List of creepypasta
Creepypastas are horror-related legends or images that have been copied and pasted around the Internet. These Internet entries are often brief, user-generated, paranormal stories intended to scare readers. Below is a partial list of creepypastas.
Creepypastas
Abandoned by Disney
Abandoned by Disney is a creepypasta about a man exploring an abandoned Disney resort, named Mowgli's Palace. The man finds a room marked "CHARACTER PREP 1" in which the mascots seem to be alive.Slender Man
Slender Man is a thin, tall humanoid with no distinguishable facial features, who wears a trademark black suit. The character originated in a 2009 SomethingAwful Photoshop competition, before later being featured as a main antagonist in the Marble Hornets alternate reality game. According to most stories, he targets children. The legend also caused a controversy with the Slender Man stabbing in 2014.Jeff the Killer
Jeff the Killer is a story accompanied by an image of the title character. In the story, a teenager named Jeff is attacked by a group of bullies. The fight ends with Jeff being doused with alcohol and set on fire. After being discharged and having his bandages removed, Jeff becomes insane; carving his own face in order to leave a smile-shaped scar, burning off his eyelids, and killing his family. He becomes a serial killer who sneaks into houses at night and whispers "go to sleep" to his victims before killing them.The story quickly became one of the most popular creepypastas and would inspire many other stories, including Jane the Killer.The character of Jeff was originally created by DeviantArt user Sesseur. The story above wasn't made by Sesseur himself, but rather "A fan of his earlier work." According to a 2013 article, the original image of Jeff the Killer may be an extensively edited picture of a girl who allegedly committed suicide in the fall of 2008. However, in 2018, after extensive research on 4chan's /x/ board, this rumor was debunked as the original image came from a Japanese website pya.cc from September and November 2005. The image of the girl who's name is "Katy Robinson" was also found to be a hoax, and was an image taken from a girl on the Christian website TrueChristian.com.
Ted The Caver
"Ted the Caver" began as an Angelfire website in early 2001 that documented the adventures of a man and his friends as they explored a local cave. The story is in the format of a series of blog posts. As the explorers move further into the cave, strange hieroglyphs and winds are encountered. In a final blog post, Ted writes that he and his companions would be bringing a gun into the cave after experiencing a series of nightmares and hallucinations. The blog has not been updated since the final post.In 2013, an independent film adaptation of the story was released, called Living Dark: the Story of Ted the Caver.
''Penpal''
Penpal is a six-part creepypasta novel by Dathan Auerbach. The original stories were published on reddit, and were collected as a self-published paperback in 2012.Smile Dog
"Smile Dog" is a story about a cursed image file. The image shows a large German Shepherd or Husky dog that is smiling. The unsettling factors of the image come from its poor image quality, and the dog having human teeth in place of canine teeth. The story goes that if anyone receives the photo, they have to send copies of it to their friends and family members. If they don't, the photo will slowly change into something horrific and the person will be driven to madness and eventual suicide.The Russian Sleep Experiment
"The Russian Sleep Experiment" tells of Soviet Union agents and scientists experimenting on both political prisoners and prisoners of war during World War II, in which the prisoners are kept in a sealed-off room which was filled with an experimental gas to prevent sleep. This mysterious gas turns the prisoners into violent zombie-like monsters. In the end, the commander demands a researcher to enter the room and start killing the prisoners. With one of them uttering "So nearly free" before they die.9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9
"9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9" is the screen name of an anonymous writer of science fiction horror short fiction on the social news website Reddit. The work attracted media attention following its publication beginning in April 2016.The Ayuwoki
"The Ayuwoki" began as a YouTube video created in 2009 by fiction writer Thomas Rengstorff, to promote an animatronic robot with a mask resembling a distorted likeness of the late Michael Jackson. In early 2019 it morphed into a meme, a challenge and an urban legend which also spawned a video game; it caused several authorities to calm any fears regarding the meme's influence. The Ayuwoki gets its name from a Spanish misspelling of the lyrics "Annie, are you okay?" from the song "Smooth Criminal".Local 58
Local 58 is a YouTube web series created by Kris Straub revolving around a news channel which is being constantly hijacked. The web series is notable for its effects to make it look like an actual television. Each episode revolves around a different scenario in which the news channel is being hijacked. For example, "Contingency" shows a hijacking where a foreign country had captured America and the broadcast tells the viewers to commit suicide via gunshot. The broadcast then concludes that "the 51st state is not a place", before the broadcast abruptly changes to a message apologising for the 'hoax' that had been played on-air. Another entry in the series, "Weather Service", details through Emergency Alert System messages a seemingly-apocalyptic alien event involving the Moon or a force based on it 'infecting' those who gaze at the satellite. The video culminates in a person attempting to implore the audience not to look at the Moon, only to become 'infected' themselves after fighting with an entity instructing the audience to do the opposite, the final shot being that of the 'infected' human turning the camera feed to the full Moon while a large number of people can be heard screaming in terror in the background.SCP-173
Originating from a forum in 4chan, SCP-173 was part of a Wikidot site called the SCP Foundation.According to the current article of the anomaly on the website, SCP-173 is a statue constructed from concrete, rebar, and Krylon spray paint. When a direct line of sight is broken with SCP-173, the object will attack by snapping the neck or strangling the victim.
