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If You’re Armed and at the Glenmont Metro, Please Shoot Me | 9.25 | drug trials, drugs, experimentation, experiments, madness, Peter Frost David, psychological, psychological horror, sci-fi, science, science fiction, time
| If you’re armed and at the Glenmont metro, please shoot me.
Make it a headshot. Shoot me in the temple, aiming slightly downwards. I need the bullet to travel the shortest possible distance through my brain before it hits my hippocampus. If I’m lucky, the sensation of the gunshot ripping through my skull will only last... | 12 minutes | February 20, 2020 | Drugs and Addictions, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Psychological Horror, Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction and Aliens |
A Shattered Life | 9.13 | disease, entities, Matt Dymerski, monsters, paranormal, supernatural, time travel
| I don’t know when you’re going to read this, but I can tell you when it started: I was out for a walk alone in the woods when the entity came for me. It was beyond a blur. It was, for lack of a better term, absence of meaning. Where it hid, there were no trees; where it crept closer, there was no grass; through the a... | 14 minutes | July 22, 2020 | Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Science Fiction and Aliens |
My Father Punished Me When I Talked to Ghosts | 9.12 | abductions, blindness, child abuse, childhood, children, crimes, deaths, deception, investigations, kidnappings, kids, lies, murders
| I’ve been blind since birth. As I grew up, everything was described to me in such vivid detail that I didn’t even realize why it was that important to see, especially having no reference point to compare it. We lived in a single-floor ranch house, that’s what Father told me. In my mind, of course, I could see, although... | 8 minutes | December 10, 2019 | Abductions and Kidnappings, Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Investigations and Crimes |
Distorted Warning Signals | 9.12 | Ashley Rose Wellman
| When I got the first one, I was literally seconds away from stepping onto the plane when a call from “UNKNOWN” blared from my cell phone. It was a ringtone I hadn’t heard before, one I was pretty sure hadn’t come with the phone.
Normally, I wouldn’t have stopped to answer it, but I was expecting a call about a job I ha... | 3 minutes | July 13, 2019 | Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft, Psychological Horror, Survival Horror, Suspense and Thrillers |
He Who Wanders | 9.12 | Simon Simonian
| I missed the scorching wind of Andalusia. How it pours sunlight onto your face, toying with eyelashes, flattening dry sand against cheeks and milling around hair. I missed the smell of the valley and that ripening softness of Muscat fluff glistening in the afternoon breeze.
From up here, I can see the house where I gre... | 22 minutes | January 24, 2017 | Beings and Entities |
The Living History Project | 9.12 | Christine O'Neill, deaths, diaries, dying, history, letters, memories, military, projects, radios, recordings, school, students, suicides, teachers, technology, war, war stories, wars
| One of my least favorite parts about being a middle school history teacher is the bullshit “Living History” assignments we give at the end of every school year. Kids are supposed to sit with their grandparents and video tape, voice record, or transcribe their oldest memories for posterity (and for an easy way to bring ... | 10 minutes | April 25, 2019 | Artifacts and Objects, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Historical Fiction, Journals and Diaries, Locations and Sites, Military and Warfare, Strange and Unexplained, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web |
I Found a Letter From My Stalker | 9.12 | messages, MinisterofOwls, mutilations, notes, stalkers
| I found this note, nailed onto a tree on my front lawn. I really don’t know how to describe it. I’ll just let you read it yourself.
[Note start]
I saw you today. It was your birthday. You didn’t see me. You hardly ever do these days.
Your skin looked so nice and healthy, and your eyes, they were the most beautiful I’d... | 12 minutes | January 6, 2019 | Body Horror, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Strange and Unexplained |
Don’t Let Them In | 9.11 | addictions, alcoholics, alcoholism, child abuse, childhood, children, domestic abuse, drug abuse, drugs, kids, Maddie Kate, mental illness, mothers, parents, substance abuse, suspense
| Addiction took our mother slowly, rocked her through it and sung her to sleep sunk deep into the mattress on her bed. When her back teeth fell out, she left them on the side of the bathtub. I was seven, and I kept them in a matchbox, the missing pieces of her kept safe so that she wouldn’t be lost forever. So maybe one... | 13 minutes | May 28, 2019 | Children and Childhood, Drugs and Addictions, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Suspense and Thrillers |
What Happens When the Stars Go Out | 9.11 | afterlife, deaths, feelspastas, Jesse Clark, life, love, marriage
| The red lights are only making the pain worse. It is an immense, earth-shattering pain, in my midsection and in my head. I try to move, but I can’t; I try to speak, but I can’t do that either. It hurts too much, and my voice obeys me no more than do my joints or my muscles or my bones or my mind.
And yet still there is... | 21 minutes | June 25, 2020 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Feelspastas and Happy Endings, Hell and the Afterlife, Strange and Unexplained |
The Seer of Possibilities | 9.11 | Thomas O.
| Sometimes, otherworldly beings find interesting ways to try and contact you. They might use a Ouija Board, or maybe come to you in a dream, or sometimes they speak through another person. They each have their own style and preference that’s particular to them. The one who contacted Jack spoke to him through his compute... | 19 minutes | January 26, 2015 | Beings and Entities |
Psychosis | 9.11 | madness, Matt Dymerski, mental illness, paranoia, psychological horror, psychosis
| Sunday
I’m not sure why I’m writing this down on paper and not on my computer. I guess I’ve just noticed some odd things. It’s not that I don’t trust the computer… I just… need to organize my thoughts. I need to get down all the details somewhere objective, somewhere I know that what I write can’t be deleted or… chang... | 21 minutes | November 3, 2010 | Beings and Entities, Conspiracies and Government, Famous Creepypasta, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Psychological Horror, Science and Experimentation |
Acts of Vengeance | 9.1 | artifacts, books, curses, G.L. Bouwman, gore, haunted objects, insanity, madness, murders, objects, occult, possession, revenge, slashers
| The bell above the door rang noisily as I entered the bookshop. My hopes of just browsing through the books without attracting the attention of a well-intentioned but usually annoying clerk were immediately dashed. I hate to be bothered while perusing the shelves. But upon closing the door and getting my first glanc... | 28 minutes | December 14, 2019 | Artifacts and Objects, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Demons and Possession, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft, Slashers and Gore |
Mommy Sleeps in the Basement | 9.1 | abductions, childhood, children, crimes, disappearances, Haley Hendershot, kidnappings, kids, murders, mysteries, schools, teachers
| “Speak louder, please.”
