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* AnAesop: Some try to shoehorn in a lesson, to varying success.
** ''[[MustHaveCaffeine 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, [[spoiler:a demon that feeds on misery chose to punish him because he was mean to homeless people and [[DisposableSexWorker hookers]].]]
** ''The Spire in the Woods'' manages to cram in a lesson on consent alongside the supernatural thriller material.
* TheAllegedCar: The titular tractor in ''The Tractor''. [[spoiler:[[{{Irony}} Its sheer defectiveness winds up being what saves the main protagonist]] when a murderous swarm of blackbugs surround it, but thanks to its poor design, are unable to get in.]]

* AlternateRealityGame: Many Creepypastas with engaging AudienceParticipation evolve into [=ARGs=]. WebVideo/BenDrowned and Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos are notable examples.
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_dKIWXOixI Barney the Dinosaur]]" is an example of a Creepypasta [=ARG=] that (appears to have) failed.
* AlternateUniverse:

** The ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' episode "Are You Happy Now?" is said to have been based off of "Squidward's Suicide".
*** Years later, the "[=SpongeBob=] in Randomland" episode straight up ''has a slightly modified version of the infamous Squidward's Suicide stare''.

* BittersweetEnding: While most creepypastas end with a DownerEnding or NoEnding, ''Pokémon Lost Silver'' ([[WildMassGuessing presumably]]) ends with the protagonist coming to terms with his death, after having a successful career as a Pokémon champion. Even then, this can still be taken as a downer from a [[StrawNihilist 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.

* TheBlank: The title character from Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos is described as a tall man in a suit that has a completely blank face; no eyes, no nose, and no mouth.
%%* BloodFromTheMouth: So common that on the wiki, it's considered a cliche.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: The Creepypasta Wiki's article on the story ''Normal Porn for Normal People'' has removed the part describing the video "peanut.avi" because the FANDOM administrators consider force-feeding dogs peanut butter sandwiches a form of animal cruelty.

** An interesting example -- the Creepypasta Wiki even has [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Creepy_Cliches a list]] of "Creepy Cliches". Seeing these cliches in a story is generally considered to be a sign of a poorly-made creepypasta.

* MonsterClown:
** Laughing Jack is a black-and-white clown who enjoys killing people and stuffing their bodies with candy.
%%** Bubby and Stubb.
** [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Extra_Ketchup Apparently monster clowns run a burger joint now]]. The protagonist discovers it after misremembering the road the one he was trying to find was on. [[spoiler:[[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies It turns out, the food is made of abducted children]]]].

* TheMostDangerousVideoGame:
** "Ben Drowned," a famous pasta about a haunted copy of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask''. After playing it, the narrator begins to experience terrible things in their everyday life.
** Similarly, ''NES Godzilla'', about a video game containing an EldritchAbomination that forces the protagonist to play it or watch their friends die, while also making him feel the pain of all the monsters he plays as.
** ''[=MaRIo=]'' is about what ''seems'' like a really gruesome ''Super Mario Bros.'' hack, but then the protagonist wakes up with "MARIO" carved into his arm...

* NightmareFace:
** Jeff the Killer mutilated his own face to remove his eyebrows and nose.
** Sonic.exe has bleeding, black eyes with red pupils and quite possibly the most sadistic grin ever seen.
** And then there's Smile Dog, Mr. Widemouth, the Suicide Mouse image... Creepypastas are FILLED with these.
* NightmareRetardant:

* JustForFun/OneOfUs: The author of [[https://spinpasta.fandom.com/wiki/Barney_%26_Friends_Lost_Episode Barney & Friends Lost Episode]] is suspiciously knowledgeable about the production history of ''Series/BarneyAndFriends'', as evidenced by references to unused designs for Barney such as a blanket and a teddy bear, which were both considered before Barney's current design as a purple dinosaur was chosen.

* PaedoHunt: "[[http://slimebeast.com/forum/stories/salt-house/ Salt House]]" at first appears to be the story of a pedophile spying on his next victim, plotting the best way to kill the boy's father while gleefully fantasizing about having his way with the "beautiful" boy afterwards. After he kills the other guy, [[spoiler:it's revealed that ''he's'' the boy's father, and the ''other guy'' was the pedophile who had just incurred the wrath of PapaWolf]].

** In mid 2019, Gamer Girl/ Instagram model Belle Delphine sold her bathwater. Predictably, people got sick from drinking it. ''I Ordered Bathwater from an Instagram model'' has this as the basis for an attack by literal internet trolls.

* SanitySlippage: Sean in [[http://slimebeast.com/stories/red_sky_at_night.php "Red Sky at Night"]] seems like the most stable and capable character until he starts to believe he's in "The Odyssey".
* ScatterbrainedSenior: Even though it is never identified (outside of the author's notes at the end), the protagonist's affliction in "A Shattered Life" is obviously Alzheimer's.
* SchmuckBait:
** Don't visit the website in "[[https://slimebeast.com/forum/stories/clickreload/ clickreload]]", or else whatever is shown on the website will show up and kill you in one hour, unless you click Reload, which resets the timer and changes what is shown on the website. The only way to get out of having to click Reload every hour for the rest of your life is to get another schmuck to take the bait and go to the website, forcing ''them'' to click Reload forever instead of you. [[SelfDemonstratingArticle The website is]] [[http://clickreload.com/ here]], [[SelfDemonstratingArticle by the way]].
** Merely ''reading'' [[http://thereissomethingbehindme.blogspot.com/2012/03/they-are-watching-me-and-now-they-are.html They Are Watching Me. And Now They Are Watching You]] is enough to make ''Them'' come for you.
** Also, do not watch Mereana Mordegard Glesgorv. Even though you can find the full video very easily, despite the story's claims. In fact, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xf6Geh82vXg here it is]].

%%* SelfDeprecation: Someone made a story with their own critics as [[http://slimebeast.com/stories/the_crap_in_the_sack.php the narrator of their story.]]
%%* SerialEscalation: How many more powers can The Slender Man have?
* ShockSite: Some of the more disturbing images associated with creepypasta, like SMILE.jpg or Jeff The Killer, are frequently used for this purpose. Sometimes, like with Normal Porn For Normal People, a Creepypasta is centered ''around'' a supposed ShockSite that is too scary.
* ShoutOut:

%%SnowMeansDeath: As you'd expect, "Snow on Mt. Silver" is all about this.
* SnuffFilm:

** Literature/HappyAppy has a lot of instances of real people getting killed and having their deaths being filmed, and says the trope by name.
* SoleSurvivor: The narrator of ''The Harbinger Experiment'' was the only person involved in said experiment that lived to tell the tale, with Subject #1 killing one of the guards before getting shot down and Subject #3 claiming Zimmerman and everyone else in the bunker.
* SpaceIsolationHorror:

** Literature/CandleCove and Literature/HappyAppy are about "children's shows" that quickly gain a darkly supernatural bent.

