How many creepypastas are there

Laughing Jack is a variation on the evil imaginary friend folk tale, a clown who befriends children before penetrating their dreams, slicing them open, and removing their internal organs so he can replace them with candy.

Laughing Jack is the Mad-Lib of creepypastas, and was all too real for this Indiana girl, who was diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder after being declared incompetent to stand trial. She reported hearing voices and having alternate personalities months before the crime, and even asked her father for help, though wasn't given any. A year-old girl from Ohio stabbed her mom repeatedly in their kitchen in , her actions allegedly inspired by Slenderman.

The mother suffered only minor injuries, but was understandably shaken after the attack. You know who hates houses and all general living spaces? He haaaates it when people have four walls with a roof.

Or at least that's the yarn a year-old girl in Florida tried to spin after attempting to burn down her parent's house with a bed sheet and towel soaked in bleach and rum, nearly killing her mom and 9-year-old brother. Police believe the girl's love of reading creepypasta and writing Slenderman fanfic had something to do with the arson, but there's nothing about the ghostly tall man telling children to burn down houses in the stories. A far sadder story is that of the South Dakota Sioux teens driven to suicide by Walking Sam , a Slenderman-esque character said to drive victims to hang themselves.

The story of Walking Sam has a few permutations as urban legends tend to do ; he either has been tasked to walk the earth and collect spirits as some kind of punishment, or he's a shadow person who drives people to kill themselves because he's so spooky. Between December and May , at least people, and maybe as many as , attempted suicide at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

Nine people between the ages fo 12 and 24 have died. Sioux tribal police removed four nooses left spookily dangling from trees as invitations for teens to hang themselves. It's unclear who put the nooses there. Jerad Miller, a man accused of killing two cops and a civilian before committing suicide with his wife in Las Vegas, enjoyed dressing up as Slenderman for fun.

There's no evidence linking Miller's obsession with Slenderman to his obsession with killing cops, but the fact that it was included in an ABC News write up on the world's most famous creepypasta proves the media's fascination with the entertainment choices of criminals is never going to go away, and that if you enjoy the same things as a known murderer, you probably shouldn't tell anyone.

For what it's worth, Eric Knudsen, one of the guys responsible for bringing Slenderman to life, has routinely voiced his disgust with the violence his character may or may not have inspired. When his parents became concerned about his spiraling behavior, he murdered them with a knife. The Jeff The Killer story might as well have been The Joker's origins, and with the comparisons to the infamous Batman villain made in recent years, combined with his presentation, Jeff The Killer has lost all of his impact.

He's depicted as a tall, impossibly thin man with pale skin, most frequently seen wearing a black suit, who appears to children. What supposedly makes Slender Man frightening is the fact that he has no face, and uses some sort of mind control to manipulate the victims -who stumble upon him wandering near abandoned buildings- into performing murder on his behalf. Slender Man himself isn't nearly as terrifying as the real-life homicide he inspired in involving two girls stabbing a victim because the "Slender Man told them to".

The Russian Sleep Experiment refers to the Creepypasta legend created by user OrangeSoda, with enough details to make it seem like a real historical event in the Soviet Union.

Five political prisoners were supposedly deprived of sleep for 30 consecutive days for a military-sanctioned experiment done at a testing facility, locked in a room where a specific chemical compound was distributed to keep them awake. They became more deranged as the days went on, tearing themselves apart in the process. The story was hailed upon its release for being an authentic account, despite the fact that no humans could survive what occurred in the facility.

The inauthentic premise, use of the "Spazm" Halloween decoration as photographic "proof", coupled with its blatant political fear-mongering made it lose its impact eventually. One of the first chain letter Creepypasta legends to receive a long life on the internet, Smile Dog also known as Smile. There is a hand near the dog seeming to beckon the viewer who, upon receiving the image, must pass it on to their friends.

If they don't send the image on, their dreams will be infiltrated by the dog, who will take on more disturbing forms as they continue to procrastinate. The victims are normally driven to insanity and in some extreme cases, suicide. The legend, aside from showcasing readers' gullibility, has lost its appeal for generally being regarded as nonthreatening and more amusing than anything else. A more recent Creepypasta that first appeared on 4chan, The Backrooms refers to a simple photograph of a yellow-carpeted hallway with matching wallpaper, which a person may "enter" by noclipping a cheat term used to describe moving through walls and other objects in first-person games.

By entering The Backrooms, an endless series of corridors and empty hallways, they will be trapped there forever in a world of monochromatic yellow, plagued by the sound of humming fluorescent lights, with the fear of malevolent entities around every corner. No one has been able to identify the origin of the photograph, and it remains one of the less frightening Creepypastas to date.