I put my hand up next to my ear from the back of the room, signaling that she would need to raise her voice.
She took a deep breath. I could see anxiety turning her cheeks beet red, as strands of blonde hair began to fall out of the same nappy pony tail she wore everyday. There was something ab... | 5 minutes | March 3, 2019 | Abductions and Kidnappings, Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Investigations and Crimes |
Charles Bonnet Syndrome | 9.1 | S.P. Hickey
| I suffer from a condition called Charles Bonnet Syndrome, or Visual Release Hallucinations if you want to get more technical.
It’s a condition that’s far more common than you might realize — it’s estimated that as many as half of people with gradual loss of vision will experience one or more bouts over their lifetime. ... | 22 minutes | May 4, 2017 | Strange and Unexplained |
The Well | 9.1 | anonymously authored, based on a true story, based on true events, historical fiction, historical horror, Video Narratives OK
| My grandfather grew up on a chicken farm outside of Krakow, Poland. He passed away a few years ago at the age of 82. A few days before his passing on, due to an aggressive form of stomach cancer, he sat me down next to him in his old rocking chair and said in his familiar polish accent, “After I took the boat to New Yo... | 5 minutes | February 4, 2017 | Based on True Events, Beings and Entities, Historical Fiction |
Sniff | 9.1 | folklore, folktales, legends, mythology, myths, Nicky Exposito
| Publisher’s Note: This is a companion piece to Slum.
I never liked Rustic Gables Skilled Nursing Facility.
Years ago, I worked as an EMT for MediTrans Ambulance Service. We did inter-facility transports, mostly dialysis runs and hospital discharges, so I spent a lot of time around crappy nursing homes. But even with m... | 23 minutes | November 9, 2016 | Folklore and Folktales, Locations and Sites, Myths and Legends |
Turn It Off | 9.1 | Polum Chill, Video Narratives OK
| I rested my arms behind my head, skim-reading the credits of a movie I’d just watched. After seeing them through about half way, I lifted myself from the sofa and walked to the kitchen, stretching my arms out above me. I opened the fridge door and found a full cartoon of juice, so I sat down on the kitchen counter by t... | 26 minutes | August 25, 2016 | Strange and Unexplained |
Bound | 9.1 | Bnlala, children, creatures, cryptids, curses, deals, deaths, kids, legends, letters, monsters, outdoors, pacts, sacrifices, woods
| Paul pulled the envelope out of his leather attaché case and settled into an uncomfortable chair behind a large writing desk. Late afternoon sun filtered in through the bay window but couldn’t defeat the dankness of the old house, nor the dreariness of his mood. Luckily, he had had the mind to pack a few battery-powere... | 12 minutes | February 27, 2015 | Children and Childhood, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Journals and Diaries, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Myths and Legends, Nature and the Outdoors |
The Melancholy of Herbert Solomon | 9.1 | Michael Whitehouse
| On several occasions my interest in the supernatural has taken me to some of the most prestigious seats of learning in the entire United Kingdom. From the venerable halls of Oxford and Cambridge, to the more humble surroundings of inner city colleges and schools, my pursuit of evidence to substantiate such claims has r... | 13 minutes | December 28, 2012 | Beings and Entities |
Bedtime | 9.1 | Bedtime Series, beings, childhood, children, creatures, entities, kids, Michael Whitehouse, monsters
| Part One: The Beginning
Bedtime is supposed to be a happy event for a tired child; for me it was terrifying. While some children might complain about being put to bed before they have finished watching a film or playing their favourite video game, when I was a child, night time was something to truly fear. Somewhere ... | 57 minutes | October 11, 2012 | Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Famous Creepypasta, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Strange and Unexplained |
Sisters | 9.09 | churches, creatures, deaths, demonic possession, illness, illnesses, insanity, madness, mental illness, monsters, nuns, period pieces, period stories, possession, religion, sickness, Soren Narnia, spirituality
| My name is Julien Serrault. It is the 7th of January, 1882. I am an innkeeper outside the mountain town of Briancon, at the base of the French Alps. The inn does not do much trade, and in the winter months I am sometimes alone for days at a time. In recent times I have earned a pittance delivering dry goods and sundrie... | 27 minutes | February 29, 2020 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Demons and Possession, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Religion and Spirituality |
Ticci-Toby | 9.09 | arson, arsons, creepypasta classics, crimes, deaths, gore, Kastoway, mental illness, murders, serial killers, slashers, sociopaths, stabbings, Ticci Toby, ticci toby anime, ticci toby backstory, ticci toby creepypasta, ticci toby creepypasta story, ticci toby drawing, ticci toby fanart, ticci toby full story, ticci to... | The long road home seemed to go on and on. The road continued to stretch in front of the vehicle endlessly. The light that shone through the branches of the tall, green trees danced across the window in random patterns, and every once and a while, obnoxiously shining in your eyes.