Suitors
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Siren Head
Siren Head is a fictional cryptid created by Canadian artist Trevor Henderson. It is depicted as a 40-foot skeletal being with the head of a siren, which is capable of emitting various man-made noises, including sirens, radio broadcasts, white noise, and human voices. The creature is one of many monsters in Henderson's found-footage style drawings, and has been the subject of multiple video games, the most popular being a short horror game independently developed by Modus Interactive with the permission of Henderson. The game was originally created in 2018 for a PlayStation-themed Game Jam, and gained an increase in popularity in 2020 after being showcased by various big gaming YouTubers, including Markiplier, DanTDM and Jacksepticeye. Siren Head was also included in a popular Fallout 4 mod, called Whispering Hills.The Expressionless
According to this legend, in June 1972 an expressionless woman appeared at Cedars Sinai hospital, while she had a cat in her jaws. After a while, she threw the cat and fell to the ground. The doctors tried to sedate her, but she rebelled and killed the doctors with her teeth which were actually sharp thorns. The only doctor who survived the accident nicknamed her "The Expressionless".Despite this, the story is fake, as no such event has ever happened and the image accompanying the story is actually a wax dummy once used by doctor students for tests in hospitals.
Lost Episodes
Lost episode creepypastas describe supposed television episodes, typically kids’ shows, that were either never aired or removed from syndication due to their violent and grotesque content. These supposedly lost episodes often focus on suicide or imply the viewer will suffer great harm. Some lost episode creepypastas focus on local public access shows rather than nationally syndicated shows.Candle Cove
"Candle Cove" is a story by Kris Straub written in the format of an online forum thread in which people reminisce about a half-remembered children's television series from the 1970s involving a young girl - the series' protagonist - going on adventures with a cast of pirates, represented through puppetry. The posters share memories of the creepy puppets from the series, and discuss nightmares that resulted from watching certain episodes. One poster then asks their mother about the series, and is told that the mother just used to tune the television to static, which the child would watch for thirty minutes.Syfy announced a television drama based on the story in 2015, adapted by Max Landis. The story makes up the first season of Channel Zero, which premiered on October 11, 2016.
SpongeBob Bootleg
The Spongebob Bootleg Episode was a story originally written by user Snobbery on the Hogshead's Lost Episode Wiki. Although not an episode, the Creepy revolves around an edited image from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode, "Dumped". The image consists of a dark background of Sponge Bob's house with a mouthless SpongeBob and bloodshot eyes. Most images of the red-eyed SpongeBob are animated GIFs consisting of SpongeBob blinking after watching the image for a long time.Suicidemouse.avi
"Suicidemouse.avi" is a nine-minute Mickey Mouse cartoon uploaded to YouTube in 2009, with the cartoon posing as being made during the 1930s. It depicts Mickey walking down a street with a dull, almost depressed look on his face. All the while, the sound of a piano being played poorly can be heard in the background. As the video progresses, screams and cries are heard in the background, the buildings become more dilapidated, and Mickey turns his face to the audience and begins sneering, before reverting to an image of Mickey's head, similarly to the ending of classical Mickey Mouse cartoons around the time for approximately 30 seconds, while what sounds like a broken music box plays in the background. The remaining 30 seconds is supposedly unknown to the public, though it is suggested that whatever took place during those last 30 seconds was so mentally traumatic, that it resulted in the employee who first screened the episode committing suicide moments after watching it and uttering the phrase "Real suffering is not known".Dead Bart (7g06)
"Dead Bart" is a story by writer K.I. Simpson. It features the Simpson family going on a plane trip together, but while being his usual, mischievous self, Bart ends up breaking a window on the plane and getting sucked out, falling to his death. After an apparently very realistic view of his corpse, the show's second act features a surreal take on the Simpson family's grief. Act three opens with a title card saying one year has passed. Homer, Marge, and Lisa are skeletally thin, and still sitting at the table. There is no sign of Maggie or the pets. They decide to visit Bart's grave. Springfield is completely deserted, and as they walk to the cemetery the houses become more and more decrepit. Emotionally abandoned, they arrive at Bart’s grave where Bart's body is simply lying in front of his tombstone, appearing similarly to the corpse in act one. The family starts crying again, but eventually they stop and blankly stare at Bart's body. Near the end, the camera starts to zoom into Homer’s face and according to summaries, Homer also tells a joke during this part. The episode ends with a zoom-out of the cemetery, featuring the names of every single Simpsons guest star on the tombstones, with the ones that have not died yet all having the same death date.Squidward's Suicide
