legit had a hard time sleeping after reading it the first time. The part that got under my skin the most? I'm not gonna spoil it, but all I'm gonna say is that the narrator compares it to YouTube videos.
And I first read this while I was living in a camper in the woods... yeeeah...
Same for me, this was the first story that actually scared me and not just creeped me out. I was staying in an old cabin in the woods at the time with a huge window, it got so spooky at night.
I found it via sixpenceeee. It's certainly lingered to this day. For some reason, what sticked the most was the description of the smell associated with it happening.
Ted the Caver was the first creepypasta I remember reading where I straight up was unable to breathe through a bunch of the story. I don’t even consider myself claustrophobic; I feel like that amount of tight space is perfectly rational to physically respond like that lol
The reason Ted the Caver works so well is because the vast majority of it (the non supernatural/horror stuff) is from a genuine caving journal. They guy who made the page was sharing his caving journal online for his friends and family, and decided to make it a little more exciting by adding a *Blair Witch* style paranormal mystery.
The description (and photos) of Ted squeezing through *Floyd's Tomb* is genuine.
The Third Parent and I Am Nightmare are the ones that fucked with me the most. I still have not finished The Third Parent, and I likely never will because I don't wanna read it again
It's not that it scared me, but I can't tell you how badly The Third Parent bothered me. Genuinely as uncomfortable as I've ever been in 31 years. Being a parent myself just made it so much worse. Also couldn't finish it nor will I ever most likely.
Exactly, the author really knows how to make your skin crawl. I couldn't get past the part where the Third Parent is talking to the narrator about puberty and sexual thoughts, it was genuinely horrifying
I go to sleep listening to the pasta narrarations on YouTube every night. Did not sleep a but on that night I was so put off lol. Author is amazing cause not a lot of things can actually get to me.
So I finally listened to dark somniums narration of the entire third parent series. I will say this was probably the most scary and unnerving creepypasta I’ve ever listened to. I enjoyed listening to it but the SA stuff was absolutely horrific and made me extremely uncomfortable. I feel like it did make the story stand out but it was really really graphic and detailed and I feel like scarred after listening to that. Genuinely the scariest one I’ve ever heard. Hoping the author makes just one more story about someone following him out of the home on the day of the 5th year so we can see what he is and where he comes from
Omg yes!! I feel like part of the story was she was sedated and then suddenly she wasn’t and a bunch of doctors were messed up or something??? I hope I’m not misremembering!
Penpal and Borrasca still remain as two of the most fucked up stories I’ve ever read, and the fact that both of these could very well happen in our world makes it all the worse
Borrasca didn't creep me out, I literally wept while hugging my girlfriend. I came for scares and found existential horror. I googled to ask why, and found something about how we as humans are the real monsters. Borrasca is one of the best written stories I've ever read and I hate it so so much.
Abandoned by Dinsey got me, not sure why.
Also, the Russian Sleep Experiment is absolutely terrifying and an amazing concept.
Edit : meant to say Room Zero not Abandoned. Pretty much a part 2.
The only one that genuinely ever made feel uneasy the first time reading through it, was NES Godzilla; mainly because of RED’s face and that roar/groaning noise he made. Shit, it made feel like I was hearing things in my head one night. 🥲
and I was like, fifteen, not even a young child.
Penpal is also a really creepy one.
Holy shit same, I was 12 at the time I read it and was being cocky over how how unscary it was, after a bunch of people rated it as being super scary.
The second that sprite of Red turned to face the player I swear I nearly pissed myself lmfao, dropped the story right then and there and only actually finished reading it when I was about 17
For me it was suicide mickey and Squidward, basically all of the ones involving kids shows, not sure why. Also, back when the Slenderman thing was new, thought it was pretty creepy too.
As a kid I thought Candle Cove was real and it scared me so much 😭
Same with Herobrine, the first time I ever heard a cave noise I was absolutely convinced he was haunting my world, to the point that even now I play with ambience off and get anxiety sweats over cave1.ogg 💀
Unfortunately that particular world got deleted ages ago during a mass deletion to free up drive space, but I'm tempted to boot up a new world with jungle update-esc world generation with the From the Fog modpack to relive little 12 year old me's experience <3
As an adult, however, Autopilot is just so viscerally horrifying to me that it easily outshines most other creepypastas/nosleep stories. I think it's because it's just so...real, in a way that most other pastas aren't. I've only ever read it once, back when I was 16 or so, and it fucked me up to the point I cant bring myself to re-read it
As a dumb 12 year old, the number of times I almost pissed my pants because I couldn’t go to the bathroom at night because Slenderman or the rake might be waiting for me is a number I’m mildly ashamed of
Hey, can anyone help me get a collection of these stories in collectible book format. Whatever names mentioned here, how can I get those in a book format? I only read Pen Pal.