The surroundings were full of deep gre... | 17 minutes | March 2, 2015 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Famous Creepypasta, Slashers and Gore |
I Drive for Cerber | 9.09 | apps, cars, creatures, driving, ghosts, internet, jobs, Mofucious, monsters, mythical creatures, occupational, occupations, paranormal, spirits, taxi cabs, taxis, technology, Uber
| My name is Jim. I’ve been in and out of construction contracts for the last seventeen years. Between those contracts, I do what I can to make a few extra bucks, since you never really know when the next contract will show up and unemployment pays you just enough to lay awake hungry at night. Most of us have heard of Ub... | 47 minutes | March 31, 2019 | Ghosts and Spirits, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Myths and Legends, Strange and Unexplained, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web |
The Quiet Sky | 9.09 | aliens, Ryan Brennaman, Video Narratives OK
| It started when we called out to the stars; into the darkness. We felt so small, tumbling through vast emptiness while clinging to the skin of the world, and without a single reason why. We were curious, yes, but ultimately I think we were just terribly frightened. And we were young, so very young. We were children, an... | 7 minutes | December 7, 2016 | Beings and Entities, Science Fiction and Aliens |
Forget Me | 9.09 | beings, emotional, entities, feelspastas, ghost stories, ghosts, spirits, Video Narratives OK, WatchThe-Aftermath
| I was a beautiful young woman once, full of love and life. My lily-white skin was soft and warm, my belly swollen with new life, and my hand held by my husband, Edward. Edward was a good man. We married young, in the spring, when the air was heavy with the scent of the blossoming trees and the ground damp with dew. I r... | 10 minutes | April 10, 2016 | Beings and Entities, Feelspastas and Happy Endings, Ghosts and Spirits |
The Fairies | 9.09 | anonymously authored, beings, entities, fairies, Video Narratives OK
| I’ve always been fascinated with the unknown, particularly creatures of the unknown. I don’t know when this obsession of mine started. It probably started when I was a young kid and would watch documentary series on aliens, Bigfoot, Yeti, unknown sea monsters, and the like.
My obsession earned me my share of names and ... | 29 minutes | April 2, 2016 | Beings and Entities |
Ascension | 9.09 | Mark Lannin
| The Harbinger always went for the freaks. They were its favorite. It wanted ones that would fight back, and ones that wouldn’t be afraid at first; or, even better, ones that believed they could win. Those rare humans with bravado and confidence so great that they actually believed they could defeat it somehow. Those we... | 42 minutes | January 11, 2016 | Beings and Entities |
Slum | 9.09 | Nicky Exposito
| Publisher’s Note: If you enjoy this story, the author encourages you to read its companion piece, Sniff.
My first job was at a 24-hour restaurant called Flavi’s, on Third and Burlington in Westlake. It was a real hole-in-the-wall place, the type where patrons line up beneath the menu board; specializing in burgers, gyr... | 22 minutes | December 2, 2015 | Locations and Sites |
My Grandfather’s Final Invention | 9.09 | Alice Thompson
| My grandfather was an inventor.
All his life he’s be tinkering with something, either taking something that existed and changing it, making it into something brand new (Or at the very least different) or inventing something entirely from spare parts. And while nothing he invented was ever earth shaking it was always on... | 7 minutes | November 30, 2015 | Artifacts and Objects, Beings and Entities |
Three Friends Diner | 9.09 | Nicky Exposito
| To: Jeremy Fuentes, Ph.D
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
University of California, Berkeley
Jeremy –
I assume you have heard about the strange discovery made at 918 E. 3rd Street – a converted warehouse located on the corner of 3rd and Weller Avenue, in the middle of the Arts District in Downtown Los Angeles.
The ... | 23 minutes | August 2, 2015 | Beings and Entities |
The Face of Fear | 9.09 | Michael Whitehouse
| Twice I saw the face in the window, pressed up against the surface, its icy breath fogging the cold glass. At first it appeared strange to me, the skin beneath its eyes drooping in ripples of flesh, exposing the red sensitive strata underneath.
It was the winter of ‘83, and I had booked the cabin for three nights – onl... | 26 minutes | November 25, 2014 | Beings and Entities |
In the Walls | 9.09 | anonymously authored
| We moved out of our last house a week ago, and I’m glad we did. It was definitely not safe there, especially for a man like me who has a young family to take care of. I think if I hadn’t decided to get the hell out of there, I would have failed my family – and I would probably have lost them too, eventually.
There was ... | 16 minutes | October 5, 2014 | Beings and Entities |
Artificial | 9.09 | Christopher Gideon
| I didn’t stop running. I suppose I could have, if I wanted to, but the thought of what would happen to me if I stood still for any more than a second frightened me to death. My breaths grew louder and louder as I ran down the dull gray hallway which I had casually walked through so many times before. My head spun as I ... | 13 minutes | November 24, 2013 | Strange and Unexplained |
The Devil Game | 9.09 | Casey Pierce, InfernalNightmare333
| Pray, for devils have no reason
Satan waits to curse your ways
Have you seen it in his eyes in the sunset?
Have you wondered if he’s laughing when he plays?
– Kansas, “The Devil Game”
This is a set of instructions for how to speak with the Devil.
Which, as those of you with any sort of brains at all might note, is a p... | 20 minutes | October 23, 2013 | Beings and Entities, Rites and Rituals |
On a Hill | 9.09 | Michael Whitehouse
| Part 1
The events of the past several days have both shaken my understanding of the world, and left me with a disheartened and perplexed disposition. Yet I feel that I must organise these events in my mind, that I am compelled to structure the terrible things which I have seen so that I may understand them better, so t... | 58 minutes | May 26, 2013 | Locations and Sites |
Mr. Widemouth | 9.09 | childhood, children, creatures, kids, Mister Widemouth, monsters, Mr. Wide Mouth, Mr. Widemouth, Mr. Widemouth creepypasta, Mr. Widemouth creepypasta story, Mr. Widemouth original story, Mr. Widemouth story, PerfectCircle35
| During my childhood my family was like a drop of water in a vast river, never remaining in one location for long. We settled in Rhode Island when I was eight, and there we remained until I went to college in Colorado Springs. Most of my memories are rooted in Rhode Island, but there are fragments in the attic of my bra... | 6 minutes | October 25, 2010 | Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Famous Creepypasta, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Strange and Unexplained |
The Art Of Jacob Emory | 9.09 | art, Douglas Greenwood, magic, magic wands, occult, Peter Divine
| Ghost stories? Nah, we don’t have anything like that around here. We DO have the story of Jacob, but that’s about as close as you’ll get.