It often visits victims in the night while they sleep and whispers strange things to them before savagely ripping them apart. And it turns out that the story, while not necessarily based on true events, did likely gain its inspiration from something that actually happened. While it's true that depression and suicide rates are so high in Japan as to make it an alarming national problem, I haven't been able to find any exact figures here that support the claim — but the rumor persists anyway.

However, this sharing has happened mostly on the Internet, hence its frequent inclusion under the genre of creepypasta. According the legend, Polybius was an arcade game released for only a month in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon in Anyone who played it was said to suffer from everything from epilepsy to night terrors; it allegedly vanished as quickly as it appeared, with rumors claiming that the whole debacle has something to do with the government: It was a test; it was a coverup; and so on and so forth.

You know what did exist, though? It's suspected that the Polybius legend may have grown out of an encounter with a faulty Tempest cabinet, becoming distorted with time until it became a literal horror show. Of course, there's not much to back up this claim, either — but most of the fan-created versions of the game take their cues from Tempest, so there's clearly some kind of feedback loop going on here. Furthermore, as Skeptoid reports, two people fell ill from playing arcade games at an arcade in a Portland suburb on the same day in While attempting to break a record, Brian Mauro played Asteroids for over 28 hours, eventually giving up the attempt due to some stomach issues; meanwhile Michael Lopez, playing Tempest at the exact same arcade as Mauro on the exact same day, developed a migraine and collapsed on someone's lawn afterward.

Has anyone here actually seen Polybius in action? It still makes for a pretty classic trope, though: In , the story claims, scientists drilling a giant borehole in Siberia were shocked to find some extremely unsettling sounds coming from the depths of the Earth — noises that sounded so much like the screams of tortured souls that the researchers abruptly closed up shop and left. The tale of the Well to Hell has been spread mostly through tabloids and newsletters, which isn't exactly surprising when you consider how out-there the whole thing is.

But fun fact: Boreholes probing what's under the Earth's surface are real things. Not to be confused with pasta that may be creepy , that two-week-old tuna casserole in the fridge , or with a Creepy Pastor. See also Urban Legends , which are related and often share story elements, the SCP Foundation which has its origins in a creepypasta and Unfiction forums. Creepypasta has also been subject to dramatic readings by an online group called The Midnight Society that post their work on YouTube.

Of them, the most prominent member is MrCreepyPasta. He has a list of links to the others members' YouTube channels on his own. They frequently crossover in each other's videos for the purpose of voicing different characters. There's also Bad Creepypasta for a different view. And just in case you were planning on sleeping tonight Example of: Creepypasta. Community Showcase More. Follow TV Tropes.

You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. Creepypastas with TV Tropes pages. Bad Creepypasta Ben Drowned : A very engaging pasta. Don Kenn , who has his own section on the Creepypasta Wiki. Was adapted into an anime in January And now the Foundation universe has grown large enough to have its own in-universe Creepypasta stories.

Original Description: One of the most engaging out there, and currently the most well known. The Smiling Man Sonic.

A Horror- Comedy creepypasta. Abandoned Area : Abandoned hospitals , abandoned playgrounds , abandoned warehouses , and haunted houses are the common ones amongst the abandoned areas selection. Abusive Parents : May be the source of some revenge-story Creepypasta. In "My Father Punished Me When I Talked To Ghosts", the blind protagonist is punished by his father whenever he attempts to talk to girls who sometimes appear in their house.

His father will slightly change the environment so he can't trust his senses and, during a particularly worse case, he is let go on the street in front of the house, forcing him to return on his own. As it turns out, corporal punishment is the least abuse that he has to suffer.

The protagonist isn't actually blind, but had rubber plastered on his eyes so he can't see his father kidnapping and murdering girls in their house. The whole shocking reveal in I discovered something horrible on an old family VHS tape is that the protagonist discovers, through said VHS tape, that as a child his father used to abuse both him and his mother when she tried to stop him and he had repressed the memory.

Adult Fear : One Sims creepypasta describes the clown coming up to the house and kidnapping the player's Sim Children. Your Friend features a Sim family being burned alive while one of the parents is out.

Sim Albert has this as well. Zeddicker starts off in his first novella trying to track down a missing teenage girl. Barney the Dinosaur has a father buying an Actimates Barney doll for his son. The father hears him talking to the doll and at one point swears that he hears a deep voice responding to his son and becomes suspicious of it. Because of this, his son becomes distant and starts claiming that Barney talks to him. The ending has the son being kidnapped by the previous owner of the doll who had been talking to the boy through a radio in the doll and lured him out to his van.

Autopilot starts off with a parent's routine being thrown off Laughing Jack has a single mother worry about the safety of her son James when he makes an unseen friend named Laughing Jack, who later mutilates James and frames his mother for killing him.

Adults Are Useless : It's pretty much a given that adults will either ignore or worse, blame a child when something untoward happens.

