Creepypasta is a fairly popular genre of Internet folklore, which is a short story that should horrify the reader. Your attention is invited to a selection of 10 such horror stories of the Internet.
1999
Known simply as 1999, this story is one of the most realistic and chilling urban internet legends. The protagonist of the story is a Canadian blogger named Elliot, who tried to unravel the mystery of the mysterious TV channel that he watched in 1999. The broadcasts were too schematic, so Elliot somehow realized that the channel was most likely run by a local thug.
Elliot continued to search for information and eventually learned that the owner of the TV channel was luring children into his house to sacrifice them. Elliot also realized that this nutcase not only tortures and kills children, but also wears a bear costume and calls himself "Mister Bear".
There were only a few shows on the mysterious TV channel, he worked from four to nine in the morning. The first show was called "Bubi" - the heroes in it were living hands on some cheap table. The main character (hand) was called Booby, she was in every episode. However, as time went on, the episodes became more and more strange.
During the episode titled "The Scissor Game," Booby held the scissors while the other hand, a smaller one, twitched as if it were being held there by force. Then Booby hit her other hand several times with the scissors, during which a muffled child's cry was heard. Eventually the scissors hit the bone, and there was a terrible crunching sound. Elliot did not see any more episodes with Booby.
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Then came Mr. Bear's Basement, where they showed a psycho dressed as Mr. Bear. We will not describe what actually happened on the screen - there are too many bloody details. Finding stories on the Internet is easy, so you can do it yourself if you see fit.
In the end, the police intervened in this chaos, and the sadistic TV channel was closed forever.
By the way, Elliot is a weird guy - would you watch that?
Candle bay
The story appeared in a thread on a forum talking about an old 1970s children's show. It contained a girl who imagined she was friends with pirates. The show was somewhat controversial, as during one episode all the characters screamed without stopping.
All they did was stand still and scream the entire episode, while the little girl was crying. Various people in their comments talked about remembering this, and it became clear that there is something dark and unsettling about the "cute" low-budget show.
In recent comments, it was clearly stated that the show was far more sinister than childhood memory was kept. The main villain of the show, a skeleton named "Kozhnik", stood out from the rest. Apparently, his mouth was sliding back and forth, and not up and down, as is usually the case. The commentator even recalled that when the girl asked why he had such a strange mouth, he looked directly into the camera and replied: "In order to chew on your skin."
Another commentator questioned the show at all and asked the mother if she remembered about the 1970s children's show called Candle Bay. She was sincerely surprised that he remembered this. Apparently, he asked if the program was still on and tried to tune the TV to the desired channel. Then the air in the room became stale and remained so for 30 minutes.
Rake
In 2003, in the northeastern United States, an incident occurred involving a strange humanoid creature that attracted a lot of local media attention. After that, most of the written evidence of what happened mysteriously disappeared from the web pages, and people began to see the creature more often. The strange thing is that people reacted to it in different ways - from panic attacks to almost childish curiosity.
The creature continued to appear, and then the hunt for it began - after all, one must, after all, find out who or what it is. Finally, in 2006, researchers working together made a frightening discovery - they unearthed nearly two dozen documents dating back to the 12th century, and all of them talked about the appearance of a creature called the "Rake".
One of his most impressive appearances was described by a certain woman. Here is how it was.
In the middle of the night, the woman suddenly woke up and accidentally woke her husband up. She apologized, and her husband turned to look at her. He gasped with fear and hugged his wife - something clearly scared him very much. At the foot of the bed sat, now and then turning away from them, that same infamous creature, like a large bald dog.
The spouses' eyes are not yet accustomed to the darkness. The creature jumped up and sat down less than 30 cm from her husband's face. It stared at him for a while, and then rushed to the nursery. The frightened spouses immediately rushed after him, but it was too late: their daughter lay in her crib covered in blood and was dying. Her last words: "It was Rake."
Rake disappeared as suddenly as it appeared. No one ever saw him again.
Where do bad kids go?