…You really want to know?… Well, I’m not supposed to tell you, but all right, just no interrupting. I don’t have the patience for it.
How to describe Jacob Emory… well, I guess you ... | 7 minutes | April 5, 2010 | Artifacts and Objects, Occult, Magic, and Witchcraft |
The Gift Of Mercy | 9.09 | aliens, anonymously authored, cosmic, deaths, sci-fi, science fiction, space, warnings
| [MESSAGE BEGINS]
We made a mistake. That is the simple, undeniable truth of the matter, however painful it might be. The flaw was not in our Observatories, for those machines were as perfect as we could make, and they showed us only the unfiltered light of truth. The flaw was not in the Predictor, for it is a device of... | 5 minutes | January 26, 2009 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Science Fiction and Aliens, Space and Cosmic Horror |
Dust | 9.09 | Cameron Suey, Josef K.
| The last storm was already on the horizon when I woke that Sunday morning. It hung in the south, a solid black wall of dust, churning and seemingly motionless. I’d every intention of sleeping late into the morning, as had been my Sunday custom since Adele and the girls had left, but the distant rumbling and crackle of ... | 11 minutes | January 21, 2009 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances |
The Promise | 9.08 | children, feelspastas, guardian angels, kids, past lives, premonitions, protectors, reincarnation, Stephanie Scissom, strange, unexplained
Please wait...
| The anniversary of Layne’s death wasn’t for another three days, but when “Cochise” came on the radio as I approached that curve, I took it as a sign. Layne’s favorite song. I pressed the gas and shifted gears as Chris Cornell began to wail. The needle on the odometer crept up.
40. 45. 50.
The yellow posted warning sig... | 25 minutes | September 12, 2019 | Children and Childhood, Feelspastas and Happy Endings, Strange and Unexplained |
The Whistlers: Bill’s Account | 9.08 | Amity Argot, beings, creatures, diaries, entities, forests, journals, nature, outdoors, strange, The Whistlers Series, unexplained, woods
| Publisher’s Note: This story is the second of a two-part arc told from the perspective of two individuals, Ruth and Bill, via their journal entries. For the best experience, we recommend you read the first half of the story, told from Ruth’s perspective, before reading Bill’s Account. For Ruth’s Account, please click h... | 33 minutes | July 8, 2019 | Beings and Entities, Journals and Diaries, Nature and the Outdoors, Strange and Unexplained |
Dandelions | 9.08 | afterlife, deaths, disappearances, dying, feelspastas, flowers, ghosts, happy endings, love, love stories, missing persons, murders, out-of-body experiences, paranormal, Stephanie Scissom
| The first time I saw Bret, I was nineteen. I’d found a job working security at Dave’s Storage Unit. My duties included keeping vagrants and thieves from disturbing the 40 rental units that were laid out in five neat rows in the middle of downtown Atlanta and helping customers with lost combinations for their locks. ... | 17 minutes | January 25, 2019 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Feelspastas and Happy Endings, Ghosts and Spirits, Hell and the Afterlife, Religion and Spirituality, Strange and Unexplained |
The Last Man of Faith | 9.08 | Alex Taylor, Video Narratives OK
| It was a long time ago that I heard the tale. I was deep in the desert, with only myself and a man I had hired as a guide. We found a small oasis at the bottom of a valley and set up camp for the evening. Later that night, under a moonless sky we sat around the campfire. My guide was carving something from a piece of w... | 21 minutes | June 28, 2016 | Rites and Rituals |
Blindness | 9.08 | home intruders, home invasion, intruders, Moonlit_Cove, stalkers, Video Narratives OK
| It’s true what they say – that when a person goes blind their other senses heighten in order to compensate. Knowing that, and thinking back on everything that happened to me, I still can’t come to a rational conclusion of how these events unfolded around me without my knowledge. Granted, I couldn’t actually see any of ... | 15 minutes | June 22, 2016 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances |
The Lost Cosmonaut | 9.08 | Alapanamo, historical fiction, historical horror, Video Narratives OK
| Officially, Yuri Gagarin was the first human to reach outer space. His historic flight in April of 1961 kick-started the space race in earnest. The Soviet space program, however, was shrouded in secrecy from the beginning. There have long been questions regarding the existence of “lost cosmonauts,” those individuals wh... | 10 minutes | May 3, 2016 | Historical Fiction, Strange and Unexplained |
The Perfectly Behaved Boy | 9.08 | Christmas, Christmas stories, holidays, Seasonally Spooky, Thomas O., Xmas
| There was once a very well behaved eight-year-old boy named Miles. He did all the things that good children are supposed to do, nearly all the time. He ate all his vegetables, unless they were carrots. He completed all of his school assignments, except for that one time he forgot to finish his homework. He was always n... | 19 minutes | December 25, 2015 | Beings and Entities, Christmas and Holidays |
The Cats of Juniper Valley | 9.08 | Nicky Exposito
| They put up a tall fence covered with black tarp and topped by barbed wire, surrounding Lake Collette at the center of Juniper Valley, so that no one could see what they were doing. Two of the three local cop cars were stationed 24/7 at either end – one to the east, one to the west. This all went on for three days whil... | 23 minutes | December 16, 2015 | Beings and Entities |
The Fourth Child | 9.08 | Black-Eyed Children
| My mother, my siblings and I moved into this awesome new house a few months ago. It’s a really cool plantation-style home out in what was once a rural area outside of New Orleans. By now the area is a little more built up, so it’s really more like a spacious suburb.