Unless, of course, something similar happened to said adult when they were a kid. And Then John Was a Zombie : Many a pasta ends with the protagonist turning into the same monster they squared off against. An Aesop : Some try to shoehorn in a lesson, to varying success. My Coffee Addiction is Killing Me has the protagonist addicted to some really good coffee, and his life is absolutely ruined because of it. Turns out, a demon that feeds on misery chose to punish him because he was mean to homeless people and hookers.

The Spire in the Woods manages to cram in a lesson on consent alongside the supernatural thriller material. Alien Geometries : Common, considering that a lot of 'pastas are meant to be in the Mind Screw -y nature. The buildings in NoEnd House and Bored?

All in the Eyes : Often crosses over with red or black eyes take warning. Most fans agree on him being non-benevolent, but not on what his origins are.

Something is Seriously Wrong with my new TV has a television receive signals from a dimension where baseline humans are sociopaths, and what we consider "normal people" are second-class citizens to be tortured for the entertainment of the masses, including as slaves, as fast-food meat, and as the literal punching bags in "sitcoms. Aluminum Christmas Trees : A surprising amount of creepypastas have their entire story based on things that are actually real!

Ambiguous Gender : Many Creepypasta narrators qualify due to The All-Concealing "I" , though sometimes story details or other characters will reveal the narrator's gender. A classic example would be the narrator of Mr. Widemouth , who speaks in the first person and none of the other characters ever refer to them by gendered pronouns. Anachronic Order : In-Universe in A Shattered Life , wherein the protagonist ends up infected by a soul-leech, which makes him experience his life all out of order.

And I Must Scream : How more than a few of these end. The Other Side of the Grave states that when you die, your remains stay concious but unable to move. The Ditch is about a man who gets run over by a car and ends up dying slowly in the ditch, juuust out of reach of anyone who could help him, unable to call for help.

The fate of the assimilated in Psychosis. If You're Armed and at the Glenmont Metro, Please Shoot Me : Thanks to a drug vastly slowing his perception of time, a man trips and falls down the escalator in a metro station. He feels centuries glacially pass in the span of just a few minutes.

Just blinking leaves him alone in darkness for decades. The constant pain of a dislocated shoulder, combined with the sheer boredom, drives him to try throwing himself in front of a train.

He'll be waiting millennia beside a bench for it to arrive. Anonymous Author : The narrators often don't reveal their name, or are known only by their forum handles. The two things that tip him off that it's not his beloved doggo are that it gets a little bit longer every time he looks at it, and Glowing Eyes of Doom. Princess is about a puppy that kills for fun, starting with all her siblings, then some rabbits, then her father.

When she is put down, she comes back and terrorizes the family. The titular Mr. Widemouth is described by the protagonist as a Furby-like creature, which means he looks sort of like a hamster, except with an unsettling wide mouth. It turns out to have a completely different ending from the actual game though. Apocalyptic Log : Quite a few creepypastas consist of a dying survivor describing a disaster that's killed everyone else.

He's right, but his case certainly isn't helped by him shooting the narrator's friends to death. Art Initiates Life : The Art of Jacob Emory is about a man who goes on a trip and returns with a magic chalk that creates living drawings. Ascended Meme : Sometimes the update notes for Minecraft will have "Removed Herobrine" in the list somewhere.

Years later, the "SpongeBob in Randomland" episode straight up has a slightly modified version of the infamous Squidward's Suicide stare. A common joke is to replace the climax with " Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur. Asshole Victim : In The Cell Phone Game the narrator's girlfriend, Stephanie, twice attempts to displace her curse onto the school Neo-Nazi , with this trope as her justification.

Stephanie herself ultimately becomes this after she is dragged away, since she'd jumped off the slippery slope by that point. In I'm Not a Monster , the protagonist is a grave robber. His partner gets his throat bitten out by a zombie while contemplating screwing their mark's corpse.

She should have taken the rings off first and they get thrown in jail. A Cup of Coffee is about a guy addicted to Hazelnut coffee from a very specific vendor. This guy would kick over homeless people's begging bowls and hire prostitutes just so he could make them cry. He ends up homeless himself after he loses his job and family because he needed that specific coffee.

The vendor turns out to be a Noble Demon that feeds on concentrated hopelessness, but only targets evil people. Josh in How the Scarecrow Died was a school bully whose father literally owned the town and would ruin the lives of anyone who tried to punish him. Both he and his father end up disembowelled by the narrator, Scarecrow's granny.

Finally sick of her and her mother's crap one day, the narrator murders them and turns them into dolls. The First Admissions of the Eye is about a sadistic Serial Killer who targets child molesters, hit-and-run drivers, and people who torment animals. The Assimilator : The monster from The Horror from the Vault collects people and animals and fuses them with itself or turns them into Meat Moss. IT Dept. Water Cooler Welcome Thread Don't you want to become a valuable part of the company?