This creepypasta tells the story of a photographer who decided to find out information about an old children's TV show that he watched as a child during the Lebanese war. All he remembered was that the half-hour show had graphics and intimidation tactics, apparently trying to keep the kids from doing the wrong thing.
According to the photographer, the show was an attempt by the media to keep the kids in check - every episode repeatedly said that "bad children go to bed late" and "bad children steal food from the refrigerator at night", and that this should not be done.
The photographer remembered that in each episode there was a final scene, each time the same - an old rusty iron door slowly grew in the frame, and as the camera approached the door, someone could be heard screaming. The closer the cell was to the door, the louder and more distinct the screams became. And then the inscription appeared: "This is where the bad kids go" - this meant the end of the episode.
The photographer managed to track down the studio where the show was filmed. Although the place seemed to have been abandoned long ago, the ill-fated rusty door from childhood was still there. Outside the door was a small room with traces of blood, feces and bones. But what scared the photographer the most was the microphone hanging in the middle of the room.
Keyhole
This is a legend about a man who stayed at the same hotel for several nights. When he received the keys to his room, the woman at the counter warned him that there was a door without a number on the way to his room. She explained that the room is locked, all sorts of things are stored there, and in no case should he go there or even look inside. The intrigued man went straight to his room and did not ask questions.
By the second night, curiosity took over. He tried to turn the knobs on a door without a number, and realized that the door was closed, as the woman said. But our hero was not going to give up so easily - he looked through the keyhole. Behind the door was a room very similar to his own. And in the corner opposite the door stood a woman with very fair skin, her head leaning against the wall. The embarrassed man returned to his room, but on the third day decided to look through the keyhole again.
This time, all he saw was red. Just a deep, rich red. Perhaps the woman in the room realized that someone was spying on her and somehow plugged the keyhole.
Our hero decided to ask the woman at the counter about all this. She sighed and asked if he was looking through the keyhole. He replied that yes, he looked, and then the owner of the hotel told him everything: many years ago, the husband killed his wife in the same room, and now her ghost is looking for him. It is said that the ghost itself is very pale, almost white, but his eyes are red as blood.
Angel statue
This story is about a couple who wanted to leave home at night and have fun. They had children, so they decided to call a nanny who had already looked after the children more than once. When the nanny arrived, the children were already asleep, so she decided to watch TV.
The house, unfortunately, only had one TV in the matrimonial bedroom, and the nanny called the employers to ask if she could watch it there. They allowed, but then the nanny called again and asked if something could be used to close the statue of the angel, because it makes her very nervous. Hearing this, the father fell silent for a while, and then ordered the nanny to immediately take the children out of the house and call the police, because they did not have any statue of an angel.
When the police arrived, the nanny and the children were found dead in a pool of blood. The statue has disappeared.
Griefing
Griefer is a scary internet legend that first appeared in 2009. She talks about a video that appears to be so horrible that it scares or hysterics anyone who watches. Apparently, the video contains dying children, agonizing screams and close-ups of corpses.
"Griefing" is really terrible - yes, the clip exists. Fortunately, the footage is not real: the creator of the legend in 2009 admitted that he borrowed the so-called "documentary footage" from the movie "Log".
And although most people now know that this is a hoax, "Griefing" still remains a scary story that is not ashamed to be told by the fire. Some viewers have even tried to arrange the footage from the video in chronological order to make it appear as realistic as possible.
SCP Foundation
Special Containment Procedures, aka SCP Foundation, is a fictional organization with a dark past that first appeared in 2007. The Foundation allegedly consists of many doctors, researchers, and agents whose goal is to understand and compile a complete catalog of anomalous beings. And, of course, the Foundation “does everything possible to prevent the materials from falling into the wrong hands and into the outside world”. And to investigate all sorts of anomalous byak, the Foundation conducts experiments on death row prisoners.
It all started with a creature codenamed "SCP-173" and is described as a statue with a bloody face and short limbs. It was found that the creature is not able to move while being looked at, but as soon as eye contact is broken, the creature immediately kills the victim - it breaks its neck. Well, not to look away from him, I guess.