Anyway, it had been about 9 months since our father d... | 12 minutes | August 28, 2015 | Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood |
Promises | 9.08 | null | I was one of those frail, sickly children for the vast majority of my early years. I was constantly being shuffled from physician to physician with one ailment or another; asthma, perpetual tonsillitis, severe allergies to everything. You name it I dealt with it at one point or another growing up. This meant that I spe... | 16 minutes | August 4, 2014 | Strange and Unexplained
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Sadie | 9.08 | anonymously authored, deaths, frequencies, games, gaming, haunted games, illness, Lavender Town, madness, mental health, Pokemon, pokepastas, sounds, suicides, urban legends, video games
| Lavender Town as seen in Red and Green
The Lavender Town Syndrome (also known as “Lavender Town Tone” or “Lavender Town Suicides”) was a peak in suicides and illness of children between the ages of 7-12 shortly after the release of Pokémon Red and Green in Japan, back in February 27th, 1996.
Rumors say that these suic... | < 1 minute | April 28, 2011 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Famous Creepypasta, Illness and Injuries, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Sounds and Voices, Strange and Unexplained, Urban Legends, Video Games and Gaming |
The Sandman | 9.08 | Tam Lin
| “Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.”
-Edgar Allen Poe, “Eleanora”
***
“Go to bed and wait for the Sandman.”
Even as it came out of James’ mouth it seemed to him a strange thing to say, and he was not sure why he had, but for some reason it worked: Daniel went... | 14 minutes | June 17, 2013 | Beings and Entities |
The Systelien Specter | 9.08 | games, gaming, haunted games, Haunted Games Writing Contest, TheHootax, video games
| Back in May of 2010, my best friend, Andy, and I wanted to make a video game that we thought was going to change virtual reality gaming and the horror genre forever. We were both out of the university, me with a degree in computer programming and him with digital art design. Both of us were avid gamers. I think we play... | 14 minutes | February 25, 2013 | Beings and Entities, Video Games and Gaming |
Pretend | 9.08 | beings, boys, children, creatures, entities, kids, monsters, RedBullReptar
| Luke stepped out of the warm comfort of his best friend’s house into the cold winter air. The sun was quickly slipping beneath the horizon and the trees of the forest cast long twisted shadows across the yard. Luke said goodbye to his friend and thanked his mother for having him over, as their goodbyes drew to a close ... | 7 minutes | January 4, 2013 | Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids |
The Tulpa | 9.08 | anonymously authored, deaths, experimentation, experiments, madness, manifestation, manifesting, mental illness, murders, sci-fi, science experiments, science fiction, strange, thought forms, thoughtforms, tulpas, unexplained
| Last year I spent six months participating in what I was told was a psychological experiment. I found an ad in my local paper looking for imaginative people looking to make good money, and since it was the only ad that week that I was remotely qualified for, I gave them a call and we arranged an interview. They told me... | 8 minutes | November 17, 2012 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction and Aliens, Strange and Unexplained |
Lightning | 9.08 | Alapanamo
| We had just moved into a little ranch house in the suburbs. Storybook neighborhood – quiet, friendly neighbors, picket fences, the whole nine yards. Suffice it to say that this was supposed to be a new start for me, a recently single dad, and my three-year-old son. A time to move on from the previous year’s drama and s... | 2 minutes | September 22, 2012 | Strange and Unexplained |
An Egg | 9.08 | null | It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.
And that’s when you met me.
“What… what happened?” Y... | 4 minutes | September 1, 2012 | Strange and Unexplained
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Survival Guide | 9.08 | parodies
| We’ve all been there. You have just gone to a certain place, at a certain time on a certain date, done a special thing and the thing you suspected would happen has just fucking happened, not to mention the fact that you’ve just seen whatever the fuck it is that lives in your mirror, been told in detail how you’re going... | 4 minutes | May 28, 2010 | Dark Comedy, Humor, and Parodies, Rites and Rituals |
The Body Farm | 9.07 | Brian Martinez
| Part 1
I’m not a guy who gets scared easily, but I’m also not the kind who keeps his head in the sand, if you know what I mean. When something doesn’t feel right, it doesn’t feel right, period. I acknowledge that most of the bad things that happen in life can be blamed on people or the world around us, but I also belie... | 74 minutes | March 6, 2020 | Strange and Unexplained |
The Twitch Stream | 9.07 | Connor Phillips, games, gaming, internet, live streams, livestreaming, livestreams, streaming, technology, Twitch, video games
| I am one of the biggest streamers on Twitch. I play games spanning all genres, and my streams consistently get over 20,000 viewers. I love what I do. It has taken me many years to get to where I am today, and not a day goes by that I wish I was doing something else.
That is until the horrifying events of last Friday ... | 13 minutes | July 19, 2019 | Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web, Video Games and Gaming |
Ted the Caver | 9.07 | beings, blogs, cave diving, caves, claustrophobia, creatures, creepypasta classics, diaries, entities, journals, locations, madness, monsters, nature, outdoors, sites, spelunking, Ted Hegemann, Ted the Caver, Ted the Caver creepypasta, Ted the Caver original story, Ted the Caver story
| 3/23/01
Due to the overwhelming number of requests I have received to tell about my discoveries and bizarre experiences in a cave not far from my home, I have created this web page. I will outline the events that happened to me during the past few months. Beginning with my journey into a familiar cave in December 2000 ... | 86 minutes | July 5, 2012 | Beings and Entities, Famous Creepypasta, Journals and Diaries, Locations and Sites, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Nature and the Outdoors |
When Science Found God | 9.07 | god, life, matrix, mysteries, philosophy, quantum computers, quantum physics, science, strange, universe, Zacharius Frost
| I’ve never much cared for religion. I mean, it’s interesting and all; the old parables and philosophic insights from people two millenniums removed from the present. I particularly enjoy the books of the Apocrypha, and the Bible’s magnum opus of Revelation, if for nothing else than the interesting stories. Even some of... | 19 minutes | September 1, 2020 | Beings and Entities, Religion and Spirituality, Science and Experimentation, Science Fiction and Aliens, Strange and Unexplained |
Magda | 9.07 | Christmas, Christmas stories, holidays, Seasonally Spooky, Thomas O., Xmas
| Author’s Note: For those of you who might be curious, this is intended as a companion piece to The Perfectly Behaved Boy, a story that was published on this site two years ago. However, this tale was written so that it will stand on its own, with no prior knowledge of this universe needed by the reader.