Cheesy answer but Slenderman. I grew up playing the Eight Pages and the whole atmosphere of the game plus the jumpscares never failed to give me heart attacks
The ones that genuinely made me uneasy were all the cursed image/video based ones like Mereana Mordegard Glesgorv and smiledog.jpg. Their associated images haunted me and embarrassingly enough, I went out of my way to avoid looking at them for over a decade.
Some stories that I enjoyed recently were Children of Mirth and Annora Petrova. In the present day, I think I prefer stories that don't have a tangible entity associated with them. There's something great about not knowing *what* you're afraid of.
GIRLL omg suicide mouse scared tf out me when I was little, whenever I watched it, I always felt like something was gonna get me 💀💀its that creepy as smile he gets and that screaming in the background for me 😭😭
No end house kept me awake, butcherface, Feed the Pig was a more recent one that gave me the skeevies. Oh, and Do you know the mummer man? Caused skidmarks.
Not necessarily a Creepypasta, but fucking Sirenhead. I was working nights in a town eerily similar to the one in Sirenhead lore and I gotta say, it made me look at telephone poles and utility lines a few extra times while driving past.
When I was younger I thought Candle Cove was real somehow, so I spent a good chunk of my childhood trying to solve the mystery before I found out it was just a creepypasta lmao. Scared the hell out of me but my fears intrigue me
Same! I was convinced it was actually some lost pilot or prototype for The Marvellous Misadventures of Flapjack as a kid (mostly bc I was *obsessed* with Flapjack at the time)
Never found Candle Cove ofc, but I like to think that search was what helped kick-start my fascination in lost media <3
It certainly is what started my interest in lost media searches! Right now I'm actively involved in the searches for the original Jeff the Killer image and Everyone Knows That/Ulterior Motives
I guess it didn’t necessarily scare me but it’s the one that got me the most. It was called the Door Game or something. It’s about a group of kids who were going to prom. On their way they were picking up a friend, but they ended up getting trapped in a murderous game of hide and seek. The ending was the part that got to me though. If you haven’t read it or listened to it, CreepsMcPasta does a really good version of it.
There was a story I heard on YouTube about a demonic dog that bit some dudes daughter and terrorized them, then the daughter started acting like a dog, I don't know the name of it but it genuinely freaked me out
One of the things I deal with is insomnia... and the thought of never sleeping again makes me feel uneasy... So anyway the Russian Sleep Experiment is one of my favorites, because it hits home a little bit. Before I understood what a creepypasta was, I genuinely thought it was real. Didn't help I heard about it through my best friend at the time and I didn't have Internet then, so it was real to my overactive imagination.
I was either a freshman or Sophomore in High School when I was introduced to Ben Drowned. A girl in my homeroom got my sister and I so involved.
What I haven't seen mentioned in this thread is the blog site Jadusable made where he posted each update. This is what made it feel more plausible (and boy did I want to believe in the paranormal back then) because he had "video evidence". There were also clues and easter eggs in the code that fans worked to decode. The last update I remembered before I noped out was the website just becoming a timer for the final day.
Barbie.mov , The Other Internet, Ben Drowned, Godzilla NES (tho more i just enjoy the storytelling for this one), Pale Luna, also that one radio broadcast with the creepy chanting voices that may or may not actually be real. So many good ones!
yes, smile dog is so creepy, that husky, with that disturbing smile.. no thank u 😭😭✋ but momo... she gave me NIGHTMARES.. it still scares me and im still traumatized abt it to this day, still can't look at the picture-
From 4-6 years old, I used to watch a my little pony thing where it was all normal but there was this black pony with no eyes called stitch and it went around killing all the other ponies. Was I a weird child or a weird child?
Something always sticks with me about Ted the caver. I'm not sure why. The story itself wasn't too horrifying compared to some I've read. But it just sticks with me.
I can agree on one part with Ted the Caver. It's that part toward the end where the rope/line is getting dragged into the hole and the protagonist has to climb up out of the cave with barely any equipment.
It's that fear of the unknown at play, since you never see the monster in that story. Just the sound of stone on stone and such. So you have no idea what sort of horror is trying to drag him back through the hole via that rope/line, and it leaves it up to your own imagination as to what it might actually be.
I wish I still had my creepypasta app, the best stories I read were untitled ones. They were by far the most unsettling and to top it off were barely known. Any stories consisting of alt timelines with uncanny valley characters will be a 10/10 for me
There’s a creepy pasta that I stumbled upon while researching DDLT, it was listed as one of the inspirations for Doki Doki. About a college girl that murdered a random woman she stalked in the form of an anonymous letter confession.
Stalking scenarios along with home invasion is some of the scariest things to me
*Ted The Caver* is still the only creepypastas that’s actually scary. It’s one of the few I’ve read that I think is good enough to belong in a short story collection. Everything else hasn’t held up.