Another example is "SCP-682": it is said to be a reptile-like creature that cannot be killed. It is, incidentally, most popular on the SCP wiki.
Jeff the Killer
Jeff was a little boy. His family moved to a new home, and the day after the move, he was invited to a neighbor's birthday party. He decided to take his brother Liu with him.
While Jeff and Liu were waiting at a bus stop, they were attacked by three teenagers. Jeff successfully defeated and left the attackers lying in the street with broken arms and stab wounds. And then Jeff realized that his greatest pleasure was to hurt others. This feeling was always with him, but it became stronger when someone angered him.
Soon after this incident, Jeff's mother woke up at night due to screams coming from the bathroom. She walked in and found Jeff carving an eternal smile on his cheeks with a razor. He also managed to cut off his eyelids so that he would never sleep. Realizing that her son had gone mad, she ran to the bedroom to wake her husband, but Jeff stood in the way with a knife in his hand. The last thing she heard was, "Mommy, you lied."
Jeff killed both parents - only his brother remained. Liu woke up when he heard muffled sounds coming from his parents' bedroom. When everything calmed down, the boy tried to fall asleep again, but could not get rid of the feeling that someone was watching him. Suddenly a hand closed over his mouth and he felt a blade sink into his stomach. Liu tried to break free, but it was too late. "Shhhh," Jeff said, "you just need to sleep."
No one has ever seen Jeff again, but legend has it that he is still in the house - waiting for the next victim.
Normal porn for normal people
This Internet legend begins with a standard letter inviting people to the site normalpornfornormalpeople.com, which is supposedly one of the greatest blessings for humanity. Naturally, many decided to see what was there - still, with such and such an address! It was an ordinary site with a wall of text on the home page.
The only thing that somehow distinguished it from a million others was the logo on all pages of the site: "Normal porn for normal people is a site dedicated to the eradication of abnormal sexuality." Nothing else was of particular interest.
Many visitors, seeing that there was nothing but a heap of text on the site, left. However, those who lingered and explored the site in more detail learned that a lot of the words in the boring text were actually links to various videos. And then shocked people began to create topics on thematic forums to share their impressions - and videos, of course.
One video was called "peanut.avi". It showed a man, a woman and a dog in the kitchen. The woman prepares a peanut butter sandwich, which the man then gives to the dog - this lasts for half an hour. Another video called "jimbo.avi" was five minutes long and featured a fat mime. It seemed to be a regular video about a clown, but in the last 30 seconds the mime was sobbing, starting to tear his clothes (albeit quite calmly) and smearing makeup on his face.
Another video, "stumps.avi", is about a legless man trying to break dance in a messy kitchen similar to the kitchen from "peanut.avi". After a couple of minutes, the man falls down exhausted and asks someone behind the scenes to let him rest. The man behind the scenes becomes enraged and starts yelling at the legless to keep dancing, and he obeys. Then the image suddenly disappears, and screams are heard off-screen.
The video "privacy.avi" begins with a woman masturbating on a mattress, and a legless man from "stumps.avi" in a goblin mask walks around her in his arms. The unusual thing is that in this video the door is open - in all others it is closed. This is important because at the very end of the video, you can see an animal running quickly through the corridor.
The last video, "useless.avi", is 18 minutes of sheer horror. It shows a tied blonde woman with a gag in her mouth. At the seventh minute, a man in a suit opens the door, but does not enter the room. Instead, an animal enters, which flashed in "privacy.avi". This is a chimpanzee, which was obviously badly treated - the animal is beaten, in some places there is no hair on its body, and the remaining skin is dyed red.
The man closes the door behind him, leaving the bound woman alone with the animal. The starving animal sniffs the air, notices the woman and immediately begins to torment her alive. This continues for seven long minutes, until the woman's body becomes unrecognizable. The video ends with the chimpanzee devouring the mutilated body.