Some of our mos... | 41 minutes | December 22, 2017 | Beings and Entities, Christmas and Holidays |
The Blaganschlor | 9.07 | Alex Taylor, Creepypasta Contest Winners, Video Narratives OK
| “Have you seen the Blaganschlor
Hung by rope composed of gore
Who says his name and nothing more
His true name lost in days of yore?
At the gray and barren meadow
Where ancient rivers used to flow
The dying light of summer’s glow
Will call him from the dark below.”
Those are the first two stanzas of ‘The Blaganschlor’,... | 22 minutes | October 7, 2016 | Beings and Entities |
Maisie Went Missing Last Year | 9.07 | beings, childhood, children, entities, kids, relationships, Spuk, Video Narratives OK
| Last summer, I flew back to my hometown for a school reunion. It had been almost three years since I had graduated from school, and aside from close friends, I had heard nothing from the rest of my classmates.
The reunion took place at the school itself, lasting till midnight. I arrived home early that day, giving me t... | 22 minutes | April 27, 2016 | Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood |
The Pastel Man | 9.07 | Vincent Vena Cava
| Consider this a warning. In the event it ever comes to you during a moment of weakness, as it did me all those years ago, say no to the Pastel Man. It doesn’t matter how much you love the person that it promises to help, nothing is worth what it wants in return. I tell you this in hopes that you don’t make the same mis... | 20 minutes | January 12, 2014 | Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances |
The Deafening | 9.07 | Ariane M.D., beings, deaths, entities
| Everyone knows that kid in school, the one who spends half the school year at home because their immune system can’t handle the massive amount of germs and viruses that tend to accumulate in an elementary school. I was that kid. I found myself getting sick every other week. Something in my body was always fighting off ... | 19 minutes | December 8, 2013 | Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances |
Seventeen | 9.07 | null | Edgar raised his head up from his chest; back pressed firmly into his favorite recliner, his entire body drenched in cold sweat. He stared into shadows at the edge of the living room, eyes welling with tears as he lifted the revolver slowly and deliberately to his temple. “Seventeen”, he whispered to the darkness.
The ... | 21 minutes | April 3, 2013 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness
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Forgotten Valentine | 9.07 | holidays, Michael Whitehouse, Valentine's Day
| I had managed to keep a healthy scepticism of ghosts, ghouls and all things supernatural until I was 28. I found most claims of such things to be dubious at best, and harmful at worst. I was very much in the camp of the classical sciences as I had studied physics at Edinburgh university several years earlier. While my ... | 19 minutes | February 14, 2013 | Beings and Entities |
In The Land of Black and White | 9.07 | Stephan D. Harris
| “Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host.
But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”
– Maya Angelou
I know of an anecdote, one about a little girl named Madeline. Little Maddie was seven years old, with dark chestnut hair and wide blue eyes. Everyone thought she would grow up to become such a pretty wom... | 9 minutes | January 8, 2013 | Beings and Entities |
Dear Abby | 9.07 | null | Dear Abby,
We’ve never met before, so this may seem a bit odd, but I feel this is necessary. My name’s Jay for starters, I work the checkout line at the grocery store up on 67th Street. You know the one with the parking lot that’s way too big for the the store itself? Yeah, that one. I’m 24, fairly tall and have a rath... | 18 minutes | September 29, 2012 | Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness
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Ickbarr Bigelsteine | 9.07 | creatures, dolls, feelspastas, happy endings, monsters, Stephan D. Harris, toys
| When I was a small child, I was terrified of the dark. I still am, but back when I was around six years old I couldn’t go a full night without crying out for one of my parents to search beneath my bed or in my closet for whatever monster I thought was waiting to eat me. Even with a night light, I would still see dark s... | 6 minutes | September 19, 2012 | Artifacts and Objects, Beings and Entities, Children and Childhood, Famous Creepypasta, Feelspastas and Happy Endings, Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Toys and Dolls |
The Russian Sleep Experiment | 9.07 | anonymously authored, conspiracies, experiments, government, Russian sleep experiment, sleep, sleeping, soldiers, The Russian sleep experiment
| Listen To The Russian Sleep Experiment Narration
The Story Of The Russian Sleep Experiment
Russian researchers in the late 1940s kept five people awake for fifteen days using an experimental gas based stimulant. They were kept in a sealed environment to carefully monitor their oxygen intake so the gas didn’t kill them... | 8 minutes | July 8, 2012 | Conspiracies and Government, Famous Creepypasta, Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness, Medical and Hospitals, Psychological Horror, Science and Experimentation, Survival Horror, Torture and Cannibalism |
Midnight in Texas | 9.06 | cannibalism, cannibals, deaths, murders, StarlessandBibleBlack, Video Narratives OK
| Publisher’s Note: This story is a sequel to the previously-featured tale, A Sunset in Texas. The author encourages you to read the first installment in the series to better understand the events of this one. You can find the first part here.
Cooper jostled slightly in his seat as the pickup truck bounced its way down t... | 28 minutes | June 26, 2019 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Torture and Cannibalism |
A Peculiar Kind of Madness | 9.06 | beings, bell, entities, ghosts, Matt Dymerski, mysteries, strange
| I’d always known that my great-grandma was an orphan, but in late October of last year, she decided to tell me the truth about what happened to her family.