The full story is told from the perspective of a person who interned at Nickelodeon Studios during 2005 as an animation student. The student and some other coworkers received a tape to edit titled "Squidward’s Suicide" for the series SpongeBob SquarePants. The staff initially assumed it was just an office prank. In the firsthand account, the video consists of Squidward preparing for a concert. After Squidward finishes playing at the concert, the crowd jeers at Squidward. The next shows Squidward forlornly sitting on a bed, while strange and upsetting noises play and become louder in the background. The scene is spliced with quick flashes of murdered children, each time the noises getting louder when cutting back to Squidward — now bearing red 'hyper realistic' eyes. Eventually, Squidward shoots himself after a detached, deep voice commands it, and the video ends.The circulated image of red-eyed Squidward associated with this creepypasta was referenced in the series and included in the original airing of the season 12 episode "SpongeBob in RandomLand". According to Vincent Waller, the purpose of the reference was to make fun of "try hard edgy fanfiction", and he has referred to "Squidward's Suicide" as a "ridiculous fanfiction". He further clarified that it was only intended as a reference and that the "Red Mist Squidward" character is "FAR from canon". The scene was later replaced with baby Squidward filling his diaper, due to a Standards and Practices issue.
Fanfictions
While the following stories do not fit the typical definition of creepypastas - often being written from an in-universe perspective, they are sometimes associated with the genre:Rainbow Factory
Created by internet user Aurora Dawn, "Rainbow Factory" is a fanfiction of that tells the story of two Pegasai, Scootaloo, and Orion, two residents of Cloudsdale, who fail a flight test due to trying to help another Pegasus who broke their wing while flying, being transferred to a large factory that is owned by Rainbow Dash. After being locked in a large room with several others, Rainbow Dash reveals how rainbows, and therefore weather is made in Equestria, through the use of mutilated, live Pegasai being put through a machine that converts their corpses into individual colors, which are then mixed together to make rainbows. After attempting to retaliate against Rainbow Dash and the cruelty in the factory, Orion is chained up to the machine and has his limbs dislocated and his ribs shattered, before being tossed in. Scootaloo attempts to escape from a now-maniacal and insane Rainbow Dash, but it is proven fruitless, as she is captured by guards and attached to the machine, where she utters her last words to Rainbow Dash "You have beautiful eyes," before it is implied that she is also murdered by the machine. There is a sequel to this centered around a worker at the factory who eventually has had enough and tries to start a rebellion, but is defeated and gets fed to the machine.Gamepastas
These creepypasta focus on video games containing grotesque or violent content; this content may spill over into the real world and cause the player to harm themselves or others. Many video game creepypastas involve malevolent entities such as ghosts or artificial intelligence.Ben Drowned
Created by Internet user Alex Hall, Ben Drowned tells a story of a college student named Matt who buys a used copy of the video game from an elderly man at a yard sale. Matt finds that the cartridge is haunted by the ghost of a boy named Ben, who drowned. After deleting Ben's savefile, Matt encounters disturbing glitches and scary messages such as "You shouldn't have done that..." and "You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?"Killswitch
Killswitch is a short story written by Catherynne M. Valente, part of an anthology called Invisible Games. The story states that in 1989, a company named Karvina Corporation released a peculiar survival horror game named Killswitch. The game's graphics were very simple, with slow music based on Czech folk songs. The two playable characters were named Porto and Ghast, with Porto being a human miner who could change her size, and Ghast being an invisible demon. As Ghast's invisibility made it impossible for the player to know where their character was, no one was ever able to complete the game as him. Porto's half of the story followed her escape from the mines in which she used to work, and discovering why the employees and machinery were now hostile. The game ends with the screen going white as Porto crawls out of the final tunnel, and the game then deletes itself from the player's computer. Only a limited number of copies were ever released, and Karvina Corporation stated that they never intended to release more of them. The story concludes that in 2005, a man named Yamamoto Ryuichi brought an unplayed copy of Killswitch for $733,000 and promised to record gameplay of it. Only a 1-minute and 45-second clip was ever found, and the video showed Yamamoto crying in front of the character select screen.Lavender Town Syndrome
