Top 10 Creepiest Creepypastas?

Oh, that's understandable.

WILL NO ONE LINK MEH!?

Just go onto Youtube and type 'Candle Cove' in the searchbar, ya lazy git.

edited 6th May '11 1:05:18 PM by Iaculus

This lazy git created this thread you are currently posting in. :P

So you've proven you're able to go to You Tube and type it in.

Who cares if you made this thread.

Otherwise, you're still a lazy git.

Wow, you don't have to go all harsh, I was only joking.

I already watched it like months ago.

Don't like, don't post.

I think the "lazy git" remark was a joke as well. No need to get worked up about it.

Worked up? nah.

Well, I sure am worked up. I hear all this hype about Candle Cove and all I see is static.

The absolute scariest creepypasta I've ever read was "Psychosis". It's been months since I read it, but sometimes, late at night, it still comes back to haunt me.

The scariest video I've seen would have to be "Smile".

I've seen two other creepypastas, one a picture, and one text, that I'm sure would easily dethrone these. However, I can't figure out why they're scary. If I did, I'm sure I'd never sleep again.

The first is a picture of a tall, pale, patchwork, humanoid... thing being worshiped by middle eastern women with a caption about them believing him to be some sort of god. The theological implications are unfathomably terrifying... I'm just not sure what they are.

The scariest text based creepypasta I've ever read is "The Russian Sleep Experiment". However, the creepy factor is negated by the fact that I'm not sure why sleep deprivation made the men crazy. Did it make them easy vessels for demonic possession? Were they just naturally mad? I don't know.

There are a few other creepypastas that scare me. One was about the Uncanny Valley and asked the question: What creature from the mists of time causes humans to consider certain creatures intrinsically terrifying?

Another was a picture of a very loosely humanoid face, snow white and grinning, with big eyes. The caption? "GO TO SLEEP". I had the misfortune of seeing that right as I was going to bed. Sleep was not achieved.

Bottom line: as far as I can tell, "Psychosis" is the scariest thing of all time. OF ALL TIME.

Regarding the Russian Sleep Experiment, I think that the next-to-last paragraph is the most informative about what happened.

"Have you forgotten so easily?" the subject asked. "We are you. We are the madness that lurks within you all, begging to be free at every moment in your deepest animal mind. We are what you hide from in your beds every night. We are what you sedate into silence and paralysis when you go to the nocturnal haven where we cannot tread."

Are there any Who-niverse creepypasta anywhere on the internet? It seems that that this continuity would really lend itself to these kind of stories.

edited 15th May '11 11:08:07 AM by dontcallmewave

My favourite Creepypastas are usually those who are short and have a Wham Line at the end. Some of my favourites, in no specific order:

Pokemon Black. It's the only creepypasta based on a real-life game/series I actually find scary. I don't know if it's a case of Follow the Leader, but I think many other creepypastas about games etc. are kind of contrived and a bit too over-the-top for me to consider them creepy. (Not that some of them don't creep me out.)

Sarah O'Bannon. This really freaked me out.

The Portraits. Yeah, that's definitely a great one.

And so is Candle Cove.

The Trap. So scary, honestly, especially because I am a helpful person.

Home Alone. It didn't actually freak me out, because seriously, how could you not notice it? But then I was alone at my aunt's, who has a glass door, and naturally, I was always scared of suddenly seeing someone who's out there. Or not.

Mr Widemouth. The ending is a little bit unspectacular, but all in all, the story is great.

Awakening. Could anything be more horrible? I regularly throw my duvet to the ground while sleeping, I don't pick it up anymore without checking.

Moonlight films. I find most of these snuff film stories quite scary.

Also, I don't know what this one is called, but I really enjoyed the one where a young woman sits opposite of three very creepy people in a late-night train.

edited 31st May '11 6:47:28 PM by Blackribbon

Dude, have you not been watching lately? Doctor Who doesn't need creepypasta because the stuff that Steven Moffat writes basically is creepypasta.

Weeping goddamn Angels. Creepier than any actual creepypasta.

Creepypasta= short story that can be read in about 2 minutes, Full Dr Who episodes= 40 minutes,

I'm looking for something in written format that I can read in under 10 minutes.

Some Recs:

Stranger on a train: Great build up. You will not want to make eye contact with anyone on a subway ever again.

SCP Foundation: You will get hooked trust me, a very expansive series and setting.

Candle Cove: Short and "Sweet."

Ben Drowned: Cliched but still haunting.

The Holders: Hit and miss, but the hitters hit like Mike Tyson.

The Slender Man: I suggest watching some Marble Hornets first and than reading the original Something Awful thread.

edited 15th Jun '11 10:28:20 PM by starspawn17

Slender Man: Creepy as hell. Especially when its your first time reading about it.

Ben Drowned: My first creepy pasta. It didn't scare me that much, but was interesting, seeing how it's based on one of my favorite games.

My Little Brother: Wicked creepy when you realize this can actually happen.

Never heard of that last one, link?

Easter Egg: Snow on Mount silver Isn't so much creepy as much as it was a Tear Jerker. The way it plays out feels like it combined pokemon with Metal Gear Solid levels of tear jerker ness.

I played this to it and it somehow became even sadder.

edited 25th Jul '11 5:02:47 PM by Demongodofchaos2

A few of the Holders do it for me:

The first is the Holder of, I believe, Corruption. The Eldritch Location this one sends you to is your house, completely encased in the ground, and the Holder itself is your parents. Both of them. Fused together and covered in their own filth. Just the thought of something so familiar being perverted so... brr...

The Holder of Compassion, too, which posits that in an animal shelter, in every animal shelter, there's an Eldritch Location where animals are abused and starved, and the shelter staff know this and do nothing. Creepy for me because I used to work in an animal shelter, and the thought of such a nice place hiding something that vile... again, brr...

Then, the Holder of the Rails, because old train stations are really creepy.

There's also a couple of really gory ones where the Seeker crosses the Moral Event Horizon. I've actually written Holders myself, and in one I wrote it so the Seeker Pets the Dog.

On another note, I've actually managed to track down a creepypasta with a happy ending. It's called "My Dream Girl." Lots of pastas involve mysterious women, butt in this one the protagonist actually gets her in the end. Aww.

I'd also like a link to My Little Brother since I can't find it with a google search.

An Example of Video Game Pasta:

Game Time: Is this a real one that I copied from somewhere or did I just write this in about 5 minutes after randomly picking a game out of a box as a parody of video game pastas?

edited 4th Aug '11 8:23:09 PM by Malph

Obviously fake. No mention of an erased save file.

edited 5th Aug '11 9:37:09 AM by Seamus

Wow, Snow on Mt Silver was really good.

-threadhop-

The Books of Sand is a really good series of creepypasta. Read it. Unfortunately it's not finished and the author doesn't seem to be updating very frequently.