%%* SurrealHorror: This isn't just the backbone or essence of CreepyPasta. This is the very string they're woven out of!
* TearsOfBlood: Tavy Mord from [[https://www.wattpad.com/57267991-creepypasta-on-hold-again-patient-88/page/2 Patient 88]] weeps blood as a ghost due to having been [[EyeScream mutilated]] shortly before her death.
* SwampsAreEvil:

* ThatsNoMoon: The final tree/stage visited in "[[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Adam_%26_the_Tree_Climbers Adam & the Tree Climbers]]" [[spoiler:is actually what is presumably the game's final boss, the demonic Tree Caller.]]

* ThroughTheEyesOfMadness: The wiki has an entire category labelled "Mental Illness"

** More examples are "[[http://wellhey.com/cold-oblivion/ Cold Oblivion]]", [[spoiler:about how horrible it is to be ''WesternAnimation/FrostyTheSnowman'']], "[[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Doors Doors]]", which is told from the point of view of [[spoiler:the family dog]], and "[[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Experiment_84-B Experiment 84-B]], [[spoiler:aka Slenderman]]"
** And who could forget ''Fanfic/ABrightFlash''?
--->[[spoiler:[[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Gojira]]]]
* TooDumbToLive: How else do you think so many of the protagonists get hunted/haunted?
** This is especially true in TheMostDangerousVideoGame-style creepypastas. Unless there's a supernatural force forcing them to keep playing, you'll probably hear some variation of "I knew I should probably stop playing, but I didn't" at some point.

* UrbanFantasy: "''I'm The Cleaner''" is about a HunterOfMonsters, [[ForGreatJustice whose job is to deal with the supernatural baddies usually featured in Creepypastas]].
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory:

** "Barney the Dinosaur" ends with Chris, the son of the narrator, [[spoiler:being kidnapped by the previous owner of the son's [=Actimates=] Barney doll who had been talking to the boy through a radio in the doll and who lured him out to his van.]] The man drives away and the narrator doesn't even bother going after him.
** Literature/JeffTheKiller, after his attempt to murder a young boy in the beginning of his first story goes sour, smashes a window, jumps out of it, and escapes into the night. The cops who were called on him don't bother going after him.

* YoungerThanTheyLook: Jeff the Killer. That creepy person that murdered his family? He's only thirteen. In the original story, that is. There are some fan-theories about how many years ago it took place and how old Jeff would be now. It gets...complicated.
* YouthIsWastedOnTheDumb: It's not at all uncommon for teenagers to get roped up in the plot because they were hanging out in dangerous locations, or openly seeking out the local urban legend, often on a dare.
* ZombieApocalypse: The setting for some stories involves the world having gone to pot and being overrun with zombies.

->[[NightmareRetardant Then, a]] ''[[NightmareRetardant skeleton]]'' [[NightmareRetardant popped out]].\\

* DeadlyPrank: ''Spencer's Last Prank'' features one for the prankster himself. [[spoiler:Turns out [[TooDumbToLive hiding in a box compactor]] to scare your coworker [[AccidentalMurder isn't such a great idea]].

* TomatoInTheMirror: "I Found a Letter From My Stalker". [[spoiler:The girl was originally the one who suffered from the curse which caused her to become forgotten and invisible to everyone. The "stalker" is a boy who befriended, fell in love with, and sacrificed himself to take the curse from her.]]

Creepypasta is a collection of [[NightmareFuel creepy, frightening, and/or utterly terrifying]] (and sometimes [[{{Narm}} laughably terrible]]) horror fiction stories that originated from, and still are floating around, the Internet. The name itself is a portmanteau of "creepy" and the internet slang term "copypasta", referring to pieces of text (most commonly long-form jokes) that are commonly copied and pasted throughout the internet. Creepypasta stories can range anywhere from [[GhostStory ghost stories]] or [[SurrealHorror mind-bending tales of terror]], to [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos stories about slim businessmen.]]

* A lack of disclaimer from their authors stating the work is fiction, which may cause the lines of reality and fantasy [[ParanoiaFuel to blend.]] Often, real or well-faked place names, character names, or website names are used. [[note]] (Here, "well faked" is defined as requiring an average person to do research to discover fictionality.) [[/note]]

* [[SurrealHorror Creepy and/or surreal imagery.]]

* [[NothingIsScarier A fear of the unknown.]] This is where Creepypasta takes a page out of the writing of Creator/HPLovecraft. While Creepypastas usually include supernatural malevolent entities, they are rarely vampires, demons, or witches. Rather, the monster is an "it", [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow a force that humans have no understanding of]]. Perhaps one of the most popular (and one of the few named) examples is [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos The Slender Man]].

** ''[[MustHaveCaffeine 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, [[spoiler: a demon that feeds on misery chose to punish him because he was mean to homeless people and [[DisposableSexWorker hookers]].]]

* TheAllegedCar: The titular tractor in ''The Tractor''. [[spoiler: [[{{Irony}} Its sheer defectiveness winds up being what saves the main protagonist]] when a murderous swarm of blackbugs surround it, but thanks to its poor design, are unable to get in.]]

* AnotherSideAnotherStory: ''[[http://spinpasta.wikia.com/wiki/Pokemon_Lost_Game Pokémon Lost Game]]'' is about a modified copy of ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon Gold]]'' that presents itself as this for [[TheRival Silver]]. [[spoiler: It turns out to have a completely different ending from the actual game though.]]

** In [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Cell_Phone_Game The Cell Phone Game]] the narrator's girlfriend, Stephanie, twice attempts to displace her curse onto [[ThoseWackyNazis the school Neo-Nazi]], with this trope as her justification. [[spoiler: Stephanie herself ultimately becomes this after she is dragged away, since she'd [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope jumped off the slippery slope]] by that point.]] It also is heavily implied that [[spoiler: the Nazi kid wasn’t actually a Nazi, but had to act like one to avoid his curse.]]

** In ''Dinner With Vivian'', the narrator brings "Finger Sandwiches" that his mother made to his PerkyGoth girlfriend's house. [[spoiler: She should have taken the rings off first and they get thrown in jail.]]