The Darkness from Driftwood is an Eldritch Abomination that sucks the life out of anything it encounters, and turns them into undead skeletons animated solely by its own will. Audience Participation : Some of the best ones add new levels of scary by hinging the ultimate fate of the main character by how much help the audience at home are. You fail, The Hero Dies. For that matter, the viewers might be next. One less serious creepypasta actually was based around this, where the object of it was to add new paragraphs.

Bad Black Barf : Morbus. They are rounded up and vivisected by Plague Doctors. The ending of Cabin Getaway has Felix and Fay vomit up the spiritual corruption caused by their battle with The Impostor. Being Watched : Some spooky forest creepypastas have the narrator mention that they experienced an intense feeling of scrutiny, and something matching their footfalls.

The Reveal is that the "thing we thought extinct" is an OG nazi, specifically, a member of Auchwitz's garrison. Bazaar of the Bizarre : One is about such a place, accessible through a door made of scabs somewhere in Eastern Europe. The items for sale are pretty much whatever you want, but the price is a body part, starting with the breath you've just taken in exchange for tomorrow's weather forecast.

He is able to sense someone else in the shed, whom he offers to share his kill with. The person accepts with gusto. In the morning, he sees that his companion was a man whose foot was caught in a bear trap, and, unable to free himself, starved to death. The hunter can explain the conversation as stress, but the dislodged tooth stuck in the half-eaten rabbit is a little harder to explain Even then, this can still be taken as a downer from a nihilist point of view, that his success will eventually be erased after his death.

Lost Silver: Hidden , however, shows that there may be something much more sinister going on. Bizarre Alien Biology : Jeffs from the Worm Jeff Saga have a gland that produces a powerful acid located near the stomach, and Drone Leaders have this replaced with an organ filled with what is essentially lighter fluid, which they ignite using a "flint" in their mouths to spit huge fireballs. Bizarro Universe : The Happypasta parody universe, home to characters such as Splendorman.

Jeff the Hugger, the Happypasta version of Jeff the Killer, has occasionally been depicted as the "real" Jeff's adversary.

The Blank : The title character from The Slender Man Mythos is described as a tall man in a suit that has a completely blank face; no eyes, no nose, and no mouth. None of them can die, despite them all having been slaughtered in various horrific ways. One of them was a pregnant woman with a permanent cut-open womb and a living zombie baby inside her. Also is The Pocket , where a guy's best friend, and later, his wife get eaten by what appears to be a Necromorph Expy , and Eyeless Jack , where the protagonist gets his organs stolen and eaten by a Humanoid Abomination.

Unbranded Laptop has a kid dismember herself with a hacksaw. A Cure for Cancer has a cancer-causing virus and a stem-cell based cure react to each other by turning the patient into a cancer-zombie. Body of Bodies : The " ghoul " from The Horror From the Vault is able to assimilate living tissue by drowning people and animals in its pond. It also produces "mounds" of flesh-covered organs, seamlessly fused together and completely functional despite being from several different species.

One of the nightmares it induces is about a creature not unlike the Legion from CastleVania replacing the sun. The creature itself looks like a Giant Enemy Crab made out of fused bodies. Bowdlerise : The Creepypasta Wiki's article on the story Normal Porn for Normal People has removed the part describing the video "peanut. It's written like a story, but it begins with the narrator telling you that he is praying that no one reads this, and ends with him apologizing to you that you read it, and that as a result, if you stop reading it, the creatures in the story will come after you.

Brown Note : Several involve something , be it a video, picture, music, etc, that causes people to go insane, or worse. The bells sound so beautiful that they cause the protagonist to nearly acheive orgasm.

They become horrifying later, to be sure. A group of scientists tasked with finding out if bad people have souls found out how to bring people Back from the Dead , but after 5 times, they can't die anymore. Every time they come back, they "Lose something.

She's a shreiking, bloodthirsty monster. Children Are Innocent : Averted in Mr. It's made clear that the protagonist, despite only being 5 years old, has enough common sense to know that they wouldn't "bounce off" after falling from a two-story window or come out unscathed after juggling kitchen knives; and they decide to keep the fact that they and their family will be moving away from the house within the next few weeks a secret from their "friend".

The last line of the story, though, suggests that many other children weren't as lucky and fell for Mr. Widemouth's trap, paying it with their lives. Clock Roaches : The Farnsworth Experiment deals with a group of scientists who managed to upset a group of these while working on Time Travel , and have been slowly disappearing over 20 years. Cool and Unusual Punishment : "Blueberries" is about a prison inmate being forced to eat a wooden desk as punishment for his crime which he claims he did not commit.