We were visiting her for her birthday. It was a tradition in our household; a road trip we knew in the back of our minds we’d take only a few more times. She was tu... | 12 minutes | September 2, 2020 | Artifacts and Objects, Beings and Entities, Ghosts and Spirits, Strange and Unexplained |
Secret Bar | 9.06 | demons, Devil, Hell, K. Banning-Kellum, Satan, secret, secretive
| Every city claims to have them, and every city will tell you that theirs is the best. Most larger places will lay claim to having quite a few. I am of course speaking of secret bars. The kind of bars with no name out front, where a secret password is required to get in. This is what started my obsession, and may have... | 17 minutes | July 6, 2020 | Demons and Possession, Hell and the Afterlife, Religion and Spirituality, Strange and Unexplained |
The Killer’s Interview | 9.06 | D. Fulkerson, darkness, deaths, murders
| “You sure you want to go in there alone?”
The warden was an uncompromisingly beefy man who drank, smoked, and just wanted to survive until retirement. He ran a tight, clean ship and, for his efforts, he was rewarded with the pleasure of guarding the vilest of abusers. His charges were lifers and he got to babysit them ... | 16 minutes | January 24, 2018 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Strange and Unexplained |
The Final Fate of Mary Ford | 9.06 | Thomas O.
| I haunted them and they never knew it. Mama, Papa, and my little brother Jacob; they always looked right through me, for two years never detecting even the slightest sign of my presence. Have you ever felt the bitter outrage that boils inside you when you’re being ignored? Well what happened during those years was even... | 21 minutes | August 8, 2015 | Beings and Entities |
When Gods Blink | 9.06 | CharminglyShallow
| On the 25th March, at 14:57GMT, the world stopped for 27 minutes and 54 seconds. No-one noticed at first. Those that eventually did were ordered to keep quiet.
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There was no sudden jolt, no collapsing into unconsciousness, no transition into utter darkness and back again. Nothing.
For ev... | 19 minutes | August 24, 2014 | Beings and Entities |
The Skinwalker | 9.06 | cryptids, deaths, forests, hunters, hunting, Max Minton, monsters, nature, outdoors, woods
| My father told me a story once. I’ll never forget it, for a few reasons. I think it’s the first story he ever told me as a child. It’s also the story of how my grandfather died. But honestly, that isn’t the reason.
You hear stories on TV, or sometimes you overhear something in a public place. People talk about ghosts a... | 11 minutes | December 28, 2013 | Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Nature and the Outdoors |
The Crawlspace | 9.06 | Kaitie H.
| Um… hi there. I guess you could say I’m writing this as a cautionary tale to those who plan on studying abroad in future. I don’t mean to discourage you from going in the first place, it’s more like I just want you to be aware of this so that something like this doesn’t happen to you too.
I guess I should explain a lit... | 15 minutes | July 12, 2013 | Beings and Entities, Locations and Sites |
Julia Legare | 9.06 | null | A few years ago I was spending some time with friends exploring old, supposedly haunted, places. We were at the Edisto First Presbyterian Church, where a girl named Julia Legare was buried in her family mausoleum in 1852.
People reported hearing unearthly screams time and time again, but never investigating the cause o... | 3 minutes | October 6, 2009 | Beings and Entities, Locations and Sites
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My Wives Don’t Get Along | 9.05 | love, Tobias Wade
| Have you ever wanted to love someone, but couldn’t?
That’s how I felt about Tammy. We never should have gotten together in the first place, but it was her birthday and I didn’t know what I was getting myself in for. She invited all five of us from the office and I was expecting to just have a drink and go home. Fast fo... | 5 minutes | June 21, 2020 | Strange and Unexplained |
The Girl the Universe Forgot | 9.05 | D.D. Howard
Please wait...
| The Mandela Effect. That phrase never meant anything to me. Spooky, I guess, but it wasn’t something I thought about for more than five minutes. I mean, honestly, until college, I didn’t even know what it was. I’m not one for conspiracy theories or ghost stories or anything like that, so what would you expect? I wish I... | 32 minutes | December 8, 2019 | Strange and Unexplained |
Daughter’s Drawings | 9.05 | art, childhood, children, daughters, drawings, kids, Nick Botic
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| Part 1: A Diner Called Daisy’s
This whole thing started on a road trip around four years ago. We left to go from Northern California to the East Coast, traveling through the Midwest. It was me, my wife Kimmy, our 7-year-old daughter Katie, and 5-year-old son Alex. Everything went fine for the first few days. We took ou... | 48 minutes | November 24, 2019 | Children and Childhood |
The Whistlers: Ruth’s Account | 9.05 | Amity Argot, beings, creatures, diaries, entities, forests, journals, nature, outdoors, strange, The Whistlers Series, trees, unexplained, woods
Please wait...
| I bought a camping backpack from an estate sale and found the following pages inside.
There was a bundle of papers wadded in a deep pocket of the backpack, but I didn’t notice until after I got it home. I went back to the house where the estate sale was held, and a young woman answered the door. She couldn’t say who th... | 54 minutes | July 8, 2019 | Beings and Entities, Journals and Diaries, Nature and the Outdoors, Strange and Unexplained |
Playpen | 9.05 | computers, dark web, deep web, Hayden Dalby, Unfriended
| As an investigative analyst for the FBI, I spent years combing through the depths of the digital colossus known as the “Dark Web.” It’s mind-numbing work, filtering through thousands of illicit sites offering services ranging from outrageously fake to bone chillingly real.
My name is Clara Sanders. I’m 35-years-old, un... | 23 minutes | October 13, 2019 | Strange and Unexplained, Technology, the Internet, and the Deep Web |
The Reaper’s Scythe | 9.05 | afterlife, deaths, grim reaper, Hell, reaper, scythe, Tobias Wade
| There is no fear as potent as the fear of the unknown. No monstrous visage discovered yet has been as terrifying as the infinite potential for horror which exists before the mask is removed.