** Josh in ''How the Scarecrow Died'' was a school bully whose father [[IOwnThisTown 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, [[NeverMessWithGranny Scarecrow's granny.]]
** Laura from ''All Horror Stories About Dolls are Fake'' is a girl bully who starts picking on the narrator's daughter. Finally sick of her and her mother's crap one day, [[PapaWolf the narrator murders them and turns them into dolls.]]

** The three rebellious farmhands in ''The Tractor'', who attempt to kill the main protagonist by pushing his tractor downhill while he's trapped inside, [[spoiler: only to wind up getting eaten by [[TheSwarm the blackbugs that suddenly swarm it]]]].

* AudienceParticipation: 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, TheHeroDies. For that matter, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the viewers might be next.]] One less serious creepypasta actually was ''based'' around this, where the object of it was to add new paragraphs.

** ''Morbus.avi'' deals with an infection that makes people vomit a substance that looks like old motor oil and tastes like rotten meat. They are [[spoiler: rounded up and [[TheyWouldCutYouUp vivisected]] by {{Plague Doctor}}s]].

* BaitAndSwitch: ''There are Things in the Mountains of Argentina We Thought Extinct'' sounds like a modern-day dinosaur encounter, right? TheReveal is that [[spoiler: the "thing we thought extinct" is an OG nazi, specifically, a member of Auchwitz's garrison.]]

** Of note are the inhabitants of [[http://thereissomethingbehindme.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-house-that-death-forgot.html Granny Royce's Road House]]. [[spoiler: 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 [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Pocket_by_ManufacturerINC The Pocket]], [[spoiler: where a guy's best friend, and later, his wife get eaten by what appears to be a [[Franchise/DeadSpace Necromorph]] {{Expy}}]], and [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Eyeless_Jack Eyeless Jack]], [[spoiler: where the protagonist gets [[OrganTheft his organs stolen]] and [[ImAHumanitarian eaten]] by a HumanoidAbomination]]. [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Unbranded_Laptop Unbranded Laptop]] has [[spoiler:a kid dismember herself with a hacksaw.]]

* BodyOfBodies: The "[[OurGhoulsAreCreepier ghoul]]" from ''The Horror From the Vault'' is able to [[spoiler: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 [[MindRape nightmares it induces]] is about a creature not unlike the Legion from [=CastleVania=] replacing the sun. The creature itself looks like a GiantEnemyCrab made out of fused bodies.

* BreakingTheFourthWall: The whole point of [[http://thereissomethingbehindme.blogspot.com/2012/03/they-are-watching-me-and-now-they-are.html They Are Watching Me. And Now They Are Watching You]]. 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 [[spoiler: 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]].

%%** [[spoiler: "Love" and "Sim Albert" feature these as the TwistEnding]].
%%** [[spoiler: Howard]] near the end of ''They Are Watching Me. And Now They Are Watching You''.

** ''What Is Dead'' has [[{{Necromantic}} the protagonist's dead wife come back after he performs a ritual on her body.]] She's a shrieking, bloodthirsty monster.

** An interesting example - the Creepypasta Wiki even has [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Creepy_Cliches a list]] of "Creepy Cliches". (seeing these cliches in a story is generally considered to be a sign of a poorly-made creepypasta.)

* CruelAndUnusualDeath: ''Very'' prominent example in ''The House That Death Forgot'': [[spoiler: ''He'' will kill you in a variety of painful ways, but even though you're dead, you stay conscious, mobile...and ''your mortal wounds will continue to cause you pain''. And if those wounds are visible, you pretty much stay out of sight to avoid horrifying people.]]

** [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Love "Love"]] - a girl finds a note addressed to her on her computer, describing all the paranormal activity and shadows she's seen her entire life. [[spoiler:It was a soldier who made a promise to her dad, shortly before they were both killed in war, to look after his soon-to-be-born daughter. Since the daughter turned 18, he decided [[ButNowIMustGo his work was done]] and to give her some closure on the weirdness.]]

** [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Willow_Men The Willow Men]] has a bunch of otherworldly, [[{{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.
** In "The Hallows", the titular Hallows are twisted, eyeless, hideous monstrosities that more often than not have blood on their constantly changing hands and spend much of their time stalking an unfortunate child...until the end, when they swoop in to save him from a child rapist, and it's strongly implied that their purpose over all is to protect people from harm. This is even used to deliver AnAesop--sometimes the ''real'' monsters are completely normal people.
** ''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.]]

** The protagonist of ''The Monster in the Pantry'' is tormented throughout his childhood by a SinisterScrapingSound coming from the pantry. [[spoiler: It turns out to be a ghost dog.]]
** DOG is about a [[CreepyDoll creepy dog plush toy]] who protects his owners from a car crash, spoiled food, a SerialKiller, and [[spoiler: the cat]].

* TheDeterminator: The GuardianAngel in "Love". He was Lt. Ashley Gilchrist who was in the army with the protagonist's father. Her father asked Lt. Gilchrist to look after his yet-unborn daughter should something happen to him. [[spoiler: Sadly, the girl's father and Lt. Gilchrist are ''both'' killed by enemy fire, but even in death, Ashley still has every intention of carrying out his friend's request.]]

** In ''Russian Sleep Experiment'', a group of test subjects deprived of sleep slowly go insane, performing gruesome self-mutilation and cannibalism. [[spoiler:At the end, only one is left alive, and a researcher is locked in a hospital room with him. When the panicked researcher asks the subject what he is, he gives a SlasherSmile and says that he has essentially become the embodiment of all the fears humans have while awake. The researcher stares in horror... [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome then promptly draws his sidearm and]] ''[[MugglesDoItBetter blows that son-of-a-bitch's lungs out.]]'']]

** In ''The Day the Scarecrow Died,'' the titular Scarecrow brings a pistol to school with the intent of shooting the bully who's been tormenting him for a month straight. [[spoiler: But his grandma got to him first.]]

** Devin Minkowsky, the antagonist of ''[[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/ap4xk4/i_genetically_altered_a_billionaires_son_i_wish_i/ I Genetically Altered a Billionaire's Son. I Wish I Hadn't.]]'' bites back against his emotionally abusive father after being genetically altered into TheAce, first by [[GroinAttack surgically castrating him]], then by asking the doctor who genetically altered him to turn his father into a pig.

** "The Devil Game", supposedly a set of instructions to summon and speak with the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Devil himself]], offers a small disclaimer at the beginning. Essentially, you should refrain from trying it if you don't have an exceptionally good reason, because doing something so extreme for the sake of [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu idle chitchat is, naturally, very stupid.]]

** Expect a few eyes to be poked out. [[http://thereissomethingbehindme.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-house-that-death-forgot.html Melinda]] [[spoiler: stays alive after having her eye stabbed and her brain punctured...''and has to live with the pain of that for all eternity''.]]