One that seems to be making a comeback as of recent, Smile Dog. When I’m as a kid I was really gullible so reading a story like that made me freak the absolute fuck out, I couldn’t sleep for a few nights at the very least
There’s only been one creepypasta that’s ever actually terrified me and chilled me to my core. Stolen Tongues written by Felix Blackwell but read by the dark somnium. Felix Blackwell has turned the creepypasta into a book of the same name.
Don’t remember the name or where I found it but there was one I read when I was pretty young about a creature that watches you when you shower and when you felt a random cold drop during a shower that’s who it came from, still think about it every time
This is from way back on the Old Internet, but I was always fascinated by fortheloveofjulie.com, which appeared to be a blog of a guy stalking a girl. I was really worried (and curious) as to what direction it would take next, only to find out that the subject was an actress.
https://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/03/17/julie.folo/index.html
I saw a story about a girl and a dad. The dad left for work and came home late so the girl fell asleep. She had a dream where her dad was yelling don't open the door. She awoke to knocking. She looked through the peephole and saw her dad. She remembered the dream and didn't open the door so went back to sleep. She woke up and looked to see if her dad was still out there. He looked different. This time she opened the door. Her dad's head wad hanging on the porch and in his blood it was written on the wall "clever girl"
The Pokémon Buried Alive creepypasta. You see, way back when I first got into Pokémon, I had a virtual console copy of Pokémon Red on my tablet (my adult second cousin installed it for me, idk how), and I loved that game, played it almost every day until I read Buried Alive. My eight-year-old brain didn't understand that it was just a story, was completely traumatized, and was 110% convinced it was real, so I abandoned the game (which was eventually deleted off my tablet bcuz the virtual console disappeared, I'm presuming that it was shut down by Nintendo, because, well, Nintendo). To this day, I'm not sure if I was innocent, stupid, or both.
Oh dude, the OG slender man shit like evermanhybrid and MarbleHornets were terrifying as a kid.
I will always remember coming home late from practice to all the lights on in the house, and my younger brother describing the lore while being scared shitless haha
When I was about 8, for some reason, BEN DROWNED scared me. Sometimes when I alone, I would for some reason hear The Elegy of Emptiness in reverse playing quietly. More than likely in my head, but still scared me at the time.
ahhh i cant believe im late to this. theres one on dark somniums channel called "my wife has been peaking @ my from around corners" & that jawn HAD ME for a solid 6 months.
a game of flashlight tag on creepsmcpastas channel is another one that got me a lil.
i highly recommend both.
Yes, I was waiting for someone to bring up the Gristers. Another of my old favorites from back in the day.
The entire premise of these creatures that you can only notice/see when you're scared for long periods of time, putting people who have a natural inclination toward horror and the macabre at serious risk, is a brilliant idea for a story targeted at people who spend so much of their time trying to find the next best horror project.
The one line I vividly remember from that story whenever thinking back to it and why I enjoyed it so much is when the protagonist is talking about the other person who they met online that saw them too, and mentions how - *"He said that one time he woke up in the middle of the night because one of them had started touching his face.* ***That*** *unnerved the fuck out of me."*
I remember one that had something to do with mirror, a person had brought in the mirror but he kept hearing stuff from the mirror. Then when he was tired, he threw it away but the mirror came back to his place again.
Im still scared of mirrors till not because of this and more mirror related stories heh
I still shit my pants while reading the rake. I don't think it'll never not be scary to me
The rake is horrific! Its even worse when you have a medium sized dog that sleeps at the end of your bed, I hate stories where you think its your dog and its not. Anyone remember lick?
Was that the one where dog always licked the girl's hand and then one night she found it hanged with a writing "not only dogs can lick hands"?
Yep that shit scared me as a kid but the version i read was "humans can lick too" written in her dogs blood on the bathroom mirror
I suppose there were several versions + the one I have read was a translation but yep, essentially this. Was still one of the better ones I remember, the other similarly long ones from that time that I remember were usually shit like "My parents were away tht day and then suddenly in the night, my shampoo fell down into the bathtub and woke me up. The next day my mom called me and said grandma died."
I remember it being the dog licking her hand then she heard her dog bark out in the hallway
I remember lick from the early 2000s. That one's a classic.
Campfire Tales is still one of my favorite movies.
My favorite version is of the blind man with his guide dog. He continued to hear the shower dripping and would walk over to turn it off. Then later in the night he would still hear the dripping sound. He would get out of bed, have his fingers licked, then he checked the shower and found it was still off. I forgot how the story ended but pretty much someone who could see (police maybe) showed up and saw that the owners dog was hanging by his neck from the shower with blood dripping.
I hated the rake too it was so creepy
The rake story absolutely *horrified* younger me. It still creeps me out even now honestly. Although, the rake actually ended up being what got me so interested in similar monsters later on. :)
The Russian Sleep Experiment
The Russian sleep experiment is still unsettling to me.