That is why we humans, in our naive misunderstanding of the universal order, are gripped by the mortal fear of death. We think it... | 5 minutes | June 18, 2020 | Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Hell and the Afterlife, Religion and Spirituality, Strange and Unexplained |
Rose – Part 1 | 9.05 | LAKK, The Rose Series, Video Narratives OK
| “Okay Father, we need you to cooperate with us here. If you’re honest from the beginning, things will be a lot better for you.” Officer Green sipped his coffee, a little too weak for this time of the night. Things like this didn’t happen very often in his small town so he wasn’t used to having to stay up all night. But... | 15 minutes | October 25, 2016 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances |
Family of Three Plus One | 9.05 | Video Narratives OK
| They follow the same neat routine every day. The boy wakes up to the sound of that unpleasant alarm at 6 AM every morning, Monday through Friday. I listen carefully to the sheets rustling above me as he tosses, turns, shifts in his bed struggling to force himself awake. On the occasion that he falls back asleep in the ... | 7 minutes | July 24, 2016 | Beings and Entities |
Crying Numbers | 9.05 | Ashley Franz Holzmann
| The first week.
It’s all in the numbers. That’s how you understand anything of real value in this world.
At this point, we don’t need the baby monitor anymore. But even after all this time, I still need the static to fall asleep. It was a while ago when the baby started sleeping through the night, and I needed it thro... | 20 minutes | July 23, 2015 | Madness, Paranoia, and Mental Illness |
Too Long at the Cliff | 9.05 | Tim van Kessel, TvanK
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Estimated reading time — 15 minute | 15 minut | June 21, 2015 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances |
Bright Eyes | 9.05 | null | I didn’t want to move to a new place. All of my toys were in boxes and we didn’t have any T.V. Mom told me to play outside but she was always busy and Dad was at work. There weren’t any kids around there anyway. Mom told me to explore the house, but I didn’t like to. The house was empty except for boxes. The basement w... | 9 minutes | December 22, 2014 | Strange and Unexplained
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The Pursuit Institute | 9.05 | creatures, forests, Liam Vickers, monsters, outdoors, woods
| Two years ago, a bunch of my friends and I went on a school-sponsored trip to Alaska set up by the Pursuit Institute. I was placed in a group with nine, no, ten other students, and two adult chaperones. Another group was also made up of similar numbers, and each group would start at one location and then we would switc... | 12 minutes | October 5, 2014 | Monsters, Creatures, and Cryptids, Nature and the Outdoors, Strange and Unexplained |
Mary | 9.05 | The Fox God
| Allen hurriedly gulped down the last of his milk when he heard the doorbell ring.
“Mom! Chad and Mike are here, I’m leaving for school,” he shouted at the ceiling of the kitchen. He grabbed his backpack off the counter and headed for the door.
“Wait!” His mother rushed down the stairs, half stumbling in the process, s... | 14 minutes | April 5, 2014 | Beings and Entities |
A Christmas Feast | 9.05 | Michael Whitehouse
| He first suspected that they were going to eat him when he noticed the distinct lack of Yuletide smells. It wasn’t perhaps a conscious thought, at least not one which had been fully realised, but there was a clear growing uneasiness within him. Somehow he just knew.
Surely if a family invited you for Christmas dinner, ... | 10 minutes | December 25, 2013 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances |
Face Your Fears | 9.05 | Casey Pierce, InfernalNightmare333
| The sun was just setting on a clear and brisk fall evening as Diane began making her way home through the winding, cobbled streets of the city. In the countryside, it might have been a lovely twilight, but much of its beauty was lost here. The tall brick buildings crowded close to both the streets and each other, obscu... | 24 minutes | October 6, 2013 | Beings and Entities, Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances |
I Am the Apocalypse | 9.05 | apocalyptic, beings, dystopian, entities, famous characters, fan fiction, Lichtjunger, post apocolyptic, Resident Evil, undead, zombie apocalypse, zombies
| The cold was the first thing I felt.
Even before my eyes were open I felt a very deep chill in my core, a thousand spindles of ice sewn between my tissues. I blinked, my eyelids slowly bringing and stealing back the darkness, and with it the desire to keep them closed forever.
I was lying face down on the floor, the t... | 15 minutes | April 6, 2013 | Apocalyptic and Dystopian, Beings and Entities, Zombies and the Undead |
Fenter Woods | 9.05 | null | I used to live in a small town called Fenter. It was a quiet place to grow up with one school, a doctors, a police station, a cinema (with films shown a month after the national release date), two restaurants and a host of local shops on the west side. Over on the east side of Fenter was the residential area with abou... | 20 minutes | March 8, 2013 | Beings and Entities
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Something Happened During a Hostage Negotiation I Can’t Explain | 9.04 | alternate realities, cops, crimes, criminals, deaths, foreshadowing, heists, hostages, investigations, jobs, Kyle Harrison, lotteries, lottery, mysteries, negotiations, occupations, parallel realities, phone calls, phones, police, police officers, premonitions, prophecies, robberies, second chances, standoffs, strange... | The west side bank has three exits, thirty windows and nineteen air vents. And when I arrived at the scene, there were thirteen people being held captive by a man with a vendetta.
“How bad are things?” I asked the officer in charge. So far no one had been hurt. But I knew that would change quickly if I didn’t start tal... | 6 minutes | July 7, 2019 | Deaths, Murders, and Disappearances, Investigations and Crimes, Jobs and Occupations, Science Fiction and Aliens, Strange and Unexplained |
A Story From the BlackGuard | 9.04 | beings, cyberpunk, entities, fantasy, Justin Reinarz, sci-fi, science fiction, shapeshifters, steampunk, strange, unexplained, vampires, werewolves
| Part I
The story I am about to tell you is rather confidential. Amongst the Mire, we are known as Regiment 9. Throughout Regiment 9, we are known as the ‘BlackGuards’, But in the small circle of men and women who actually make up the organization, we call ourselves ‘the exterminators’. Led by the infamous Commander, Cy... | 139 minutes | June 28, 2019 | Beings and Entities, Dark Fantasy, Science Fiction and Aliens, Strange and Unexplained |
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