** ''The Sealed Building'' is about a boy who climbs onto a bricked-up toilet shack. There is a hole in the roof, which emits cigarette smoke. Then the door opens... Turns out, [[spoiler: a kid died in there while smoking a cigarette.]]

** ''Sinister Sister's Shower'' is about a girl who murders her big sister to steal her boyfriend, and grows to hate showering because of a feeling of BeingWatched whenever she's in the bath. She cuts her hair short, and goes to take a shower. She notices that her hair is back to its previous length, and that there's something dripping on her... [[spoiler: She looks up to see the mutilated corpse of her sister, clinging to the ceiling and bleeding on her.]]

** The titular monster in ''The Monster in the Pantry'' turns out to be [[spoiler: a ghostly dog.]]
** One has [[PapaWolf the ghost of the protagonist's 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...]]

** ''The Spire in the Woods'' both features and is in and of itself, a ghost story. It centers around ''The Widower's Clock,'' wherein a jealous husband kills his wife and her lover and mounts their corpses in his masterpiece town clock. The story turns out to be true, and a boy in the narrator's school killed himself because he [[BrownNote heard the clock's bells chime.]] The clock tower itself is haunted by the clockmaker, his wife (who is now a RevenantZombie with the control linkages from the clock embedded throughout her body), the guests who attended the unveiling, and everyone who went searching for the bells over the years.

* GoodAllAlong: The Trucker from ''He Told Me not to Look in the Back Seat'' seems that he's a sadistic serial killer who is keeping his most recent victim in the back seat, who has been blinded and mutilated. He's really a HunterOfMonsters who disposes of what hikers turn into if they [[StayOnThePath leave the trails to go exploring the caves in the woods.]] The thing in the back seat *is* the girl who went missing, but she's been warped into a creature that haunts anyone who looks directly at her.

** Sometimes, a few Creepypastas may play with these tropes and have it be revealed that the paranormal activity is actually them. [[spoiler: Best examples are in "Love", in which the paranormal activity is revealed as a GuardianAngel, and "The Man in the Purple Shirt" where the titular title is actually a GuardianEntity against a HumanoidAbomination.]]

** Pastor Ross from "Why I Became an Atheist" is an arrogant, self-righteous cult leader who tries to force the protagonist to kill his beloved dog so he can completely indoctrinate him in his cult. When he refuses, [[KickTheDog he kills the boy's dog in front of him and carves the mark of the beast on his back, then essentially exiles him from town for being a "sinner".]]

** [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Jaws Noroi Gakkotsu's]] were a bad enough menace in feudal times. [[FromBadToWorse Now we have the capability to mass-produce them...]]
* HeatWave: "Autopilot" takes place during one. An entire paragraph is dedicated to describing how sweltering hot it's getting. [[spoiler: This leads up to when the narrator discovers he inadvertently left his child in the car during that hot day, with predictable results.]]

* HorrifyingTheHorror: ''It Has No Face'' is about a guy who spends a wintery night in a HauntedHouse by accident, wearing his ski mask and winter hat so he won't have to light the fireplace. The cthonic horror that claimed the place is terrified of him because the mask makes him look like TheBlank. [[HumiliationConga Then his phone alarm scares the hell out of it. Then he drives it back into its lair with the flashlight.]]

* HumansAreCthulhu: ''CE-6'' is about an alien child playing in the garden who watches a group of spacemen come out of an EscapePod. It's especially weirded out by his hair, which it calls "string". English is also extremely horrific to the aliens, driving them to attack the astronauts; which is promptly rewarded with a blast from a [[FireBreathingWeapon flamethrower.]]
* HuntingTheMostDangerousGame: In [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/129psae/i_revisited_the_fort_i_built_as_a_kid_it_was_the/ I revisited the fort I built as a kid. It was the greatest mistake I ever made.]] The protagonist is visiting a plot of land he inherited from his deceased grandfather that contains the titular fort. During his stay, he encounters a man wearing an oddly advanced hunter's camo outfit stalking the area. He also hears that the police have been looking for a man doing exactly this, hunting parkgoers for sport. [[spoiler: The killer's hideout is in the fort itself. The story ends with the protagonist discovering that it's his father]].

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

** [[http://thereissomethingbehindme.blogspot.ca/2015/01/my-grandfather-suffered-from-dementia.html This story]] is about a man with dementia who believes he's being stalked/controlled, etc. by a mysterious man. [[spoiler: By the end, you're left wondering if the man was actually real, or if he was a shared delusion]].

** [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Extra_Ketchup Apparently monster clowns run a burger joint now]]. The protagonist discovers it after misremembering the road the one he was trying to find was on. [[spoiler: [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies It turns out, the food is made of abducted children]]]].

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nukoTQyeYz4 Belle Plaine, 1965]]'' highlights the terrible fact that, despite the common assumption that [[spoiler: parents will always know their child]], it sometimes simply isn't true.
** ''Autopilot'' has nothing supernatural. It's about a guy who [[spoiler: forgets his daughter in the car on a hot day...]]

** ''Meek'' is about a poopsock ("I'd rather poop in a sock than stop playing") gaming addict who accidentally cuts his internet line, and goes digging through his squalid apartment for the phone. In the long-disused bedroom, he discovers [[spoiler: the dessicated corpses of his wife and infant daughter, who got trapped in there when he moved some boxes in front of the door. The shock gives him a fatal heart attack.]]

** ''I Witnessed Something Unsettling on a Cruise Ship'' is [[RuthlessModernPirates a modern pirate story.]]

** The twist of [[https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Creeping_Horror The Creeping Horror]] starts off as a typical {{Urban Legend|s}} story about the titular horror. The narrator's father apparently had a bad experience with it that he refuses to talk about, only mentioning that people died because of it. Eventually he decides to tell the narrator while on his deathbed. He'd been on a picnic with his friend and his crush, who he planned to confess to. [[TooDumbToLive Eventually they decided to play the game to summon the Horror.]] His crush panics and runs off, claiming to have heard it and he goes to comfort her. Afterwords, his friend convinces them to complete the ritual, much to their chargrin. [[LetsSplitUpGang They decide to each do it seperately,]] and the narrator goes off alone to summon it. He hears something in the bushes and assumes it's the Horror. He pulls out a knife and attacks it instinctively [[spoiler:only for it to turn out to be his crush, who was playing a prank on him with his friend. When his friend panics and suggests they go to get help, the narrator's father [[LeaveNoWitnesses kills him in a panic to cover up what happened.]] The narrator is [[BrokenPedestal so disgusted by the story]] that they overdose him on painkillers, killing him.]]