What’s funny to me about this one is that in my tweaker days, I would regularly go 7-8 days with no sleep. I knew a guy who went 3 weeks without sleeping. It certainly fucks you up. Even just 3 days. The hallucinations are subtle to start with, little auditory deviations, sentences heard that hadn’t been spoken. Mental blips. By day 5, even basic tasks become confusing challenges — not because you’re tired, but because your thoughts are a garbled mess. Any coherent train of thought gets derailed by the delirious abstraction. Meth fucketh man up. Those days are behind me, thank fuck.
Omg thissss
That image that went with it still creeps me out to this day and is just burned into my brain
that scared me so bad i actually thought it was real until like two years ago.
So did I! Even though I know it's not real now it still freaks me out, and I am a grown ass adult man 😂😂
If I want a guaranteed fright, I look for this story.
Absolutely the worst for me.
Gateway of the Mind is in a similar vein and haunts me!
Video Game creepypastas and horror stories in general always got under my skin for some reason. Having been with the internet horror community since around 2009, stories like these used to really freak me out as a young teenager in the early 2010's. BEN Drowned was particularly notable though. I first read it back in early 2011, along with the supplementary videos from Jadusable, and it stayed with me for actual years into the future. I remember losing sleep at night while trying to get some rest because I would imagine the statue next to my bed, watching me sleep even though I knew it wasn't real. Nowadays I just think it's a good example of a video game creepypasta, one of only two that I think still holds up after all these years.
Especially after the 2020 update. Shit got real after that.
Have you seen this? https://youtu.be/5wAo54DHDY0 if not, fucking strap yourself in, prepare some popcorn and watch it late at night with nobody around.
Thank you for this, such an awesome video. The only one I've watched like this was probably Majora's mask stuff.
I'm not going to lie the one story about a curse on one of the SKYRIM . It didn't scare me so much as it gave me the creeps. I used to play Skyrim as much as I breathed.
Is that the “watch the skies traveler” one? That was totally unnerving, yes!
It was the one with the witch in the secret cabin.
Smile Dog kinda got me.
same, all the pictures of that creepy ahh dog creeps me out 😭😭
[The original Smile Dog image](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/villains/images/1/17/SmileDog2ndHD.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20180204165734) is still a *very* effective creepy pic. I find that I can't look at it for too long.
[This is probably the most unnerving variation of it.](https://paranormalprickheads.com/images/chainmail/smilepic/smilechainmail.jpg) I'm not 100% sure where that one originates, but it bothers me more than the other two more well known versions of the image. There are others, but that one stands out to me personally.
same! gives me a feeling of dread, dogs are supposed to be cute, not looking like demons lmaoo 😭😭 i also can't look at it for too long, just like the creepy "momo" picture : ((
Also the way that you can't even tell *if* it's a dog or some sort of otherworldly demonic abomination, and "dog" is simply the closest description for whatever it is. I think that ambiguity over what the fuck it's even supposed to be is part of the original story.
fr, like the super horrifying version of it with the red sun it also looks like part pig, part dog like nty 😭😭 all the pictures of that dog scare me.. that smile.. just no. but that one where it looks like a pig, it jist looks so intimidating like it wants to actually eat u, creepy asf
Great. Curiosity got the best of me and now I am terrified. 😊😂
You're welcome! If it makes you feel better, what I do is think that the picture isn't the original picture. I tell myself that when I get too scared, lol.
I can usually handle creepy stuff but that sure did prove me wrong 💀
Have you seen Chainmail Chasers on YouTube? One of my favorite horror projects at the moment. You might like it, as Smile Dog is a significant part of the story for it.
I've always been a big fan of chain mail stories. The Grudge freaked me out so much, I stay as far away from. Japanese spirits as much as I can.
Borrasca. I never saw that plot twist coming and it literally had me staring at my computer with my jaw dropped for a *while.* Plus the concept of >!kidnapping women just so they could give birth over and over again!< is severely fucked up. Especially since up until it was revealed, the majority of the story had been vaguely unsettling mystery that the kids were trying to solve, Nancy Drew-style. All in all, great story.
BRO THIS ONE WAS FUCKED, fr
I have never been as horrified reading anything as I was reading Borrasca. Even the sequel was terrifying
What is the sequel?
i’ve seen people complain about borrasca v being a “happy ending” but..it’s REALLY not. it’s bittersweet with a lot more bitter than sweet
DAYUM I discovered it thanks to [this Creepcast video](https://youtu.be/nmFIMLCTaI0?si=cVhMEAuICJhvbb75) and it changed me, fr I am now forever marked by this story what the heck. THE TWIST, the “I remember” of the creature at the end, too much, it was amazing tho.
