History Main / CreepyPasta

** In ''The Ozark Cable Incident," the local TV station had purchased an [[AbandonedHospital abandoned insane asylum,]] with attached cemetery. The company bulldozed the hospital and dug up the graveyard to make room for a bigger facility. The town's TVs would occasionally show images of a man with his eyes gouged out, and rotting corpses until the CEO of the company was persecuted for the desecration.

Some works have also subjected the genre to a kind of {{defictionalization}} by making, eg., [[VideoGame/LunaGame a computer game]] that's exactly like something out of a creepypasta about a computer game, minus the part where the player dies and/or goes insane. This genre expansion has also had the effect of people calling almost all internet-based {{horror}} "creepypasta".

** Inverted by The Bells in ''The Spire in the Woods.'' The bells sound so beautiful that they cause the protagonist to nearly acheive orgasm. They become horrifying later, to be sure.

* DyingTown: Drisking from ''Literature/{{Borrasca}}'', especially in the sequel when [[spoiler:the town no longer benefits from the proceeds from their [[HumanTrafickers human traficking ring]]]].

%%* DyingTown: Lots of them.

** One has [[PapaWolf the ghost of the protagonists father get into a knock-down-drag-out fistfight with the monster in his closet.]]
** ''I Asked a Paranormal Investigator for His Scariest Story'' involves, well, exactly that. The investigator makes up something on-the-spot to tell the narrator's class. Later, he tells him of a time when he was investigating a house, but found nothing out of the ordinary. As he was packing up, a spectre descended the basement stairs, and asked: "Do you know what he did to us?" The investigator [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere ran for it and didn't stop until he was in the next town over.]] He did some research into the house; it had been a mortuary until the proprietor was arrested for his... [[ILoveTheDead proclivities.]] [[spoiler:The narrator's mind returned to this story because she recently moved into a new house with her fiance and found a slotted drain in the basement just like the one the investigator described...]]

%%* TearsOfBlood: So common as to be a cliché.

%%* TownWithADarkSecret: Every last one of them.

%%* AxCrazy: Quite a few human (or [[WasOnceAMan once human]]) threats fall under this category. Literature/JeffTheKiller and [[FollowTheLeader its imitators]] are among the most famous.

** “[[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/593yys/i_found_a_hidden_door_in_my_cellar_and_i_think/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=post_title I found a Hidden Door in my Cellar and I think I've made a big mistake]]” by v0ids from r/nosleep. The narrator while cleaning up his basement with his wife discovers a door hidden by wallpaper. The wife looks through the keyhole and sees that there's steps leading down, they get the door open and go down the stairs and find another door with an ornate ring handle. The wife is anxious so goes to ask the neighbor but the narrator is curious, so he opens the cellar to investigate with a torch... what comes next and what he finds is nothing short of NightmareFuel.

%%* SpookyPhotographs: Double check.

%%* SugaryMalice: [[spoiler:Maria]] from [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Welcome_Home "Welcome Home"]].

%%* TomatoSurprise: Quite a few. For example, "[[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/A_Diary_from_a_Dead_Planet_Called_Earth A Diary from a Dead Planet Called Earth]]".
%%** More examples are "[[http://wellhey.com/cold-oblivion/ Cold Oblivion]]", "[[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Doors Doors]]", and "[[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Experiment_84-B Experiment 84-B]]"

%%* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: You'd be amazed at how many are reliant on the main character ignoring all warning labels and signposts for the fun to begin.

%%** [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Extra_Ketchup Apparently monster clowns run a burger joint now]].

%%* FatalFlaw: Many creepypastas have one that renders them laughable if you know what to look for.

%%* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: More like ''hunting a member of a species who just thought they were the most dangerous game.''

%%* ItWontTurnOff: Part of the time but turning it on to begin with was probably enough to render whether it was on or off in the first-place moot.

* "Twist Ending" is about a famous horror author named David who secretly plagiarized all of his best works under the guise of offering to give aspiring authors advice, then using his connections to ensure they never get published and no one listens to their claims. David even notes that he's read so many stories that he can predict even excellent twists with ease and makes a game out of it. After reading his latest submission, he notices a that a note is hidden in the back cover. [[spoiler:It's a note from the author of the book, who explains that he's a previous victim of David's scheme who deliberately sent him the book knowing that it would intrigue him... and that the backing is laced with arsenic]].

%%* TwistEnding: Expect this a lot. The wiki has a category called "Shock Ending".
%%** [[http://www.creepypasta.com/the-twist-a-parody/ The Twist: A Parody]] devotes itself to this trope.

%%* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: You'd be amazed at how many are reliant on the main character ignoring all warning labels and sign posts for the fun to begin.

** * “[[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/5lj3hj/the_basement/ The Basement]]” by CR Jones from r/nosleep on Website/{{Reddit}}. A bunch of friends are having a Thanksgiving party in one friend’s big basement. The narrator goes upstairs to grab something, then the lights go out before flickering back on. When he goes back down to the basement, [[NothingIsScarier all his friends have vanished]] and he looks all over for them. Things get worse, when he starts hearing child-like giggling and the lights go out again.

* CruelTwistEnding: "No End House." [[spoiler:The protagonist gets the $500 he was promised, but goes insane upon everything he'd been through that night in the nine rooms, including being forced to kill a clone of himself moments before escape. When he gets home, there's a "10" carved into his front door.]]

%%* CuriosityKilledTheCast: See YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb.