** ''Penpal'' is about a guy stalked throughout his childhood by [[spoiler: a pedophile who set his sights on him and his best friend.]]

** ''Does Anyone Know a Plumber?'' shows what happens when the protagonist just does not give a fuck, on the level of "ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} is doing this" does not care. He half-asses the ritual and he ends up with ''something'' that won't leave. His shower also leaks really bad. [[spoiler: He's more concerned with the leaky shower, because his landlord is coming over.]]

** ''The Other Side of the Grave'' has the protagonist running through a machine that reconstitutes dead people from masses of bone and organs. It's apparently an effort to rescue people from [[AndIMustScream being dead yet concious.]]

** ''Where Do The Dead Things Go?'' has the protagonist encounter an Angel with multiple heads, wings, and eyes as described in the Bible when he discovers that his house is haunted. [[SoulEating They're the reason that people aren't up to their eyes in ghosts in the same way flies are the reason people aren't up to their eyes in carrion.]]

** [[spoiler: Sarah]] from ''I Took a Job as a Fire Lookout in the Woods. I Found a Set of Strange Rules to Follow'' is a D&D-style Wraith, and anyone she or her minions kill becomes a ghost beholden to her.

** The base form of the creature from ''The Horror from the Vault'' is described as "A ghoul with no face". It's a larval form of [[spoiler: TheAssimilator]]
** ''Box Borne Wraith'' is about a mobster who is BuriedAlive, and makes friends with the famine-struck colony of Lovecraft-style ghouls who dig him... down. He offers to send them his old mob buddies if they let him go.

** Jack's agonizing transformation into a Drone Jeff in "Trust Me, Part 2"
** It sure sounds like [[spoiler: Cicci's transformation hurts.]]

--> '''Emma:''' [[ShutUpHannibal Stop talking.]] We're done. You're a coward and a worm. You were so afraid of my grandad you wouldn't step foot in Claremont until he was dead. He must have hurt you something awful back in fifty-five, huh?

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_uSGFuXfQU This version of "The Third Wish"]] shows us ''who'' the old man is. [[spoiler: And it holds true to his old adage: "[[Music/ElvisPresley Wise men say only fools rush in]]."]]
** [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Hippie The Hippie.]] You might not get it right away. [[spoiler:The "hippie" is Jesus, and the "end of the world" he mentions is Rapture.]]

* RobotGirl: Deconstructed by ''My Father's Hiding Something in the Attic.'' The narrator [[spoiler: died in a car accident along with her mother, and her father placed her consiousness into an imperfect android.]] He keeps trying to do the same to her mother, but something went wrong with her, [[AndIMustScream leaving her trapped in a computer.]]

** The creepypastas titled "Snuff Film". The first posits that many snuff films have been made and distributed around the world dating all the way back to 1896, with the latest hailing from 1984 [[spoiler:and all of them have the exact same nineteen-year-old girl as the "star".]] The second describes a bunch of snuff films in gory detail, the very worst one being saved for the end [[spoiler:which the narrator considers their finest work.]]

** ''In From the Cold'' has the protagonist alone in a moon base after the other astronaut died in an airlock malfunction. [[spoiler: The dead astronaut tries to get back in...]]

** In [[https://thejosefkstories.com/2008/11/03/thaw/ ''Thaw'']], sometime in the distant future, a man wakes up from his cryonic suspension onboard a spaceship, only to find himself [[CryonicsFailure only partially dethawed and trapped in his capsule, which seems to have failed.]] Then, he notices that the ship is on emergency lighting, and even that seems to be failing. THEN he notices that the other capsules in the room have also failed and either contain decayed corpses or blood splatters like someone bashed their heads open from the inside. Realizing that some sort of disaster has befallen the ship, he suddenly notices that they are still in orbit around Earth, having never left... except this Earth has a giant glacier of a new ice age covering most of the northern hemisphere, and no signs of human cities anywhere...
** In ''I Was an Astronaut and I Experienced Something Terrifying,'' the narrator has someone knock on the door of his capsule. He and his co-pilot are the only living things within several million miles. In some versions, "It" masquerades as his copilot, who begs him not to open the airlock.

** [[http://spinpasta.wikia.com/wiki/Jeff_the_Killer:_Rewritten This story]] takes a decidedly more realistic take on Jeff The Killer. [[spoiler: Jeff's murder spree ends soon after it begins. Jeff may be a psychopath but he's still just a 13-year-old who cut his face up. He's effortlessly fought off in his last two attacks and the GlasgowSmile and burns he gave himself end up quickly getting infected and he dies after only a few days. The story ends with the implication that any other "Jeffs" that we see in stories are just copycat killers inspired by him.]]

** "The Mall Mommy" is notable for averting AdultsAreUseless entirely. [[spoiler:After the protagonist manages to evade her minions, the titular monster, a creature who preys upon children, [[ShapeShifting disguises herself as the protagonist's mother]] in one last effort to lure him in.]] [[SpotTheThread The kid manages to see through the ploy at the last second]] and desperately tries to tell the security guard he'd found that [[spoiler:she's not his mother.]] The guard is ''immediately'' suspicious and demands to see her ID. Her attempts to dismiss the kid's claims as "just fooling around" only make him more suspicious, and her threats to call the police on him are similarly ineffective because, as he points out, they'll be equally suspicious of her. The guard may not have known about the monster, but he's not just going to hand off a kid to a stranger whom he's obviously afraid of. [[spoiler:The disguise doesn't help her in the slightest because the guard has no idea what the protagonist's mother looks like; as far as he's concerned, she's a random woman trying to abduct a child. [[KnowWHenToFoldEm The Mall Mommy has no choice but to relent]], [[EarnYourHappyEnding and the protagonist escapes.]]]]

* TheSwarm: Describes the "blackbugs" in ''The Tractor'' that suddenly surround the tractor in big enough numbers to '''lift it off the ground''' when it winds up stranded in the middle of the farm with a load of crates (which are implied to be filled with insect-attracting fruit and fruit jelly), [[spoiler: completely consuming three rebellious farmhands and nearly doing so with the main protagonist as well]].