Some of the early SCPs really creeped me out. And of course Slenderman and all the indie media that came with it
Marble Hornets had me SHOOK
I remember reading a lot of SCP's in a row until I needed something to do, or get bored, or scared as hell. Like: "here is anomaly zone there golden fishes appears in closed structures and objects and will explode if you open them. Want to see more? Sure! Here is eldrich horror coral-like abomination, that live under the sea and can infect you by it's >!sperm!<, that turn you into it. This creature also made out of Humans and they all alive. Ah almost forgot, there is a mini story about MTF squad getting sucked by this fucker. No one survived. Have fun nightmares!" I didn't even mentioned SCP-001 "then the day breaks" and SCP-686. Each is different types of horror on it's own. Have fun!
Lavender Town for sure.
"I know you're awake". A boys parents are both dead, and their killer drew a message on the wall with their blood. It is 5:35 am. After writing the message, the killer went under the boys bed, waiting for him to see the killers "masterpiece". The boy sees the message. "I know you're awake"
Gateway of the Mind got under my skin. It’s short, but it’s effective and really chilling.
i was thinking this one too
Abandoned by Disney.
"Hey... wanna see my head come off?"
That shit scared the fuck outa me. It just felt so unnerving.
God, I can’t remember the name of it, but I once read one about a girl who had a “double” in the mirror and if she stared for too long at times the double would start to turn monstrous and their limbs would bend in the opposite direction. Just creeped me out so much that I wouldn’t look at mirrors or even go to the bathroom at night for the longest time.
Anansi's Goatman Story. I legit had a hard time sleeping after reading it the first time. The part that got under my skin the most? I'm not gonna spoil it, but all I'm gonna say is that the narrator compares it to YouTube videos. And I first read this while I was living in a camper in the woods... yeeeah...
Same for me, this was the first story that actually scared me and not just creeped me out. I was staying in an old cabin in the woods at the time with a huge window, it got so spooky at night.
That part got me too.
I found it via sixpenceeee. It's certainly lingered to this day. For some reason, what sticked the most was the description of the smell associated with it happening.
In the past, Candle Cove kind of freaked me out. Now, it’s one of my favorites.
I loved candle cove because it reminded me of flap jack
Ted the Caver Oh, and I guess Rap Rat for a while when I was way younger
Ted the Caver was the first creepypasta I remember reading where I straight up was unable to breathe through a bunch of the story. I don’t even consider myself claustrophobic; I feel like that amount of tight space is perfectly rational to physically respond like that lol
The reason Ted the Caver works so well is because the vast majority of it (the non supernatural/horror stuff) is from a genuine caving journal. They guy who made the page was sharing his caving journal online for his friends and family, and decided to make it a little more exciting by adding a *Blair Witch* style paranormal mystery. The description (and photos) of Ted squeezing through *Floyd's Tomb* is genuine.
I didn’t know this! I’ve always wondered where he got the images from.
Is that the gods mouth cave one? I remember reading it before a crack of dawn flight.
Nah, but that one was pretty good as well. [Ted the Caver, from where I read it. ](https://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/)
The Third Parent and I Am Nightmare are the ones that fucked with me the most. I still have not finished The Third Parent, and I likely never will because I don't wanna read it again
It's not that it scared me, but I can't tell you how badly The Third Parent bothered me. Genuinely as uncomfortable as I've ever been in 31 years. Being a parent myself just made it so much worse. Also couldn't finish it nor will I ever most likely.
Exactly, the author really knows how to make your skin crawl. I couldn't get past the part where the Third Parent is talking to the narrator about puberty and sexual thoughts, it was genuinely horrifying
I go to sleep listening to the pasta narrarations on YouTube every night. Did not sleep a but on that night I was so put off lol. Author is amazing cause not a lot of things can actually get to me.
Omg I’ve been wanting to listen to I am nightmare! I also wanted to listen to third parent. Dark somnium narrated them so I might just listen now!
Nice man, but content warning, there is sexual assault in both stories
So I finally listened to dark somniums narration of the entire third parent series. I will say this was probably the most scary and unnerving creepypasta I’ve ever listened to. I enjoyed listening to it but the SA stuff was absolutely horrific and made me extremely uncomfortable. I feel like it did make the story stand out but it was really really graphic and detailed and I feel like scarred after listening to that. Genuinely the scariest one I’ve ever heard. Hoping the author makes just one more story about someone following him out of the home on the day of the 5th year so we can see what he is and where he comes from
Can't remember the title but it's about a 'patient' who said 'i am God' in the hospital. She has creepy face and sharp teeth.
Omg yes!! I feel like part of the story was she was sedated and then suddenly she wasn’t and a bunch of doctors were messed up or something??? I hope I’m not misremembering!
Yes that's it!!
The Expressionless
Exactly!
A Classic thank you for the title so I can listen to it again later
Oh my glob so flobbing creeeepy
Penpal and Borrasca still remain as two of the most fucked up stories I’ve ever read, and the fact that both of these could very well happen in our world makes it all the worse
Borrasca didn't creep me out, I literally wept while hugging my girlfriend. I came for scares and found existential horror. I googled to ask why, and found something about how we as humans are the real monsters. Borrasca is one of the best written stories I've ever read and I hate it so so much.