** [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Willow_Men The Willow Men]] has a bunch of otherwordly, [[{{Expy}} Slender-Man-esque]] creatures that whisk their victims away and horribly torture them until they die. However, since they only do this to people who have committed horrible crimes — such as the protagonist, who murdered his wife — they come across as {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s at worst.

** ''Milk and Cookies'' is about [[spoiler: an old man who got trapped in a haunted refrigerator truck while playing in a junkyard as a boy. He promised to be friends with the ghost of the little girl who died in it under similar circumstances, and brings her [[TitleDrop some milk and cookies]] every Friday night; and has done so for 70 years.]]

* CreepyBasement: In the "[[http://www.creepypasta.org/creepypasta/it-has-no-face It Has No Face]]" {{Creepypasta}}, [[spoiler:the monster that almost takes the narrator, comes from the basement in the house he stays in to escape the snowstorm. We don't see what the basement looks like, but the heavily mutilated corpses of the monsters' victims have been found down there.]]

* CreepyBasement: * In the "[[http://www.creepypasta.org/creepypasta/it-has-no-face It Has No Face]]" {{Creepypasta}}, [[spoiler:the monster that almost takes the narrator, comes from the basement in the house he stays in to escape the snowstorm. We don't see what the basement looks like, but the heavily mutilated corpses of the monsters' victims have been found down there.]]

%%* CreepyBasement: And make sure to keep it locked up tight.

* WholePlotReference: [[https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/Reunion_with_the_Angel_of_Death "Reunion with the Angel of Death"]], in which UsefulNotes/JosefMengele is tormented by the ghosts of his experiments' victims, is an extended homage to [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E74DeathsHeadRevisited "Death's Head Revisited"]], an episode of ''Series/{{The Twilight Zone|1959}}'' in which a former SS captain is similarly judged by the ghosts of the concentration camp he commanded.

* AxCrazy: Quite a few human (or [[WasOnceAMan once human]]) threats fall under this category. Literature/JeffTheKiller and [[FollowTheLeader its imitators]] are among the most famous.

%%* AxCrazy: Many cases. So, ''so'' many.

%%* AdultsAreUseless: Adults may not be able to help...

%%* BowelBreakingBricks: Via the [[MemeticMutation memetic]] "When you see it, you'll shit bricks" images.

%%* DeadlyPrank: The backstory for a few of these.

%%* DefangedHorrors: Averted. Don't expect the hero(es) to get off that easy.

%%* DirtyCop: The Sheriff in ''[[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Texas_Blood Texas Blood]]''

** ''I Want to Go Home'' is about a kid who [[IJustShotMarvinInTheFace accidentally shoots his best friend in the eye]] with a BB gun, and becomes haunted by him.

%%* HellHotel: '''Yes.'''

** Averted in ''Fenter Woods'', where the monster is seriously hampered by a shot to the leg. It doesn't manage to kill it, but gives the protagonist and his friend enough of a head start to escape.

* IJustShotMarvinInTheFace: ''I Want to Go Home'' is about a group of kids messing around with an air gun. One of them gets shot in the eye with it, and killed.

** ''Sniff'' is about a guy whose Granny's house in Glasgow is built on a collapsed mine. The story recounts how the narrator was woken up one night by the sound of sniffing. The house is haunted by one of the pit mules trapped in the accident

** In ''The Ozark Cable Incident," the local TV station had purchased an [[AbandonedHospital abandoned insane asylum,]] with attached cemetery. The company bulldozed the hospital and dug up the graveyard to make room for a bigger facility. The town's TV's would occasionally show images of a man with his eyes gouged out, and rotting corpses until the CEO of the company was persecuted for the desecration.
%%* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: [[http://mrprinceawesomeness.deviantart.com/art/Jeff-the-Killer-rewritten-350058609 This]] alternate take on the original Jeff The Killer story recasts Jeff as one of these.

%%* ItWontTurnOff: Part of the time, but turning it on to begin with was probably enough to render whether it was on or off in the first place moot.

%%* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Sally, at least on Website/DeviantArt, gets a lot of this.

%%* {{Room101}}: In any that take place in hotels.

%%* SnowMeansDeath: ''[[https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3188424/1/The-Stoic-Gaze The Stoic Gaze]]'' kicks off when it randomly begins snowing in the middle of May...
%%** As you'd expect, "Snow on Mt. Silver" is all about this.

* ''WebOriginal/TheTheater''

* ''WebOriginal/TheChosenJournals''

** ''Cabin Getaway'' has a happy ending that comes after a month of the protagonists fiancee sleepwalking and talking to a First Nations demon known only as an "Impostor" in her sleep.

* ''WebOriginal/TheWyomingIncident''

* ''WebOriginal/TheSkinDaddy''

%%** [[WebOriginal/TheSkinDaddy Hum, hum, hum a little tune...]]

* ''WebOriginal/MommySleepsInTheBasement''

* ''[[WebOriginal/ImSoSorryPleaseForgiveMeDotMP4 I'm So Sorry Please Forgive Me.mp4]]''

* ''WebOriginal/IWasCursedByTheBlackEyedKids''

* ''WebOriginal/TheRake'': Began as a standalone pasta. Popularized by WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID.

* ''Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos'': It's neither the TropeCodifier or TropeNamer, nor does it actually have much to do with the genre's creation, but by now it is legendary. [[note]]The stories (WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID in particular) are also the main reason why WebOriginal/TheRake is even vaguely well-known nowadays. Original Description: One of the most engaging out there, and currently the most well known.[[/note]]

* ''WebOriginal/HumperMonkeysGhostStory''

* ''WebOriginal/TheCrawlspace''