* TheTetrisEffect: Played for [[NightmareFuel all the horror it can muster]]! [[https://someordinarygamers.fandom.com/wiki/The_Fine_Line The Fine Line]] involves a player getting addicted to a life simulator game and becoming impressed with how real it was. {{Non Player Character}}s reacting in realistic ways, events he caused in the game having long lasting effects on the rest of the in-game world, and how robust the physics engine seemed to be. Eventually, [[spoiler: he starts going out of his way to cause as much chaos as possible just to see how for he could push the game's realism; hi-jacking planes, causing wildfires, and even ordering components from the game's internet to construct a bomb. However, in the end, he realizes the hard way that not ''all'' of what he did was in-game...]]
* ThatsNoMoon: The final tree/stage visited in "[[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Adam_%26_the_Tree_Climbers Adam & the Tree Climbers]]" [[spoiler: is actually what is presumably the game's final boss, the demonic Tree Caller.]]
** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSFf5ZU0GHM&t The Public Image of the Black Hole is Fake]]" revolves around an alternate telling of the first photograph of a black hole ever taken. [[spoiler: Upon closer inspection, it turns out the scientists who took said photograph actually captured a picture of a ''gigantic'' cosmic entity - [[OhCrap and they discover it's slowly heading towards Earth]].]]

* TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow: And you will either only know them [[CruelAndUnusualDeath for a very short time]], or [[AndIMustScream for a very long time]] but [[BodyHorror forcefully and bodily silenced.]] The Obsidian Skull from ''In the Shadow of the Necropolis'' shows the protagonist TheUnderworld. It nearly drives him insane.

* ThisIsADrill: ''Salt House'' has the protagonist kill [[spoiler: the pedophile who kidnapped his son]] by shoving a power drill up his nose.

* TimeMaster: Jeremy, the antagonist of "The Strangest Security Tape I've Ever Seen" appears to be this--at one point, he even manages to trap the protagonist's observations of the security tapes in a constant loop. Then it's implied that he's much, ''much'' worse...

** ''Cancer'' is about a woman who undergoes cancer treatment circa [[TheDungAges 500 AD]]. This one has [[spoiler: a happy ending, however.]]

* UnexplainedRecovery: The comments of "A Letter to the Landlord" reveal the protagonist somehow survived being attacked by a gigantic demon. [[LampshadeHanging He complains about it, and angrily demands to know how he survived.]]
* UnwinnableByDesign: Chapter 32 "Go" is impossible to win, due to how the game is set up. You write the name down of... ''something'', which will hunt you down. You can't exactly win the game, as the first paragraph mentions [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption "This game will be played for an eternity".]]

** "Barney the Dinosaur" ends with Chris, the son of the narrator, [[spoiler: being kidnapped by the previous owner of the son's [=Actimates=] Barney doll who had been talking to the boy through a radio in the doll and who lured him out to his van.]] The man drives away and the narrator doesn't even bother going after him.

* WhamLine: In [[http://zeddicker.blogspot.com No Pity for the Dead]]
-->'''Elmebrigge:''' "Well, some [of those possessed by ancient eldritch abominations] have been known to talk in their sleep. Others may shake their leg absent-mindedly whenever they sit for a while. Others, when they read something, say, a book or newspaper, will mouth the words to themselves. Some will have songs they haven't heard in years, or only know a few line of, recur in their heads in a seemingly endless loop."
-->'''Zeddicker:''' "That's impossible. That describes a lot of people."
-->'''Elmebrigge:''' "Yes, it does. Quite a lot of people. Millions, perhaps."

--->'''Aunt:''' "It's supposed to be that way. The wordings on the paper are supposed to face where evil spirits will come from."

** "Russian Sleep Experiment", while an effective horror piece, has several discrepancies with the number of living subjects. At one point, before [[spoiler: any of them have died, the story describes the activities of two and then refers to "the remaining two" (there are 5 at this point). When they are removed from the chamber, one is already dead, one is killed during the struggle to remove them, and one dies on the operating table, yet the story continues as if three are still alive, not two.]]
** "Foreign Exchange Program" also states that twelve people were chosen - however, four decided to stay, two died off, and seven returned. Where did that thirteenth person come from?
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Implied at the end of "Normal Porn for Normal People"--the last video described consists of [[spoiler:one of the actresses being tied to a bed by two of the people running the site and then brutally mauled to death by a shaved, abused chimpanzee]]. The title of this video is "Useless.avi".

->[[NightmareRetardant Then, a]] ''[[NightmareRetardant skeleton]]'' [[NightmareRetardant popped out]].
->GO TO SLEEP

* DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible: In-universe; the MissingEpisode creepypasta ''[[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Mickeys_Best_Friend Mickey's Best Friend]]'' is written as a wiki article and discusses that the titular short film was universally panned for its disturbing content.

** ''What Is Dead'' has [[{{Necromantic}} the protagonist's dead wife come back after he performs a ritual on her body.]] She's a shreiking, bloodthirsty monster.

** * In "[[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/76hjfk/i_spent_10_years_locked_in_a_basement/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=post_title I Spent 10 Years Locked in a Basement]]" by writely_so, the narrator finds himself trapped in one by a psycho who drinks his blood. Interestingly, the real horror comes in when he successfully kills his captor and escapes the basement [[spoiler:as his HumanoidAbomination kidnapper gets up and chases him up the stairs.]]

** The "Shitty gas station in the edge of town" from "Tales from the Gas Station" has some crazy shit going on. It reads like a combination of ''WebSite/NotAlwaysRight'' and ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd.'' It's so weird that even the [[TheSacredDarkness Dark God]] has no explaination for it beyond "NotMeThisTime."
** The park in the ''Search and Rescue'' series. The park is weird: people go missing and turn up horrifically mutilated at the drop of a hat, usually one following the other by months, ''after'' having been searched exhaustively before. There's also inexplicable staircases dotting the park. Don't touch them, by the way, something horrid happens whenever someone messes around with them. Best case scenario, you die. The higlight of the weirdness is that time the protagonist found the front half of a whale lying in a clearing (no bowl of petunias, however).

* FailedFutureForecast: ''Fallout 3: Numbers Station'' concerns an event in Fallout 3 that, when activated, gives out multiple dates and times followed by a quote that refers to an event that happened on that date, even appearing to foretell future events that have yet to happen at the time the story was written. However, one of its predictions misses its mark by a huge margin; this prediction was that Queen Elizabeth II died on March 19, 2014 while in real life, she died on September 8, 2022, a full ''8 years'' off the mark.

** ''Room of Pitch Black'' involves the narrator attending his aunt's funeral. While exploring her house, he finds a room hidden behind a tapestry. Seeing that the key is still in the lock, he opens it. The room is pitch black. He hears something coming towards him; chattering its teeth. He locks it up and hides the key. At his aunts funeral, he sees the picture on her casket includes his uncle in it. Said uncle, since deceased, was a man with very big teeth, and the pitch-black room had been his office...