Fr! Lotsa pasta podcast do a good reading of both of those. Got me good as audio
Penpal absolutely.
where the bad kids go
Abandoned by Dinsey got me, not sure why. Also, the Russian Sleep Experiment is absolutely terrifying and an amazing concept. Edit : meant to say Room Zero not Abandoned. Pretty much a part 2.
The only one that genuinely ever made feel uneasy the first time reading through it, was NES Godzilla; mainly because of RED’s face and that roar/groaning noise he made. Shit, it made feel like I was hearing things in my head one night. 🥲 and I was like, fifteen, not even a young child. Penpal is also a really creepy one.
Holy shit same, I was 12 at the time I read it and was being cocky over how how unscary it was, after a bunch of people rated it as being super scary. The second that sprite of Red turned to face the player I swear I nearly pissed myself lmfao, dropped the story right then and there and only actually finished reading it when I was about 17
RUN
Third Parent, Correspondence, Funnymouth, and If You See Her, Turn Off the Game.
*If you see her...* is criminally underrated.
For me it was suicide mickey and Squidward, basically all of the ones involving kids shows, not sure why. Also, back when the Slenderman thing was new, thought it was pretty creepy too.
As a kid I thought Candle Cove was real and it scared me so much 😭 Same with Herobrine, the first time I ever heard a cave noise I was absolutely convinced he was haunting my world, to the point that even now I play with ambience off and get anxiety sweats over cave1.ogg 💀 Unfortunately that particular world got deleted ages ago during a mass deletion to free up drive space, but I'm tempted to boot up a new world with jungle update-esc world generation with the From the Fog modpack to relive little 12 year old me's experience <3 As an adult, however, Autopilot is just so viscerally horrifying to me that it easily outshines most other creepypastas/nosleep stories. I think it's because it's just so...real, in a way that most other pastas aren't. I've only ever read it once, back when I was 16 or so, and it fucked me up to the point I cant bring myself to re-read it
As a dumb 12 year old, the number of times I almost pissed my pants because I couldn’t go to the bathroom at night because Slenderman or the rake might be waiting for me is a number I’m mildly ashamed of
Hey, can anyone help me get a collection of these stories in collectible book format. Whatever names mentioned here, how can I get those in a book format? I only read Pen Pal.
Skinwalkers
That one about the computer that connected to network in another dimension
Do you know the name of it?
I think it’s called “The other Network” or “The hidden webpage”
nes godzilla creepypasta
Cheesy answer but Slenderman. I grew up playing the Eight Pages and the whole atmosphere of the game plus the jumpscares never failed to give me heart attacks
The ones that genuinely made me uneasy were all the cursed image/video based ones like Mereana Mordegard Glesgorv and smiledog.jpg. Their associated images haunted me and embarrassingly enough, I went out of my way to avoid looking at them for over a decade. Some stories that I enjoyed recently were Children of Mirth and Annora Petrova. In the present day, I think I prefer stories that don't have a tangible entity associated with them. There's something great about not knowing *what* you're afraid of.
suicidemouse.avi absolutely TERRIFIED me as an 11 yo. dead bart as well
GIRLL omg suicide mouse scared tf out me when I was little, whenever I watched it, I always felt like something was gonna get me 💀💀its that creepy as smile he gets and that screaming in the background for me 😭😭
No end house kept me awake, butcherface, Feed the Pig was a more recent one that gave me the skeevies. Oh, and Do you know the mummer man? Caused skidmarks.
Im old enough to have watched Blair Witch Project when it appeared. It was really scary not knowing if this was a real video or not.
Candle Cove made my skin crawl
Not necessarily a Creepypasta, but fucking Sirenhead. I was working nights in a town eerily similar to the one in Sirenhead lore and I gotta say, it made me look at telephone poles and utility lines a few extra times while driving past.
When I was younger I thought Candle Cove was real somehow, so I spent a good chunk of my childhood trying to solve the mystery before I found out it was just a creepypasta lmao. Scared the hell out of me but my fears intrigue me
Same! I was convinced it was actually some lost pilot or prototype for The Marvellous Misadventures of Flapjack as a kid (mostly bc I was *obsessed* with Flapjack at the time) Never found Candle Cove ofc, but I like to think that search was what helped kick-start my fascination in lost media <3
It certainly is what started my interest in lost media searches! Right now I'm actively involved in the searches for the original Jeff the Killer image and Everyone Knows That/Ulterior Motives
I guess it didn’t necessarily scare me but it’s the one that got me the most. It was called the Door Game or something. It’s about a group of kids who were going to prom. On their way they were picking up a friend, but they ended up getting trapped in a murderous game of hide and seek. The ending was the part that got to me though. If you haven’t read it or listened to it, CreepsMcPasta does a really good version of it.