This legend purports that, shortly after the original Japanese release of the video games Pokémon Red and Green in 1996, there was an increase in the death rate amongst children aged 10–15. Children who had played the games reportedly screamed in terror at the sight of either of the games inserted into the Game Boy handheld console, and exhibited other erratic behavior, before committing suicide through methods such as hanging, jumping from heights, and creatively severe self-mutilation. Supposedly, the suicides were connected to the eerie background music played in the fictional location of Lavender Town in the games. In the game's canon, Lavender Town is the site of the haunted Pokémon Tower, where numerous graves of Pokémon can be found.The legend alleges that children, besides being the primary players of the games, are more susceptible to the effects of the Lavender Town music, because it supposedly incorporates binaural beats and a high-pitched tone that adults cannot hear. It has been speculated that the legend was inspired by an actual event in Japan in 1997 in which hundreds of television viewers experienced seizures due to a scene with flickering images in an episode of the Pokémon anime, titled "Dennō Senshi Porygon".
NES Godzilla Creepypasta
"NES Godzilla Creepypasta" is a story written by Internet user Cosbydaf. It relates the tale of a character named Zach who plays an unusual copy of the Nintendo Entertainment System game . As Zach progresses through the game, simple glitches begin to turn into entirely new content and new monsters, and eventually a malevolent, supernatural being by the name of Red reveals himself. As the mystery behind the nature of Red unravels, it is revealed that the demon has closer ties to Zach than he ever could have expected. The story concludes with Zach - having defeated Red during the final battle - selling the game on eBay, unable to bring himself to keep or destroy the mysterious cartridge.A sequel to the story, dubbed Godzilla: Replay, is being written by the same author as the first, and five chapters have been completed so far. This story features a largely different cast of monsters, with Red's role as an antagonist replaced by a demon named Warlock and his subordinates who represent the seven cardinal sins.
The story is often praised for its new approach to the traditional video game creepypasta formula, and for its extensive use of custom-made screenshots, depicting thousands of sprites created by the story's author. A fangame based on the story is being developed; a demo was released in 2017.
''Toonstruck 2''
Toonstruck 2 is a story revolving around the sequel to the video game Toonstruck, which was developed but not released due to the commercial flop of the first game. The protagonist of the story, an adventure game geek named Dave, buys a rare copy of the game from a creepy man in a black raincoat; as he plays Toonstruck 2, its atmosphere becomes increasingly sinister, and the game begins to change the real world around him. The story alleges that Toonstruck 2 was based on art from the sketchbook of a mentally ill cartoon animator who murdered his boss, bought by one of Virgin Interactive's executives at a murderabilia auction, and the real reason for its cancellation was that its contents were too shocking.SVG's Christopher Gates wrote: "The incomplete storyline has proved to be fertile ground for fans, who seem more than happy to fill in the blanks… If Toonstruck had been finished, maybe it would've faded away. But it wasn't, and the mystery has kept Toonstruck fans engaged for over 20 years — and counting."
Sonic.exe
"Sonic.exe" is a creepypasta created by user JC-the-Hyena. This story concerns a teenager named Tom, who suffers from a series of supernatural delusions after playing a haunted ROM hack of Sonic the Hedgehog. The story describes the details of the hack, which purportedly features gory and disturbing content.''Petscop''
Petscop is a web series released on YouTube which purports to be a Let's Play of a "lost and unfinished" 1997 PlayStation video game of the same name. In the game, the player character must capture strange creatures known as "pets" by solving puzzles. However, after the narrator of the series enters a code on a note attached to the copy of the game he received, he is able to enter a strange, dark, and hidden section of the game: the Newmaker Plane and the depths below it. Although the puzzles continue, the game's tone shifts dramatically, and numerous references to child abuse appear; Newmaker appears to refer to Candace Newmaker, who was murdered during rebirthing therapy.The series premiered on March 12, 2017. It was created via recorded videos of a game as established by the series creator Anthony Domenico. Kotaku's Patricia Hernandez wrote: "If this is an internet story / game, then I am in awe over how elaborate it is." For Alex Barron of The New Yorker, it is "the king of creepypasta".