** ''The Spire in the Woods'' both features and is in and of itself, a ghost story. It centers around ''The Widower's Clock,'' wherein a jealous husband kills his wife and her lover and mounts their corpses in his masterpeice town clock. The story turns out to be true, and a boy in the narrators school killed himself because he [[BrownNote heard the clock's bells chime.]] The clock tower itself is haunted by the clockmaker, his wife (who is now a RevenantZombie with the control linkages from the clock embedded throughout her body), the guests who attended the unveiling, and everyone who went searching for the bells over the years.
** In ''Mr Fergason is Dead,'' the arcetypical nasty neighbor dies, and goes on a ghostly rampage throughout the neighborhood, causing several tragedies. The yard of every family he ruins becomes a garden of wildflowers. Eventually, the townsfolk dig up and burn his corpse and trash his house in retaliation. The narrator, who was involved in a near-miss but never came to direct harm, discovers that Mr. Fergason was his mother's ex and he may likely be his son (which would explain why Fergason was so nasty but never hurt their family).

** Chapter 14: Egg of ''How To Play Alone'' involves you hatching your own from an egg laid on the same day. You are only aware of it through a sense of ease its presence gives you, and you will only meet at the end of your life. Of course, if you do it wrong and [[UnusualEuphemism fail]], it will instead stalk you like SCP-372[[note]]including occasionally catching glimpses of it in your peripheral vision[[/note]], and harass you with a [[ParanoiaFuel feeling of being followed]], again, for the rest of your life.

* HellIsWar: In "How to Survive In Hell", Hell is described as basically a SurvivalSandbox game in an enormous city. You spawn naked with no supplies. If you die, you respawn at a random spawn point somewhere in the city, once again naked with no supplies, and spawn campers are not uncommon (it ''is'' Hell, after all). You can leave the city if you want, but the only thing out there is endless, barren desert. No matter how far you walk into the desert, if you turn around [[AlienGeometries the city will always be a short distance away as if you had hardly walked at all]]. The only source of food anywhere [[ImAHumanitarian is other people]], necessitating that everyone kill each each other endlessly. The most legendary badass in Hell is a [[HornyVikings Viking berserker]] who thinks it's [[WarriorHeaven Valhalla]] and is having a HellOfATime.

* TheHeroDies: It's ''not'' rare finding stories were the main protagonists dies (most of the time, at the hands of whatever monster the story is presenting).

* HorrorHunger: Burgrr is about a transdimensional burger joint that gets people addicted to alien food, but projects a WeirdnessCensor that makes people think it's not-quite home cooking that tastes just like mama used to make, but is really raw whale meat, live maggots, and bloody horses teeth, among other culinary abominations. The food also infects people with a parasite that turns them into [[TheGrays "Eggheads"]], which then hatch into a flying brain monster.

** The creature in ''The Horror From the Vault'' creates a mess of the stuff in the clearing where it nests. If that's not bad enough, the animals it makes it from are [[AndIMustScream still alive and concious,]] trying to escape...

* {{Minimalism}}: Most, if not all, creepypastas are a tale of a one or two (three, tops) human characters and a single monster in usually one location. Many [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender-blogs and Vlogs]] avert this. Most notably, WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID has a large cast. On top of that, the most popular blogs tend to acknowledge each other's existence and even have characters interact with each other, effectively turning them into a MassivelyMultiplayerCrossover and creating the closest thing to a canon the mythos has.

** ''Nana Stands at the Foot of my Bed Every Night'' is about a childs grandma who contracts dementia, making her dangerous. At first, then it becomes a proper GhostStory by the end.

** The twist of [[https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Creeping_Horror The Creeping Horror]] starts off as a typical [[UrbanLegends Urban Legend]] story about the titular horror. The narrator's father apparently had a bad experience with it that he refuses to talk about, only mentioning that people died because of it. Eventually he decides to tell the narrator while on his deathbed. He'd been on a picnic with his friend and his crush, who he planned to confess to. [[TooDumbToLive Eventually they decided to play the game to summon the Horror.]] His crush panics and runs off, claiming to have heard it and he goes to comfort her. Afterwords, his friend convinces them to complete the ritual, much to their chargrin. [[LetsSplitUpGang They decide to each do it seperately,]] and the narrator goes off alone to summon it. He hears something in the bushes and assumes it's the Horror. He pulls out a knife and attacks it instinctively [[spoiler:only for it to turn out to be his crush, who was playing a prank on him with his friend. When his friend panics and suggests they go to get help, the narrator's father [[LeaveNoWitnesses kills him in a panic to cover up what happened.]] The narrator is [[BrokenPedestal so disgusted by the story]] that they overdose him on painkillers, killing him.]]

* NetworkDecay: Originally all creepypastas were written as if they were reports on things that actually happened, either in third-person, or using a framing device. Now adays Creepypasta Wiki will happily accept any scary story, as long as it meets their Quality Standards.

** ''The Only Sensible Ritual Pasta'' has the protagonist listen to (and argue with) the narrator. He decides to jimmy the lock on the back door of the HellGate of an obstace course he's supposed to go through, rather than actually do a maze that runs through Hell.

** [[https://spinpasta.fandom.com/wiki/Teletubbies_Lost_Episode Teletubbies Lost Episode]] ends with Ted Goldman from "Pingu's Punishment" arriving at the narrator's door dressed in a bloodstained Teletubby costume... [[Main/FridgeHorror and then the story just stops with no explanation as to what happened afterwards]].

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Anytime someone starts acting unusual, run.]

** ''A Word of Warning'' is about a vampire whose only resemblance to the usual is that its a huge bat with human intellegence.

** Amy Lowell Putnam from ''The Spire in the Woods'' has elements of RevenantZombie, ArtificialZombie, and TheGrimReaper. A faithless bride murdered by her jealous husband and [[DeadGuyOnDisplay turned into a puppet for his masterpeice town clock,]] she can haunt anyone who sees her body partaking in the civil war play the clock displsys. In the clock tower, her desecrated, clockwork-riddled corpse will seek out and try to kill anyone who stays for too long. When someone she haunts dies, she ferries their soul to the clock tower.
** ''The Must-Buy Gift for Valentines Day'' has [[ParasiteZombie Parasite Zombies]] forming the CruelTwistEnding of an otherwise MundaneGhostStory about tainted chocolates.

** ''Lost Cosmonaut'' is about a Russian woman who goes into space before Yuri Gagarin. She finds a "muttnik" capsule with half of a childs body orbiting it. When she threatens to tell, MissionControl blasts her into a higher orbit to starve or suffocate.