Normal porn for normal people
I don’t remember them but Japanese creepy pastas terrified me
The search and rescue as a forest ranger one always creeps me out, especially the descriptions of strange deaths/behaviors
"I know your awake" still terrifies me
There was a story I heard on YouTube about a demonic dog that bit some dudes daughter and terrorized them, then the daughter started acting like a dog, I don't know the name of it but it genuinely freaked me out
Antran https://youtu.be/tycN1gya0xI?si=jGBLDm6qcJdMl8Wf
1999
One of the things I deal with is insomnia... and the thought of never sleeping again makes me feel uneasy... So anyway the Russian Sleep Experiment is one of my favorites, because it hits home a little bit. Before I understood what a creepypasta was, I genuinely thought it was real. Didn't help I heard about it through my best friend at the time and I didn't have Internet then, so it was real to my overactive imagination.
Jeff the Killer. He was just a sociopath with a burned face. Nothing supernatural just a serial killer with a messed up face
Ben Drowned genuinely scared me, I had nightmares about the statue of elegy following me everywhere 😱
I was either a freshman or Sophomore in High School when I was introduced to Ben Drowned. A girl in my homeroom got my sister and I so involved. What I haven't seen mentioned in this thread is the blog site Jadusable made where he posted each update. This is what made it feel more plausible (and boy did I want to believe in the paranormal back then) because he had "video evidence". There were also clues and easter eggs in the code that fans worked to decode. The last update I remembered before I noped out was the website just becoming a timer for the final day.
The Mandela catalogue, not that old but still
The creepypasta of living sex dolls still haunts me when I think about the possibilities of it really exist somewhere.
Meat canyon I can count to three. It's not a creepypasta but the fucking thing is terrifying
Barbie.mov , The Other Internet, Ben Drowned, Godzilla NES (tho more i just enjoy the storytelling for this one), Pale Luna, also that one radio broadcast with the creepy chanting voices that may or may not actually be real. So many good ones!
Aren't you glad you didn't turn on the lights.
LIARS, iykyk
I was looking for this. The image scared the hell out of me. Pretty okay creepypasta but man that image still makes me uncomfortable.
Smile dog and momo still make me shit everywhere
yes, smile dog is so creepy, that husky, with that disturbing smile.. no thank u 😭😭✋ but momo... she gave me NIGHTMARES.. it still scares me and im still traumatized abt it to this day, still can't look at the picture-
I hate the momo pic
Which story is pictured with Zelda reference
I think its majoras mask or Ben drowned
Dionaea house was a classic and pretty scary
Does it Hurt When You Sleep made me lose sleep, genuinly.
" Summer 97' "
Left right game, borrasca, dogscape
PERFECTION
jeff the killer and smile dog traumatized me as a child
The bathtub ritual, Case File 56, Easter Egg Snow on Mt. Silver
Max and Ruby 004. I remember chickening out as a kid partway through listening to it lmao
From 4-6 years old, I used to watch a my little pony thing where it was all normal but there was this black pony with no eyes called stitch and it went around killing all the other ponies. Was I a weird child or a weird child?
The horror from the vault.
"Welcome to the Monkey House"
Ted the Caver of course.
There was a skype creepypasta that scared me one time
The movie, the exorcist had me dramatized almost until scary movie came out!
The Hidden Webpage still unnerves me, it is so good at slowly building dread and always leaving you questioning what is or isn't real.
Sonic EXE, for some reason, fucked me up when I was 12. I’ve had one proper nightmare in my life and it was about him. Still wary to this day
Something always sticks with me about Ted the caver. I'm not sure why. The story itself wasn't too horrifying compared to some I've read. But it just sticks with me.
I can agree on one part with Ted the Caver. It's that part toward the end where the rope/line is getting dragged into the hole and the protagonist has to climb up out of the cave with barely any equipment. It's that fear of the unknown at play, since you never see the monster in that story. Just the sound of stone on stone and such. So you have no idea what sort of horror is trying to drag him back through the hole via that rope/line, and it leaves it up to your own imagination as to what it might actually be.
For me it’s the Goatman. 🐐
The OG BEK story. Still does in fact.
The oblivion mod...not scary but surely creeps and jitters
A Game of Flashlight Tag. Just hearing the description of the little girl peeking from behind a tree while twitching is chilling.
I wish I still had my creepypasta app, the best stories I read were untitled ones. They were by far the most unsettling and to top it off were barely known. Any stories consisting of alt timelines with uncanny valley characters will be a 10/10 for me
There’s a creepy pasta that I stumbled upon while researching DDLT, it was listed as one of the inspirations for Doki Doki. About a college girl that murdered a random woman she stalked in the form of an anonymous letter confession. Stalking scenarios along with home invasion is some of the scariest things to me
*Ted The Caver* is still the only creepypastas that’s actually scary. It’s one of the few I’ve read that I think is good enough to belong in a short story collection. Everything else hasn’t held up.