** In [[https://thejosefkstories.com/2008/11/03/thaw/ ''Thaw'']], sometime in the distant future, a man wakes up from his cryonic suspension onboard a spaceship, only to find himself [[CryonicsFailure only partially dethawed and trapped in his capsule, which seems to have failed.]] Then, he notices that the ship is on emergency lighting, and even that seems to be failing. THEN he notices that the other capsules in the room have also failed and either contains decayed corpses or blood splatters like someone bashed their heads open from the inside. Realizing that some sort of disaster has befallen the ship, he suddenly notices that they are still in orbit around Earth, having never left... except this Earth has a giant glacier of a new ice age covering most of the northern hemisphere, and no signs of human cities anywhere...

* TheTetrisEffect: Played for [[NightmareFuel all the horror it can muster]]! [[https://someordinarygamers.fandom.com/wiki/The_Fine_Line The Fine Line]] involves a player getting addicted to a life simulator game and becoming impressed with how real it was. {{Non Player Character}}s reacting in realistic ways, events he caused in the game having long lasting effects on the rest of the in-game world, and how robust the physics engine seemed to be. Eventually, [[spoiler: he starts going out of his way to cause as much chaos as possible just to see how for he could push the game's realism; hi-jacking planes, causing wildfires, and even ordering components from the games internet to construct a bomb. However, in the end, he realizes the hard way that not ''all'' of what he did was in-game...]]

-->[[spoiler:[[Franchise/{{Godzilla}} Gojira]]]]

** "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]].
-->[[spoiler:Goodbye David, [[BondOneliner some twist endings can be very hard to predict]].]]

** ''We Made an Angel'' is about a village that forms a guardian angel out of the inhabitants collective will, meaning that they either created a tulpa for a real angel to inhabit, or created a tulpa that acts like an angel.

** "Barney the Dinosaur" ends with Chris, the son of the narrator, [[spoiler: being kidnapped by the previous owner of the son's [=Actimates=] Barney doll who had been talking to the boy through a radio in the doll and of whom lured him out to his van.]] The man drives away and the narrator doesn't even bother going after him.

-->'''Aunt:''' "It's supposed to be that way. The wordings on the paper are supposed to face where evil spirits will come from."

-->"Because..." Kirby leaned in close. Frank and Thomas match Kirby's movement. "[[AndThatLittleGirlWasMe The hospital doesn't know I'm gone, yet.]]"

* WillOTheWisp: In ''If You See Ghost Lights, Don't Leave the Trail,'' the narrator describes his run-in with them. His friend, a folklore buff, states that sometimes they lead to a body, sometimes to treasure, and sometimes to the persuer's death. Subverted, however, because they turn out to be the [[GlowingEyelightsOfUndeath deadlights]] of a group of murdered factory workers.

Creepypasta has also been subject to [[DramaticReading dramatic readings]] by an online group called ''WebVideo/TheMidnightSociety'' that post their work on Website/YouTube. Of them, the most prominent member is [[https://www.youtube.com/user/MrCreepyPasta/videos MrCreepyPasta]]. He has a list of links to the others members' Website/YouTube channels on his own. They frequently crossover in each other's videos for the purpose of voicing different characters.

** In ''Literature/MyFatherPunishedMeWhenITalkedToGhosts'', 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. [[spoiler: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.]]

* BowelBreakingBricks: Via the [[MemeticMutation memetic]] "When you see it, you'll shit bricks" images, which are designed to seem innocuous at first but hide something sinister, typically [[HiddenInPlainSight in plain sight]].

** ''What Is Dead'' has [[{{Necromantic}} the protagonists dead wife come back after he performs a ritual on her body.]] She's a shreiking, bloodthirsty monster.

* TheDeterminator: The GuardianAngel in "Love". He was Lt.Ashley Gilchrist who was in the army with the protagonist's father. Her father asked Lt. Gilchrist to look after his yet-unborn daughter should something happen to him. [[spoiler: Sadly, the girl's father and Lt. Gilchrist are ''both'' killed by enemy fire, but even in death, Ashley still has every intention of carrying out his friend's request.]]

** The "Wallmart" in [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/5qk2k8/wallmart/?utm_source=reddit-android the titular story]]. All the merchandise for sale is fake, it's BiggerOnTheInside and has shown signs of AlienGeometries, and the "employees" are HumanoidAbomination [[ArtificialHuman Artificial Humans.]]

** ''Room of Pitch Black'' involves the narrator attending his aunts funeral. While exploring her house, he finds a room hidden behind a tapestry. Seeing that the key is still in the lock, he opens it. The room is pitch black. He hears something coming towards him; chattering its teeth. He locks it up and hides the key. At his aunts funeral, he sees the picture on her casket includes his uncle in it. Said uncle, since deceased, was a man with very big teeth, and the pitch-black room had been his office...

** ''Broken Brush'' is a DarkerAndEdgier take on ''FanFic/{{Toyhammer}}''.

* ''VideoGame/{{Polybius}}'': Possibly the [[UrExample original]] geekdom UrbanLegend, having been told since at least the early 2000s, before Creepypasta's existence as a recognized horror sub-genre.

* ''WebOriginal/TheInterfaceSeries''

* "[[Literature/TheStormAravDagli The Storm]]" (Arav Dagli)

* ''[[Literature/TalesFromCherryshrubMississippi Tales from Cherryshrub, Mississippi]]''

* ''Literature/TheStrangestSecurityTapeIveEverSeen''
* ''Blog/TalesFromTheGasStation,'' which started out on R/Nosleep, but got its own blog. A Horror-''Comedy'' creepypasta.

* ''Literature/MereanaMordegardGlesgorv''

* ''Literature/TheMostObscureDisneyFilm''

* ''Literature/MommySleepsInTheBasement''

* ''Literature/{{Doors}}''

* ''Literature/TheDevilGame''

* ''Fanfic/FiveNightsAtFreddysWorldUpdate0''

!!List of creepypastas (with their own articles on this wiki):

* ''Literature/{{Butcherface}}''

* ''Literature/TheSmilingMan''

* ''WebOriginal/WhatHappensWhenTheStarsGoOut''

* ''Literature/MrWidemouth''

* ''Fanfic/ABrightFlash''

* "[[Literature/TheStormAravDagli "The Storm"]] (Arav Dagli)

* "[[Literature/TheStormAravDagli "The Storm" (Arav Dagli)]]

* ''Literature/TheStormAravDagli''

* ''Literature/WhenTheStormCame''

* ''Fanfic/CulDeSac''

* ''Anime/SakiSanobashi''