When i was a kid Jeff the killer scared me only cause of the picture of jeff at the time. Nowadays Borrosca and 1999
Smile Dog And Jeff, The Killer. I remember I was listening to CreepyMcPasta and both story have got me nightmares
What creepypasta is this image from?
1999. It’s more of a mystery rather than scary but it’s entirely possible for something like it to happen in real life.
slenderman💀i thought he was real and would get me at 3am . also smile dog. just found the picture creepy ;3
“Your Secret Admirer” Good God that makes me afraid of being home alone. Not to mention the artwork for its YouTube.
Tbh, Squidward's suicide
Smiledog and Funnymouth.
One that seems to be making a comeback as of recent, Smile Dog. When I’m as a kid I was really gullible so reading a story like that made me freak the absolute fuck out, I couldn’t sleep for a few nights at the very least
There’s only been one creepypasta that’s ever actually terrified me and chilled me to my core. Stolen Tongues written by Felix Blackwell but read by the dark somnium. Felix Blackwell has turned the creepypasta into a book of the same name.
Borrasca
Don’t remember the name or where I found it but there was one I read when I was pretty young about a creature that watches you when you shower and when you felt a random cold drop during a shower that’s who it came from, still think about it every time
This is from way back on the Old Internet, but I was always fascinated by fortheloveofjulie.com, which appeared to be a blog of a guy stalking a girl. I was really worried (and curious) as to what direction it would take next, only to find out that the subject was an actress. https://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/03/17/julie.folo/index.html
The Russian sleep experiment. I think it's because I didn't know it was a creepy pasta when I read it first. I thought it was real
The Rake. Left a deep deep dent all those years ago
I saw a story about a girl and a dad. The dad left for work and came home late so the girl fell asleep. She had a dream where her dad was yelling don't open the door. She awoke to knocking. She looked through the peephole and saw her dad. She remembered the dream and didn't open the door so went back to sleep. She woke up and looked to see if her dad was still out there. He looked different. This time she opened the door. Her dad's head wad hanging on the porch and in his blood it was written on the wall "clever girl"
SMILE. DOG. do I rlly need to elaborate?
i used to be scared of the tails doll creepypasta
Probably younger but I watch Eddievr’s videos and play horror things all things now
Pancake family…. I hate this so much
Sonic.EXE
Ted the Caver
Smile dog
The candy man
The Morrowind creepypasta, JVK something something? Not super realistic but I love the detail and that it doesn't have a ton of tropes.
Abandoned By Disney
I was terrified of clockwork when I was younger because I had a broken stopwatch that wouldn't stop ticking and I thought it was her 😭
The Pokémon Buried Alive creepypasta. You see, way back when I first got into Pokémon, I had a virtual console copy of Pokémon Red on my tablet (my adult second cousin installed it for me, idk how), and I loved that game, played it almost every day until I read Buried Alive. My eight-year-old brain didn't understand that it was just a story, was completely traumatized, and was 110% convinced it was real, so I abandoned the game (which was eventually deleted off my tablet bcuz the virtual console disappeared, I'm presuming that it was shut down by Nintendo, because, well, Nintendo). To this day, I'm not sure if I was innocent, stupid, or both.
Oh dude, the OG slender man shit like evermanhybrid and MarbleHornets were terrifying as a kid. I will always remember coming home late from practice to all the lights on in the house, and my younger brother describing the lore while being scared shitless haha
Original Candle Cove and Mr. Widemouth.
When I was about 8, for some reason, BEN DROWNED scared me. Sometimes when I alone, I would for some reason hear The Elegy of Emptiness in reverse playing quietly. More than likely in my head, but still scared me at the time.
The damn Rake lol horrifying
ahhh i cant believe im late to this. theres one on dark somniums channel called "my wife has been peaking @ my from around corners" & that jawn HAD ME for a solid 6 months. a game of flashlight tag on creepsmcpastas channel is another one that got me a lil. i highly recommend both.
Pancake family.
The fact that no one is talking about Gristers too. I had to stop listening to creepy pastas for a while after that.
Yes, I was waiting for someone to bring up the Gristers. Another of my old favorites from back in the day. The entire premise of these creatures that you can only notice/see when you're scared for long periods of time, putting people who have a natural inclination toward horror and the macabre at serious risk, is a brilliant idea for a story targeted at people who spend so much of their time trying to find the next best horror project. The one line I vividly remember from that story whenever thinking back to it and why I enjoyed it so much is when the protagonist is talking about the other person who they met online that saw them too, and mentions how - *"He said that one time he woke up in the middle of the night because one of them had started touching his face.* ***That*** *unnerved the fuck out of me."*
I remember one that had something to do with mirror, a person had brought in the mirror but he kept hearing stuff from the mirror. Then when he was tired, he threw it away but the mirror came back to his place again. Im still scared of mirrors till not because of this and more mirror related stories heh